[curatorial.net] FW: COVET, Plan9

Sun Oct 18 20:46:44 BST 2009

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 Hope to see you on Thursday at Plan 9 Bristol.

PLAN9 
Bridewell Street | Broadmead
Bristol
www.plan9.org.uk
info at plan9.org.uk
Press Release - You are invited to

COVET

Dates: 23 October  8 November 2009
Private View: 22 October 6-9pm
Gallery open: Thursday  Sunday 12:00  6:00
Artist Talk: 6th November 7:00  8:00pm
Curated by: Suzanne Mooney

Artists: David Blamey  Peter Bobby  Common Culture  Anthony Gross - Greg
Jones - Caroline McCarthy  Suzanne Mooney  Paul O¹Neill  Savage

COVET is a group exhibition that explores the rhetoric of display and the
various systems, structures, and methods of presentation that have been
employed within consumer frameworks. By scrutinizing the application these
display objects have within consumer culture, the exhibition explores the
role that display plays in maintaining a desirability of the things around
us.

This exhibition brings together nine artists whose work disentangles the
object from its framing device. When the mechanisms and techniques for
staging the object are fore-grounded, the display object itself gets pushed
to the background becoming secondary, obsolete and invisible. Its purpose is
to generate desirability for other things, never for itself. By taking away
or confiscating the objects of display, COVET concentrates instead on
specific structural devices full of empty and unfulfilled promises.

Through various media, including mass-produced goods, manufactured items,
photography, video, installation and sculpture the works in COVET delves
into our cultural investment in material goods. By focusing on the staging
and restaging of the display apparatus, there is a new emphasis upon their
entropic deficiencies and inherent failure to satisfy. This is an exhibition
about exhibiting the void, the unsatisfied and the aesthetics of display.
COVET purports to open up a critique on the rhetoric of display that
surrounds us and to stage a moment of collapse, failure and sublimated
desire for the architectonics of consumer cultures.

Covet is kindly supported by the Arts Council England and University of
Wales, Newport.

ENDS 
(For more information or images please contact Karen Di Franco at
info at plan9.org.uk <mailto:info at plan9.org.uk>  or Suzanne Mooney at
mailto:suzanne.mooney at network.rca.ac.uk
<mailto:suzanne.mooney at network.rca.ac.uk>

Notes for Editors

*Information about the artists

Peter Bobby: his practice centres around specific interiors that allude to
architectural and stylistic perfection and raise a number of questions about
the way we live and the spaces we choose to inhabit or encounter as we move
through the city. Exhibitions include, Reception, Ffotogallery, Cardiff; The
Core of Industry, Spazio Gerra, Reggio Emilia; Floor Plan, Phoenix Gallery,
Brighton; Photospeaks, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, South Korea;
Locale, Unit 2, London. Based in Bristol, Bobby is a senior lecturer in
Photography at the University of Wales, Newport, and a member of the eCPR
(European Centre for Photographic Research). http://www.peterbobby.com

David Blamey: his work encompasses several activities which all overlap to
form a multi-layered practice that defies straightforward categorisation.
Exhibitions include Still/Moving/Still at the International Photo Festival
Knokke-Heist; Quiet Place at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the solo
exhibition, D.B. in Four, Dublin 2007. Blamey is a senior lecturer at the
Royal College of Art, London. http://www.davidblamey.com/
<http://www.davidblamey.com/>

Anthony Gross: has exhibited in major national and international exhibitions
including, 'Retrogeno', ICA, London; Platform for Art, Piccadilly Circus,
London: ŒVideo et Animations¹,
M-Project, Paris; Reliquaries of Empires Dust, Bereznitsky Berlin; Coalesce:
Happenstance, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam; Event Horizon, GSK
Contemporary, The Royal Academy, London; In Media Res, Whitechapel Art
Gallery, London and Something about Rooms and Walls, SUPERFRONT, New York.
Currently based in London, Gross is one half of temporarycontemporary, an
artist run space and studios in London. http://www.mrgross.com
<http://www.mrgross.com>

