Volume

2011-02-21T00:59:00.000-08:00

Volume in association with Black Rainbow Records warmly invite you to

Hum
James Thomas + Solina Hi-Fi

Date : March 25 2011 – April 10 2011
Preview and record launch: March 25 2011 from 6pm
Open Fridays and Saturdays 12pm – 4pm and by appointment

Venue : Cartel / The Old Police Station
114 - 116 Amersham Vale
London, SE14 6LG
Tube: New Cross (East London Overground)
Buses: 188, 47, 59

Hum is a spatial and sonic inquiry into the complex acoustic ecology of the Bow Flyover in East London. The result of an ongoing collaboration, the exhibition is formed of a series of new drawings by James Thomas and a sonic environment created by Solina Hi-Fi.

Hum investigates the cartographic possibilities of drawing and sound to reveal the dense layering of actions, reactions, movements and counter-movements of the city infrastructure. Through a process of translation and exchange, the art works each attempt to construct a spatial awareness of the area around the overpass, extending beyond certain material boundaries to reveal meeting points and tensions where trajectories emanate. Using intuitive as well as scientific and mathematical means, the artists dissect and replay this dynamic convergence within the gallery space.

This particular collaboration between the artists is conceived of as a process of inquiry, or as Robert Irwin describes as a dialogue of immanence where ‘certain questions become demanding and potentially unanswerable at a certain point in time’, but that each of them have involved themselves in the same set of questions at the same time albeit through individual approaches to method and thought.

A limited edition record of Solina Hi-Fi’s soundtrack featuring artwork by James Thomas will be on sale for the duration of the exhibition.

Further info/images and to book an appointment: caroline@volumeprojects.com

http://www.jthomas.info/
http://www.myspace.com/solinasound
http://volumelondon.blogspot.com/

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Notes for Editors

1. The Solina Hi-Fi project developed through involvement with the London based arts collective CutUp. Playing pure tones, drones and rhythms with hand built analogue synths, live instruments and other boxes with knobs on, Solina Hi-Fi explores the spectrum of raw noise and its’ permutations creating heavily textured and driving results. Strongly influenced by experimental krautrock artists of the late 60’s, synth artists of the 70’s and the early acid house and electronic movements that followed, while also being keenly interested in the pioneering experiments in sonic-physics and psycho-acoustics, of the present and past decades. Recent exhibitions include To Be Destroyed, FA Headquaters, London UK (2010), Daily, Action, Poetry, Hayward Gallery, London (2010) Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs, IMT Gallery, London (2010)

2. James Thomas (born Wales, lives in London) graduated from the MA in Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art in 2004. In 2002, he was awarded the DRAWinternational residency in Caylus, France. As well as his research based studio practice, he has exhibited internationally as part of Melville Mitchell, a collaborative performance project. Recent exhibitions include En Residencia at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (2009), X-ray/Resonance FM at Frieze Art Fair, London 2010 and Propeller Island at Supermarket Art Fair (2011).

3. Conceived in Chicago by A. Hutchins and D. Halhead, March 2010, Black Rainbow is a small, independent record label that umbrellas an expanding consortium of musicians and artists. The label seeks to give a base or 'hub' for the interrelation and cross-pollination of musical, as well as other sonic outputs of their members in as many guises as are productive, either individually or in a number of creative configurations. Black Rainbow exists across its web based organisation and in the production of vinyl records, its preferred physical residue of these creative activities.

News 27/10/10

2010-10-27T00:16:00.000-07:00

Volume's gallery is relocating - details to follow plus new projects and new website...

Cyclones - Taste the Same

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Watch the new video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKtDTzfQYcU

Volume at Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art

2010-04-01T02:38:00.000-07:00

Volume is heading up to Glasgow for the 2010 edition of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, launching on April 16th.

For the festival, Volume has commissioned Content, a publication of artist's and curator's writing that will be available through Aye Aye Books at the CCA and through Patricia Fleming's Social Landscape event at Stereo on April 18th.

Information about Content and Social Landscape below. We hope to see you at the festival!

Social Landscape/Paysage Social
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In September 2008, Glasgow based curator Patricia Fleming was invited by Larys Frogier Director of La Criee Centre D’Art Contemporain in Rennes to make a proposal launching a new cycle of cooperation with European curators. Social Landscape is the first in this series and aims to create links between the cultural sectors in Rennes and Glasgow.

Artists: Anne-Marie Copestake, Jocelyn Cottencin, Katy Dove, Steff Norwood, Muscles of Joy, Sophie Macpherson, David Zérah and Damien Marchal in collaboration with (Stuart Brown) and (Sirens of Titan).

