The New New Black Mountain
ref Luke Drozd
An exhibition of new works by:
Colin Clark
Luke Drozd
Michael Lawton
Opening event on Thursday 4th Feb, 6-9pm
Exhibition continues Feb 5th-28th
Sunday 10am-2pm
Tuesday - Saturday 6pm-10pm (dependent on events - see website for details: www.thefleapit.com)
About The New New Black Mountain.
Sunday. I spent this morning reading Saturday’s Guardian. Starting at the back, I tried yesterday’s Sudoku puzzle. Working forward (through the past), I looked at yesterday’s obituaries. Mathematics and narrative. There’s logic in reading about the recently deceased in old newspapers.
Regardless of how newly out-dated the events, new new-ness, and black mountain-ness, should’ve been filling my thoughts. Serendipitously, a ghostly aide memoir appeared.
Yesterday’s celebrated life was Kenneth Nolan, a spectral alumnus of The Black Mountain College, a recipient of it’s social and liberal arts education. A pupil of Josef and Annie Albers and Buckminster Fuller, a peer of Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage and Merce Cunningham.
This plot is not mathematically factual, but makes for a good story.
There is no college on the New New Black Mountain, I checked on Google Earth, even at a ratio 1:1, a useless tracing shows no sign of anything educational. Can a mountain peak be new? And is ‘New New’ a joke on art school jokes? (Do two news make an old?)
Perhaps this exhibition constitutes a mapping of this doubly new and dark territory, or a potential mapping of a de-territorialisation.
From the pen of the Secretary of the New New Black Mountaineering Club
Links:
For further info email: lukedrozd@hotmail.com
www.colinbirdsong.co.uk
www.lukedrozd.com
www.mlawton.org.uk
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