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:
