Holly Slingsby: PROPS FOR THE SKY 

Private view: 20 January 2012, 6-9pm 

21-22 January 2012, 12-6pm 

SHIFT. 32 Shelmerdine Close, London, E3 4UX 

PROPS FOR THE SKY is a new performance work by Holly Slingsby, taking place over three days at SHIFT. 

In this work the artist takes on the guise of a series of gods and mythical characters, using improvised costumes and props. As the performance progresses, these deities make and remake themselves, producing a series of hybrids – gods with vanity problems, gender confusion and split personalities.  

The setting is an artist’s studio, providing the means for these protagonists to create new attributes and appearances for themselves, as well as referencing the idea of the studio as a pseudo-sacred space, where something miraculous or alchemical can take place.

Through this work Slingsby deepens her fascination with iconography from various religious and pagan traditions, exploring how images and figures cross-fertilise and later come to be subsumed into contemporary culture. Using everyday materials to evoke the divine, she interrogates our continuing attempts to envisage the invisible.

Holly Slingsby (born Oxford, 1983) lives and works in London. She studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, and the Slade School of Art, London. Her recent performances include those at the Barbican Centre, Fold Gallery and Angus Hughes Gallery, London; Modern Art Oxford; and FEM 10 Festival, Girona, Spain. 

SHIFT. will be showing work at SLUICE artfair.

For SLUICE, SHIFT. has asked every artist who has had a solo show to make a maquette of, or a remnant from, their show. Collectively these works will be presented as (All Works 2009-2011).

Artists:

Matt Blackler
Patrick Coyle
Lee Holden
Mark Selby
Leonardo Ulian
Joe Watling
Adam Watts
less.

more info at http://www.sluiceartfair.com/

Sluice Art Fair

15 -16 October 2011 Noon to 10 pm

SLUICE is both exhibition space and platform for discussion and creation. Featuring an open layout for expansive installations, performative works and screenings including a multifaceted supporting programme consisting of a preview breakfast, panel discussions, art-making educational activities for children and young people and artist publishing bookstands.

Primarily (but not solely) focusing on artist run not-for-profit spaces, SLUICE does not wish to be didactic but rather provide an informal and accessible temporary platform for young galleries and project spaces to exhibit their artists’ work, gain exposure and encourage dialogue between artists, curators and audiences.

Located in central London, a few minutes walk from Bond Street Underground station. Running over the weekend of 15-16 October with late opening and free entry SLUICE is designed to enable access to all. SLUICE will serve as a punctuation point to the London Art Fair week.

SLUICE is organised by the London based artist Karl England and curator Ben Street.

artist:

mark selby

title:

the electric house


dates:

20th to the 26th of august

private view friday the 19th of august 6-9pm


press release:

For Selby’s exhibition at SHIFT, he uses the Buster Keaton short film that the exhibition takes as its title in order to explore the function of the gallery space and its domestic context. He will be constructing a new installation work combining elements of kinetic sculpture, drawing and film.

‘The Electric House’, made in 1922 (for the second time after Keaton broke his leg during its original production) was screened a year before Le Corbusier’s text ‘Vers Une Architecture’ rang out the modernist mantra ‘the house as a machine for living in’. With his typical sense of both technological and humorous invention, Keaton re-engineers a house into an electrified environment of gadgets and objects. At a time when domestic electricity was barely in a third of homes, his meticulously constructed stage set emphasised the potential for a dislocation between user and object. The elaborate and ingenious nature of his inventions act as a method to test both Keaton’s capabilities as a comic as well as question the viewer’s relationship to materiality (and the modernist prerogative).

Within Selby’s own work, he constructs mechanical and technological devices, as prototyped parodies, to critique physical interaction and observation. It is this uncomfortable, awkward yet often humorous relationship between body, space and technological object that he will explore in the exhibition.

Watch ‘The Electric House’ (1922 / 22min):

Part 1 manifesto-art.tumblr.com/post/7544490501

Part 2 manifesto-art.tumblr.com/post/7544583966

www.manifesto-art.co.uk

gallery note:

gallery is viewable by invitation and appointment only between the dates 20/08-26/08.
for enquires or to make an appointment please email mail@shiftgallery.com

artist:

lee holden


title:

fourth estate


dates:

2nd to the 15th of july
private view friday the 1st of july 6-9pm


gallery note:


there will not be any advance text to accompany the show. for more information please email the gallery.

gallery is viewable by invitation and appointment only between the dates 02/07-15/07.
for enquires or to make an appointment please email mail@shiftgallery.com



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Aditi Kulkari, Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Dina Haddadin,
Thomas Otieno, Hyosun Shim, Kirsty Tinkler, Beate Fromelt, Ismet Kawaja, 
Heidi Kenyon, Roy Brown, Lee Campbell, Kate-Rose Carrick, Paul Good,
Jane Henderson, Harry Meadows, Ilana Mitchell, Steven Paige, Kirsty Wood.

the show brings together seventeen artists who first meet at braziers international artists workshop. braziers 2010 was a two week residency in august this year, where the artists were asked to work collaboratively and produce work in response, or to respond to, the then up coming music festival SUPERNORMAL, which took place at the end of the residency. for the show at SHIFT. each artist was asked to now make work in response to the said residency two months on. there has also been talk between the artists of continuing to collaborate and how that would happen. we hope the show to be a starting point for that conversation.

website:

james taylor gallery