Fabrications Ornementales by David Alker and Peter Liddell

Alker, David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6504-2381 and Liddell, Peter (2016) Fabrications Ornementales by David Alker and Peter Liddell. [Artefact]

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Abstract

David Alker Peter Liddell
Exhibition: How to Survive on Land and Sea
Venue: Rhubaba Gallery Edinburgh
Dates: 18-26 June 2016
Curator: Daniella Watson (writer-in-residence)
The exhibition included David Alker and Peter Liddell’s work Fabrications Ornementales. This was shown as part of a live performance and subsequent audio event at Rhubaba Gallery in Edinburgh in June 2016.
Fabrications Ornementales is a fabricated object, an illuminated sign, which is part of Alker and Liddell’s ‘Constructed Histories’ series of works. In this collaborative project the artists appropriate and reposition elements and objects from other historical and contemporary artworks. In this case the work is a quotation from Andy Warhol’s Death and Disaster prints. The original image was taken from a press photograph of Sing Sing Prison New York in 1953.
In this project, the fabricated sign becomes an architectural element in the performance space, assuming its role in the original documentary photograph.
‘How to survive on land and sea’ was curated by Daniella Watson and the exhibition included a series of readings of the text ‘How to Survive on Land and Sea’ by participants and ‘Voyage on the North Sea’ by Marcel Broothaers 1974.

Fabrications Ornementales has also been shown at The Agency of Words, Text Festival, Bury Art Gallery 2009; To the Centre of the City, Praxis Hagen Gallery, Berlin 2007; Seesaw, Atelier Grammophon, Hannover 2003; HOST: Reinterpreting the Museum, curated by Mario Rossi, Hasting Museum & Art Gallery, 2001; The Patron Paint of Sculpture, Woodlands Art Gallery, London 2000.


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