Social Landscape takes its direction from the energy of local artists to reveal the meeting points across cultural terrains and between the creative sectors, where ideas and exchange are the common currency. Through a series of artists’ residencies and events in France and Scotland curated specifically for the context of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art and the Rennes Biennale 2010, the project makes visible the potential of meaningful cultural exchange locally and at an international level between artists and the public and between art institutions and the society in which the artist operates.

GI 2010: Social Landscape appears as a one –off event held at Stereo on Sun 18th April. The event starts at 4pm with a performance by Muscles of Joy, an eight member, all female, all singing, instrument shifting, art into pop group, featuring new animation by Glasgow based artist Katy Dove created during her residency in Rennes. Visual artists and band members Sophie Macpherson creates a new sculpture taking the form of a stage set, and Anne-Marie Copestake presents a special edit of a new video featuring Muscles of Joy. French sonic artist Damien Marchal performs new work in collaboration with musicians from Glasgow, including innovative choral group Sirens of Titan and The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s Stuart Brown, created during a three - month residency at Trongate 103. David Zérah will screen a new film made in Rennes and Glasgow, Artist’s talk about their work made during an experimental on-line residency for Social Landscape in collaboration with www.thisiscentralstation.com.

Social Landscape is hosting a new publication commissioned by Volume London, curated by Caroline Stevenson, in association with GI. Content examines the role of written language in contemporary visual art practice. Bringing together text and image contributions from six contemporary artists and curators, it is inspired by the capacity for writing to create slippages and intimate connections with art, extending beyond the object and creating another entry point into contemporary art practice through language.

Contributors: Shama Khanna, Rashanna Rashied-Walker, Tamarin Norwood, Ross Birrell, Criodhna Costello and Claire Nichols.

Designed by Michael Brauchli. www.michaelbrauchli.com

The publication has been produced in association with Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010 (Friday 16 April – Monday 3 May) and has been generously supported by the Arts Council England. It will be available during the festival from the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow and at the Social Landscape event on April 18th, Stereo.

http://volumelondon.blogspot.com/

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Events (Glasgow): 18 APR 4PM - MIDNIGHT Social Landscape – Muscles of Joy, Damien Marchal in collaboration with Sirens of Titan, Katy Dove, Sophie Macpherson. Screenings: Anne-Marie Copestake, David Zérah at Stereo, 20 Renfield Lane, Glasgow (FREE)

Talks: 1 APR 7 - 8PM Damien Marchal (in French) part of Cafés des Arts series with the Alliance Française de Glasgow at the April ‘First Thursday’ programme at Trongate 103, Glasgow (FREE)

16 APR – 3 MAY David Zérah on-line residency www.thisiscentralstation.com

Social Landscape programme and events in France www.criee.org

We would like to thank our partners for their support: Rennes: La Criee Centre D’Art Contemporain, Les Trans Musicals, Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d’art contemporain, L’ Ecole regionale des beaux –art de Rennes, La Ville de Rennes, Rockin’ Bones/rock ‘n’ roll record shop. Glasgow: GI (Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art), Culture and Sport Glasgow, Glasgow City Council International Office, Alliance Française de Glasgow, Wasps Artists’ Studios, Stereo, www.thisiscentralstation.com

Press/more info: studio@patriciaflemingprojects.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Landscape/152088848141?ref=ts
http://www.myspace.com/pfp68 http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/Patricia http://www.trongate103.com/
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=121156068974&ref=mf

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Content

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Image: Claire Nichols, from the series, SUMMARISE NOW, 35mm slides, (2009)

Content is a publication examining the role of written language in contemporary visual art practice. Bringing together text and image contributions from six contemporary artists and curators, it is inspired by the capacity for writing to create slippages and intimate connections with art, extending beyond the object and creating another entry point into contemporary art practice, through language.

Shama Khanna, Rashanna Rashied-Walker, Tamarin Norwood, Ross Birrell, Criodhna Costello and Claire Nichols.

The publication has been produced on the occasion of Glasgow International 2010 (Friday 16 April – Monday 3 May) and will be available during the festival from the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow and at the Social Landscape event on April 18th at Stereo.

www.glasgowinternational.org

Art/Roc/Doc screening for Glasgow Short Film Festival

2010-03-28T09:28:00.000-07:00

Glasgow Short Film Festival: Central Station presents: Art / Roc / Doc

Sunday 21 February 2010

Art, music, screenings, talks, conversation and a glass or two of wine. Join Central Station for the preview screening of Art / Roc / Doc, shot in London at Frieze 2009 and featuring Glasgow-based band Isosceles as they play their way round the country’s best-known art fair.

