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Wednesday, 3 April 2019

Installation view of SPEED 2 / James Richards, Leslie Thornton and more at Malmö Konsthall until May 26, 2019.

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, 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
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.

 

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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Friday, 21 September 2018

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart: SPEED's Review on frieze

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

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..."

For more information click here: