22 Nov 2012

Something Human presents WITH(OUT) exhibition

WI T H ( O U T)

'Outside and inside are both intimate – they are always ready to be reversed to exchange their hostility. If there exists a border - line surface between such an inside-outside, this surface is painful on both sides.' Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Set within the residential space of a flat in a converted Victorian terrace, WITH(OUT) is a multimedia exhibition that brings together an interdisciplinary selection of artworks such as mixed media, installation film, performance, talks and workshops.
Located within a site that still functions as a repository of romanticised ideas of the 'home' in an increasingly unstable global economic landscape, and drawing upon polynational understandings of the living space, the exhibition explores the ambivalent relationship between the interior and the exterior that plays out over issues such as identity, borders and migration, belonging and longing, the tensions of navigating between the different spheres.
We invite you in, though by crossing the threshold and entering, you are at once dissipating its boundaries and embarking a journey within and without. Will you wipe your feet on your way in? What residue of the exterior world will you bring in with you?


ARTISTS

John Clang, Daniel Wallis, Nina Feldman, Yingmei Duan, Pablo Anton, Penzo + Fiore, Gloria Houng, Howard Hardiman, Valerie Grove, Kate Munro, Gourmandizing, Lucia Lopez, Helen Omand, Clemens Von Wedemeyer, The Light Surgeons.


SOMETHING HUMAN

Something Human is an international curator-collective that recognises the different cultural contexts from which we work and interact, as well as brings together our concomitant interests in architecture, design, sculpture, mixed media, moving image and performance. Anna Viani, Annie Jael Kwan, Mirabelle Spreckelsen, Nobuhiro Kobayashi and Simone Ruth are Something Human.


BROCKSPACE

Brockspace is a residential home, exhibition and project space, salon and guesthouse for artists. Apart from its use as a living space, it aims to offer a programme of art exhibitions, events and talks within its space. It also seeks to offer visiting artists a home away from home, where they may be exposed to new environments to expand their practice, while having a secure base from which to work. It hopes that artists are encouraged to bring their socio-cultural-political specificities to this space, to make work enriched and transformed by new cross-cultural encounters and collaborations.