[curatorial.net] Gail Pickering - BRUTALIST PREMOLITION 04/11/08

Wed Oct 8 13:49:50 BST 2008

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PRESS RELEASE

GAIL PICKERING

BRUTALIST PREMOLITION

A film and live performance – Tuesday 4 November 2008, 20.00hrs
Tickets £5 / £3 concs / Free with valid NUS

Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol. www.arnolfini.org.uk

BRUTALIST PREMOLITION

Included in a solo exhibition, as part of ‘Nought to Sixty’ – 13-20 October 2008

Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London. www.ica.org.uk

Media Art Bath is delighted to announce the exhibition of a new commission by Gail Pickering, BRUTALIST PREMOLITION featuring both film and performance.

The performance and film works of Gail Pickering are characterized by a
layering of performative fictions, constructed and sourced through
specific sites and historical or political events. Her recent video
works explore ideas of highly authored forms of collaboration. Working
with both amateur and professional actors, she devises scenarios or
situations in which the discrepancy between individual and ‘role’ is
emphasised and questioned.

BRUTALIST PREMOLITION takes as its starting point the
snaking concrete housing estate Robin Hood Gardens, designed by Alison
and Peter Smithson, a key example of post-war New Brutalist
architecture intended as a utopian form of large scale social housing.
Pickering works from the interior of the architecture, producing a film
from within one of the flats on the estate. The film shows a resident
family casting professional actors to play themselves. Embedding
familiar faces from British television and film, we see the actors
repeating well-rehearsed scenes from their inventory of past roles. As
the work progresses, the actors begin to occupy the flat where their
theatricality and professionalism is played out alongside the
participation of the family.

For its presentation at Arnolfini, Pickering will produce a special
performance alongside the film, extending the works interests into the
realm of a live event.

For more information and images please contact Bridget Crone or Lucy Sames on 01225 442 591, or email: info at mediaartbath.org.uk.

BRUTALIST PREMOLITION has been commissioned by Media Art Bath with support from the Henry Moore Foundation.

Media Art Bath – championing contemporary art and ideas through the development of bold new work.

NOTES TO EDITORS

Gail Pickering works with performance, live installation and
video. She has presented several performances and live installations in
recent years, most notably her solo exhibitions at Gasworks, London
(2008), Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris (2007) and Matt's Gallery,
London (2004). Pickering has shown widely in group exhibitions
including most recently Here We Dance, Tate Modern (2008), Neither
Either Nor Or, Kunstverien Stuttgart (2008) and

The Sensible Stage, The Whitechapel Gallery (2008). Pickering will be
showing ‘Dissident Sunset’ (2007) at the Palais De Tokyo, Paris, in
October and November of 2008.

Brutalist Premolition actors Raji James and Babita Pohoomull are
familiar British television, theatre and film actors, both have
previously played long running roles in the BBC soap ‘Eastenders’. Raji
James played a leading role in the 1999 film ‘East is East’ and
numerous roles in various BBC TV dramas including ‘The Bill’ ‘Holby
City’ ‘Casualty’ and “Dr Who’.

Robin Hood Gardens Estate is in Poplar, East London. Completed
in 1972 and designed by Alison and Peter Smithson (the well-known
proponents of New Brutalism in the UK), the estate was designed as a
manifestation of the Smithson’s socially utopian ideals. The
architecture is characterised by its use of streets in the sky – broad
walkways designed to enable as social space for the inhabitants.
Characterised by a strong community beset by poor building maintenance,
Robin Hood Gardens is now facing demolition.

Media Art Bath is a publicly funded organisation and registered
charity based in Bath, South West England. Dedicated to championing
contemporary art and ideas through the development of bold new work,
Media Art Bath works with artists to produce new work for presentation
in Bath, the South West and across the UK.

Media Art Bath, Abbey Chambers

Kingston Buildings, off York Street, Bath, BA1 1LT

Tel : +44 (0) 1225 442 591 www.mediaartbath.org.uk

Registered Charity Number: 1124134

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