re-projecting (london)

Exposición / The Showroom / 63 Penfold Street / London, London, City of, Reino Unido
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Cuándo:
11 jul de 2013 - 03 ago de 2013

Inauguración:
11 jul de 2013

Organizada por:
The Showroom

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Colaboradores: Ada Court, ASK!, Ania Bas, BNP Paribas Women s Internal Network, City of Westminster College, Chris Dercon, DreamArts, Paul Elliman, FLAG, Fourth Feathers Youth Centre, Jamie George, Henrietta Hale, Hato Press, Claudia Hummel, Eva Jablonka, Justice For Domestic Workers, Anton Kats, Annette Krauss, Simone Mair, Marylebone Project, Massimiliano Mollona, Mosaic LGBT Youth Centre, Lania Narjee, Christian Nyampeta, Lucy Pawlak, Andrew Pickering, Read-In!, Seymour Art Collective, Patrick Staff.

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The Showroom presents re-projecting (london), a major new commission by Brazilian artist Ricardo Basbaum, and the first significant presentation of his work in the UK.

 

During the month of July Basbaum will be based at The Showroom for a programme of nine new projects. Each project will connect to one of nine locations that have been determined through the application of an abstract shape onto the map of the area around the gallery. The shape, which Basbaum calls NBP (New Basis for Personality), has formed the basis of numerous works in diverse formats since the early 1990s, providing a situation that others are invited to take over and shape.

 

Basbaum's NBP shape creates a framework for individuals and groups to connect-including a women's refuge, a women's finance network, a homeless day centre, a domestic workers' union, a youth club, a LGBT centre, a youth theatre group, an older people's centre and a Further Education college-and for thoughts, experiences and ideas to circulate. Wooden objects derived from the angles of the NBP shape will be distributed to generate different public and private uses and to be passed between participants.

 

The nine projects will be presented in The Showroom's gallery-which will also function as an 'open working room' for collaborators, participants and the public to meet, discuss and work together. A programme of public events, performances, screenings and conversations will run throughout the month.

 

Ricardo Basbaum (b.1961, São Paolo) is an artist and writer who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His work investigates art as an intermediating device and platform for the articulation between sensorial experience, sociability and language. His work has been exhibited at the 30º São Paulo Biennale (2012), Garden of Learning (Busan, 2012), Counter-Production (Generali, Vienna, 2012) and documenta 12 (Kassel, 2007).

 

Communal Knowledge is generously supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, City Bridge Trust, the City of London Corporation's Charity, John Lyon's Charity, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Arts Council England, The Showroom Supporters Scheme. re-projecting (london) is produced in the framework of COHAB, a two-year project with Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, supported by a Cooperation Measures grant from the European Commission Culture Programme (2007-2013).

 

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