☛☚ please touch

an excellent show at the Tap Gallery

curated by Michaela Freeman

please touch

presents work that demands to be experienced:

behind the black curtain sit and listen

to a recording of Sam Holden :

'you are rummaging through your parents things, when

you are discovered ~ freeze'

hold your pose as the camera captures your 

moment .... 

 it is screened in another room,

BIG, for others to see:

plasticene seed-like shapes 

by Helen Sturgess, are asking to 

be reformed

and be transformed:

 with every person

who pushed or pulled this blackness:

more pulling:

for a fabulous origami surprise

inside by Chris Mercier:

his beautiful press, dating from 1945

let us print our own card:

unlike the Rossendale Communist Party who 

used it for their membershipcards:

we left with a numbered piece of html:

*which will produce this ☟

letterpress2webpage

read more ? ...

HTMLpress - Chris Mercier 2009

sitting in this chair I listened to the recorded voices

of this man:

James Harlequin and Gene Van Flitcroft, chronic alcoholics,

are the sons of an audacious British

amateur golfer and reknown hoaxer called Maurice:

here they recount the fabulous tales of their father:

car crash listening, compelling and dark:

the book of not knowing by Laura Kennedy:

360 soaps engraved with hand stamped fears:

you select one

 then fill the sink with water and 

wash wash wash wash

until the letters have washed away:

it's a refreshing change to be invited to 

listen, touch, pull, wash away your fears, 

sit down and wait, spend some 

time watching icecream melt:

there's light and dark

and participation from you:

and this show positively encourages it: