M∴M∴M∴
EXHIBITION
Private View Tuesday, the 14th of June, 6pm to 9pm
Exhibition open Wed – Friday 12pm to 5pm from 15th of June to 8th of July
Works by An Endless Supply, Daniel Jones, Gareth Owen Lloyd, Pavilion, Richard Hards and Tamsin Snow
M∴M∴M∴ is the sound the void occupies. A sound with no variation, fluctuation or end. A test and echo of the limits of spacetime. It is an exercise of triangulation in zeroed space and a conversation with the infinite. It is an attempt to absorb and absolve thought.
M∴M∴M∴ is a series of letters, the power of three, repetition, an incantation. M∴M∴M∴ is a cult, a sect, a franchise. M∴M∴M∴ is age and obsoletion. It is, and we are, that of an unending process of aggregation and reinvention. The laws that define us are produced, exchanged, revisited, revoked and forgotten. We inhabit these relics for as long as we can believe in them. M∴M∴M∴ grounds our individuality, yet performs a network between characters concerned with the indefinite and the unfamiliar. M∴M∴M∴ allows for a space of discourse, a testing ground for collaborative thought, a reworking of the obsolete for new cultures of production.
M∴M∴M∴ is a byword, a proxy, a MacGuffin. It sums up, stands in and may mean nothing all at once. As an exhibition, M∴M∴M∴ affords us an opportunity to exist within a continual process of revision and the passage of authored power from one body to another. Focussing on practices of appropriation and collaboration M∴M∴M∴explores a realm of the creative evolution of an idea and the tenacity of small-scale theft.
An Endless Supply is a graphic design studio concerned with prismatic displays of information. For M∴M∴M∴ they will be introducing the typeface Lunar to the exhibition and its ephemera. Lunar is a typeface drawn from existing lettering found in Ladywood, Birmingham whose name refers to the Lunar Society, a dinner club and informal learned society of prominent industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals in the Midlands Enlightenment, who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham, England.
For M∴M∴M∴ Daniel Jones will exhibiting Ordering #1 (Sans/Soleil), a reworking of Chris Marker’s “Sans Soleil” (1983) in which the film’s frames are sorted in order of luminosity and projected as a loop. Working from the black frames of its opening to those of maximal brightness, and again in reverse, it forms an unending video palindrome.
Gareth Owen Lloyd will be displaying a series of prints that hover on the borders of definition; both analogue and digital they were created using a mobile phone in place of the negative carrier in a photographic enlarger. The distinctive dots of pixels merge with chemical spills and bleeds of light forming snapshots of geometric abstract forms. Reminiscent of the grainy black and white images sent back to earth by space probes, the images derive from familiar Windows 98 screensavers such as splash, flowerbox and starfield. Displayed as objects, the prints are the artifacts of experimentation with the fading magic of the darkroom and the promise of new technology.
Pavilion will be extending their Open Objects project to produce a new piece of gallery architecture that will host a series of objects that have been made in collaboration with a number of artists. Open Objects takes disenfranchised art works as a starting point in a process that encompasses both deviation and realisation. Pavilion will also be releasing Record, a publication that documents the varying objects, performances and conversations that have been produced as part of the work.
Richard Hards and Tamsin Snow, embark on a new collaboration for M∴M∴M∴. This is a temporary merging of solo practices that investigate systems of display, taxonomic drive, the use of found material as citations and the production of sculptural structures that foil or impose themselves upon the viewer/ gallery experience. ForM∴M∴M∴ Hards and Snow will produce a series of works which will creep into the viewer’s line of sight, impressing themselves upon the reading of other works in the show.