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JOBBERS TO THE
STARS
16 November – 11
December 2011. Wednesday – Sunday from 11am –
4pm.
Ruth Beale,
Dora Garcia, Michelle Hannah, Katarina Zdjelar. Curated by
Claire Shallcross.
Miss B's Salon: A discussion on The Monumental
and Performativity, Saturday 10th December from
2-4pm.
In professional
World Wrestling Entertainment, formally known as WWF, a rule
of play is put in place to ensure current wrestling stars stay
at the top. A ‘Jobber’ is a wrestler, often an amateur who has
been chosen to always lose against their opponent. ‘Jobbers to
the Stars’ however are paid to beat the Jobbers but must lose
to the stars. So behind a formulaic hierarchy lies a
competitive staged performance.
The exhibition
Jobbers to the Stars seeks to challenge the
conventions of hierarchy and power systems. The act of
performance is used as an apparatus to explore power
relations, in turn reinventing truths or questioning rules.
While skepticism brings truth and morality into doubt, the
identities of the artists, ideologies of the state, or the
featured protagonists become subjects for interrogation by the
audience.
Katarina
Zdjelar (b. Belgrade) based in Rotterdam. Represented
Serbia at the 53rd Venice Biennial in 2009. Recent solo
exhibitions include: City Museum, Tobacna 001; Celeia Centre
for Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia (2011); Fri-Art
Fribourg, Fribourg (2010).
The video
installation Act I Act II is a two-part back to back
projection. Featuring three protagonists, an asylum seeker,
interpreter and interrogator, focusing on the complications of
communication and in turn political distance between the
situations of the protagonists.
Katarina
Zdjelar
Act I, Act II
I
2010
Video HD / two channel
projection
25'04'' /
5'23''
Courtesy the artist
and Circus, Berlin
Photos: Miyako Narita
Ruth
Beale based in London. Recent projects include:
Public Knowledge (Cubitt, 2011); Art for Virtue's Sake (ICA,
2010), a lecture about the relationship between education and
culture as a social project; and Sing Me a Song with Social
Significance (Goldsmiths, 2010), a choir enact a number from a
1930s musical revue.
The Aesthetics
of Power is a play following a discussion between three
Italian fascist buildings, the lighthearted play discusses
power systems relating to capitalism and the impact of
tourism.
Ruth
Beale
The Aesthetics of
Power - A Play with Hats
2010
Hand printed
screenplay and performance.
Courtesy of
artist.
Dora
García (b. Valladolid) based in Barcelona.
Represening Spain at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011. Recent
solo exhibitions include: Dora Garcia, Aubette 1928,
Strasbourg, France (2011); Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland;
Parvis de Pau, France; Index Contemporary Art Foundation,
Stockholm (2010).
The installation
Yes or No (The Sphinx) is a game which does not
tolerate the indifferent spectator; the end of which is only
available to those who are almost identical to the artist or
those who lie.
Dora
Garcia
Oui ou Non (le
sphinx)
2005
Courtesy of Galerie
Michel Rein, Paris
Photo: Miyako
Narita
Michelle
Hannah (b. Alexandria, Scotland) based in Glasgow.
Recent projects include: Mackintosh Gallery GSA, Glasgow;
NGCA, Sunderland; Generator Gallery, The Briggait Glasgow; The
Dresden Film Festival, The London Art Fair (2011); The Embassy
Gallery, Edinburgh; CCA, Glasgow; The Elevator Gallery, London
(2010).
Michelle
Hannah
The
Quickening.
YOU ARE GETTING
WARMER
2011
Wood, UV paint, UV
tape, Lightbox
Courtesy of
artist.
Photo: Miyako
Narita
Claire
Shallcross lives and works in Glasgow. She is
currently a committee member of Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
Previous projects include; Making Ships in Bottles
(2010) CGP London; Co-founder of Petanque a monthly
discussion/meeting group (ongoing); Director, Volume,
London (2009-2010)
Miss
B's Salon: A discussion on The Monumental and Performativity,
Saturday 10th December from 2-4pm. With Festive drinks and
Mince pies.
Artist patrons:
Ackroyd & Harvey, Andrew Kötting, Mike Nelson, Cornelia
Parker, Iain Sinclair, Richard Wentworth, Richard Wilson.
Patrons: Breckman & Company, Paul and Louise Cooke, Lord
and Lady Stevenson.
CGP London –
Cafe Gallery and Dilston Grove – is managed by the Bermondsey
Artists’ Group which is an artist-led organisation, a
not-for-profit company registered in England no.3353857 and a
Registered Charity no. 1073851.
Financially
assisted by Arts Council England and Southwark
Council.
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