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The Gopher Hole warmly invites you to
THE GOPHER HOLE ARTIST TALKS
Thursday 27th January, 7pm
350-354 Old Street, EC1V 9NQ
DOMINIC WILCOX
POST WORKS
CHRISTIAN KERRIGAN
THE NEW MINUTE SOCIETY
Chaired by aberrant architecture & Beatrice Galilee
As part of our inaugural exhibition, 'About a Minute', The Gopher Hole presents four designers, architects and artists from the show to discuss their own work and practice, followed by a discussion chaired by the curators.
We welcome contributions and debate from the audience and hope to see you next week!
Yours
The Gopher Hole
350-354 Old Street,
London, EC1V 9NQ
www.holygopher.com
THE SPEAKERS
Dominic Wilcox
Dominic Wilcox is an artist, designer and inventor who works within the territory of the 'everyday'. Everyday objects, environments, buildings, human interaction, no area of normality is out of reach. His work, which is usually layered with an ultra dry wit, places a spotlight on the banal, always adding a new, alternative perspective on things we take for granted. His work has been published and exhibited extensively around the world and he continues to develop his work in all fields of creativity.
www.dominicwilcox.com
Post Works
Post Works is a design collective working across the fields of art, architecture and performance established by Melissa Appleton and Matthew Butcher in 2008. Recent projects include a set and installation design for choreographer Rosemary Butcher's ‘Lapped Translated Lines’ at Sadler's Wells, October 2010 and a reworking of Allan Kaprow's 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, part of the Hayward Gallery's current exhibition ‘Move: Choreographing You.’ Upcoming projects include ‘Writtle Calling’, an experimental radio station in Essex and London for Spring 2011 and a Koenig publication ‘Neo Georgian’ in collaboration with Pablo Bronstein.
www.post-works.com
Christian Kerrigan
Christian Kerrigan was born in Co. Wicklow, Ireland in 1979. In his art he uses digital technology to make objects, installations, and drawings which draw out an array of ideas about nature, technology and mortality. Central to Kerrigan’s practice is storytelling and mythmaking as a means of engaging his audience. Kerrigan uses drawing as his primary mode of research into these narratives, which are consequently offered in the form of live internet feed installations acting as ecological sites, collaborative experiments introducing new organic technologies and digital images of worlds unseen. In March 2009, he was also selected for Tate Modern, ‘Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster – TH 2058’ Visions for London 2058 and the MMOCA Publication, ‘Visionary Drawings’ by Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary. He was Artist in Residence at the V&A between January and June 2010.
www.christiankerrigan.com
The New Minute Society
The New Minute Society is a practicable Utopia. It was founded by Ralf Pflugfelder to provide an alternative route through life; a diversion away from the strictures of convention towards a time that can be truly owned. Instead of adhering to Common Era, in which many adults will have a working life until they are 70 and a life expectancy of 80, The New Minute Society provides members with a minute that is 48 seconds. The units of hours and days remain the same, time zones and concepts like 'day' and 'night' are melted away. Members of the NMS will have a fifth more time to allocate whenever they choose. Meetings are shorter, deadlines completed faster. Life expectancy is at a 100 years (PCE NMS); and one might still retire at 70 (PCE NMS) but your biological clock is only at 56 (CE). Time extends and contracts on demand. The New Minute Society could save your life.
www.newminutesociety.org
