[spectre] Exhibition by Doron Golan and Michael Szpakowski - Thereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent...

[marc garrett]

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent:
An exhibition at HTTP Gallery in London by Doron Golan and Michael 
Szpakowski.

Private View 7-9pm Fri 16th January 2009
Open 16 January - 1 March 2009
Fri-Sun 12noon-5pm
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd,
London N4 1NY.
http://www.http.uk.net/

Collaboration is working together. Can two people work together without 
ever having met?
Doron Golan and Michael Szpakowski demonstrates that they can...

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent:
The exhibition takes its title from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by 
the philosopher of language Ludwig Wittgenstein. It explores a 
collaboration between two artists across geographical distance through 
the ineffable language of image.

Israeli video artist and filmmaker Doron Golan and British artist, 
composer and educator Michael Szpakowski both make digital films, which 
they share through websites and email lists, exploring the mystery of 
everyday life and of being a human in this place and time. Over the 
years, the two artists have developed a dialogue and friendship through 
the exchange of their work. Since 2005 they have collaborated to found 
and curate DVblog.org, a groundbreaking early platform for art films on 
the Internet. And yet they've never met face to face.

HTTP Gallery in North London is pleased to host the first meeting 
between Golan and Szpakowski and their art, in real space. Making their 
online collaborative process physical, the central installation has 
three elements: a new silent film by each of the artists with a new 
musical composition by Szpakowski. Bearing their shared sympathies in 
mind, the artists have independently determined the length and subjects 
of their films. As a result, the correspondences and resonances between 
the works are as yet unknown, and will change constantly. The 
collaborative installation will be accompanied by elements of their 
independent practices, including a new installation by Szpakowski 
utilising video and silver birch branches and a selection of Golan's 
recent videos, engaging with elements of life in the Middle East and his 
native Israel, to which he has returned after many years living in New 
York City.

For more information about the exhibition & artists:
http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/golan_szpakowski/index.shtml

Location Details:
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml

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HTTP Gallery based near North London's thriving Green Lanes area is 
London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art. 
Working with artists from around the world, HTTP provides experimental 
approaches to exhibiting artworks simultaneously in physical and virtual 
space, and for online projects that explore participative and 
collaborative art practice. Projects on DVD, real-time, webcast, 
software art and live art also play a role in their curatorial work.

Past Exhibitions:
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib12/exhibitions12.shtml

HTTP Gallery is run by furtherfield.org
http://www.furtherfield.org