Preview night: Danielle Dean and Dan Guthrie

Type:Exhibition

Spike Island, 133 Cumberland road, Bristol, BS1 6UX
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Join for an evening preview of new Spike Island exhibitions by Danielle Dean and Dan Guthrie.

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New exhibitions:

DANIELLE DEAN: THIS COULD ALL BE YOURS!
Dean’s exhibition at Spike Island centres around Hemel, a new film that serves both as a personal essay and a portrait of Hemel Hempstead, where she grew up. The film explores the town’s history as a planned community established under the New Towns Act of 1946. Archive footage and images of the town today interweave with references to a 1957 sci-fi horror B-movie shot there about the arrival of a non-human entity that infiltrates the minds of residents and endangers life with a toxic black slime. In the film, Dean takes on a composite role inspired by both herself and the movie’s detective protagonist, blending real and imagined worlds to examine the town’s past and present.

DAN GUTHRIE: EMPTY ALCOVE / ROTTING FIGURE
Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure is a new commission and solo exhibition by artist Dan Guthrie. Working primarily with moving image, Guthrie’s practice explores representations and mis-representations of Black Britishness, with a particular interest in examining how these manifest in rural areas. His latest commission continues his ongoing exploration of the Blackboy Clock; an object of contested heritage publicly displayed in his hometown of Stroud, Gloucestershire. Guthrie’s exhibition presents two newly commissioned videos that put forward the ‘radical un-conservation’ of the clock—a new theoretical concept proposed by Guthrie to describe the acquisition of an object with the express intent to destroy it. 

 

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