Installation Images of SPEED 2 at Malmö Konsthall. Photo: Helene Toresdotter, Courtesy Malmö Konsthall
SPEED 2 / James Richards, Leslie Thornton and more at Malmö Konsthall. Curated by James Richards, Fatima Hellberg and Matt Fitts. In Collaboration with Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. With works by Adelhyd van Bender and Horst Ademeit.
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Wednesday, 3 April 2019
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
SPEED 2 at Malmö Konsthall with works by Horst Ademeit and Adelhyd van Bender beside others
Image: Adelhyd van Bender, drawing from folder #52, 1999 -2014. © Delmes & Zander, Cologne.
SPEED 2 comprises three major new commissions by James Richards and Leslie Thornton, alongside a show-within-the-show convened by Richards with works by Horst Ademeit, Tolia Astakhishvili, Adelhyd van Bender, Bruce Conner, Emily Feather, Terence McCormack, Vi Khi Nao, Jeff Preiss, Jens Thornton and Thomas Zummer.
In the making of SPEED 2, Richards and Thornton have been concerned with specific psychic and temporal states, rushes of interconnectedness and scientific wonder, as well as a sense of ecological dread and paranoia. The oscillation between an ordering impulse, and the relinquishing of control is a central feature of SPEED 2, one that returns in the exhibitions’ different modes: cinema screening, video mural, sound installation, study room and group show.
Many of the works in the group exhibition were made against a backdrop of apprehension and self-destruction during the Cold War, with its at times uncanny resonances with the present moment. The atmosphere contains an obsessive energy, a recurring fascination with rays, mind altering effects and rituals and the systematic sorting and recording of experience. It is sense of frantic repetition and labour, which van Bender described as ‘Divine Drudgery’, a spirit also present in Bruce Conner’s psychedelic inkblot drawings.
There is an impulse of collaboration that brought about SPEED 2, one shaped by the artists’ joint residency at CERN. This center for nuclear research became a working-site and a space for thinking artistically – the largest machine in the world, seeking the smallest particle, a combination between the epic and the mundane that recurs in the logic of SPEED 2. The exhibition comprises discrete and individual new works, from Richards’ large-scale video mural Phrasing and Thornton’s cinema installation Cut from Liquid to Snake, to the wall text and video installation Sheep Machine Redux, conceived for the spaces of Malmö Konsthall. It is a body of work developed from the artists’ individual practices but also from the third mind of collaboration, a channeling of and at times conscious unsettling of each other’s sensitivities. The basic biographical contrasts between Richards and Thornton are apparent: gender, age and sexuality are all points of difference. What has drawn them together is an inclination they seem to share: that of grabbing charged material, and without apparent judgement or moralising, filling and emptying it. There is an attuned pitch for locating and unsettling any received and comfortable meaning. And at the same time, they produce works with a highly specific sense of the contemporary moment and the urgencies that it presents.
Curated by Fatima Hellberg and James Richards with Matt Fitts
Commissioned by Malmö Konsthall and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
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SPEED 2
James Richards / Leslie Thornton
Ausstellungseröffnung, Malmö Konsthall
Freitag, 15. März, 18–21 Uhr
James Richards / Leslie Thornton, SPEED 2 eröffnete am 15. März 2019 in der Malmö Konsthall. Es ist die zweite Version der Ausstellung nach ihrer Präsentation im Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Dieser erweiterte zweite Teil wurde zusammen mit dem Künstlerhaus in Auftrag gegeben und im Dialog mit den Räumlichkeiten der Malmö Konsthall umgesetzt.
SPEED 2 besteht aus drei eigens für die Ausstellung produzierten Arbeiten von James Richards und Leslie Thornton, sowie einer von Richards zusammengestellten Ausstellung-in-der-Ausstellung mit Arbeiten von Horst Ademeit, Tolia Astakhishvili, Adelhyd van Bender, Bruce Conner, Emily Feather, Terence McCormack, Vi Khi Nao, Jeff Preiss, Jens Thornton und Thomas Zummer.
