by Dave
Meanwhile – off-line – I’m really happy to be taking part in ‘DECAPOD’ as part of AirSpace’s 10th anniversary exhibition. AirSpace is a great gallery in Stoke-on-Trent that consistently puts on exciting shows, so it’s a real honour to be part of their celebrations. DECAPOD: n A ten-legged beguiling, mysterious and playful creature of intrigue […]
Categories: Exhibitions
by Dave
Earlier this year I wrote a text inspired by a 1980’s twilight zone episode called Wordplay. In it a salesman loses his grip on language, words stop meaning what they are supposed to and mean other things. Apart from being hilarious, it was interesting to me as it looks at what happens when concepts become […]
Categories: Practice & Research
by Dave
I’m happy to have new work in Fuera de sitio at José de la Fuente in Santander. The show looks at how art can approach new modes of temporality, something which I’m obviously concerned with in my work. I’m showing Sequence of 18,802 Digital Images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Online Collection (Photography, Images […]
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by Dave
An edited version of Looped Resistance Band Videos 1 to 5 is on show at North through October. See an early version here Although I’m no longer a co-director of MODEL, the existing co-directors have invited me to be part of the second iteration of Scouse House, the Liverpool Pavilion of North, alongside pavilions from […]
Categories: Exhibitions
by Dave
So the investigation into visualising variability continues with these short videos of women demonstrating how to exercise using resistance bands. The stretch of the band is no different, for me to the expansion/contraction of the central ‘image’ in the Met work of 18,000 images in size order (although nothing really expands, the screen is fixed […]
Categories: Practice & Research
by Dave
For a good portion of the summer I’ve been exploring simple actions/reactions ‘mediated’ by objects. Now have a big backlog of footage that appears to be breaking down into short videos. Here is a short compilation of four. Part of the challenge, like working with a sheet of blank paper, tinfoil or a piece of […]
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by Dave
I’m running a reading group on the 24th of August at Bluecoat, and I’ve selected a text from The Piracy Project called ‘Quitting: A Conversation with Alex Koch on the Paradoxes of Dropping Out by Stephen Wright & Alex Koch with a response by Brian Holmes‘ (click text for link to pdf) I was in […]
Categories: Practice & Research
by Dave
Slanted Progress Bar #1 (Black, Grey and White) from Dave Evans on Vimeo. 10 mins. HD Video. 2015. Inevitably I have been working with the form of the progress bar, and thinking about the opportunities they present. As the internet and computer processors speed up, the progress bar will die. It’ll become as antiquated as […]
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by Dave
Fran Disley, Kevin Hunt and I are curating a show as MODEL called Scouse House, it is full of artists practicing in Liverpool right now. Featuring Catrin Davies & Lewis Wright, Dave Evans, Emily Speed, Frances Disley, Gregory Herbert, Imogen Stidworthy, James Quin, Jason Thompson, Joe Fletcher Orr, Joseph Hulme, Kevin Hunt, Leo Fitzmaurice, Linny […]
Categories: Exhibitions
by Dave
I’m running a reading group at the Bluecoat as part of their resource show. It’ll access the texts from two of the shows archive, The Serving Library and and publishing’s The Piracy Project, that focus on how we can avoid the affective implications of digital media. We’re starting with Sci Fi writer Bruce Sterling’s 90’s […]
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