Exhibitions, Italy, Venezia, 24 February 2018
Works by: Eileen Agar, Jean-Marie Appriou, Ben Cle-ment, Alastair Mackinven, Agnes Moraux, Julien Nguyen, Henrik Olesen, Claire Potter, Patrick Procktor, Luiz Roque, Simon Thompson e Elaine Cameron-Weir.NOVEL is an itinerant curatorial platform devised by Alun Rowlands and Matt Williams that draws together artists writing, texts and poetry that oscillate between modes of fiction and criticism. Every iteration of NOVEL incorporates a cacophony of voices, which is the primary condition of writing, including the staging of exhibitions, readings and screenings. Here, the collective journal is an apparatus for knowledge capture, informed by theory, film, politics and storytelling; renegotiating unfulfilled beginnings orincomplete projects that might offer an alternative script.Such a script necessarily has future performances in mind, making provisions with directions and cues, but the transcript’s smallest claim is to be an accurate record.NOVEL’s performances dwell on the forward-facing moment at which printed documentation, rather than a script, is brought alive again and opens out the act of publishing so that it becomes a self-critical social endeavour.
The exhibition at Aplus A, Venice will be the loci for reading, with artworks and related films that augment the fic-tioning of a scenario. This scenography will be the summa-tion of multiple experiences and anxieties that demands new forms of critical fiction.
This scenario requires an active protagonist, a poly-math who can amalgamate sources with fluency. Fiction is not made up, it is based on everything we can learn or use; a space in which all sources of knowledge are valid.
NOVEL asks us to think of writing as something di-stinct from information, as at least one realm of cultural pro-duction that is exempt from the encompassing obligation to communicate.
For the occasion, guests can taste a glass of Valdobbiadene Superiore DOCG Prosecco from Drusian Francesco Agricultural Company.
The exhibition at Aplus A, Venice will be the loci for reading, with artworks and related films that augment the fic-tioning of a scenario. This scenography will be the summa-tion of multiple experiences and anxieties that demands new forms of critical fiction.
This scenario requires an active protagonist, a poly-math who can amalgamate sources with fluency. Fiction is not made up, it is based on everything we can learn or use; a space in which all sources of knowledge are valid.
NOVEL asks us to think of writing as something di-stinct from information, as at least one realm of cultural pro-duction that is exempt from the encompassing obligation to communicate.
For the occasion, guests can taste a glass of Valdobbiadene Superiore DOCG Prosecco from Drusian Francesco Agricultural Company.
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