'Walk On' at mac, Birmingham
Date uploaded: January 13, 2014
mac birmingham warmly invites you to attend the preview of Walk On and David Rowan: The Dark River on Friday 7th February, 6pm - 8pm.
Walk On is the first exhibition to examine the astonishingly varied ways in which artists since the 1960s have undertaken a seemingly universal act – taking a walk – as their means to create new types of art. The exhibition offers an as-yet-unwritten history of recent art practice. It proposes that, across all four of the last decades, artists have worked as kinds of explorers, whether making their marks on rural wildernesses or acting as urban expeditionaries.
The exhibition argues that from land art to conceptual art, and from street photography to to the essay-film, much of the important art of our time has been created through an act of walking. Walk On brings together nearly 40 artists who all make by undertaking a journey on foot. In doing so, they all stake out new artistic territory.
Walk On is curated by Cynthia Morrison-Bell, Mike Collier of WALK in partnership with NGCA and supported by the Arts Council England. Organised and toured by Art Circuit Touring Exhibitions.
Walk On continues until Sunday 30th March 2014.
Featuring artists: Marina Abramovic, Francis Alÿs, Atul Bhalla, Tim Brennan, Brendan Stuart Burns, Sophie Calle, Janet Cardiff, Rachael Clewlow, Mike Collier, Sarah Cullen, Bradley Davies, Chris Drury, Alec Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Tracy Hanna, Dan Holdsworth, James Hugonin, Tim Knowles, Richard Long, Melanie Manchot, Pat Naldi & Wendy Kirkup, Julian Opie, plan b, Ingrid Pollard, Simon Pope, Rachel Reupke, Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson, Brian Thompson, walkwalkwalk, Richard Wentworth, Jeremy Wood, Carey Young.
Running alongside the Walk On exhibition this spring, David Rowan’s new body of work: The Dark River navigates the course of Birmingham’s River Rea through a series of moving pictures. Taking inspiration from Roy Fisher’s poem Birmingham River, The Dark River continues Rowan’s long term photographic and film interest in the city’s waterways, and builds upon his recent photographic series Pacha Kuti Ten.
The Dark River is part of the Flatpack Film Festival, which takes place across Birmingham from 20th - 30th March 2014. The Flatpack Film Festival programme of events will be available in February. Click here to view the programme.
The Dark River continues until Sunday 27th April 2014.
To attend the preview, please RSVP Marcia Springer, Senior Marketing and Communications Officer, by Friday 31st January at [email protected]
