LG – London

2013

BOW GAMELAN films and archival material plus scores by Anne Bean, Paul Burwell and Richard Wilson

Press Release:
“A group exhibition which explores the contradictions, complexities and convolutions exposed through artist renderings of the ‘explosive’ and the deployment of explosive materials. The exhibition brings together a selection of international contemporary artists who have critically engaged with explosives and explosive powders in creating and conceiving work.

Featuring work and materials from James Acord, Michelangelo Antonioni, Fiona Banner, Anne Bean, Tim Burns, Paul Burwell, Stephen Cripps, Ivor Davies, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Enrico Gaido, The Bow Gamelan, Gustav Metzger, Mariele Neudecker, Cornelia Parker, William Raban, Werner Schrieb, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Wilson and others, the exhibition includes art, film, documentation and time-base sculptural works and events from the 1960s to the present day. The exhibiiton is organised by independent curator and writer Rozemin Keshvani.

Exploding Utopia brings together a selection of artists who have engaged with the controversial and forbidden media of explosives and gunpowder in order to invoke, provoke and highlight the position of the artist as agitator, explorer, risk-taker and experimenter, performer and stakeholder whose strategies and interventions are capable of informing and reforming conceptual categories through a direct relationship with materiality.”

I saw the Bow Gamelan Ensemble a few times in the late Eighties – if memory serves, once at the ICA (incredible) and once outdoors at this kind of backwater of the Thames somewhere in the West of London (pretty cool)

…Before the Pulp Music postpunk single , Anne Bean had been in The Moodies, aka Moody and the Menstruators – who were fellow travellers of Roxy Music, protopomo / proto drag king cabaret/panto/performance art troupe

what an interesting journey –  glam to postpunk to sound art



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