Solo exhibition: The final No.35 project, curated by Alex Hetherington, (publication and) exhibition 8 -9 December 2018.

Alex used my work and imagery as a jumping-off point, writing and designing a gorgeous text which was launched (in very limited edition) while we played around with my web-work www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com. Also screened was Peter, nou and The Man Who Fell to Millom.

“She Was A Visitor”
(It started off by remembering that London-based artist Gail Pickering named her red light cyclorma-screen 1 installation at BALTIC, Gateshead as part of her solo exhibition Near Real Time 2, an experimental treatise based on found tapes of the Vidéogazette community television project which took place in Villeneuve, France. in the 1970s with the same title as American Robert Ashley’s experimental repetitive spoken-word piece She Was A Visitor from 1967 3. About a solid colour-image, in this case luminous bright-red, and its visual after affects, people hallucinate blue or see in black-and-white for a while afterwords, or ‘see’ or ‘imagine’ objects nearby or at the edge, of the blind spot, at the peripheral vision, like Ludimar Hermann’s grid illusion, grey circles between vertical and horizontal lines or E. Lingelbach’s ‘scintillating grid illusion’ – white flickers to black and vice versa… with a repetition of the sentence, and the between sounds of the sentence, ‘she. was. a. visitor.’ sung by a chorus, generating a disintegration… (Alex Hetherington, 2018)

Projects in full:
Jane Topping, Newspaper/She Was A Visitor, December 2018
Karen Cunningham, Poly, August 2018
Jonathan Owen, Double-X, July 2018
Elín Jakobsdóttir, Ellipses of the Afternoon, with a text by Mark Sadler, January 2018
Catherine Street, Orchids, December 2017
Lauren Printy Currie, settings, November 2017
Helen McCrorie, This is It – Universe, October 2017
Andrew Gannon, ENTHUSIASM, August 2017

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