Twelve Steps Down
Posted by blank page on 08.01.08
“Twelve Steps Down”Shoreditch Town Hall, London
16th to 20th January
Private view
16th January 2008
6-10 pm
The body of a giant is found on a beach. Curious about the event, a small crowd from the nearby city, gathers to observe the process of decomposition.
If the first reaction is surprise and reverential respect, as days and weeks go by, the citizens’ explorative interventions become increasingly frequent and invasive.
Graffiti swastikas appear on the giant’s body, his limbs amputated and trucked away for fertilizer, his dry bones dismembered to reappear as gigantic architectural ornaments.
A miraculous event becomes object of exploitation, abuse, and eventually of no consequence.
25 artists have been invited to produce a site-concerned work inspired by the short story “The Drowned Giant” by J.G. Ballard and by the labyrinthine, vernacular architecture of Shoreditch Town Hall’s basement
The result is a stunning exhibition that exploits the dialogue between space and narrative through of Ballard’s concerns.
Decay, fragility and relativity of human morality, as well as representation of body through architecture, violence and sanity are some of the conceptual directions taken by the artists.
Justyna Borucka
Valentina Ferrandes
Kiwon Hong
Clare Wallis
Daniella Hutchinson Kemall
Beth Collar
Hugo Sterk
Cat Vitebsky
Charlie P
Clive Rowat
Dorothea Magonet
Eirini Bachlitzanaki
Elizabeth McTernan
Gareth Barnett
William Brock Graham Hughes
Giles Hinchcliff
Matt Blackler
Hannah Newell
Mathilda Homqvist
Keiji Ishida
Alice Evans
Henrietta Hall
Michael Pollard
Tom Walker
Hannah Terry
Valentina Lari
Paul Good
Kirsty Wood
The Basement
Shoreditch Town Hall
380, Old Street, EC1 V9LT
info: Valentina Ferrandes
+44 0792 9248657
By Underground or rail: Liverpool Street or Old Street stations (10 minutes walk from either).
By Bus: Routes 5, 22A, 35, 47, 48, 55, 67, 78, 149, 242 and 245 stop nearby.