Im Entstehungsprozess um SPEED 2 beschäftigten sich Richards und Thornton mit einer Reihe psychischer und zeitlicher Zustände, einem rauschartigen Verbundensein und wissenschaftlichen Staunen sowie einem Gefühl ökologischer Verunsicherung. Das Oszillieren zwischen ordnendem Impuls und Kontrollaufgabe zieht sich als wiederkehrendes Merkmal durch die diversen Ausstellungsmodi von SPEED 2: Kinovorstellung, skulpturale Videowand, Soundinstallation, Lesesaal und Gruppenausstellung.
Viele der in der Gruppenausstellung vertretenen Werke entstanden vor der Kulisse dunkler Vorahnungen und drohender Selbstzerstörung in der Ära des Kalten Krieges, wobei sich nicht selten unheimliche Parallelen zur Gegenwart auftun. Die vorherrschende Atmosphäre birgt eine obsessive Energie, eine wiederkehrende Faszination für Strahlung, systematische Gliederung und Aufzeichnung von Erfahrungen sowie für bewusstseinsverändernde Effekte und Rituale. Dieses Gefühl fieberhafter Wiederholung und Arbeit, das van Bender als „göttliche Schinderei“ beschrieb, kommt auch in Bruce Conners psychedelischen Inkblot Drawings zum Ausdruck.
SPEED 2 entstand angeregt durch einen Impuls zur Kollaboration, der aus dem gemeinsamen Arbeitsaufenthalt der Künstler_innen am CERN hervorging. Das Zentrum für Nuklearforschung wurde zu einem Ort für das gemeinsame künstlerische Arbeiten und Denken – die größte Maschine der Welt, welche die kleinsten Teilchen erforscht, eine Kombination aus dem unbegreiflich Großen und dem Alltäglichen, die sich in der Logik von SPEED 2 wiederfinden lässt. Die Ausstellung enthält eigenständige Arbeiten, darunter Richards‘ großformatige Videowand Phrasing und Thorntons Kino-Installation Cut from Liquid to Snake, sowie die Wandtext- und Videoinstallation Sheep Machine Redux, welche speziell für die Räumlichkeiten der Malmö Konsthall konzipiert wurde. Alle Arbeiten sind aus den individuellen Praktiken der Künstler_innen und zugleich im Geiste der Zusammenarbeit entstanden – manchmal Bündelung, manchmal durchaus bewusste Störung der gegenseitigen Empfindungen. Die Biografien Richards‘ und Thorntons unterscheiden sich in so wesentlichen Punkten wie Geschlecht, Alter und Sexualität. Jedoch vereint sie die Neigung, sich aufgeladenes Material anzueignen und es ohne offenkundige Wertung oder Moralisierung zugleich aufzufüllen und zu entleeren. Sie sind aufeinander eingespielt, jegliche Form anerkannter, bequemer Bedeutungen aufzuspüren und zu erschüttern. Dabei produzieren sie Arbeiten mit einem höchst spezifischen Sinn für den gegenwärtigen Moment und die mit ihm verbundenen Dringlichkeiten.
Kuratiert von Fatima Hellberg und James Richards mit Matt Fitts
Im Auftrag von Malmö Konsthall und Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
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SPEED 2
JAMES RICHARDS & LESLIE THORNTON
with works by Horst Ademeit, Tolia Astakhishvili, Adelhyd van Bender, Bruce Conner, Emily Feather, Terence McCormack, Vi Khi Nao, Thomas Zummer and Jens Thornton
16.03 – 26.05.2019, Malmö Konsthall
James Richards / Leslie Thornton, SPEED 2 opened on the 15th of March 2019 at Malmö Konsthall. This is the second iteration of the exhibition, following its first presentation at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and takes the form of an expanded version, commissioned with Künstlerhaus and realised in dialogue with the spaces of Malmö Konsthall.
SPEED 2 comprises three major new commissions by James Richards and Leslie Thornton, alongside a show-within-the-show convened by Richards with works by Horst Ademeit, Tolia Astakhishvili, Adelhyd van Bender, Bruce Conner, Emily Feather, Terence McCormack, Vi Khi Nao, Jeff Preiss, Jens Thornton and Thomas Zummer.
In the making of SPEED 2, Richards and Thornton have been concerned with specific psychic and temporal states, rushes of interconnectedness and scientific wonder, as well as a sense of ecological dread and paranoia. The oscillation between an ordering impulse, and the relinquishing of control is a central feature of SPEED 2, one that returns in the exhibitions’ different modes: cinema screening, video mural, sound installation, study room and group show.
