situationisnt: works inspired by a society of spectacles

For his MA show, Joe Upton invites the audience to engage in ‘pseudo-activities’ which break the conventional roles of spectatorship through an immersive 3D Film installation and participatory Paint-By-Numbers.

Inspired by the avant-garde movement of Situationism, Upton transposes the theory of The Society of the Spectacle to the modern day. The movement’s theories propose all existing social and cultural conditions are perpetually mediated by image and representation. The institutionalising effects of ‘The Spectacle’ render the individual a passive consumer of fleeting trends and pre-packaged lifestyles.  Upton’s work observes these conditions have never been truer than in the contemporary climate of mass communication and media saturation.

Works Presented:
The Culture of Commodity: Part installation, part visual culture; this unique 3D Film experience plays with the notion of gimmick, alluding to the detrimental effects of our consumerist obsessions.
Man By Numbers: An audience participatory Paint-By-Numbers that encourages social and cultural interaction allowing visitors to contribute their creative expressions towards a communal finished piece.
3-Deerectives: Eye teasing Mixed-Media prints that highlight the fragmented and referential nature of our ideas and inspirations

Time and Place
23rd – 28th June, 12:00 – 18:00 daily / Private View Thursday 25th 18:00 – 21:00
Free Entry, All are welcome and encouraged to participate.
The DegreeArt.com Gallery, 30 Vyner Street, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9DQ
10 Minutes from Liverpool Street Station, nearest transportation;
Tube –Central Line: Bethnal Green, Overground – Cambridge Heath, Buses – 26/48/388

Filed under: degree show, exhibition, joe, paula roush

twister

This thursday the 25th of June is the private view of REALTIONS, Iceberg ’s MA degree show, a live participatory event happening  simultaneously between London and Bilbao, Spain. The eclectic project is composed by two installations juxtaposing the new media with old fashion cinematographic techniques, exploring relations in real space and real time, shifting the roles of audience, artwork and artist; turning the audience into the artwork.

FOUND FOOTAGE is an installation exploring interactive narrative, composed by a B/W 16mm hand processed film metaphor and all the interpretations of it, generated by the subjectivity of the audience.

TWISTER invites the public to become living sculptures creating ephemeral instants and moments. By playing TWISTER and connecting the different spaces sited in London and Bilbao, through the internet, using web-cams and projectors, TWISTER connects and physically entangles all the participants, creating a human-web, in the real, as well as the digital space.

The event can be watched on-line on the following link: rtsp://podcast.wmin.ac.uk/twister.sdp

In London, you can join Twister at the Empire Gallery, 30 Vyner Street,  London, E2 9DQ
In Bilbao (Spain): Espacio Abisal, C/Hernani 14, Bajo, 48003 Bilbao
http://www.espacioabisal.org

FROM 23RD JUNE TO 28TH OF JUNE- Open daily 12-6 pm.
Private view: 25th June 18:00-21:00 pm

Filed under: degree show, exhibition, iceberg, paula roush