Alongside Art / Roc / Doc we’ll also be showing a selection of art and music shorts made by Central Station members. Afterwards, the teams behind the films will be talking about their work: ten minutes each to tell us something about their process and inspiration. You’re then invited to join us all for a couple of drinks and some conversation.

Central Station is a creative social network for art, film and design. Find out more at www.thisiscentralstation.com. We’ll be selecting member work to screen up until the event itself. If you have any work based on the themes of art and/or music and you’d like to be considered, we’d love to hear from you.

Visit www.thisiscentralstation.com/projects for more information.

Patrick Jameson: Eliel and Engel

2010-03-24T09:35:00.000-07:00

From Eliel (2009)

February 26th, 2010
6pm - 11pm

Volume proudly presented the UK premiere of Eliel and Engel, two digital animations by Glasgow based artist Patrick Jameson.

Using 3-D modelling software and sound to create ‘fictions of mediated realities’, Patrick Jameson uses the deconstruction of objects and their re-assembly as models to examine the
inter-relation of technology and belief, and the inseparability of our beliefs from cultural products.

Born in 1976, Patrick Jameson graduated with an MFA from Glasgow School of Art in 2001. A multiple recipient of the Scottish Arts Council Creative Development Award, Patrick has exhibited widely in Scotland and internationally including the Glasgow Film Festival, Dean Gallery (Edinburgh), Tramway (Glasgow), Ginza Art Laboratory (Tokyo), AK28 (Stockholm) and Hunter Gallery (New York).

PLUS

2010-03-24T09:17:00.000-07:00

Photo credits: Blown Magazine

PLUS was a large group exhibition and series of events produced by Kerry Ryan (Neon and Sign-makers), Declan McMullan (artist/independent producer) and Volume (London), with support from Central Station (online artists platform).

For 100 non stop hours, PLUS occupied an empty warehouse in Southwark, transforming it into an exhibition and meeting space for the international and interconnected community of artists, their peers and the public during Frieze Art Fair, one of London’s most celebrated arts events.

PLUS showcased the work of over 70 international artists including Douglas Gordon, Matt Collishaw, Sarah Lucas, Jason Pinder and Sam Hasler. It aimed to capture the energy and generosity found in a collaborative and extended network of creatives working in London, Glasgow, Berlin and beyond and to provide an opportunity for people to experience contemporary art at a grassroots level, embracing the interdisciplinary practices of visual artists, DJ’s, designers, musicians, performers, film-makers, fabricators, technicians and producers.

Headlining the launch event was Glasgow four piece Isosceles. Using PLUS as a spectacular backdrop, Isosceles worked with members of Central Station to create a documentary focusing on contemporary art and music. Art/Roc/Doc is a film that explores where art and music meet, giving us a chance to plunge into the evolving, sometimes chaotic spaces in between. With a camera following in their wake, Isosceles tasted the menu of events which make this time of year key to contemporary art practice in London, the UK and the world. The film was premiered at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow and will be screened on Central Station. More information here: www.thisiscentralstation.com

Also launching PLUS was well known bands, The Mutlings and The Cyclones as well as DJ sets by Glasgow based artist Jim Lambie and London’s Nudge Records.

PLUS opened on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 5pm and remained open until 9pm on Tuesday October 20th. Visitors were welcome to stop by at any time of the day or night to view the exhibition, share a beer, chitchat or shoot some pool.

Artists: Aaron Russell, Alex Baker, Alain Miller, Alison Willoughby, Andy Holden, Angelo Carnielo, Annie Attridge, Anselm Kieffer, Catarina Albequerque, Christina Vantzou, Claire Moore, Damien Goode, Damien Hirst, Declan McMullan, Dave Fryer, Dave Collishaw, Dave Wood, Dean Whatmuff, Dingbot McClatchey, Dominic Alan
Douglas Gordon, Elizabeth Wright, Franko B, Gary Winship, Gavin Turk, Gillian Westgate, Giorgio Sadotti, Henrijs Preiss, Howard Dyke, Isabella Burley, Jason Davidge
Jason Pinder, Jim Woodall, Jimmy Dyer, Jon Glazier / James Fisher, John Tiney, Joseph Kosuth, Ken Graham, Kerry Ryan, Kim Fielding, Lamarane Watson, Laura Graham, Lohan Emmanuel, Luke Ottridge, Lyle Perkins, Marcus Mitchell, Maria Von Köhler, Mark Croxford, Mark Titchner, Matt Calderwood, Mat Collishaw, Mauro Bonacina, Melville Mitchell, Mike Andreae, Morag Myerscough, Mustafa Hulusi, Nick Wapplington, Noah Sherwood, Peter Lamb, Phil Wilson Perkin, Richard Hubner, Rick Pushinsky, Ryan Gander, Sam Hasler, Sarah Cooper, Sarah Lucas, Soldier, Steve Green, Tanya Millard, Tim Bailey, Tim Phillips, Tom Cox Bisham, Tracey Emin, Warren McLauchlan, Pussy Willow, Playful Promises
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Notes For Editors