Many of the works in the group exhibition were made against a backdrop of apprehension and self-destruction during the Cold War, with its at times uncanny resonances with the present moment. The atmosphere contains an obsessive energy, a recurring fascination with rays, mind altering effects and rituals and the systematic sorting and recording of experience. It is sense of frantic repetition and labour, which van Bender described as ‘Divine Drudgery’, a spirit also present in Bruce Conner’s psychedelic inkblot drawings.
There is an impulse of collaboration that brought about SPEED 2, one shaped by the artists’ joint residency at CERN. This center for nuclear research became a working-site and a space for thinking artistically – the largest machine in the world, seeking the smallest particle, a combination between the epic and the mundane that recurs in the logic of SPEED 2. The exhibition comprises discrete and individual new works, from Richards’ large-scale video mural Phrasing and Thornton’s cinema installation Cut from Liquid to Snake, to the wall text and video installation Sheep Machine Redux, conceived for the spaces of Malmö Konsthall. It is a body of work developed from the artists’ individual practices but also from the third mind of collaboration, a channeling of and at times conscious unsettling of each other’s sensitivities. The basic biographical contrasts between Richards and Thornton are apparent: gender, age and sexuality are all points of difference. What has drawn them together is an inclination they seem to share: that of grabbing charged material, and without apparent judgement or moralising, filling and emptying it. There is an attuned pitch for locating and unsettling any received and comfortable meaning. And at the same time, they produce works with a highly specific sense of the contemporary moment and the urgencies that it presents.
Curated by Fatima Hellberg and James Richards with Matt Fitts
Commissioned by Malmö Konsthall and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
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SPEED 2
James Richards / Leslie Thornton
Ausstellungseröffnung, Malmö Konsthall
Freitag, 15. März, 18–21 Uhr
James Richards / Leslie Thornton, SPEED 2 eröffnete am 15. März 2019 in der Malmö Konsthall. Es ist die zweite Version der Ausstellung nach ihrer Präsentation im Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Dieser erweiterte zweite Teil wurde zusammen mit dem Künstlerhaus in Auftrag gegeben und im Dialog mit den Räumlichkeiten der Malmö Konsthall umgesetzt.
SPEED 2 besteht aus drei eigens für die Ausstellung produzierten Arbeiten von James Richards und Leslie Thornton, sowie einer von Richards zusammengestellten Ausstellung-in-der-Ausstellung mit Arbeiten von Horst Ademeit, Tolia Astakhishvili, Adelhyd van Bender, Bruce Conner, Emily Feather, Terence McCormack, Vi Khi Nao, Jeff Preiss, Jens Thornton und Thomas Zummer.
Im Entstehungsprozess um SPEED 2 beschäftigten sich Richards und Thornton mit einer Reihe psychischer und zeitlicher Zustände, einem rauschartigen Verbundensein und wissenschaftlichen Staunen sowie einem Gefühl ökologischer Verunsicherung. Das Oszillieren zwischen ordnendem Impuls und Kontrollaufgabe zieht sich als wiederkehrendes Merkmal durch die diversen Ausstellungsmodi von SPEED 2: Kinovorstellung, skulpturale Videowand, Soundinstallation, Lesesaal und Gruppenausstellung.
Viele der in der Gruppenausstellung vertretenen Werke entstanden vor der Kulisse dunkler Vorahnungen und drohender Selbstzerstörung in der Ära des Kalten Krieges, wobei sich nicht selten unheimliche Parallelen zur Gegenwart auftun. Die vorherrschende Atmosphäre birgt eine obsessive Energie, eine wiederkehrende Faszination für Strahlung, systematische Gliederung und Aufzeichnung von Erfahrungen sowie für bewusstseinsverändernde Effekte und Rituale. Dieses Gefühl fieberhafter Wiederholung und Arbeit, das van Bender als „göttliche Schinderei“ beschrieb, kommt auch in Bruce Conners psychedelischen Inkblot Drawings zum Ausdruck.
