THE WAY THINGS GO / A WAY OF DOING THINGS

3 Jun 2012

Overview

You are warmly invited to join us for a series of interconnected events on Sunday 3 June between 3 - 6pm. Artists Ruth Beale, Karen Di Franco, No Fixed Abode and Neal White present events devised by utilising The Delphi Method, a forecasting technique developed during the Cold War that facilitates group questioning towards concensus. These events are the culmination of this anonymous discussion between the artists, with the curator acting as facilitator through the entire process. Through this operational procedure of gradual refinement the assembled group have developed a series of five interconnected actions to be presented on 3 June, 2012 and the following statement: THE COMMITTEE issue a summons to attend a WAKE between 3-6pm during which time there will be RITUALISED REFRESHMENTS, A DIAGRAMMATIC ACTION, THRESHOLD COMMEMORATION and the UNVEILING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE. --- EVENT SHOW / THE WAY THINGS GO / A WAY OF DOING THINGS is the final exhibition as part of the Exhibition as Medium Programme. It is a project that concentrates on collaborative working processes, focusing on research and discussion as major factors in the art-making process, rather than making and showing. It attempts to unravel working and thinking and push these often hidden processes public. Event Show began with a screening of Fischli and Weiss' The Way Things Go. This had lead to A Way of Doing Things, where notions of the natural evolution of ideas and things have become secondary to pragmatism and a sense of wanting to get things done. The Way Things Go still exists - it was the beginning of A Way of Doing Things - a reference point for discussion and thinking, which has moved on to form something else. We can refer back to The Way Things Were and point towards The Way Things Will Be, choosing to shift philosophical position within the time-frame of Event Show.