Invisible Forces

June 16, 2012 14:00

Published: May 11, 2012 14:18 by Furtherfield Gallery |

Tagged as: culture cuts free_spaces social_struggles

Places: east finsbury london north park

Please join us for the Opening Event on Saturday 16 June 2012, 2-5pm

Our social, economic and cultural institutions are being dismantled. Control over the provision of social care, urban and rural development, education and freedom of expression, is being redistributed to private enterprise at a global level.

Undeterred, the artists in this exhibition meet these challenges with clear eyes, spontaneity, experimentation and a sense of adventure. The resulting mix of installations, digital video, net art, painting and drawings deal with conspiracy, money, politics, hidden signals and frustration fatigue. 

As we scan our cultures for maps, role models, possible ways of living in today’s world, we often encounter images of society that are created by its hidden, controlling forces. By naming, revealing, tracking, playing, making, subverting and transforming tools, circumstances and figures that give rise to current crises we enlarge the debate and extend our freedoms. And the artists in this exhibition offer examples of just some of the ways in which this might be done. 

For more information please download the press release: (313kb) http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery-files/Invisible-forces-press-release.pdf

and visit: http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/invisible-forces

Free public play, games, making and discussion:

http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/invisible-forces-events

Exhibition ends Saturday 11 August 2012

Open Thu-Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm  

Furtherfield is supported by Arts Council England and Haringey Council Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network  http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997

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Contact email: info@furtherfield.org

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