PRESS RELEASE

“Opening of Landmark Seizures a new group exhibition curated by research group Sender Brocken”

Friday 3rd May – Saturday 25th May 2013Closing event 7-9pm, Saturday 25th May 2013

Aid & Abet

Cambridge Station Buildings, Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2JW

Image credit: DGGNGTHRTH 2013

Landmark Seizures.Landmark Seizures is a series of overlapping research enquiries into the praxis of art. A collective conversation, Landmark Seizures (Aid&Abet) does not have a mono-question to converge on, but rather addresses a principle of instability by forming a number of assemblages with other materials as varied as power, matter, learning, economics, language and performance.

A common thread however would be that of flux.

Works develop over the course of the four weeks of the project’s stay in Cambridge as well as temporally extending out before and after this and laterally through various other digital or print media. Hubs of action emerge in the form of performances, skill-shares and discussions which punctuate the programme with a capacity to introduce new elements or avenues of enquiry, and destabilise those present. As an open and adaptable structure Landmark Seizures uses these points to activate collaboration with those not yet part of the project. In this regard, instability extends to the structure of the project, which is made susceptible to influence from outside itself and its initial collaborators.

Instability implies the push/pull of myriad energies and bonds. The magnificent subsidence of a marked piece of landscape, the build-up and release of electrical energy. Instability with its micro-perceptions and micro-affects is the plane on which learning or growth is able to occur. Instability is the prerequisite of any development but implies that this change might come from any number or combination of relations, rather than the dominant power of one. Instability is heightened sensitivity and under these conditions nothing is fixed, nothing is isolated, nothing is dead, nothing owns the outcome.

Following from this it is clear that Landmark Seizures is about learning. Perhaps not the additive hierarchical enlightenment learning but a multi-directional and pluralised form. Objects learn from their context, collectives form and learn for a time in relative formations. The project as a whole learns from the as yet unplanned and unrealised machinic relations within it.

sender brocken march 2013

Sender Brocken.Sender Brocken is a continual platform of research into effective local and situated use of the field of art. Named for the transmitter at the summit of Goethe’s haunted mountain, Sender Brocken disseminates information from a terrain encompassing empirical knowledge and speculation, theory and fiction, the ontological and the linguistic.http://www.senderbrocken.co.uk

Collaborators include:

AAS GroupBachmann, NicoleDGGNGTHRTHDonnelly, Frances LauraFeneck, AmyFootprint Workers Co-opKasper, David Wayne Lamb, Solomon JamesOlabarrieta, BeatrizSaccone, GinoThe Sitting Room UniversitySpott, VerityWhitmore, BeckyWilliams, Gareth

Organised by Sender Brocken and Aid&Abet

A supplementary publication produced by the above and printed by Footprint Worker’s Co-Op is available for free from the gallery during the project.

Programme:

Live events take place regularly during the project, please see website for full and updating programme including: DGGNGTHRTH open explorations in fermentation, workshop construction and the politics of tools, The Sitting Room University’s Raspberry Pi workshop “Toward an Ecology of Resilience” and performances by AAS Group, Nicole Bachmann and Verity Spott.

www.landmarkseizures.co.uk

Aid & Abet is open Thursday, Friday, Saturday 12 – 7pm

Aid & Abet, Cambridge Station Buildings, Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2JW

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Notes to Editors

Aid & Abet is an artist-led organisation that supports artists to experiment, take risks and innovate in their own practices as well as collaborate, engage and network with peers, providing a crucial bridge in the Cambridge visual arts ecology between studio practice and larger public institutions. Aid & Abet is a site for contemporary art that combines work, project, gallery and performance space allowing audiences and participants to engage with cross-disciplinary practices in both a creative and a critical way.