WORK Christmas Sale and Late Opening
Dates:
Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:00 - Thu Dec 20, 2012
Location:
London,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Join us in our Christmas celebrations at WORK Gallery and PAPERWORK Bookshop, where we will be offering a mouth-watering discount of 75 per cent on all titles by our affiliate publishers Black Dog Publishing and Artifice Books on Architecture, plus 50 per cent off all Critical Theory titles and all artists' books.
Choose from a selection of perfect gift ideas and stocking fillers, brand new releases, and a handful of rare and out-of-print titles.
We are also offering 50 per cent off WORK Editions Nos. 1–8, our limited edition print series featuring artworks by London Fieldworks, Bob and Roberta Smith, Suzanne Treister, Brian Grimwood, Haus-Rucker-Co., and more.
Join us from 12–8 pm and grab a fantastic bargain!
We look forward to seeing you there.
Current exhibition:
NULL OBJECT: Gustav Metzger thinks about nothing. A Project by London Fieldworks.
Choose from a selection of perfect gift ideas and stocking fillers, brand new releases, and a handful of rare and out-of-print titles.
We are also offering 50 per cent off WORK Editions Nos. 1–8, our limited edition print series featuring artworks by London Fieldworks, Bob and Roberta Smith, Suzanne Treister, Brian Grimwood, Haus-Rucker-Co., and more.
Join us from 12–8 pm and grab a fantastic bargain!
We look forward to seeing you there.
Current exhibition:
NULL OBJECT: Gustav Metzger thinks about nothing. A Project by London Fieldworks.
Late Night Christmas Shopping at WORK
Dates:
Thu Dec 13, 2012 12:00 - Thu Dec 20, 2012
Location:
London,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Late Night Shopping: Thursday 13 and 20 December, 12–8 pm
For two nights this Christmas, pop down to WORK to take advantage of our amazing offers on limited edition prints and art books and catch the fantastic new exhibition after hours.
Unmissable discounts of 75 per cent on all titles by our affiliate publishers Black Dog Publishing and Artifice Books on Architecture and 50 per cent off our selection of Critical Theory and artists' books. Choose from a host of perfect gift ideas and stocking fillers, plus new releases, bestsellers and rare books.
There will be a discount of 50 per cent on our limited edition print series, WORK Edition Nos. 1–8.
For two nights this Christmas, pop down to WORK to take advantage of our amazing offers on limited edition prints and art books and catch the fantastic new exhibition after hours.
Unmissable discounts of 75 per cent on all titles by our affiliate publishers Black Dog Publishing and Artifice Books on Architecture and 50 per cent off our selection of Critical Theory and artists' books. Choose from a host of perfect gift ideas and stocking fillers, plus new releases, bestsellers and rare books.
There will be a discount of 50 per cent on our limited edition print series, WORK Edition Nos. 1–8.
NULL OBJECT: Gustav Metzger thinks about nothing - A Project by London Fieldworks
Dates:
Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:00 - Sat Feb 09, 2013
Location:
London,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
NULL OBJECT will exhibit the results of the collaboration between London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson) and internationally celebrated artist Gustav Metzger to create a sculptural work by linking a computer-brain interface with industrial manufacturing technology.
Using bespoke software, London Fieldworks produced 3D shape information from EEG readings of Metzger’s brainwaves as he attempted to think about nothing. This data was translated into instructions for a manufacturing robot, which carved out the shapes from the interior of a block of stone to create a void space.
As well as the sculptural representation of Gustav Metzger thinking about nothing, exhibits will include a film of the carving of the stone as well as other documentation of the development and delivery of the work.
A timely addition and challenge to the present climate of technological evolution and increasing cybernetic augmentation, NULL OBJECT offers an alternative model for a creative, non-invasive interface between body, mind and machine.
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication of the same name published by Black Dog Publishing, including an introduction by the artists, a text by Gustav Metzger and four contextualising essays by Bronac Ferran, Hari Kunzru, Nick Lambert and Christopher Tyler. These leading writers across the fields of literature, art, science and technology explore the diverse historical and conceptual grounding for and broader implications of NULL OBJECT’s production process.
Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson will be signing copies of the book on the evening of the private view.
WORK is also pleased to announce Gustav Metzger thinks about nothing, the eighth print in our limited edition print series, which has been produced to correspond with the exhibition.
Gustav Metzger and London Fieldworks will discuss the project further at Central Saint Martins in Spring 2013. Please check back for details of additional events to be held at WORK Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition.