SPEED 2 entstand angeregt durch einen Impuls zur Kollaboration, der aus dem gemeinsamen Arbeitsaufenthalt der Künstler_innen am CERN hervorging. Das Zentrum für Nuklearforschung wurde zu einem Ort für das gemeinsame künstlerische Arbeiten und Denken – die größte Maschine der Welt, welche die kleinsten Teilchen erforscht, eine Kombination aus dem unbegreiflich Großen und dem Alltäglichen, die sich in der Logik von SPEED 2 wiederfinden lässt. Die Ausstellung enthält eigenständige Arbeiten, darunter Richards‘ großformatige Videowand Phrasing und Thorntons Kino-Installation Cut from Liquid to Snake, sowie die Wandtext- und Videoinstallation Sheep Machine Redux, welche speziell für die Räumlichkeiten der Malmö Konsthall konzipiert wurde. Alle Arbeiten sind aus den individuellen Praktiken der Künstler_innen und zugleich im Geiste der Zusammenarbeit entstanden – manchmal Bündelung, manchmal durchaus bewusste Störung der gegenseitigen Empfindungen. Die Biografien Richards‘ und Thorntons unterscheiden sich in so wesentlichen Punkten wie Geschlecht, Alter und Sexualität. Jedoch vereint sie die Neigung, sich aufgeladenes Material anzueignen und es ohne offenkundige Wertung oder Moralisierung zugleich aufzufüllen und zu entleeren. Sie sind aufeinander eingespielt, jegliche Form anerkannter, bequemer Bedeutungen aufzuspüren und zu erschüttern. Dabei produzieren sie Arbeiten mit einem höchst spezifischen Sinn für den gegenwärtigen Moment und die mit ihm verbundenen Dringlichkeiten.
Kuratiert von Fatima Hellberg und James Richards mit Matt Fitts
Im Auftrag von Malmö Konsthall und Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
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Wednesday, 13 March 2019
SPEED 2 /James Richards, Leslie Thornton and more at Malmö Kosthall
Image: Horst Ademeit, 551, 11.04.1992, inscribed polaroid (detail). Courtesy the Estate of Horst Ademeit / Delmes & Zander, Cologne.
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SPEED 2 /James Richards, Leslie Thornton and more at Malmö Kosthall opening on the 15th of march. Curated by James Richards, Fatima Hellberg and Matt Fitts. In collaboration with Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
(...) This second iteration which follows the exhibition at Künstlerhaus, comprises four new commissions: James Richards' video mural 'Phrasing'; Leslie Thornton's cinema installation, 'Cut from Liquid to Snake', alongside the jointly developed multi-channel sound piece 'Pocket call' and the wall text and video installation 'Sheep Machine Redux', conceived for the spaces of Malmö Konsthall. These elements are presented around a display of works by Horst Ademeit, Tolia Astakhishvili, Adelhyd van Bender, Bruce Conner, Emily Feather, Terence McCormack, Vi Khi Nao, Jens Thornton and Thomas Zummer, alongside a new presentation of Richards and Thornton's first collaborative piece 'Crossing' (2016). SPEED 2 is realised in collaboration between Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Malmö Konsthall.
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Wednesday, 28 November 2018
Article on the anniversary exhibition at our gallery on Blouinartinfo
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| “untitled,” 1977 (archive # 020), Albrecht Becker, Photocollage, 20x18.6cm COPYRIGHT COLLECTION HERVÉ JOSEPH LEBRUN, COURTESY DELMES & ZANDER, COLOGNE |
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| “Naturzeugung des Menschen,” 1975 (archive # 90), Karl Hans Janke, mixed media on paper; 30x42cm COURTESY DELMES & ZANDER, COLOGNE |
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| “untitled”, Aurel Iselstöger, undated (archive # 262), pencil on paper, 20x14.5cm COURTESY DELMES & ZANDER, COLOGNE |
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| “Janke Knabenbildnis,” 1963 (archive # 87), Karl Hans Janke, mixed media on paper, 29,5 x 21cm COURTESY DELMES & ZANDER, COLOGNE |
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| “untitled”, Margarethe Held, undated (archive # 014), chalk on paper, 39.5 x 29.5 cm COURTESY DELMES & ZANDER, COLOGNE |
Thank you for featuring the current exhibition “Libidinal MOTION/ Diary of An Innocent” at our gallery on Blouinartinfo!
The 30-years anniversary show runs until February 1, 2019.
