October 7 - November 27, 2011
*propinquity (noun)
1 the state of being close to someone or something;
2 close kinship.
1 the state of being close to someone or something;
2 close kinship.
EXHIBITION: Paulo Catrica, Cao Fei, Nathan Coley, Jesal Kapadia, Vincent Meessen, Paul Noble, Pia Ronicke, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Stuart Whipps
VIDEO PROGRAMME: Amanda Beech, Bernd Behr, Cao Fei, Dominique Gonzales Foester, Cyprien Gaillard, Huang Xiaopeng, Minouk Lim, Corey McCorkle, Vincent Meessen, Pierre Huyghe, Pia Ronicke, Alain Tanner.
RESEARCH LAB COMMISSIONS: Caroline Devine, Emma Hedditch, Kelly Large, Emma Smith, Patrick Staff, Mark Aerial Waller, An Endless Supply.
'Community without Propinquity'* is a research lab and exhibition that investigates the concept of community in the context of New Towns. As part of the 'Community without Propinquity' lab there will be an exhibition and artists film programme, 5 new artists commissions made in Milton Keynes, a publication and public symposium. The project is curated by Claire Louise Staunton and Inheritance Projects with the MK Gallery.
An exhibition and artists film programme in the Project Space and Events Space will show artwork from other New Towns around the world including Chandigarh, Brasilia, Shenzhen, Nowa Huta and even cyber space. These works present a way of understanding the unique geographical, architectural and historical context of intentionally built cities on land where there was previously no significant population.
The 'Community without Propinquity' is part of a nomadic proposal for a group of curators, artists and writers to temporarily inhabit and articulate New Towns from an alienated position. With previous incarnations in Shenzhen (China), there are possible futures planned for Chandigarh, Brasilia and Almere.