1. East End neon sign-maker Kerry Ryan has been working as a fabricator for London’s contemporary art world for 25 years. His list of clients include Damien Hirst, Mustafa Hulusi, Mark Titchner and Matt Collishaw and he has been Tracey Emin’s personal neon-maker for 15 years. Kerry ran Neon Gallery in Spitalfields from 2002-2006 and recently opened a new shop and gallery in Hackney. PLUS is the first in a new series of collaborative events and exhibitions.

2. Declan McMullan is an artist and independent curator based in London. As an artist, Declan has exhibited widely across Europe and has also curated numerous exhibitions in London. As a technician and fabricator, Declan works closely with artists and has worked with the majority of established museums and galleries in London.

3. Volume is an independent collective of curators and artists. The project space is based in New Cross, South East London (housed within the Old Police Station). Volume provides opportunities for artists/creatives to research and develop their work in the capital. We support both emerging and established practitioners, working across art forms and sectors. Volume prioritises the working process, dialogue and critical debate as an ongoing cycle. Through the residency programme, Volume provides access directly to the practitioner in the studio, facilitating engagement with their peers and the public. The events programme brings people together to socialise and experience contemporary art and culture in an informal setting.

Volume is Caroline Stevenson (London), Patricia Fleming (Glasgow), Simon Mitchell (London/Cardiff) and Claire Shallcross (London)

www.volumeprojects.com
info@volumeprojects.com

4. Central Station is an ambitious multiplatform project supported by Channel 4, Scottish Screen and the Scottish Arts Council, which launched in September 2009. It is an exploration of how artists and filmmakers can use social networks; to promote themselves and distribute their work to new audiences; to connect with like-minded people for debate, support and collaboration; to access and share rarely seen materials and to support and create new work.
www.thisiscentralstation.com

Informer/Outsider: Sam Hasler and Jason Pinder

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Photography by Kim Fielding

Outsider/Informer Sam Hasler and Jason Pinder

For the 2009 edition of Deptford X, Volume presented a residency with Cardiff based artists Sam Hasler and Jason Pinder.

Informer / Outsider took its starting point from conversations between the artists about boundaries and division. During the residency, Sam and Jason made physical interventions in dialogue with each other and the exhibition space. The space was structured around a central cell and peripheral walkway that allowed the artists to fluctuate between passages of collaboration and bouts of isolation, therefore works evolved together, but also developed as conflicting forms.

Sam and Jason worked in the Volume project space in the lead up to Deptford X, and were able to engage with Southeast London's artists' community as they prepared for the festival. During this time the space was open to the public, who were invited in to view the artists' progress and participate in their process.

Here is a link to their blog about the residency: http://outsiderinformer.blogspot.com/

The End of Something

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Image: Iniva Young Curators Course visit The End of Something

The End of Something is an on-going, critical archival project that aims create a platform for reflection on the global financial crisis. The project was launched during August 2009, when LOUDSPKR, in collaboration with Volume, embarked on a month long process of accumulation to create an archive of personal, critical and creative reflections from a local and international community. Located in the former ‘Archive Room’ of a police station, Volume once again became a bureau and repository for information.

During the project, we hosted a series of events including film screenings by Stefan Szczelkun and Thomas Zagrosek, a clothing swap hosted by Olivia Hegarty and workshops with Jennie Savage, Caspar Below, The People Speak and Deptford TV.

The result was an evolving space that changed shape as contributions were made and events took place. As a collection of texts/books, objects, artworks, films and sounds, The End of Something was an archive of artifacts of the present that produced a multitude of reflections on the recent past to explore configurations of new possible futures.

The archive currently exists online at http://theendofsomething.wordpress.com

Archives traditionally serve a bureaucratic function of the state to store and keep records of citizens and events that produce a static and grand narrative of history and the country. Information that enters the archive is highly controlled and remains close to the public. As an 'open archive', The End of Something invites visitors to ‘dig in’, excavate and explore as well as contribute their own reflections, experiences and opinions. Open to varied contributions and perspectives globally via the Internet, the project works to challenge larger notions of 'recession' generated by the media and the nation state. As a provisional space, the archive is perpetually incomplete and flawed. It, however, offers a space for dialogue and critical reflection on notions of crises that demand urgency as it increasingly seeps into our everyday.

