Exhibition : Face Blank. 2nd to 12th March 2017

Mervyn Diese, Jo Hayward, Ana Pallares, Cassandra Mahoney,
Stephen Ball (Perspicere), Sara Doucette (Hello the mushroom),
Giusi Tomasello, Gary Alford, Mark Rathmell

Opening: Thursday 2nd March 6:30-9:30pm

Hackney Artist Mervyn Diese brings together a group of disparate Eastend artists examining their uneasy relationship with social media.

Social media is changing the way we socialise, but with a dangerous caveat: that the urge for likes and comments is addictive, and drives people to spend increasing amounts of time on apps like Facebook, to the detriment of what is left of their real, non-virtual lives. It is also an arena for the rapid spread of misinformation and downright propaganda, and it changes the way we share and perceive images.

This exhibition will be a purposely oblique attempt by the artists concerned to address this issue and change the entire situation for the better. You can thank us later.

Live performance event: Sunday 12th March from 3:30-6:30pm

 

“[…]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)

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“Facebook – A Blizzard leading to Blankness of the Brain. A Hard Rain Begins to Fall, A Colonisation of The Mind, The Great Mind Swipe. Everything must be for The Purpose of The Re-Generation of Stagnated UnFilterered Media Excrement… A Need for The Corporate Agenda; The Vacuous State of The Blank Slate, BlankFace. All is Corporatised, Aristotle’s De anima, and the Stoics as well as the Peripatetics, The Original State of Mental Blankness. Inert Populations of The Corporatocracy Following Media Generated Megalomaniacs – The Corporate Apprentice Trump Speaks Louder Than Words and Boris Brexited The Beached Nation…. Beached Whales Dot the Horizon….

“The Mindless Controlled Sold The “White Paper, The Abyss, The Great Void, The Blank Screen, Owned and Controlled by The Corpoatocracy so The People See what The Corporatocracy want them to See. Humanity Faceless – Void of all Characters,” “The Image Age” Empty Blank Page deprived of All Experience”.
– Grassy Noel (2017)

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