NULL OBJECT has been funded by Arts Council England and Computer Arts Society.
Using bespoke software, London Fieldworks produced 3D shape information from EEG readings of Metzger’s brainwaves as he attempted to think about nothing. This data was translated into instructions for a manufacturing robot, which carved out the shapes from the interior of a block of stone to create a void space.
As well as the sculptural representation of Gustav Metzger thinking about nothing, exhibits will include a film of the carving of the stone as well as other documentation of the development and delivery of the work.
A timely addition and challenge to the present climate of technological evolution and increasing cybernetic augmentation, NULL OBJECT offers an alternative model for a creative, non-invasive interface between body, mind and machine.
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication of the same name published by Black Dog Publishing, including an introduction by the artists, a text by Gustav Metzger and four contextualising essays by Bronac Ferran, Hari Kunzru, Nick Lambert and Christopher Tyler. These leading writers across the fields of literature, art, science and technology explore the diverse historical and conceptual grounding for and broader implications of NULL OBJECT’s production process.
Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson will be signing copies of the book on the evening of the private view.
WORK is also pleased to announce Gustav Metzger thinks about nothing, the eighth print in our limited edition print series, which has been produced to correspond with the exhibition.
Gustav Metzger and London Fieldworks will discuss the project further at Central Saint Martins in Spring 2013. Please check back for details of additional events to be held at WORK Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition.
NULL OBJECT has been funded by Arts Council England and Computer Arts Society.
Ian Wallace and John Roberts in Conversation
Deadline:
Thu Nov 22, 2012 18:00
Location:
London,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
WORK invites you to an in conversation between renowned Canadian artist Ian Wallace and art critic John Roberts to celebrate the launch of Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography, a comprehensive new publication on Wallace’s work by Black Dog Publishing Limited.
Ian Wallace has played an important role in contemporary art over the past 50 years, from his early experiments with minimalism to his production of serial photographic ‘tableaux’ and his subsequent juxtapositions of photography with monochrome painting. A key figure in photoconceptualism alongside Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham and Stan Douglas, Wallace has consistently demonstrated conceptual rigour and aesthetic innovation. Through both his practice and position as social historian, critic and educator, Wallace’s influence extends to film and literature, institutional critique, architecture, urban development, gender relations, environmentalism and civil disobedience.
John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton and an internationally distinguished writer and curator. He
has authored numerous works of critical theory including The Intangibilities of Form and The Necessity of Errors. Roberts is a contributor to Black Dog Publishing’s forthcoming title Contemporary Art in the United Kingdom.
Please join us on Thursday 22 November 2012, from 6.30–8 pm at WORK Gallery, 10a Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG.
RSVP is essential as seating is limited. Please email press@workgallery.co.uk to reserve a place.
Following the talk Wallace will be signing copies of his book, which will be available to purchase at PAPERWORK for the special price of £30 (RRP £39.95).
Ian Wallace has played an important role in contemporary art over the past 50 years, from his early experiments with minimalism to his production of serial photographic ‘tableaux’ and his subsequent juxtapositions of photography with monochrome painting. A key figure in photoconceptualism alongside Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham and Stan Douglas, Wallace has consistently demonstrated conceptual rigour and aesthetic innovation. Through both his practice and position as social historian, critic and educator, Wallace’s influence extends to film and literature, institutional critique, architecture, urban development, gender relations, environmentalism and civil disobedience.
John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton and an internationally distinguished writer and curator. He
has authored numerous works of critical theory including The Intangibilities of Form and The Necessity of Errors. Roberts is a contributor to Black Dog Publishing’s forthcoming title Contemporary Art in the United Kingdom.
Please join us on Thursday 22 November 2012, from 6.30–8 pm at WORK Gallery, 10a Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG.
RSVP is essential as seating is limited. Please email press@workgallery.co.uk to reserve a place.
Following the talk Wallace will be signing copies of his book, which will be available to purchase at PAPERWORK for the special price of £30 (RRP £39.95).
King’s Cross Focus Weekend WORKshop Extravaganza
Dates:
Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:00 - Sun Jul 08, 2012
Location:
London,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Come to 10A Acton Street for kids' gardening and colouring WORKshops, and special offers on Black Dog Publishing and Artifice books at PAPERWORK, and see our exhibition, Inner World / Innen Welt: The Projects of Haus-Rucker-Co. 1967-1992, at WORK.
