More Animal Spirits
More Animal Spirits
Andrew McLeod and Liz Maw , Ben Webb, Eddie Clemens, Maria Walls, Michael Harrison, Paul Johns, Richard Crow, Adam Willetts, Amanda Newall, Robert hood, Steve Swindells and Stephen Calcutt, Simon Lawrence
Curated by Leon Tan, Amanda Newall and Simon Lawrence
Opening Event: Wednesday 2 May, 6-8pm
Exhibition Open: Thursday 3 May – Saturday 12 May
Opening Hours: Thurs – Sat, 12-6pm
More Animal Spirits is the reincarnation of Animal Spirits; a low-budget exhibition that opened at Sugarcube, a Stockholm project space in January 2011, alongside Animal Aesthetics a symposium at the Royal Institute of Art.
An exhibition of emerging and established artists from New Zealand and Britain, Animal Spirits was an experiment in artmaking and curating, networking and exhibiting in a time of global recession.The artists were asked to respond to a text relating to ideas of economics, mysticism and wildness. The term ‘animal spirits’ is closely associated with the work of economist John Maynard Keynes, who observed that economic instabilities were due not only to speculation but also to the reign of affects or emotions (so-called ‘animal spirits’) characterizing human nature.
What is especially satisfying about the show is the diversity of approaches the invited artists took to the ideas of animal spirits, and the degree of coherence and strength that resulted from a great deal of frenetic activity in a compressed time frame.
Andrew McLeod and Liz Maw , Ben Webb, Eddie Clemens, Maria Walls, Michael Harrison, Paul Johns, Richard Crow, Adam Willetts, Amanda Newall, Robert hood, Steve Swindells and Stephen Calcutt, Simon Lawrence
Curated by Leon Tan, Amanda Newall and Simon Lawrence
Opening Event: Wednesday 2 May, 6-8pm
Exhibition Open: Thursday 3 May – Saturday 12 May
Opening Hours: Thurs – Sat, 12-6pm
More Animal Spirits is the reincarnation of Animal Spirits; a low-budget exhibition that opened at Sugarcube, a Stockholm project space in January 2011, alongside Animal Aesthetics a symposium at the Royal Institute of Art.
An exhibition of emerging and established artists from New Zealand and Britain, Animal Spirits was an experiment in artmaking and curating, networking and exhibiting in a time of global recession.The artists were asked to respond to a text relating to ideas of economics, mysticism and wildness. The term ‘animal spirits’ is closely associated with the work of economist John Maynard Keynes, who observed that economic instabilities were due not only to speculation but also to the reign of affects or emotions (so-called ‘animal spirits’) characterizing human nature.
What is especially satisfying about the show is the diversity of approaches the invited artists took to the ideas of animal spirits, and the degree of coherence and strength that resulted from a great deal of frenetic activity in a compressed time frame.