COSMIKNOT > nomadic freedoms of the LyrriK Voyce
the solution is a bassline and an ancient future outlook. Onward to p.e.a.c.e. Platforms Athens
CosmiKnot spins the vestiges of the fake problem into duct tape fixing a funeral barge sailing to the moon with the precision of a tru throw away note trailing from the crumpled horn of 1/4 million miles Davis
Curated by Dr Mikey Georgeson and Samuel Zealey
30th March - 15th April AVA, UEL, E16 2RDCosmiKnot is a space to gather in community as social unit to understand through the speculative ritual of Perforum
We selected artists with conviction in weaving specific contingent personal mythology into shifting performative ritual transformation of encounter with a materially vital entity that speaks back. My-Key
Hassan Aliyu, Yasmeen Ally El Araby, Bry Ford, Caroline Gregory, My-key, Isabell Metsäpelto, Tony Moon, Venetia Nevill, Ade Ogundimu, Margaret Prescod, Christy Taylor, Gav Toye, Kevin Warren, Samuel Zealey
We don't obtain knowledge by standing outside the world; we know because we are of the world.
Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway
Barad’s simple statement is impossibly tangled to grasp for the human control-module mind that has forgotten placing itself outside the world in order to obtain knowledge. The artists in this exhibition create a Cosmiknot by weaving this problem (Not!) into the vibrant matter of an extra-embodied encounter with knowing. Their art, whether we like it or not, works as what Barad suggests is, “part of the world in its differential becoming”.
Incantation: re-enchanting the disenchanted
Thanks to the University of East London
The exhibition features international artists from inside and outside The University of East London. The works seek to contribute to the idea of proliferating a capacity for cultural shift through art practice. The selected artists reveal how the seemingly private process of creative expression is simultaneously a part of a speculative plurality. The problem becomes woven into the solution of process. Their conviction is enough for a transforming shift to occur simply because, as Barad suggests, human imagination really is a part of the known universe.
We don't obtain knowledge by standing outside the world; we know because we are of the world.
Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway
Barad’s simple statement is impossibly tangled to grasp for the human control-module mind that has forgotten placing itself outside the world in order to obtain knowledge. The artists in this exhibition create a Cosmiknot by weaving this problem (Not!) into the vibrant matter of an extra-embodied encounter with knowing. Their art, whether we like it or not, works as what Barad suggests is, “part of the world in its differential becoming”.
Incantation: re-enchanting the disenchanted
Hassan Aliyu, FRSA
A British / Nigerian artist whose large-scale collaged paintings are centred on the African diaspora experience of racism and othering. His practice explores issues connected to socio-economic destabilisation and anti-blackness — legacies of enslavement and colonialism.
“The sources of Hassan’s work both historical and contemporary, are often metaphors for wider themes of race and change. The sheer dynamism of Hassan’s work is particularly clear. He binds energy and movement in paint producing vibrant images that fascinate and provoke. With references in technique to the dynamic images of the Italian Futurists, Hassan elucidates themes and issues with an absorbing lyricism and energy.” – Mark Bills
Yasmeen Ally El Araby
Art has always been integral to my identity, when little, my mother and I would invent projects together using cardboard and other materials to make costumes and toys. This is likely to be why cardboard has a strong relationship to my current practise, the need for reinvention using familiar material. Moving to England, leaving my father and way of life behind in Egypt has perhaps led to my process of creating a world of shifting mythologies as a way of understanding.
Bry Ford
I tend to get my inspiration from within a socio-cultural context, which includes, observations within parks, bars and outside spaces. I appreciate how people and animals interrelate with the environment – for me I am intrigued with how we exist within ‘nature'.
Caroline Gregory
Venetia Nevill
An artist and earth tender who creates sensory and experiential work to express an intuitive relationship with the felt and unseen She is inspired by the cyclical rhythms of nature and her art is a homage to this elemental connection. Her ecologically informed rituals and mandalas are pathways to healing and transformation.
Instagram/venetianevill
My interest in art has always been a constant. I like the work of: Friedemann Hahn, Dennis Creffield, Roy Oxlade, Jack B. Yeats, Frank Auerbach. My favourite “art place” to hang out is Barney’s Beanery by Ed Keinholtz. I have been drawing and painting consistently for the past 8/9 years. Learning, pushing. Finding out. Making mistakes. When I am working I am listening to: Captain Beefheart, Miles Davis, Doll By Doll, Muddy Waters., Charles Mingus.
I like to work quickly and intuitively. If it feels contrived paint it black.
K J J Warren is an abstract artist working in drawing and sculpture to explore
ecological intra-relation that connects oneself, to act of making, to elements of sky, sea, and earth. Warren regards these links as a feeding process generative of creative acts, that are poetic encounters, both Inspired by these elements and bothered by how they are being polluted.
Kjjwarren.com @k.j.j.warren
Samuel Zealey sees his sculptural work as part of this ongoing and complex conversation, whilst also highlighting the challenges our current environmental climate faces and the moralistic issues brought about by contemporary technological advances.
His sculptural works combine playfulness of form with precise engineering and a highly developed material sensitivity. The works radiate a lively aesthetic, alert to the ways in which art and creativity can engage with questions about culture, technology and sustainability.
Perfect affection is not somewhere up there but here in the tattered wildflower growing on the fly-tipped mattress of our mythic emergence in a tale of true life and real death.
Sometimes described as a bard, Dr MyKey has recently written about his unexpected life as a conduit for a dead magician using the theories of Catherine Malabou concerning the ontology of the accident here
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