Caroline McCarthy: makes work that reveals clear influences of readymade as
well as pop art. She belongs to a generation that uses subversive
interventions and contextual shifts to alter traditional interpretations and
meanings. But instead of focusing on the magnificent and heroic, she
emphasizes the marginal and seemingly meaningless. Recent solo exhibitions
including, New Work (Luxury), Gimpel Fils, London; Paintings, Hoet Bekaert
Gallery, Belgium; Grand Detour, Bugdahn und Kaimer, Germany. She currently
lives in London. http://www.carolinemccarthy.net/
<http://www.carolinemccarthy.net/>

Common Culture: is David Campbell, Mark Durden and Ian Brown. Founded in
1996, they have exhibited regularly both nationally and internationally, at
The Photographers¹ Gallery, London; Void Gallery, Derry; The Shanghai
Biennale, Shanghai, China; Third Space Gallery, Belfast and Vila do Conde,
Portugal. http://www.commonculture.co.uk/

 <http://www.commonculture.co.uk/>

 <http://www.commonculture.co.uk/>
Greg Jones: is particularly interested in manufactured objects that mediate
his experience and interaction with the world. It is the currency these
objects have that he seeks to represent. Currently based in London, Jones
has an MA in photography from the Royal College of Art. In 2005 he had his
first solo show, Make Model Mark at London's Standpoint Gallery and was a
prize winner for the BOC Emerging Artist Award in 2003. Jones is also a
visiting lecturer at Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Farnham.

http://www.greg-jones.co.uk

 <http://www.greg-jones.co.uk>

 <http://www.greg-jones.co.uk>
Suzanne Mooney: central to her practice is the relationship between
production, function and mediation of everyday objects and images. Many of
her works constitute a reflexive experiment of both the mechanics and
cultural values of our consumer culture. Recent exhibitions include; The
Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey, Arnolfini, Bristol; Embedded,
Gimpel Fils, London; Arles Photography Festival, France; In Our World, New
Photography from Britain, Modena, Italy and Metropolis Rise: New Art from
London in Shanghai and Beijing. Mooney is currently exhibiting in Exeter
Contemporary Open which is open until 4th November, 2009.
http://www.suzannemooney.co.uk <http://www.suzannemooney.co.uk>

Savage is a conceptual artist as well as senior lecturer in
interdisciplinary design. He has specialised in bridging the worlds of both
Art and Design focusing upon the development of discreet experiential and
contextual creative practice. As a designer, Savage employs logical
efficiency to engender poetic design solutions. As an artist, his often
quietly romantic work, plays with notions of ownership and the rites of
exchange. His recent exhibitions include Concepts in design, Arnolfini,
Bristol; Hotel Marienbad, Kunst Werke, Berlin and This is yours now, Ikon,
Birmingham 

Paul O¹ Neill is a curator, artist, and writer, and currently GWR Research
Fellow in Commissioning Contemporary Art with Situations at the University
of the West of England, Bristol. He is commissioning editor of the
curatorial anthology Curating Subjects, ed. Paul O¹Neill and the forthcoming
Curating and the Educational Turn, with Mick Wilson. As an artist, he has
exhibited widely including , Zaçheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw;
the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; temporarycontemporary, London;
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and South London Gallery. He has
curated/co-curated over 50 projects including Coalesce: Happenstance, SMART,
Amsterdam (2009). His writing has been published in many books and magazines
and is a regular contributor to Art Monthly.
http://www.situations.org.uk <http://www.situations.org.uk>

Plan 9 
Plan 9 is an independent contemporary art initiative with a gallery, project
space and studios. Coordinated by Plan 9 members, this active space provides
the opportunity to practitioners to realise projects within a supported peer
network. Plan 9's 2009 programme includes international and national
residencies; one off events; screenings; critical debate through talks and
writing; alongside an ambitious gallery programme.

Plan 9 is Rachel Butcher, Karen Di Franco, Anton Goldenstein, Mark Harris,
Toby Huddlestone, Ali Jones, Natasha MacVoy, Sophie Mellor, Anouk Mercier,
Zoe Williams. 
Plan 9 is currently self-funded.

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