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TRA’LA presents Dead Time and Negative Space
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“Doing nothing is tinged with guilt in our culture. [...] But just doing nothing is the first step to something else happening to you.” - Marina Abramović

TRA’LA presents Dead Time and Negative Space featuring 23 artists from Chelsea School of Art alongside both emerging and established artists from across the UK. The artists explore the theme through a diverse range of medium such as a percussionist performance which leaves the score as an installation, thus becoming ‘the shell or carapace of the performance, like a snake that has shed its skin, the negative space of the performance.... a representation of time, now dead...’; or an awe-inspiring painting which encompasses how ‘people [don’t] take time in today’s busy life to contemplate its origin’.

Other curiosities shape the space - monitors flicker with the mundanities of life; haunting miniatures remind us of our transcendental existence whilst more humorous pieces hold eggs in suspension in an elaborate system of catapults, poised and awaiting release into the void.

TRA’LA is a new curatorial initiative founded by London-based artist/curators Eleanor Shipman and Bex Williams. TRA’LA seeks to bring together a community of artists whose works reflect, investigate and compliment themes which the two creatives are exploring. TRA’LA initiates this enterprise through presenting a series of exhibitions which blend the boundaries between the physicality of an art work, with ideas of conceptual, curatorial and spatial experience.

TRA’LA is set to launch Dead Time and Negative Space as its first exhibition at Goodenough College, London WC1 N2AB on Friday 19th February.

Dead Time and Negative Space - a single strand of an evolving idea.

Private View: Friday 19th February 2010 from 6pm
Discussion Day and Open for Viewing: Saturday 20th February 11am – 5pm

Goodenough College
Mecklenburgh Square
London WC1 N2AB
(Nearest Tube: St. Pancras – 5 mins walk)

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