Artists are playing with words again – raiding the archive, bringing the dead to life, making the living look dead. Quicker than the ever-elusive present, they are forging a practice through words, images, books, and ephemera, that begins to anticipate the past, forecast possible histories and re-visit alternative futures.
A series of six, monthly events that focus on artists’ writings, readings, discussion and debate. Themes include: artists’ publications, nomadism, cosmopolitanism, the avant-garde, transgression, power.
The events prioritise work that carves out new territories and disrupts established forms. No consensus of practice is aimed for, rather these six events present a range of singular and contesting voices, including: Eileen Daly, Dan Fox, Maria Fusco, Robert Garnett, Stewart Home, Andrew Hunt, Nina Power, Clunie Reid, Lynne Tillman, and Mark Waugh.
11 November 2008
“The possible, implying the becoming – the passage from one to the other takes place in the infra-thin.” Marcel Duchamp
Infra Thin Projects examines the limits and potential of the written and spoken word: a retreat to language or a call to arms. Adopting the mechanics of viral infection, the project exists between exhibitions, between spaces and over time. Infra Thin Projects toured between London, Birmingham and Manchester.