About Interplay

interplay

• An improvisation involving 14 artists
• A fun, artistic experiment based on improvisation
• An exhibition that evolves organically during “opening times”
• A concept that allows artists to react logically/intuitively
• An opportunity for artists to respond to time, space and one another
• A place of unpredictability
• About the LIVE experience
• A place where the element of performance is important
• Will trace the action/s of the artists involved

When the sun rises
We clean your clothes
Cook your meals
Walk your dogs
Meet and greet you with watermelon smiles
We teach your children
We ask politely “would you like cheese with that?”
We follow your orders
We tidy your mess
We munch our way through your layer cake of shit

And still, we say “have a nice day.”

But once the moon bypasses the vanishing sun

The Interplay begins, conspiring to

Free Play
Horseplay
Byplay
Teamplay

You can clean your own clothes
Cook your own meals
Walk your own dogs
No greetings await you here
It no longer pays to be polite
Your orders fall on deaf ears
And the mess accumulates
How does (sh)it taste?
….
Your children will learn the truth of this (de)structure

But the sun must return
And you must send your orders for clean clothes, meals, pets cared for and the like.
And if we do not take them on, someone else will.

But remember

We are alive
We are functioning
We are capable
We will prevail

“I see all this potential, and I see squandering.
God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars.
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.
We’re the middle children of history.
No purpose or place.
We have no Great War.
No Great Depression.
Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives.
We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars.
But we won’t.
And we’re slowly learning that fact.
And we’re very, very pissed off.” –TD

The Exhibition

Interplay is an experimental exhibition based on improvisation by 14 emerging artists.
The set up of the show will start from the day before the private view and continue until the end of the exhibition,
so the whole space will evolve organically during opening times.
All artists will have the opportunity to respond to time, space and one another.
We are planning LIVE art performances and LIVE art making throughout the show, the PRIVATE VIEW of which will be the highlight of the whole exhibition.

Live Performance, Music, Drink & Food at the Private View on Fri 2nd Oct 6pm-10pm
Exhibition runs from Sat 3rd Oct to Tue 6th Oct 1pm – 6pm / Wed 7th Oct 12 – 3pm
Admission free

Curated by Larry Achiampong and Akiko Ban
Co-curation, art direction and website by Taiyo Nagano (The Jelly Hunters)