The Wilson Exercises is an exhibition project devised for the REDCAT in Los Angeles and is focused on collaboration between two artists: American Anna Craycroft and Spaniard Marc Vives. It consists of a residency in situ (Autumn 2014) and an exhibition at the REDCAT gallery (December 2014).
The duo exhibition shows newly created work by Anna Craycroft and Marc Vives, amd is guest-curated by curatorial office Rivet (Sarah Demeuse and Manuela Moscoso). Developed during an ongoing, multi-year research project the exhibition marks the first presentation of the artists in Los Angeles. The Wilson Exercises suspends the pressure of finite outcome and deals with shared method and productive process, without clear distinctions between doing, making and showing.
In the gallery, Marc Vives creates a cave-like fabric installation that contains a visual and aural environment inspired by the non-rational visual language of popular street festivals in Spain.This semi-secretive space is framed by Anna Craycroft's large black and white posters, hung in a dense grid to create transformations of basic geometric forms. They are created by the stripping down and subsequent adding of coloring and folds that produce timbre. The exhibition, as the curators explain, pivots around dynamics of togetherness and withdrawal, obscurity and immediate visibility. It uses a visual vocabulary of learning but turns that into an atmospheric element, highlighting experiential learning over measurable cognitive acquisition.
The End of Summer is the first iteration of The Wilson Exercises in exhibition format. The exhibition in Los Angeles was preceded by a residency at the Rogaland Kunstsenter (Stavanger, Norway) in summer 2014. The Wilson Exercises will take a third public appearance, as an exhibition, at Espai 13 of the Fundació Miró (Barcelona, Spain) in March 2015. The Wilson Exercises may remain open-ended.
The End of Summer coincides with the publication of Manual: The Wilson Exercises with words by Trinie Dalton, Diedrich Diederichsen, Ruth Estévez, Geir Haraldseth and Rivet, and images by Anna Craycroft and Marc Vives.
This is Marc Vives’s first project in the United States. Although Craycroft and Vives use very different working methods, they both focus on exploring the shaping of knowledge and habits. Marc Vives has become specialised in group sessions that stretch the boundaries of art and its broader scope, performance and video. The artist combines associations of popular culture in order to throw off balance the trappings of distinction and the collective imaginary and create moments that are closer to un-learning in pursuit of an own criterion and personal agenda. Both view artistic exploration as a territory for reflecting on certain processes of learning and memory and, accordingly, the production of objects.
The duo exhibition shows newly created work by Anna Craycroft and Marc Vives, amd is guest-curated by curatorial office Rivet (Sarah Demeuse and Manuela Moscoso). Developed during an ongoing, multi-year research project the exhibition marks the first presentation of the artists in Los Angeles. The Wilson Exercises suspends the pressure of finite outcome and deals with shared method and productive process, without clear distinctions between doing, making and showing.
In the gallery, Marc Vives creates a cave-like fabric installation that contains a visual and aural environment inspired by the non-rational visual language of popular street festivals in Spain.This semi-secretive space is framed by Anna Craycroft's large black and white posters, hung in a dense grid to create transformations of basic geometric forms. They are created by the stripping down and subsequent adding of coloring and folds that produce timbre. The exhibition, as the curators explain, pivots around dynamics of togetherness and withdrawal, obscurity and immediate visibility. It uses a visual vocabulary of learning but turns that into an atmospheric element, highlighting experiential learning over measurable cognitive acquisition.
The End of Summer is the first iteration of The Wilson Exercises in exhibition format. The exhibition in Los Angeles was preceded by a residency at the Rogaland Kunstsenter (Stavanger, Norway) in summer 2014. The Wilson Exercises will take a third public appearance, as an exhibition, at Espai 13 of the Fundació Miró (Barcelona, Spain) in March 2015. The Wilson Exercises may remain open-ended.
The End of Summer coincides with the publication of Manual: The Wilson Exercises with words by Trinie Dalton, Diedrich Diederichsen, Ruth Estévez, Geir Haraldseth and Rivet, and images by Anna Craycroft and Marc Vives.
This is Marc Vives’s first project in the United States. Although Craycroft and Vives use very different working methods, they both focus on exploring the shaping of knowledge and habits. Marc Vives has become specialised in group sessions that stretch the boundaries of art and its broader scope, performance and video. The artist combines associations of popular culture in order to throw off balance the trappings of distinction and the collective imaginary and create moments that are closer to un-learning in pursuit of an own criterion and personal agenda. Both view artistic exploration as a territory for reflecting on certain processes of learning and memory and, accordingly, the production of objects.