Image:Sean Dockray, A Public Monument (in the form of a fictional radio tower set in Walthamstow), 2011, digital collage
SHADOWBOXING brings together projects by four artists, Mariana Castillo Deball, Sean Dockray, Marysia Lewandowska and Wendelien van Oldenborgh, in an exhibition developed in collaboration with the graduating students of the Royal College of Art’s Curating Contemporary Art MA.
Using different strategies — from tinkering to direct confrontation – each of these artists considers how to disrupt the media and institutions that control our behavior and ideology. At the heart of the project stands the question: How can one challenge forces that have become so internalised that they are indistinguishable from one’s own shadow?
The ideas behind SHADOWBOXING are further explored in a five-part publication. The publication makes visible the processes of discussion, collaboration and production between artists and curators at different moments between February and June 2011. Contributions take the form of artists’ commissions, interviews and conversations with relevant people from the cultural and political fields, as well as essays by the curators.
Each issue will be available to download from the SHADOWBOXING website.
Image:Marysia Lewandowska, Subject to Change, 2011 ARK #50 (1972), © Royal College of Art
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
A site-specific event space conceived by RCA Architecture students will feature a daily programme of artists’ films and videos, documentaries and feature-length films. Drawing on various threads that have emerged in
discussion with the artists, the programme will focus on ideas around forms of control, resistance and collective organisation.
This event space will also host a series of public events throughout the duration of the exhibition.
SATURDAY 19 MARCH, 11AM–6.30PM
HENRY MOORE GALLERY THE ART OF NOT BEING GOVERNED QUITE SO MUCH
A seminar exploring issues of self-organisation, forms of resistance and their representation, with Rod Dickinson, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Sean Dockray, Marysia Lewandowska and Janna Graham.
TUESDAY 22 MARCH, 6.30–8.30PM LOWER GULBENKIAN GALLERY MARYSIA LEWANDOWSKA IN CONVERSATION WITH ANTHONY SPIRA, DIRECTOR OF MILTON KEYNES GALLERY THURSDAY 24 MARCH, 6.30–8.30PM
HENRY MOORE GALLERY ARTISTS’ FILM NIGHT A screening of two films by Wendelien van Oldenborgh, No False Echoes (2008) and Instruction (2009), and Joris Ivens’ Indonesia Calling (1946).
THURSDAY 31 MARCH, 6.30–10PM HENRY MOORE GALLERY NEVER ODD OR EVEN
