London.

The 3 galleries our group were assigned to visit were located in Hackney.
Matts Gallery
Vilma Gold
Space Studios

After taking many underground and overground tubes plus a lot of walking we eventually located each gallery successfully...each were very different institutions with different aims.

[ Space ]

129—131 MARE STREET, LONDON E8 3RH    http://www.spacestudios.org.uk

A large open warehouse space with two large rooms occupied with work- Human Wave- The videotapes of Raymond Pettibon, it consisted of a collection of televisions, a film playing on a continous loop and also a projection with a linked film.

 

 

We walked through into the connecting room to find a collection by Kernel- which comprises of several practitioners, architect Pegy Zali and artists Petros Moris and Theodoros Giannakis. Their recent work 'Inputs, Loops and Anchors' an installation of ropes and netting arranged in the blank space with the idea of ‘re-imagination of information as material’

 

 

 

 

This gallery baffled me the most out of the three we visited, i struggled to grasp the meaning behind the films and found the layout confusing untill i read further into its origin.

 

Vilmagold

 

6 Minerva Street, London E2 9EH     http://www.vilmagold.com/

 

A self-funded gallery ran by Owner/ Director- Rachel Williams

 

Vilmagold was pleased to announce the second solo exhibition by British artist Nicholas Byrne 'Roleplay' and was what i imaginde a 'traditional' gallery to be..a large white walled space with artwork hung in a uniformed manner. The work was a collection of oil paintings all drawn on linen or copper...

 

 

 

Although the paintings had no labeling they were left blank. I think this was perhaps intended to enable you to think about the pieces without being influenced by a title or material.

 

Matts Gallery

 

42–44 Copperfield Road, London E3 4RR

 

Founded in 1979 and supported using public funding by Arts Council England

 

 

The exhibition on show was by artist Mike Nelson,  More things (To the memory of Honoré de Balzac)

 

http://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/nelson/exhibition-5.php

 

 

 This, i thought was a very unorganised exhibition at first, the work dominated the large space it was arranged in- however this was the intension and the exhibition is one of sculptural objects, constructed on site with the most rudimentary materials.

  

Each element of the work is an invocation of time spent, a votive effigy of sorts, built up to emanate a sense of 'being', soaked in the material from which it is formed. To all intents and purposes it is a sculptural experiment in presence as opposed to absence: the space around as opposed to that within. In this way the viewer is placed outside of the work and forced to look in, the phenomenology of experience and discovery receding to the point of non-existence; these works only exist in isolation.

Another exhibition running alongside this was one by artist Susan Hiller- Channels, a room with one wall covered in old televisions, all playing white noise with no real purpose i felt. However later found that if given more of a chance and listened for longer id have discovered the intension- a vast audio-sculptural installation in which disembodied voices report on 'near-death' experiences.