Way East ran from January to May 2008
Complex Financial Instruments
24
– 31 May
2008
Claire Hope's first solo exhibition in London explores the reflection of complex human subjectivities in the ordering of the built environment and considers the inscription of narratives of power and desire in the land.
A video will be shown across two spaces accompanied by different vocal soundtracks - one performed live at the opening event by two male performers and one pre-recorded. In the video, footage of the built environment in different states of being is depicted alongside a renovation project in progress. The soundtracks depict narratives of private decision-making surrounding a fantasy building project.
Currently a LUX Associate Artist for 2007/2008, Claire graduated with an MA Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2004. She has shown widely in group and solo exhibitions, most recently screening video work internationally as part of the transmediale.07 video selection. For more information, see Claire Hope's website.
Fun House
9
– 16 May 2008
- Alex Gene Morrison
- Will Turner
i came to play.
i came to play.
i came to play... baby.
yeah, i came to play.
(from fun house by the stooges)
Zoë Petersen: artist in residence, March and April 2008
The strangeness of photography and its omissions have interested Petersen for the past eight years. The passage of time collapsed into two dimensions, events that take place before the open lens without being ‘captured’ in the print.
Responding to a working practice requiring helpers and collaborators in many of her projects, photographic and otherwise - shortlived encounters that have shaped her practice - Petersen is planning a series of dialogue pieces at Way East.
Petersen is inspired by Tropicália artists Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica spoke of the ‘vivência’, the lived experience; Russell Martin’s discarding of the object altogether and engaging in ‘art as a lived activity’; and influenced by collaborators Conal, who fuelled an initial curiosity by allowing Petersen to make many two-day exposures of his living room and Elfie, who helped her stage murder mystery scenes in the greenhouse and the garden.
What happens when you take away the camera and leave the encounter?
Events being planned for March/April include:
On a weekly basis:
Recreation (for Petersen and one invited participant)
Tea time (for Petersen and up to five invited participants)
Every fortnight:
Gin Palace (for Petersen and invited participants)
Island
8 – 29 March 2008
- Alexander Hidalgo
- Niki Kyriakidou
- Hannah Terry
Curated by Martin Rasmussen
Opening night : Thursday 6 March 6:30 - 8:30
Exhibition runs: 7 – 27 March 2008
Open: Saturdays 11am - 5pm or by appointment
Way East borders the grounds selected for the London Olympics. The area is enclosed by a high blue fence on which slogans inform us that the London Olympics belong to Londoners. Hackney Wick forms a triangular enclosure bordered by concrete motorways, Victoria Park and the Olympic grounds. Looking at a map, Hackney Wick seems independent from Hackney and Bethnal Green.
This exhibition concerns itself with the possibility of a self-defining and self-regulating body; whether literally a body or a social formation is not important. The desire for invention and a paying attention to that desire is related to the attention paid to death. The artists engage with this notion by drawing attention to The Wicker Man and other social and cultural references to self regulation.
Stained
Nick Kaplony
30 January - 23 February 2008
As it’s inaugural exhibition Way East presented Stained, an exhibition of new work by artist Nick Kaplony in his first London solo show. Kaplony’s practice is concerned with inheritance and genetic predisposition, examining to what extent emotional, psychological as well as physical traits are carried down the family line: the causes and effects of family history.
Familial relations act as a motivation for Kaplony, and he focuses on his parents, using them to create photographic images that invite the viewer to consider similarities between parents and offspring. Stained is the first showing of a new series of works entitled Transmitter/Receiver.
Nick Kaplony is a graduate of Camberwell College of Arts and has shown nationally in Manchester City Gallery and Gallery 1885, London. He is also a member of arts collective Slowfall Projects and has worked on a number of site specific projects including Ringing, St Augustine’s Tower, Hackney and Woodbridge Chapel, London in collaboration with the Barbican.