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Tuesday, 13 November 2018
30 years of Delmes & Zander
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| Karl Hans Janke, Knabenbildnis, 1963, mixed media on paper, 29,5 x 21 cm |
LIBIDINAL MOTION / DIARY OF AN INNOCENT
November 24th, 2018 – February 1st, 2019
30 years of Delmes & Zander
Curated by James Richards
Spending time at Delmes & Zander, James Richards* has convened an intimate path through thirty years of the gallery’s program. Choosing works from the gallery’s archives by Aurel Iselstöger, Miroslav Tichý, Sava Sekulic and Karl Hans Janke, to mention a few, the selection is intuitive and as- sociative. There is a focus on drawing and works on paper as a form of direct communication.There is a focus on drawing and works on paper as a form of direct communication. Tolia Astakhishvili* provides the architectural framework for the exhibition. The work who goes there acts as both display structure and atmospheric holding enviroment. Gallery walls are lined with unfinished wood pannels, post boxes and dirty perspex and graffty on top of which the artist mounts drawings and found images.
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| Albrecht Becker, ohne Titel, 1974, photo collage, 28,4 x 20,4 cm, Copyright Collection Hervé Joseph Lebrun |
Albrecht Becker – Libidinal MOTION
Curated by Lucas Foletto Celinski
Albrecht Becker (1906 – 2002), best known as a successful set designer and film architect (Hauptmann von Köpenick, Das Glas Wasser) and for his controversial biography – he was imprisoned by the Nazis under paragraph 175 – has also created an extensive artistic body of work.
The exhibition ALBRECHT BECKER – Libidinal MOTION, curated by Lucas Foletto Celinski*, will focus on the photomontage self-portraits Becker made in later years. His experimental photographic images, constructed through a range of diverse techniques, such as multiple-exposure, mirror reflection and collage, combine the depiction of motion with body-related self-explorations. Capturing separate instants of action in one static image, his photomontages render the impression of movement, bringing to mind Eadweard Muybridge's photographic studies of motion.
The exhibition provides insight into Becker's body explorations and a queer take on body and movement. A pioneer of body modification, Becker's photomontages situate his body as a site for mutable and constant transformation. Becker's staged “body-play” transcends the boundaries of still and motion, natural and artificial, private and public. They render testimony to an auto-erotic obsession.
As part of a research project at the Schwules Museum Berlin, James Richards has previously worked with Becker's photomontages in his collaborative film with Steve Reinke: What Weakens The Flesh is The Flesh Itself (2017). Thanks to Rosa von Praunheim for the permission to show the documentary film Love and Torment – Albrecht Becker (2005) in the context of the exhibition.
The exhibition takes place with the friendly support of Collection Hervé Joseph Lebrun.
30 years of Delmes & Zander
*James Richards (born 1983 in Cardiff, UK) lives and works in Berlin and London. He is the recipient of the Ars Viva Prize (2014) and Derek Jarman Award for film and video (2012) and was a resident of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm DAAD (2013). Richards was shortlisted for the 2014 Turner Prize. Recent solo shows include Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2018), Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2017), ICA, London (2016), Bergen Kunsthall (2016), Kunstverein München (2015), CCA, Kitakyushu (2012), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2011) and Tate Britain, London (2010). In 2017 Richards represented Wales at the 57th Venice Biennale. Selected group exhibitions include Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y. (2017), Less Than Zero, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis (2016), Cut to Swipe, MoMA, N.Y. (2014), Frozen Lakes, Artist Space N.Y. (2013) and The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2013).
*Lucas Foletto Celinski (born 1986 in Brazil) lives and works in Berlin. Recent shows include Suture Pénétrable at Standing Pine Gallery, Nagoya (2017), Passion at Museum Ludwig, Budapest (2016), Slash: In Between the Normative and the Fantasy at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2015), Berlin Artists' Statements at BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice (2015) and Bedded-Down Knot at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2015).
*Tolia Astakhishvili (born 1974 in Tbilisi, Georgia) lives and works in Berlin.
International group and solo shows include New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Centre, London (2001), Mots in all eyes, The Ship Projects, London (2005), The Universal Enemy, Kunstgruppe, Cologne (2005), Passenger, GlassBox, Paris (2008), 2009 Born in Georgia, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, Alms for the Birds at Cabinet Gallery, London (2014), A slight ache, chapter Gallery (curated by James Richards), Cardiff (2018) Ache, Cabinet Gallery, (curated by James Richards), London. Since 2018 the artist teaches at Udk, Universität der Künste Berlin.
*Tolia Astakhishvili (born 1974 in Tbilisi, Georgia) lives and works in Berlin.
International group and solo shows include New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Centre, London (2001), Mots in all eyes, The Ship Projects, London (2005), The Universal Enemy, Kunstgruppe, Cologne (2005), Passenger, GlassBox, Paris (2008), 2009 Born in Georgia, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, Alms for the Birds at Cabinet Gallery, London (2014), A slight ache, chapter Gallery (curated by James Richards), Cardiff (2018) Ache, Cabinet Gallery, (curated by James Richards), London. Since 2018 the artist teaches at Udk, Universität der Künste Berlin.
Friday, 21 September 2018
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart: SPEED's Review on frieze
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| Screenshot of the online article |
Find Kirsty Bell's article here
"The chilling biographical incident forms the core of ‘SPEED’, the second collaborative exhibition by filmmakers James Richards and Thornton (...)
This rich and thought-provoking exhibition looks at science from a layman’s perspective, or through an artist’s skewed curiosity, and examines its intersection with everyday politics. A video by Thornton (WhatItIsToBePerfect, 2018) featuring unedited found footage of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, is strange and fascinating in its banality..."
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Tuesday, 24 July 2018
SPEED Exhibition VIEW
Photography: Frank Kleinbach, Commissioned by Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
"...Many of the works in the group exhibition were made against a backdrop of apprehension and self-destruction during the Cold War, with its at times uncanny resonances with a present moment. The atmosphere contains an obsessive energy, a recurring fascination with rays, mind altering effects and rituals and the systematic sorting and recording of experience. It is sense of frantic repetition and labour, which van Bender described as ‘Divine Drudgery’, a spirit also present in Bruce Conner’s psychedelic inkblot drawings.
There is an impulse of collaboration that brought about SPEED, one that renders the monologue of anxious speculation into a dialogic practice. The exhibition comprises discrete and individual new works, from Richard’s large-scale video mural Phrasing to Thornton’s cinema installation Cut from Liquid to Snake, and yet all elements have been generated from the third mind of collaboration, a channeling of and at times conscious unsettling of each other’s sensitivities. The basic biographical contrasts between Richards and Thornton are apparent: gender, age and sexuality are all points of difference. What has drawn them together is an inclination they seem to share: that of grabbing charged material, and without apparent judgement or moralising, filling and emptying it. There is an attuned pitch for locating and unsettling any received and comfortable meaning. And at the same time, they produce works with a highly specific sense of the contemporary moment and the urgencies that it presents.
Curated by Fatima Hellberg and James Richards with Matt Fitts
Commissioned by Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Malmö Konsthall
The second iteration of SPEED takes place at Malmö Konsthall, 15 March – 26 May 2019"
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Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Check out the show "SPEED" with works of ADEMEIT and BENDER
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| Opening Sat 30 Jun 2018, 7pm |
We are looking forward to the opening at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
"There is a collaborative impulse behind James Richards and Leslie Thornton’s SPEED, one that renders the lone paranoid monologue of anxious speculation into a dialogic practice. In the process of realising SPEED, Richards and Thornton have been concerned with a number of psychic and temporal states, rushes of interconnectedness and scientific wonder, as well as a sense of ecological dread and anxiety. The exhibition takes the form of two major new commissions by Richards and Thornton, alongside a show-within-the-show convened by Richards with works by Horst Ademeit, Adelhyd van Bender, Bruce Conner, Emily Feather, Terence McCormack, Jeff Preiss and Jens Thornton.
There is an atmosphere of obsessive energy in SPEED, a recurring fascination with rays, of systematic sorting and recording of experience, and with mind altering effects and rituals. A number of the works in the group exhibition were made against a backdrop of apprehension and self-destruction during the Cold War. There is a sense of frantic repetition, labour and a command to activity, which van Bender described as ‘Divine Drudgery’. It is a spirit also present in Bruce Conner’s psychedelic inkblot drawings. The oscillation between an ordering impulse, and the relinquishing of control is a recurring feature of SPEED, one that appears both in the group exhibition and in the newly realised works..."
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