The End

EVENT SCHEDULE:

15 - 17 JULY 12-6PM            BOB LEVENE

22 - 24 JULY 12-6PM            DAVID MARTIN

29 - 31 JULY 12-6PM            NOEL CLUEIT

2 - 5 AUGUST 12-6PM          DAN METHTHANANDA

FRIDAY 5 AUGUST 8PM      WOODMILL (EVENT)

7 AUGUST 4-6PM                 ENDVIEW

Bob Levene was the first artist to work at Crate as part of SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW. Arriving in Margate last Monday, she made new work and presented it very much like a typical artist solo exhibition.

David Martin was the second artist to work as part of this process. He reused Bob's works in order to create a new exhibition within the same space, radically changing, yet providing glimpses of what had gone before.

Noel Clueit was the third artist to present new work in the gallery spaces in response to the structural format of the exhibition, taking on the space and its elements to create a solo show from two previous solo shows by the artists that have gone before.

Dan Meththananda planned to make a work in the Thanet Gazette that was both an article about the exhibition and an artwork, written by a local journalist. He also intervened with the previous artworks made in the space before him, reinstating some and slightly altering others.

For the fifth chapter of SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW, The Woodmill (Alastair Frazer, Naomi Pearce and Richard Sides) performed a specially written play in three parts, in which they used part of the previous exhibitions as a set.

The final part of SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW is upon us. Over the course of four weeks, four individual artists and one artist collective have presented five separate solo exhibitions within the confines of one group exhibition.

Incrementally, the show has shifted and altered hugely, each incarnation taking on a sense of urgency and intuition. Inherited works have often made reappearances as new works, and, through what now seems a memorial for the project over the last weekend, we are left with remnants of all that has passed.

Until now there has always been an author, an artist present to call the exhibition their own. Now there is no author, and no artist. The resultant space is both free from authorship, but also belongs to all that have moulded and shaped what it has become.

The end.

 

The Woodmill, 5 August 8pm

(In the days of the) ROID

Bob Levene was the first artist to work at Crate as part of SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW. Arriving in Margate last Monday, she made new work and presented it very much like a typical artist solo exhibition.

David Martin was the second artist to work as part of this process. He reused Bob's works in order to create a new exhibition within the same space, radically changing, yet providing glimpses of what had gone before.

Noel Clueit was the third artist to present new work in the gallery spaces in response to the structural format of the exhibition, taking on the space and its elements to create a solo show from two previous solo shows by the artists that have gone before.

Dan Meththananda planned to make a work in the Thanet Gazette that was both an article about the exhibition and an artwork, written by a local journalist. He also intervened with the previous artworks made in the space before him, reinstating some and slightly altering others.

For the final part of SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW, The Woodmill (Alastair Frazer, Naomi Pearce and Richard Sides) performed a new play in three parts, in which they used previous exhibition as a set.

'ROID' is a tragi-com about transformation, epoch, dark psychedelia, death and absurdity. Through a series of monologues, scenarios and prop-based actions this inter-personal edit merges experienced moments and historical events to explore personal dialogue, an idea of coming-of-age, and the 'wrong' psychedelics of Charles Manson.

Dan Meththananda, 2-5 August

CADIGAN IS HIMSELF A KADIGAN

In linguistics, the term placeholder can refer to objects or people whose names are either temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown in the context in which it is being presented. Examples of placeholders for people include, ‘whatshername’ referring to a colleague named Roberta, ‘mate’ for a stranger in the pub, Common placeholders for objects include ‘thingy’ or ‘gubbins’.

For the duration of Group / Show Solo, the fourth invited artist instigated a process to link his practice to the location and curatorial remit of the show. Sole proof of this process may appear in an article on 5th August 2011 edition of local paper the Thanet KM Extra. The project required the participation of several actors - a curator, artists, family members, journalists, and newspaper editors. After a series of misinterpretations, it became unsure the initial intentions of the work would be conveyed in the article, or even if the article will be published at all. Without this proof, can we be sure that his project really happened?

