Ruth Beale
11 - 17 May 2015
RUTH BEALE
fig-2 19/50
11 – 17 May 2015
Ruth Beale will activate a space of encounter by transforming fig-2 into a temporary library composed of books borrowed from various London public libraries. In the week following the UK general election, her makeshift collection will concentrate on utopian and distopian novels that attempt to predict the future of societies based on anxieties about the recent past and present. By bringing the books together with her new sculptures and prints, Beale urges us to explore modalities of democracy, education and civil society, as well as positions of knowledge, particularly that of the ‘common’. Notions of participation and interaction are highlighted through a series of events scheduled in the week.
Ruth Beale will give a presentation on Thursday 14th May, reflecting on the ideas and concepts and symbolism in her solo show, calling in immediate and long term responses. Between an artist’s talk and a performative lecture, the presentation will plot links and cross-references between subversive librarianship, Thomas More’s Utopian alphabet, the notion of the commons, knowledge production and futurology.
fig-2 19/50
11 – 17 May 2015
Ruth Beale will activate a space of encounter by transforming fig-2 into a temporary library composed of books borrowed from various London public libraries. In the week following the UK general election, her makeshift collection will concentrate on utopian and distopian novels that attempt to predict the future of societies based on anxieties about the recent past and present. By bringing the books together with her new sculptures and prints, Beale urges us to explore modalities of democracy, education and civil society, as well as positions of knowledge, particularly that of the ‘common’. Notions of participation and interaction are highlighted through a series of events scheduled in the week.
Ruth Beale will give a presentation on Thursday 14th May, reflecting on the ideas and concepts and symbolism in her solo show, calling in immediate and long term responses. Between an artist’s talk and a performative lecture, the presentation will plot links and cross-references between subversive librarianship, Thomas More’s Utopian alphabet, the notion of the commons, knowledge production and futurology.