CUTUP MACHINE

CUTUP MACHINE @ seventeen gallery
Thursday 3rd to Saturday 26th November 2005
Private View Thursday 3rd November 6pm


Seventeen is a new site for artists who are testing and exploring the boundaries of their practise. As such we are proud to present for our inaugural exhibition, CUTUP MACHINE, a series of new works by the collective CutUp.



CutUp are a group of artists linked by a shared desire to reorder the urban landscape through intervention and play. Incorporating film, collage and installation, CutUp’s practice focuses largely on the creative potential of the street as a site for interventionist art and disruption. CutUp aim to introduce disorder into daily existence by interrupting and re-appropriating established visual forms. Occurring both inside and outside the gallery, CutUp’s billboard and bus stop works are created by slicing up an advert and reassembling the pieces into a newly ordered image. For this exhibition, CutUp’s sites for intervention are brought into the gallery space, a full-sized advertising billboard and a bus shelter - temporarily located inside before returning to the street. In addition to the large sculptural installations there also features related film and video works, as well as the outdoor interventions. These works exhibited hijack image and space; inviting new interpretations and transforming pre-existing
systems in the urban environment into newly ordered images of disquiet.

CutUp live and work in London.
Their work has been featured in Design Week, Adbusters, IDN (Japan), YEN (Australia), Black Book (New York), Hackney Gazette and most recently on Resonance FM.

They have been reviewed by the BBC on
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A3868833
and featured on the Wooster Collective website
www.woostercollective.com/archives/2005\_03\_27\_newsarchive.html
They have previously exhibited at Kemistry Gallery.
www.kemistrygallery.co.uk/currEx.php?exhibitionID)

Seventeen is open Wednesday to Saturday 10am - 6pm and by appointment.
For further information please contact Dave Hoyland on
020 7729 5777 or [email protected]