Untitled (equivalence) at the Fringe Basement
Untitled (equivalence) December 2006
For this exhibition Trevatt & Dingle performed an excavation of the Fringe Basement space prior to its refurbishment. All the stored material (including chairs, tables, artist's work, debris etc) was removed from the store rooms at the rear of the space and methodically arranged in the main gallery space. In the store rooms in the depths of the basement the artists erected a series of tight corridors and tunnels with translucent dust sheets. Rustling with the slightest breeze these dust sheets, lit eerily by halogen lights on tripods, produced a filmic sense of space. For the first time members of the public were allowed into the recesses of the old printing basement.
Untitled (equivalence) - Flyer
Lighting Projects
Over a week in September 2006 Robert Dingle and Tom Trevatt
traveled around Brighton and the surrounding area with a selection
of high powered halogen lights, a generator and a photographer. They
uncovered disused or unremarked upon sites; sites, as they call
them, of disinterest, and illuminated them with the halogen lights.
Each site was chosen for its liminal or barren qualities. An attempt to
uncover places of social/aesthetic/industrial neglect, but also a way of
examining the political and ethical issues that surround these areas.
The photography in the downstairs gallery was a documentation
of the lighting events.
Lit Sites:
Circus Street Market Roof
Alleyway off Ship Street
Shoreham Harbour
Tunnel under railway in Portslade
Missing House on Motgomery St
Air Vent nr Clayton
Cement Works nr Steyning
Behind New England Road
Rottingdean Cliffs
Lighting Projects
"The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not
wish to add anymore”
Douglas Huebler
Lighting Projects
“philosophy has most often been an ontology: reduction of the
other to the same by interposition of a middle and neutral term
that ensures comprehension of being. It can be interpreted as
an attempt at universal synthesis, a reduction of all experience,
of all that is reasonable, to a totality wherein conciousness
embraces the world”
Emmanuel Levinas
Lighting Projects
“if the Platonic Sun equates, as an heliological metaphor, with the
violence of right, of truth, of absolutes, what of the dark recesses of
the world? Where, if the truth is illuminated by the glare of the Sun,
does the possibility of the other reside? Is it not in these shadowy
unseen, desolate places?”
Marcel Dumezil
Apart
Apart was a response by the curators of thirtyfive-a, Jeremy Berns, Robert Dingle and Tom Trevatt, to an invitation by Greg Daville to show in his exhibition City Running in the Phoenix Gallery, Brighton. City Running was a large scale exhibition of work produced by each artist (there were about 40) in a 3hr 'run' between 11pm and 2am each Saturday night during the course of the exhibition. For thirtyfive-a's response they built a gallery within a gallery using plywood boards the exact height of their own gallery space. Within this gallery they exhibited work by their friends and colleagues collected during their 'run'. This slightly separate exhibition was named Apart and was accompanied by its own private view and publicity.
