E-Vapor-8 at Site Sheffield

This beautiful gif work by Christian J Petersen was created to accompany E-Vapor-8 which is opening at Site Sheffield June 6! The exhibition runs until August 16.

Jeremy Deller is producing an edition which is being launched at the exhibition and Dave Maclean from Django Django is DJing at the opening party (be sure to sign up online to come if in Sheffield as limited space) and it's going to be a damn good show. 

E-Vapor-8 is a group exhibition, curated by writer, editor and curator Francesca Gavin, looking at the influence and relationship between contemporary art and rave music from the early 1990s, presenting a hedonistic image of alternate realities. It traces a fascination with rave culture and happy hardcore by young British and American artists, many of who are absorbing and re-appropriating a cultural moment they were too young to participate in.

The exhibition, named after a 1992 single by the band Altern 8, touches on how the hedonism and cultural upheaval of rave has passed. Ideas around intellectual and physical freedom, rebellion and myth-making are all at play.

Participating artists are: Fatima Al Qadiri, Harry Burden, Rhys Coren, Petra Cortright, Jeremy Deller, Adham Faramawy, Alexandra Gorczynski, Marisa Olson, Hannah Perry, Christian J. Petersen, Travess Smalley, Lucy Stokton, and Daniel Swan.

There is also a study day around the topics of the exhibition July 19 and I'll be giving a tour of the exhibition the morning of June 7.

Too much opening this week...

1) Mocha Non Truth curated by Jesse Wine at Cul De Sac opening Friday March 23

2) Sam Griffin at Gallery Vela opening Thursday March 22

3) Hannah Perry presentation at Zabludowicz Collection Thursday March 22

4)Tom Ellis at Bloomberg Space opening Thursday March 22

5) Artie Vierkant at The Composing Rooms/The Green Room opening Friday March 23

Musical Mornings After

Les Televisions opening at French Riviera rocked last night... Highlights from the brilliantly installed wall of screens included Jon Nash's brilliant Casablanca drift, Sebastian Brucker's acid flash animation, Hannah Perry's trio of cut and paste mini films, Leslie Kulesh's disturbing bump and grind avatar - basically the whole thing was good and brilliantly presented. I ended up playing way too long at the Marquis of Cornwallis across the road afterwards (as Yuri Pattison's snap above proves...). God knows what the super white regulars thought of my set of dancehall, r'n'b and old soul...

As I'm obviously too exhausted to think about art I'm just going to post three songs I played at the pub that I really liked each dedicated to some of my friends there. Or you could listen to my latest London Fields Radio show on mixcloud here

For Emily LaBarge:

For Stephen Dunne:

For Leslie Kulesh: