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Kate Street, Somewhere
 
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (AND BACK AGAIN)   Katy Dove
Nick Evans
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
Kate Street
Dylan Shipton
Mark Titchner
26.06 - 18.07.2004
GENERATORprojects, Dundee
 
 

From Here to Eternity (and back again) is an exhibition of six works that each play among the ruins of modern utopian visionaries. From wide-eyed, enthusiastic encounters with bygone revolutionaries, both political and punk rock, to confrontations with visibly temporal architectural structures whose roots clearly decend into Hard-Edge abstraction, all within the parenthasis of a pair of Huxleyan wreaths commemorating the increasingly redundant units of language. This show seeks out, and revels in, the new growth that unassumingly thrives amid our faded and abandonded communal inheritance.

Cruel When Complete is a new work (and Scottish premiere) from Katy Dove who studied in Dundee and last showed with GENERATORprojects in 1999. With recent exhibitions at the Venice Biennale and Art Now Lightbox at Tate Britain, it is exciting to welcome back to Dundee Dove's eloquent and involved explorartion of film's experiential quintessence.

For this show GENERATORprojects has commissioned the largest architectural intervention to date by London-based Dylan Shipton. In this ongoing series of works Shipton transforms odd moments within a given building's fabric (partitions, thresholds, alcoves) with rolls of utilitarian coloured sticky tape. Working on site for 10 days he gradually built up a skin of tape which almost covers a monumental partition that bisects both galleries.

In 2003 on a closed set at London's ICA, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard enlisted the help of current garage heroes Holly Golightly and The Parkinsons to recreate the infamous Cramps 1978 punk-hellraiser at the Napa mental institute. The closest we can come to this event is via a rather degraded VHS tape, as the only guests at the gig were a few bus-loads of local psychiatric patients. While the current obsession with re-enactments supposedly offers the opportunity to experience that which we were born too late for, Forsyth & Pollard consciously keep us at arms length, and in so doing emphasise the impossibility of an inauthentic live experience, whist reminding us that the good ones are always elsewhere.

n the works of Glasgow’s Nick Evans, and London’s Mark Titchner, it is the iconic political heroes of the past that we are brought face-to-face with. Evans’ access to a website dedicated to the legacy of Guinean freedom fighter Amilcar Cabral was not the seamless transference of information that we presume of the internet. The resultant corrupted portrait was then re-fashioned in white marble, it’s slippery forms curiously reminiscent of 50’s jazz LP sleeves or Hans Arp reliefs. In Titchner’s Bedtime for Necromancy any searching questioning of Darwin, Guevara, Lenin et al, as they in turn appear, is met with a playful, if conspiratorial wink.

The whole exhibition is framed by recent Royal College of Art graduate, Kate Street’s muted, synthetic flower-adorned nouns Something and Nothing. It is between these utterances, unable as they are, to any longer contain even the Romantic unknown, that the works in this show find their own space to simply and intriguingly be.

 
Evans, Shipton, Dove   Shipton, Dove, Forsyth, Pollard
(l-r):
Nick Evans, Defeat Tokenism, polyurethene rubber
Dylan Shipton, Twin, pvc hazard tape and wooden structure
Katy Dove, Cruel When Complete, animation with sound
(l-r):
Dylan Shipton, Twin, pvc hazard tape and wooden structure
Katy Dove, Cruel When Complete, animation with sound
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, File Under Sacred Music, dvd
 
Nick Evans, Defeat Tokenism
Nick Evans, Defeat Tokenism, polyurethene rubber
 
Iain Forsyth Jane Pollard, File Under Sacred Music
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, File Under Sacred Music, dvd
 
Shipton, Dove, Street
(l-r): Dylan Shipton, Twin, pvc hazard tape and wooden structure, Katy Dove, Cruel When Complete, animation with sound, Kate Street, Somewhere, wire resin and Oasis foam
 
Shipton, Evans   Evans, Shipton
(l-r): Dylan Shipton, Twin, pvc hazard tape and wooden structure, Nick Evans, Could it be a Bantustan? Carrera Arabescato marble and Carrera Bianco marble   (l-r): Nick Evans, Could it be a Bantustan? Carrera Arabescato marble and Carrera Bianco marble, Dylan Shipton, Twin, pvc hazard tape and wooden structure,
 
Shipton, Titchner, Street
(l-r): Dylan Shipton, Twin, pvc hazard tape and wooden structure, Mark Titchner, Bedtime for Necromancy , dvd, Kate Street, Nowhere, wire resin and Oasis foam
 
Kate Street, Nowhere
Kate Street, Nowhere, wire, resin and Oasis foam (at top of page: Kate Street, Somewhere, wire resin and Oasis foam)