An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again

An exhibition produced by a Nottingham Trent University graduate Candice Jacobs and supported by Arts Council England will be launched in Nottingham on Friday 11th November at One Thoresby Street Studios. Featuring:

ATHANASIOS ARGIANAS
BRUCE ASBESTOS
ROBERT ASHLEY
RACHEL COLDICUTT
KATIE DAVIES
DANI GAL
YOUNG HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
CANDICE JACOBS
SALLY O'REILLY
FRANCESCO PEDRAGLIO
MARK TITCHNER
JACK STRANGE
NAM JUNE PAIK
RUTH PROCTOR

Initiated by artist Candice Jacobs, who graduated in fine art from the university’s School of Art & Design in 2004, An action, event or other thing that occurs or happens again will bring together 14 artists in three locations across the city to look at repetition as a tool for the manipulation and control of the masses.

Candice Jacobs commented: “Thinking of the television as a sound, image and text provider through its programming and advertising, and advertising and marketing as the manipulation of these subjects - repetition and repetitive techniques are employed to create structures and narratives that are key elements to the success of many sitcoms, TV programmes and magazines. This type of marketing strategy is able to draw in an audience and keep them there, transfixed.

“This exhibition uses selected artworks, situations and conversations to understand some of these thoughts and ideas by providing a structure where the viewer is free to make their own connections between the works and the ideas within the project.”

"Repetition is also a key element of many music genres; techno, trance, pop, electronica, drum & bass, house; is there a similar formal structure or strategy in place here? An established structure that has the power to control its audience?"

The project will be supported by a number of performances, talks and screenings including live lectures from artists Athanasios Argianas, Jack Strange and Ruth Proctor at Nottingham Trent University.

Currently living and working in Nottingham, Candice was founding member of Moot, an artist-run gallery based in Nottingham (2005-2010) and One Thoresby Street, an artist-run complex that supports the development of artists and creative organisations in the city.

This exhibition uses selected artworks, situations and conversations to understand some of these thoughts and ideas by providing a structure where the viewer is free to make their own connections between the works and the ideas within the project.

Trade Gallery have been working in collaboration with artist and producer of this project, Candice Jacobs to develop an exhibition within an exhibition alongside the main gallery at One Thoresby Street. Trade will be screening Perfect Lives by Robert Ashley.

Ashley is a distinguished figure in American contemporary music working in new forms of opera and multi-disciplinary projects. His recorded works are acknowledged classics of language in a musical setting distinctly original in style, and distinctly American in their subject matter and i use language.

Co- produced with Channel Four, in August 1983, Ashley’s Perfect Lives is an opera for television made into seven half-hour episodes. The programme was widely considered to be the pre-cursor of "music-television."

The project will be hosted by One Thoresby Street and Bonnington Gallery in Nottingham and will be supported by a number of performances, talks and screenings.

Performance:
Francesco Pedraglio
11 November, 7:30pm
Exploring repetition in a fictional context using language and the physicality of form
One Thoresby Street
Nottingham
NG1 1AJ

Screening:
‘Good Morning Mr. Orwell’, Nam June Paik
12 November, 6pm
Arkwright Building
Nottingham Trent University
Shakespeare Street
Nottingham

Artists Talks:
5pm – 7:30pm
Newton Building
Nottingham Trent University
Goldsmith Street
Nottingham

Athanasios Argianas
17 November
Exploring the structure of sound, language and space

Jack Strange
24 November
Playful manipulation of objects and observations

Ruth Proctor
1 December
Combining illusion, movement, pattern and repetition

In Conversation:
Rachel Coldicutt & Sally O’Reilly: Controlling the production of meaning
7 December, 6pm
One Thoresby Street
Nottingham
NG1 1AJ

Music:
The Surgeon, George Rogers, Dave Corbett: An evening of experimental techno and repetitive electronic beats
21 December, 9pm - 1am
One Thoresby Street
Nottingham
NG1 1AJ
Tickets: £5
To buy please click here: http://anactioneventorotherthing.eventbrite.com/

Gallery Opening Times:

One Thoresby Street
Nottingham
NG1 1AJ
11 Nov - 23 Dec
Launch 11 Nov 6pm - 9pm
Gallery open: Thurs - Sat 12pm - 6pm
www.onethoresbystreet.org

Bonington Gallery
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham
NG5 4GG
21 Nov - 23 Dec
Launch 22 Nov 6pm - 8pm
Gallery open: Mon - Fri:10am - 5pm

Perfect Lives by Robert Ashley, an Opera made for television in 7 parts
Trade Gallery
Nottingham
NG1 1AJ
11 Nov - 23 Dec
Launch 11 Nov 6pm - 9pm
Gallery open: Thurs - Sat 12pm - 6pm
www.tradegallery.org

www.meaningfulmeaninglessness.info