Last week I finished working in Cambridge after building a pod structure on wheels. I had a great time getting on with some constructing and also chatting to artist Rosalie Schweiker, who is running the ‘Emely Cafe’ at Aid & Abet at the moment.
The ‘Reading Space’ that I made was especially for Kobo Abe’s book ‘The Box Man’. The idea is that the reader can get into this space, wheel it around until they find just the right spot and settle down to read. There is a cup holder for coffee too of course and a plush red seat. A hole in the floor allows the user to out one foot through and scoot themselves about flintstones-style.
Rosalie kindly filmed some short snippets of me road-testing the reading pod. Here I use it to steal cake.
Aid & Abet launch their new, exciting space opposite Cambridge Station this week with Small Scale Survival. The other artists have been working in the space for a week or two and I am due to visit on Wednesday with some maquettes and zines to add to the opening show. I will make another visit during April to make work on site, working with found materials in the space and responding to the other work.
The space will be open to the public from 12 noon on 9th April.
Frederick Parker Gallery
41 Commercial Road, Whitechapel, E1 1LA
London, United Kingdom
8th April- 14th April 2011
Monday to Friday 10am – 6pm
The MA course ‘Curating the Contemporary’, taught jointly by London Metropolitan University and the Whitechapel Gallery, is pleased to announce the exhibition Textures of Time.
Artists:
Nicole Bachmann, Jeremy Evans, Ian Giles, Jörg Köppl, Emily Speed, Jill Townsley, Yonatan Vinitsky, Joby Williamson, Ben Woodeson
Curated by: Anne Baan Hofman, Nora Belovai, Catherine Serrano, Marte Paulssen, Rianne Groen, Niekolaas Lekkerkerk, Katayoun Yousefi, Pagona Zali, Helen Spence, Philippa O’Driscoll and Carrie Duff.
