25 Jan–17 Mar ²⁰¹³

KERNEL - Inputs, Loops and Anchors

ANNEXE: A debut UK solo presentation by KERNEL

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Living and working between London and Athens, KERNEL comprises architect Pegy Zali and artists Petros Moris and Theodoros Giannakis. Since their formation in 2009 KERNEL have operated variably as artists, curators, writers, designers, and publishers; producing projects involving artists such as Seth Price, Dexter Sinister, Aleksandra Domanovic, Paul Chan, Oliver Laric and Lucky PDF, amongst many others.

KERNEL’s recent work has seen the group relate ‘extensive’ research into economics, information systems, societal spaces and social structures to ‘intensive’ material productivity. Indeed, this very idea - the ‘re-imagination of information as material’ - is at the very heart of Inputs, Loops and Anchors, a project produced in collaboration with Athens based metal formulation company CNC solutions.

Deploying a staged and controlled process KERNEL have worked gradually towards their presentation at SPACE. They commenced with the production of a written report that assembled a loose arrangement of analyses, surveys and studies drawn from a network of research organisations engaged in social and scientific study (e.g The World Bank and Unesco). Rather than the specific ‘informational’ content (what the information informed the reader of) it was rather the structural and sensual nature of the information - its texture or physiognomy - that was KERNEL’s concern in their compilation of the report.

The accordingly loose and aleatory informational assemblage was then handed over to CNC Solutions, a company specialising in progressive industrial design and fabrication. Channeling the instructive context of the informational turn in Conceptual Art (we recall instructive works by Brecht, Ono and Le Witt amongst many others), KERNEL asked that they respond to the report by producing of three ‘elemental’ forms: prototypes of a link, a hook and a screw.

CNC solution’s final product is a generic, functional and modular 3-part system fabricated through rapid prototype production. KERNEL and CNC Solutions will shortly publish a set of public-domain 3D models to accompany the system which will, in addition to a film featuring textual elements from the original report made during the fabrication process, be incorporated into a display in SPACE’s ANNEXE gallery for the duration of the exhibition.

KERNEL’s recent exhibitions include Young London, V22, 2012, 3rd Athens Biennale, Monodrome, Diplareios School, Athens 2011; XYZ Outlet #18: KERNEL (Index of Potential, XYZ Outlet, Athens 2011 and projects like KAM Workshops ) Shelves, Center of Mediterranean Architecture, Chania 2009 and SFD, National Technical University, Athens 2009. It has organized curatorial projects like Word of Mouth for the 3rd Athens Biennale, Athens 2011; THE PUBLIC SCHOOL in Athens, 2011; BYOB London, The Woodmill, London 2011 and Full/Operational/Toolbox, M21, Athens 2010.

Inputs, Loops and Anchors is kindly sponsored by CNC Solutions.

 

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25 Jan–17 Mar ²⁰¹³ exhibitions

HUMAN WAVE - The Videotapes of Raymond Pettibon

GALLERY: Shown together in the UK for the first time, SPACE presents an exhibition of Raymond Pettibon’s feature-length video tapes.     

25 Jan–17 Mar ²⁰¹³

BLACK MONDAY - The last days of Factory Records

LIBRARY: DIY film shot outside the offices of Factory Records on the day in 1992 when it went into receivership.     

25 Jan–17 Mar ²⁰¹³

THE CONVERSATION #1 - Clunie Reid and Jodie Marsh

The Conversation is a new rolling project at SPACE. Over the next year we will stage a series of unorthodox conversations between our studio artists and selected interlocutors.