mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
................................................................................................
James B. L. Hollands – The White Queen
Audio/video with text, 30 minutes, UK 2012.
................................................................................................
Location: DIVUS London, Enclave 5, Resolution Way, London, SE8 4NT
Private View : Friday 27th July 6pm - last orders
Date/Times: 27th July to 12th August 2012 – Wed to Sat from 12am to 6pm.
Dear Dissensus,
I'm having a solo show at Divus for a month, please come down and see it. It's called The White Queen and its a neo-transcendental symbolist audiovisual symphonic tragedy, comprising seven movements, taking the form of an immersive multimedia installation, with surtitles.
The idea is that you lie down on a grass lawn on the gallery floor and stare into an artificial cosmos projected onto the ceiling. The undulating pulsations of this synthetic starscape are digitally generated by the orchestral score what I wrote. The visuals take us on a journey through space where we witness the nebulaic creation of a black hole in which alternative galaxies explode and then gradually dissolve into abstraction.
Have you ever felt like you died and just haven't realised it yet? What we are seeing in the video, like most of the sky, is an image of something that has already ceased to exist. To paraphrase Ray Brassier: the universe is ‘already dead’. And watching it die, with us still in it, is a very beautiful, and sad, experience.
There will be a CD/DVD release and prints to accompany the show. Be nice to see you. The private view coincides with the opening of the Olympics though, so transport may be…banned…that day.
‘I know this isn't technically correct
I have actually researched this project
I know my science is flawed
And this is just allegory
I know
Their universe is expanding.
But mine isn't.’
- J B L Hollands, 2012
For a trailer and advert to the show see :
More about DIVUS London:
DIVUS London (www.divus.org.uk) is a publishing company specialising in art books and related exhibitions and events. It has published the notorious journal Umelec covering Central European, Eastern European, and Balkan Art since the 90’s, and which now offers a hard-edged political perspective on the global art scene. DIVUS has offices in Prague and Berlin, has recently opened its new London office and permanent exhibition space at Enclave, Resolution Way, SE8 4NT (Deptford).
................................................................................................
UK and International PR Contacts:
Beth Fox
news@divus.org.uk
Tel: +44(0)07583 392144
Paul Chaney
paul.chaney@divus.org.uk
Tel: +44(0)7760 370 791
