7.3.10
Police & Thieves Exhibition Opening and 'Doing Time' Installation
'Doing Time' Installation
The police station holding cell presents an interior that is typically cold and oppressive, where few traces, if any, remain of the former occupants. Doing Time retains the impersonal, austere functionality of the space but reintroduces evidence of human activity: revealed by methods similar to police forensic investigation techniques, the tally marks illuminated by the UV blacklight articulate the counting of hours, days, and weeks, months or even years spent inside.
Doing Time is both a record of time passing, and an evocation of the strategies and routines developed to resist the mentally corrosive effects of incarceration. By performing the same action repeatedly, with little variation or change, Doing Time becomes a meditative and metaphorical expression of the inner, psychological world of former inmates.
3.2.10
Police and Thieves - Group Exhibition
OCCUPY MY TIME is coming to the Old Police Station in New Cross London. This exciting and fabulous space run by Anthony Gross will once again echo with the words of Police and Thieves in the Street. Police and Thieves will explore the darker side of life, hidden in the corners and spoken about by the brave…
Selected artists for POLICE AND THIEVES are:Sue Cohen, Hannah Westwood, Mark Bell, Alexander Small and Jonathan Alibone, Raz Anton, Jenna Collins, Annabell Tilley, June Glasson, Owen Bowden, Jessica Piddock, Ian Goncrarow, Alessando Columano and Vikrah Kansheell, Shona Davis and David Monaghan, Jon Howe, Des Kilfeather, Andy Wicks, Emma Macleod, Ben Westwood, Maya Ramsay, Greer MacKeogh, Janet Brown.
'Doing Time' Installation by Jonathan Alibone and Alexander Small
