Res. gallery closing party + Alembic publication launch with performances
Saturday 16 June 2018 7.30-11pm
Performances from 8pm: Maggie Roberts & Kirsten Cooke and Megan Snowe
Alembic III: protocols for intimacy by Shu Lea Cheang and Annabelle Craven-Jones open until 9pm
DJ set by Anna Mikkola from 9pm
Alembic publication available to buy online here
Res. are proud to announce the launch of the Alembic publication that reflects and expands on the Alembic programme through 150 pages of new texts, drawings and images, designed by Europa, and edited by Res. (Sarah Jury, Helen Kaplinsky & Lucy A Sames). Contributors include: Uma Breakdown, Ele Carpenter, Shu Lea Cheang, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Kirsten Cooke, Annabelle Craven-Jones, Rosalie Doubal, Helen Hester, Sarah Jury, Helen Kaplinsky, Stephanie Moran, Elizabeth Mputu, Maggie Roberts, Legacy Russell, Lucy A Sames, Victoria Sin, Giulia Smith, Megan Snowe, Linda Stupart, Ayesha Tan Jones and Faith Wilding.
On the night the publication will be available for a special launch price of £8 (RRP £10), so don’t forget to bring cash 🙂
To celebrate, Res. have invited Maggie Roberts & Kirsten Cooke and Megan Snowe to present performances that reflect on their participation in Alembic.
Performances from 8pm:
Uncertainty and the Impure, Maggie Roberts & Kirsten Cooke
Maggie Roberts enacts a reading, with Kirsten Cooke, in response to her video MIASMA commissioned by Res. for Alembic II: Chrominance (March 2018). For this special performance, Roberts and Cooke conjure an alchemical space of transformation by drawing on non-human fictions and digital/algorithmic uncertainty to reclaim machine vision from corporate capital agendas.
How To Do Things With Words, Megan Snowe
Snowe’s performance narrates the sensations of techno-mediated intimacy resulting from an ambivalent and confused communication between two people. Snowe’s essay Alternate Realities of Intimacy, commissioned by Res. for the Alembic publication, responds to Alembic III: protocols of intimacy featuring Shu Lea Cheang and Annabelle Craven Jones (May-June 2018).
Alembic considers legacies of cyberfeminism through intimate human and non-human entanglements. Processes of hacking, healing and viral encoding reveal an alchemical transmutation of data that constitutes an abstraction – we are the mutants of our own destinies.
This event marks the end of Alembic and will be your last chance to see the final instalment in the Alembic exhibition programme Alembic III: protocols for intimacy by Shu Lea Cheang & Annabelle Craven-Jones. The exhibition will stay open until 9pm. More information here. It also marks the end of the on-site gallery programme at Res. We will continue to run our curatorial research office and off-site programmes.
Buy the Alembic publication online here.
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
Supported by Goldsmiths Library, Goldsmiths Research and Enterprise Committee,
CIG Networking Grant, The Annual Fund and the Department of Art
Supported by Institute of Contemporary Art, London
