Exhibition at Southwark Park.
“Make, Shift and Bend brings together 11 artists whose practices dispute assumptions on the appearance and function of (art) objects. The title a twist on the UK Ministry of Information’s WWII pamphlet series (Make Do And Mend), encapsulates a needs-must approach to the job of making and sense of play with material and ideas already in existence. The works these artists produce may suit the current recessional landscape, but the term ‘credit crunch’ in this context might just as easily refer to budget breakfast cereal packaging as a global fiscal reality”
Don’t you just love the bollocks? However, I sat and watched a short film by Frikret Atay. A guy sits high up a hill overlooking the city, near the Iraq/Turkey border, playing the drums on these old empty squashed up containers. At the end of the film he kicks them away, just like the rubbish we thought they were at the beginning of the film. I was so impressed with his drumming skills that I didn’t read too deeply into what the film was trying to depict.
Next, I sat and gawped at a series of photos of a fully clothed man complete with trainers making odd poses on a cold looking bare mattress layed on the floor in an unfurnished room. Took me a few minutes to figure out he was making sexual positions (not too sure if that says more about me, than him). He was looking vacantly at nothing in particular and I didn’t really understand how “Sex Positions for Singles” fitted in with the credit crunch or the synopsis above. …..
