Preparing the Site
The Bank Space Gallery Whitechapel
Preparing the Site at The Bank Space Gallery was a group exhibition exploring how material processes and methods of display are used to alter the physical and metaphorical function of a space or site.
I used the images I had made with Manuel Vason, SHE PERCEIVING HER, as large prints with the ribbon I had used in the documented action. My text for the exhibition read:
‘In Conversation with Sue Arrowsmith’
The artist, Sue Arrowsmith, (1950-2014) made a work with me in 1983 (exactly half my life-time ago) called ‘In conversation with Anne Bean’. Most of her life she compiled material towards a book. She included Roland Barthes ideas from ‘Grain of the Voice,’ about a ‘second semiology,’ exploring the body ‘in a state of music’. I unfurled her words, including these, over the Thames, giving them the life of our animated conversations, when we often beach-combed together on the shoreline. Arbitrary fragments were captured, in collaboration with artist/photographer Manuel Vason —-SHE PERCEIVING HER… LIGHTENING… TEARING OF… SPELL… MY EYES… MADE OF THE DARK CLOUD OVER YOUR HEAD COME TO US SOARING… FAR DARKNESS MADE….. the transmutation of matter…. words leaping and re-shaping from one head to another, one electro-chemical trace to another, one unwinding to another… in and out of materialisation and dematerialisation
Preparing the Site
The Bank Space Gallery Whitechapel
Preparing the Site at The Bank Space Gallery was a group exhibition exploring how material processes and methods of display are used to alter the physical and metaphorical function of a space or site.
I used the images I had made with Manuel Vason, SHE PERCEIVING HER, as large prints with the ribbon I had used in the documented action. My text for the exhibition read:
‘In Conversation with Sue Arrowsmith’
The artist, Sue Arrowsmith, (1950-2014) made a work with me in 1983 (exactly half my life-time ago) called ‘In conversation with Anne Bean’. Most of her life she compiled material towards a book. She included Roland Barthes ideas from ‘Grain of the Voice,’ about a ‘second semiology,’ exploring the body ‘in a state of music’. I unfurled her words, including these, over the Thames, giving them the life of our animated conversations, when we often beach-combed together on the shoreline. Arbitrary fragments were captured, in collaboration with artist/photographer Manuel Vason —-SHE PERCEIVING HER… LIGHTENING… TEARING OF… SPELL… MY EYES… MADE OF THE DARK CLOUD OVER YOUR HEAD COME TO US SOARING… FAR DARKNESS MADE….. the transmutation of matter…. words leaping and re-shaping from one head to another, one electro-chemical trace to another, one unwinding to another… in and out of materialisation and dematerialisation