For more information or to contribute to the online archive, please email teos.project@gmail.com

Aline Bouvy and John Gillis with Ilsa Colsell

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Aline Bouvy and John Gillis
'Venusia' 2007

Ilsa Colsell
'A recognisable lustre' 2009

During The Old Police Station Open Studios Event in July 2009, Volume commissioned Ilsa Colsell to create a text based on 'Venusia' (2007) a film by Aline Bouvy and John Gillis.

'Venusia' worked as a catalyst for the commissioned text. Referencing genres in writing and fashion, the works both celebrated beauty, decadence and the macabre through collage and cut-up; capturing rearranging and unfolding.

Ilsa Colsell's text 'A recognisable lustre' is available from Volume. Please email us if you would like a copy at info@volumeprojects.com

James Houston

2010-03-24T08:20:00.000-07:00

As a pre launch appetiser - Volume presented the highly acclaimed short film, Big Ideas (don't get any), by Glasgow based graphic designer James Houston to celebrate the opening of Temporarycontemporary's Old Police Station in New Cross, London.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfHHLfbjNQ

James Houston graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2008. In his final year Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album - "In Rainbows" . A challenge given the 6/8 timing, and 63bpm, music played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from "Nude" thrown in so that they qualified for the contest. Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" James Houston grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there. He missed the competition deadline, so he posted it on the internet where it became an overnight success. To James's surprise the bass player from Radiohead Colin Greenwood (Coz) posted the video on radiohead.com.

The line up comprises: Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead) Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers.

Using A Sprat To Catch A Mackerel

2010-03-24T07:32:00.000-07:00

During October 2009, Daniel Kelly, Dmitri Galitzine and Ben Washington took up residency in our project space to create new work and to experiment with working collaboratively. The resulting exhibition, Using A Sprat To Catch A Mackerel launched appropriately with a mackerel barbeque and drinks and was open through November 2009.

Using A Sprat To Catch A Mackerel
By Ben Washington

Having spent what seems like rather a long time locked up together in an old police station Daniel Kelly, Dmitri Galitzine and Ben Washington present the fruits of their hard labour.

The show has its origins in a conversation we started over a year ago. We noticed certain similarities in our work: somewhat everyday, banal subject matter, crudeness in the choice of materials and a compulsiveness in each of our processes.

We decided to arrange a show with no clear agenda, the intention being to hold a more ambitious one in the future; throwing some bait into the waters to see if we could catch anything worthwhile.

Each of us brought our own specific concerns and worked upon them for a week in the space. Familiar things, the rain, rock gardens, tiny explosions. All of them re-worked and represented in a cruder form, with cruder materials; absurd in a way, trying to capture an atmosphere or an idea, but in doing so maybe giving back to the audience something of how we read the world.

The rain is something that hits you everyday, but visually it’s tricky to pin down. It exists as an idea and Kelly’s paintings are trying to represent that idea, rather than capture some sort of photo-realistic image. It’s asking you to suspend your disbelief and in doing so allow you to re-live all of the artist’s experiences of rainstorms.

Washington emphasises the frozen nature of an explosion. By composing the work in such a formal way it attempts to capture the point at which, in real explosions, the brain freezes, extending the moment, allowing you to consider all the elements in the visual field.

Galitzine saw a front garden in Devon, which for him captured the sculptural idiosyncrasies of a proud Saturday afternoon. By representing this moment as a life sized ornament or souvenir, he celebrates the absurdities of the modern era.

This is our sprat, we hope there will be a feast of mackerel to come.

relatiON

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In December 2009, Volume commissioned fashion photographer Daniel Pires to create a new film, bringing together fashion, performance and the moving image. Filmed on location in our project space in New Cross and in Trent Park, relatiON 'is an experimental short film about human relations and individuality. It is a reaction and a confrontation; a parallelism between two worlds, where we’re me, we’re you and we’re the other’ The film was premiered in January 2010 at Volume - The Old Police Station and can now be viewed here on Daniel's website: http://cargocollective.com/danielpires

Daniel Pires is a fashion photographer based in London. Born 1990 in Portugal, he currently studies Fashion Photography at London College of Fashion. relatiON is Daniel's second film, bringing together fashion and the moving image and exploring themes around identity and relationships.