Mark Samsworth

6 May 2017

May Day May Day All Works Will Be Shown

Test Space

May Day May Day All Works Will Be Shown

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An open call photocopy show where all works responding to the title are shown, launched as part of Spike Island Open 2017.

May Day May Day All Works Will Be Shown is an Open Call Out Photocopy Show of work from around a hundred national and international artists, writers, performers, creative and noncreatives. In these perilous times the exhibition title focuses on the ideals of democracy and solidarity; as the title proclaims, all the submissions are shown without the hierarchy of a selection process. The ubiquitous photocopier is the champion of countless zines, home publications, pamphlets and the world of mass reproduction. This exhibition celebrates the birth of the xerographic printer in the last century and its continuing role as a voice in the digital age.

The exhibition runs from 29th April to 14th May, forming a main part of the Spike Island Open Weekend 2017 programme. Preview: Friday 29th April 6pm till 9pm.

Test Space

Spike Island

133, Cumberland Road

Bristol

BS1 6UX

Curated by: Mark Samsworth, Helen Grant, Julian Claxton

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Spike Open 2017

Studio 78b

23 April 2017

Skye 2

Test Space, Spike Island 11 - 26 March 2017

In January 2017, Test Space International and Volkskammer, Berlin presented Operation Skye, a series of works, performances and interactions which took place at Kilmuir, North Skye, Scotland.

Operation Skye takes its title from the 1944 code name for the World War II radio deception component of Fortitude North, which simulated radio traffic between fictional army units. In this exhibition, the artists chose to respond – or not – to this history, taking into account the vagaries of the weather, geology, morphology and myths associated with this westerly location.

Skye 2 forms the second part of this exhibition, relocating these works (or what remains of them) to the more traditional gallery environment of Spike Island’s Test Space. Here they are stripped of their original context, where the unpredictable weather and variable light levels dominated the works to the extent that some were impossible to install, and others were damaged or destroyed.

The exhibition includes work by artists Julian Claxton, Tom Goddard, Helen Grant, Will Kendrick, Jo Lathwood, Milo Newman and Natasha Rosling, Mark Samsworth, Solveig Settemsdal

As the rain lashed down the gentle curves of the dish uncurled into a flat untuned disc. The high wind took the machine and it flew across the field at a rate of knots, both urgent an immaculate. Single channel, sound, configured for 48 seconds during exhibition.

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