Gods and Rockers - David Blandy

Tuesday, 30 November 2010 - Sunday, 5 December 2010

'Crossroads' and 'The Five Boroughs of the Soul' on the screen in the Black Swan at Tether studios. Part of the Gods and Rockers season curated by Dan Green for Sixes & Sevens also featuring events with Ben Judd and Dan Graham.

Gods and Rockers is a look at how two entities can create themselves. For believers, both speak truth and exemplify a way of life, for the detractors they are based on what may appear to be delicate reasoning. Bringing together artists who work with myth, ritual, idolatry and belief, these three events aim to begin a conversation about the creation of enigmatic figures seen as ‘Gods’ by their followers, and to discuss, perhaps, the nature of authenticity when considering systems or movements that are based on debateable truths.

David Blandy’s work involves ideas of pilgrimage and of searching for truth, authenticity and experience. In ‘Crossroads’, he looks to discover a true experience of the blues whilst traversing the Mississippi Delta in search of the spirit of Robert Johnson, a mysterious figure within the annals of musical history. Blandy’s pilgrimages are fixed in cultural movements. In ‘Five Boroughs of the Soul’ he brings together the discipline of the warrior in Kung-Fu and a fascination with musical personalities and the meaning of ‘Soul’ in his Barefoot Lone Pilgrim. Both works involve ideas of discovery and ritual as well as visitations to places made significant by extraordinary acts or events, whether well documented or mythical.

Five Boroughs of the Soul - The Black Swan Screen
Crossroads - Max Warburg space.

Nov 30th – Dec 5th.
Tether is open Thursday – Sunday 12-5pm.
Free, no booking necessary.

Tether
17a Huntingdon Street
Nottingham
NG1 3JH

Gods and Rockers also features events with Dan Graham and Ben Judd.
Ben Judd
Nottingham Contemporary, 26th November, 11am and 1pm, beginning in the foyer.
Free, no booking necessary.

Dan Graham
3rd December, Tethervision Studio, 8pm,. Free, please see sixesandsevenscollective.co.uk for booking information.

Curated by Dan Green

Location:

Tether

Tether was formed in 2007 by a mixture of visual artists who graduated from Nottingham Trent University, plus practitioners from other backgrounds. The group was founded out of a desire to stay in Nottingham and maintain the work ethic and sense of community that formed whilst studying at university.

Until 2010, Tether Studios consisted of two galleries, The Wasp Room and Max Warburg Space, a social space with a screen for curated video works, The Black Swan, a disco-themed water closet and an event/lecture space, Tethervision Studio.

The group now operates as a collective, producing collaborative installations and video works, as well as curating an online archive for video art and videos about art, Tethervision and are based in Primary Studios.

The group consists of artists Liam Aitken, Hugh Dichmont, Samuel Mercer Lauren O’Grady, Apexa Patel and Hannah Phillips.