LONDON.- Wandsworth Council's
Pump House Gallery is presenting Time Crystals, an exhibition of recent work by artist David Panos that examines the contemporary revival of cultural motifs from the 1980s and 90s - particularly from 'alternative' and 'rave' subcultures.
Through the lens of Panos’s personal memories of youth culture in the period around 1989, the exhibition explores how media and industrialised ‘fast’ fashion transform how we might interpret and remember the past.
Colliding and contrasting ‘authentic’ archival material, digital compositing and animation, choreography and contemporary club footage in a presentation of videos and installation elements, Panos both extends and undermines his own memory and opens up alternative futures.
The exhibition is accompanied by a public programme of discussions, performances and activities designed in dialogue with David Panos. On Saturday 21 October Misters of Circe and Josh GT will perform live music preceded by a panel discussion on subcultural music movements from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
INHOUSE PROJECT
A Dance and Gesture Archive
Designed in dialogue with the exhibition Time Crystals by David Panos, Pump House Gallery presents ‘A Dance and Gesture Archive’ in the gallery’s Project Space throughout the exhibition. Audiences are invited to explore the exhibition’s themes and ideas through gesture, movement and dance. Visitors of all ages can drop in and take part in ‘A Dance and Gesture Archive’ by dancing to their favourite song on camera and recording it in front of a green screen. The final archive of all the videos produced over the course of the project will be shown in the Project Space during the last two weeks. There will also be a series of free family workshops where visitors can explore dance and gesture with a dancer/choreographer, and look at how fashion and style are important to culture.
David Panos (b. 1971, Athens, Greece; lives in London, UK) produces videos, objects, exhibitions and music. He is half of the 160 bpm duo CLASS and co-ran the Difficult Fun label in the 2000s. Over the past 15 years he has worked in collaboration with artists and writers such as Benedict Seymour and Sharon Kinsella on long form film projects and installations and was the joint winner of the 2011 Jarman Award for his collaborations with Anja Kirschner.
Recent solo exhibitions include The Dark Pool, Albert Baronian, Brussels, BE, 2015; The Dark Pool, Hollybush Gardens, London, UK, 2014; Through A Glass Darkly, BASCO, Bergamo, IT, 2014; Ultimate Substance, B3 Biennale des bewegten Blides, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, DE, 2013; Ultimate Substance, Extra City, Antwerp, BE, 2013; Ultimate Substance, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE, 2012; Realismus ist kein Stil, S!GNAL, Malmö, 2012. Recent group exhibitions include The Very Impress of the Object, Calouste Gulbekian Museum, Lisbon, PT, 2017; Who Pays?, Kunstmuseum, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, LT, 2017; Nemocentric, Charim Galerie, Vienna, AT, 2016; Acting Truthfully Under The Circumstances, Tenderpixel, London, UK, 2015; AV Festival, Newcastle, UK, 2014; STOP!, Art On The Underground/ICA, London, UK, 2013; A Machine Needs Instructions as a Garden Needs Discipline, FRAC de Lorraine, FR, 2013; The Magic of the State, Lisson Gallery, London, UK, 2013; HELL AS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR, 2013. Awards and commissions include being selected for the International Competition, 59. Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2013; Secession, Vienna, Extra City, Antwerp, NBK, Berlin, co-commission of Ultimate Substance, with support from DEMERGON Daskalopoulos Foundation for Culture and Development and Arts Council England, 2012; Winner of the Jarman Award, 2011. Selected press includes 'David Panos's The Dark Pool', Mihnea Mircan, Art Agenda, March 2015; 'Digital Handwork', Kerry Doran & Lizzie Homersham, Rhizome, July 2014; 'The Hunger', Katie Kitamura, Frieze, Issue 156, June 2013; 'The Magic of the State', Mia Jankowicz, Frieze, Issue 156, June 2013; 'Schmelzende Munzen', Johannes Paul Raether, Texte zur Kunst, Dec 2012.
