Thursday 14th January 2010
, 12:00am to 12:00am
Chopsticks Optional
John Walter and Corinne Felgate
Private View and Performance Thursday 14th January 2010- 6.00-9.00pm
Chopsticks Optional’ is an exhibition about boundaries, about collaboration and crossovers between two very different practices. It is also the pseudonym for the collective work of Corinne Felgate and John Walter.
In investigating their personal and professional friendship, Felgate and Walter have pooled their skills and ideas to produce a multitude of new works. These include artist’s books, costumes, paintings, performances, photographs and sculptures. After establishing a collaborative language, they expanded their practice further, working photographer Ollie Harrop and then with 8 performers from The London Contemporary Dance School.
In another contextthe body of work they have produced might be considered a fashion collection with corresponding catwalk show. Hawever, in the context of the Nunnery each piece becomes a performance and a non-replicable ‘one-off’, treading the line between art and fashion. ‘Chopsticks Optional’, therefore, considers both the boundaries of the individual artists’ practices and those of art itself.
The two artists devised the project as a potential antidote to the prevailing trends within the London art scene; they are discombobulated by the repetitive references to Modernism and the Haiku-like conceptualism which abounds; instead they offer a heady maximalism; visually luxurious, loaded with art historical references but also charged with humour and wit.
http://chopsticksoptional.blogspot.com/
THURSDAY JANUARY 14 TH – PRIVATE VIEW AND PERFORMANCE- 6-9PM
(by invitation)
SATURDAY JANUARY 16TH – COCKTAIL AFTERNOON 1-5 PM
see the exhibition and view documentation of the opening night accompanied by a beverage
SUNDAY JANUARY 17TH – MOVIE MARATHON 12-8PM
The artists select and screen films that have influenced the show
SATURDAY JANUARY 23RD – ARTIST’S TALK & CRAFTERNOON 1-5 PM
Felgate and Walter discuss their individual and collective practice and lead a making session.
SUNDAY JANUARY 24TH – CLOSING FEAST 1-5PM
Join the artists along with their collaborators for a celebratory closing feast.