From 2nd to 5th August, the artist must assemble a show, uncertain of this article’s existence…

If the article is published, the exhibition is the artist’s first solo show. The objects on display become placeholders; their initial names are forgotten and they become visual residues illustrating the artist’s project.
If it is not published, the exhibition is a group show of the other participants’ work. Instead, the artist becomes the placeholder.

Noel Clueit, 29-31 July

Bob Levene was the first artist to work at Crate as part of SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW. Arriving in Margate last Monday, she made new work and presented it very much like a typical artist solo exhibition.

David Martin was the second artist to work as part of this process. He reused Bob's works in order to create a new exhibition within the same space, radically changing, yet providing glimpses of what had gone before.

Noel Clueit is the third artist to work at Crate as part of SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW.
Working over the third weekend, Noel has made new work in the gallery spaces in response to the structural format of the exhibition, taking on the space and its elements to create a solo show from two previous solo shows by the artists that have gone before.

Noel's recent work explores the value of objects; relationships between the readymade and the handmade; history and education; representation; authorship and reproduction, and through these interests, will unpick the curatorial remit in order to make a new exhibition in the Crate gallery spaces.

He is based in Manchester, UK and is artist-in-residence at Bureau Gallery where he was recently in We are all in this together. Other recent activities include Painting Show, Supercollider Projects, Blackpool (2011); Deadpan, The Royal Standard, Liverpool (2010); From this filthy sewer pure gold flows, Rogue Project Space, Manchester (2010). In 2010 Clueit participated in A Foundation's A Curriculum residency programme which include a group show.

Following on from Noel, David Martin and Bob Levene, each consequent artist will produce new work in the gallery spaces inheriting more artwork as the exhibition continues, choosing to use and/or disregard what has gone before. This will result in a series of layered solo shows within the gallery spaces.

David Martin, 22-24 July

  

Bob Levene was the first artist to work at Crate as part of SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW. Arriving in Margate last Monday, she made new work and presented it very much like a typical artist solo exhibition.

David Martin is the second artist to work at part of this process.
Working over the weekend whilst the exhibition is open to the public, David will make new work in the gallery spaces according to a number of pre-conceived ideas and also in response to Bob Levene's first response to the structure of the exhibition.

Following on from David and Bob, each consequent artist will produce new work in the gallery spaces inheriting more artwork as the exhibition continues, choosing to use and/or disregard what has gone before. This will result in a series of layered solo shows within the gallery spaces.

David works in a variety of different media, from large scale sculptural work to film and video. The main focus of his work is the exploration and assessment of boundaries - architectural/institutional/conceptual, and reassessing pre-determined structures that exist within the traditional art production and exhibiting process. Another interest lies within the notion of ‘failure’ and how this can affect or even determine artistic output.
David Martin is a visual artist currently based in Bristol, UK. After graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2004, he has exhibited in the UK, Spain, Scotland and Germany.

Bob Levene, 15-17 July

                                               All photos: Bob Levene

Bob Levene was the first artist to work at Crate as part of the EXHIBITION AS MEDIUM programme in the inaugural exhibition SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW, which is a group exhibition presented as a series of cumulative solo shows.
Arriving in Margate on Monday, she made new work over the week that has kick-started this process.
Following on from Bob, each artist will produce new work in the gallery spaces at different times during the exhibition, choosing to use and/or disregard what has gone before. This will result in a series of layered solo shows within the gallery spaces.

Her work adopts pseudo-scientific strategies and anthropological methods of recording
to analyse 'the nature of things', often using the land to experiment with our perceptions of distance, speed & time and exploring ideas around mapping, human scale and memory.  It touches on the relationships between the scientific and artistic approaches to making sense of the world. Questioning ideas around representation and the notion of ‘truth’ it invites us to reflect on our own ability to impact upon the world we inhabit. The work manifests as recorded sound & video, performance, installation, drawing and photography.