Mark Aerial Walle
The Cassiopeia Plan
January 16 – February 28, 2010
Launch – Saturday 16 January, 4-6pm
Wysing Arts Centre
Fox Road, Bourn,
Cambridge CB23 2TX.
+44 (0)1954 718 881
http://www.wysingartscentre.org
On 16 January 2010 Wysing Arts Centre will officially launch the centre’s year of the Improbable with a solo exhibition by London based artist Mark Aerial Waller.
Waller’s idiosyncratic film making draws on an extensive knowledge of cinema, ranging from sci-fi, early surrealism and greek tragedy. The Cassiopeia Plan will feature 3 video installation works, forming a loose trilogy, beginning with two artists faltering on the brink of a journey towards an idyll. The final work, which will be filmed at Wysing, examines the relationship between the individual artist and the artist collective – a relationship Waller relates to the absurd and satirical paradox created by GK Chesterton in The Man who was Thursday. In the 1908 novel, a poet is forced into a conflict between the forces of structure and anarchy, unaware of how intertwined the competing forces are.
As part of the Year of the Improbable, Waller is curating a number a series of events: on 21 Jan, Waller will host a screening of the early French film serial Judex; 4 Feb, Mike Sperlinger, director of Lux will introduce a screening of Invasion; Thurs, 18 Feb there will be a reading with writer Tom McCarthy. Further events during March will include France Fiction, and Brown Mountain College.
Mark Aerial Waller lives and works in London. He is also the founder of The Wayward Cannon, a platform for event-based interventions in cinematic practices. Recent exhibitions include Resistence Domination Secret, 0-60 ICA 2008; Children of the Revolution, Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul; The Flipside of Darkness, South London Gallery 2008; You Have Not Been Honest, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina in Naples 2007; La Societe des Amis de Judex, Tate Modern 2007; Videozone 3, Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv 2006; Go Between, Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Austria 2005.
For the duration of 2010 Wysing Arts Centre will explore The Improbable in a number of artists’ residencies, projects and exhibitions and in a six week long International Camp for Improbable Thinking in June and July. Through the Camp, Wysing aims to bring artists, architects, cultural practitioners, and others together to look at the subject of Improbability. The year of the Improbable will develop on Wysing’s position as a reserch and development centre that supports new and unconventional ways of thinking and promotes risk-taking. Further informtion will be available in 2010.
For more details or images please contact Ed Greenacre press [at] wysingartscentre.org 01954 717108 / 07973 678460 http://www.wysingartscentre.org
Wysing Arts Centre, Fox Road, Bourn, Cambridge CB23 2TX. +44 (0)1954 718 881
With thanks to the Elephant Trust
WYSING ARTS CENTRE is a research and development centre set in 11acres of rural Cambridgeshire that practically tests out new ways of thinking in contemporary visual art. At Wysing, artists working from studios or undertaking international residencies are encouraged, alongside visitors, to take creative risks in a supportive environment in which the exploration of process and collaborative ways of working are paramount. Wysing Arts Centre was established in 1989 on the 11 acre site of a former farm, eight miles south west of Cambridge and is a registered charity (no.1039555.)