How can a relationship with the past exist in which memory functions as an archive process, allowing continual reconsideration, rather than as a form of entombment? – Rene Green
A gathering of gatherings made over twenty years; an unfolding; a condensation (Freud) of tremendous fragments (Klee) – in this work, John Levett will respond to Green’s question by way of Blanchot’s proposal of a past to come, and in that spirit re-engineer, re-purpose and re-imagine his archive.
Mutations of connection and disconnection (Foster) are hoped for: new lines of interpretation, counter-archives within the archive. Gaps and absences will be taken as forms of evidence (Merewether) for this new prospective past (Demos) and the freedoms it may offer.
Runs 5-12 October 2013 October
Private view Wednesday 9th October, 6pm – Private View followed by talk & discussion by the two creators of Retrospeculations
Kingsway Corridor
Richard Hoggart Building
Goldsmiths College
Lewisham Way, New Cross
London SE14 6NW
Nearest tube New Cross or New Cross Gate