Performance Publishing: V22 Excelsior Works
25 September to 23 October 2015 V22 Excelsior Works
V22 is pleased to support the creation of a new work by Maurice Carlin at our Excelsior Works building in South Bermondsey. The artist will undertake a three-week-long performance, to ‘publish’ the 5000 sq ft warehouse floor plate with CMYK prints, leading to a large-scale installation, viewable on-site and online throughout the duration.
This forms part of a new V22 initiative to support artists from beyond London with space in the capital. As the existing structures and forms of artists’ studio provision and infrastructure change across the country in a rapidly accelerating property market, V22 wants to work with artists to develop more inclusive opportunities for artists working outside of London.
A number of Maurice’s previous works have been incorporated into, or have been conceptualised around, ideas of shared ownership, representing a crossover interest with V22’s own shared art collection. With his installation ‘Performance Publishing: Regent Trading Estate’, a precursor to this work, the artist set out to examine alternative and neglected models of arts distribution and ownership, resulting in the artwork being placed entirely into the custodianship of a collection of individuals who will take responsibility for its future care.
In Maurice’s work, the translation from concrete floor-patterned surface, to laboured analogue print, to low-res digital imagery is placed within a wider pattern of social and economic shifts, whereby the area surrounding Excelsior Works transitions from light industry to a creative information based economy. The artwork represents an endeavour to capture this moment of transition, and to open a temporary space to discuss some of the issues arising. In the artist’s practice, ‘publishing’ is reconfigured as an approach to the spatial and social, whereby the live production of a work can become a point to assemble around common objects and conversations.
The online interface of the work via video conferencing platform ‘Google Hangouts’ will allow public witness of the ongoing production of the artwork via a live screen toggling portal, offering a simultaneously close-up yet distanced look at the artwork. People can also opt to join live conversations by appointment with Maurice about his work.
The work will also incorporate a connection to the Multiplied Art Fair, taking place from October 16th to 18th at Christie’s South Kensington. A section of the Excelsior Work’s installation will be temporarily relocated to Multiplied and an online live-stream connection established there to virtually link back to Excelsior Works.
Venue info
V22 Excelsior Works
Rollins Street
London
SE15 1EP
Train: South Bermondsey
Tube: Bermondsey
Bus: 1, 381, P12