Opening Tour and Talk by Jimmy Cauty
17:00 - 19:00
The Aftermath Dislocation Principle is a vast 1:87 scale model landscape which is desolated, deserted, destroyed, burnt and devoid of life apart from 5000 or so model police that attend this apocalyptic aftermath. Jimmy Caulty will speak about this work and take you on a disaster tour.
Small scenes of the landscape are also captured in glass jam jars. Functioning as both an exhibition and gift-shop, these scenes are also for sale.
Pret Park Debate and Exhibition
20:00
In addition to the program, the organizers of Pret Park are hosting a debate on the possibilities and impossibilities of the artistic spectacle. With Jurgen Bey, Teun Castelein, Nina Folkersma, Maartje Smits, Theo Tegelaers,Yuri Veerman, Willem Velthoven and more.
Come early to also view the Pret Park exhibition.
Your Mediamatic Membership* is your entrance ticket for the exhibition. With this ticket you can also excess the Pret Park exhibition and debate.
Jimmy Cauty
The works of Jimmy Cauty are radical , responsive and darkly comical. He produces work that draws on and responds to contemporary culture, very often sampling it and sending/selling it back as recoded realities.
From painting the multi million selling hippy poster The Lord of the Rings as a teenage artist in the 1970s to a string of global top ten hits as co founder of The KLF , The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu , and The Orb to implementation of the The K-Foundation and the seminal actions, The 1994 K Foundation Award and Watch the K-Foundation Burn a Million Quid , (1994) to later artistic experiments with sonic weapons, Advanced Acoustic Armaments , anti Iraq war postage stamps with Stamps of mass destruction and model making A Riot in a Jam Jar.
Lightness
In an age where everyone is affected by the weight of society, the overbearing fears of the economy and the heavy hand of government, 'lightness' is the way forward. Let go of the material and celebrate the ethereal with 11 weeks of 'lightness'. Each week Mediamatic invites a new artist to question the meaning of 'lightness'.
* Membership information
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More information
Free entrance for Club Mediamatic members. Mediamatic, VOC-kade 10, Oostenburg Amsterdam. Open from Tuesday - Sunday from 13:00 - 18:00.
