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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 2RD

A collective speculative temporary community. Re-enchanting the region of disenchantment through the shifting myth-concepts of Aesthetic Ontology.  


CosmiKnot 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

 





           

Ade Ogundimu
one rose
2 Christy Taylor (with) MyKey
LCD candles (CosmiKnot)

Isabell Metsäpelto
Don't look at me when I'm feeling wild

Venetia Nevill
Spring Equinox healing ritual artefacts

5 Bry Ford
Silver Cat in Pink

Caroline Gregory
Morrigan perfomance piece

7 Yasmeen Ally El Araby
Epic Stoop

Hassan Aliyu
Flare

k j j warren
patterns of transformation

10 MyKey


There but for the grace of god go I

11 Tony Moon
This is a chord

12 Gav Toye
Painting-object-figure-zombie-hippy-1, 2021

13 Sam Zealey
UFO

14 Margaret Prescod
Classy Effigies


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. 


‘The epic stoop’ Automated painting, Oil on cardboard



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

continuing exploration of stories, feelings, memories, or beliefs that may be held in space, body, and object.
Sifting meanings that may be trapped, stuck, or simply needing an outing and folding together old and new materials, consistently stitching, textiles and ceramics, the work truly finds life, expansion, and release through its audience.

Morrigan (performance) 2023


Isabell Metsäpelto 
Born in Sweden now lives and works in London. Her work is characterized by her observation of the surroundings around her, as well as her imagination, which she then moulds together to build obscure worlds in the form of paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Isabell finds inspiration from the world of cars, which is a central theme in many of her pieces. She aims to bring forth the world of her mind's narration, ambiguous relationships, and absurd scenarios.

I have puddles in my eyes, ink on paper 2023


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.

www.venetianevill.com 

Instagram/venetianevill





Ade Ogundimu
He employs a vast array of materials for painting, sculpture and ceramics. 
Currently in the 4th year of the DFA programme, graduated with a HND in Painting from the School of Art Yaba College of Technology Lagos, Nigeria. His
 art is centred on studies that focus on the postcolonial legacies of Empire on the African continent. My sources, both contemporary and historical are descriptions for wider themes of National Identity, Human rights and a fusion of cultures. 
Recent exhibitions include Legacies of Biafra touring exhibition recently shown at the Brunel Gallery S.O.A.S and Gallery Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Twitter: @gudums Instagram: @gudums www.ogundimu.com

Before the Plunder, Charred wood, ceramics and more, 2022

Tony Moon

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.


Tunnel, oil on paper, 2022


Christy Taylor
Without a trace of remorse or respite, Taylor avariciously consumes eras and artists, from the cafes of post war Zurich to the scenic swamps of Instagram, nothing is off limits. Taylor hails from the riot torn streets of South London and induces the viewer into Christ-y-like devotion. Also good at making Spaghetti Bolognaise. STREAM. STREAM STREAM STREAM STREAM STREAM. STREAM STREAM. STREAM.SAY IT S-L-O-W-L-Y STREAM. STREAM. STREAM.

IRL - oil and crayon on canvas 120x74cm


Gav Toye
Gav studied at the Royal College of Art from 2009 - 2011, graduating with an MA in Painting. Before that he was Co-Director of Crimes Town Gallery in London from 2007 – 2010. He moved to Margate from London in 2015 and has continued his painting practice there. He is interested in the history of painting, in particular from an anthropological perspective. Painting movements in Modernism, cave painting, contemporary painting and the loss of narrative after the end of Modernism are his main concerns.

 

K J J Warren

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

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.



MyKey

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

There but for the grace of God go I (detail)






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