APT Gallery Deptford London=20
10th to 13th April 2014
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Catalogues
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hi-res page-turning PDF at Issuu (14Mbs). | Buy=20
a printed version on Peecho
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Events
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Universe Talk Movie (15 mins clip) |
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by Doron Polak (15 mins)
The very inaccessibility of Space lends itself to speculation,=20 interpretation, and differing conceptual inhabitations. These often = fictional=20 narratives extend into how we view the world in all of its aspects; = social,=20 philosophical and metaphysical. Consisting often of the most flimsy of = evidence;=20 a few grains of photographic emulsion, a mathematical tower of cards or = an=20 ethical conviction, this arena lends itself towards wide horizons of = enquiry.=20 The charting of this world has only just begun, using heroic yet barely = adequate=20 tools as well as audacious attempts at understanding.=20
AstroLAB is an exhibition as laboratory that includes art works by = twenty=20 international artists. Each artist has been invited to freely interpret = aspects=20 of the astronomical and these works inform each other through = juxtaposition,=20 spatiality and sound. Some works have been generated experimentally in a = few=20 days specifically for this show, while others have been the result of = research=20 over a longer length of time.=20
One of the roles of an artist is to generate the conceptual freedoms=20 necessary to enable an aesthetic apprehension of alternative ideas. = Sometimes=20 this requires approaching the subject obliquely, so as to catch it = unawares. And=20 so it is with the mapping of alternative directions in our understanding = of the=20 astronomical. This can take the form of inversions, metaphor and the = questioning=20 of collective cultural understandings and theories. Our Laboratory = aspires to=20 engage with all of these possibilities within a 'Planetarium of the=20 Imagination'.=20
Curators: Paul Malone and Nicola Rae =
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Doron Polak=20
Joachim Raab=20
Nicola Rae=20
Steven Scott=20
Suzanne Wild=20
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