Cally Spooner

18 Apr-21 Jun 2015

Overview

Cally Spooner presents an exhibition in the form of a post-production studio. Treating the galleries of Spike Island as an active testing site, and working closely with Spike Film and Video, the artist uses the duration of her solo show to make the final edits of an ongoing – almost complete – project, And You Were Wonderful, On Stage. In doing so, Spooner explores the terrain of the editorial cover-up; asking what can and should be removed, improved and fabricated as post-production fiction. Situated somewhere between the poetic, the voyeuristic and the heavily managerial, the show becomes a slow, melancholic rumination on losing voice to technical apparatus and losing vitality to permanence and completion.