Friday October 5th APG Show at Raven Row
Today I went to visit the first retrospective about the APG at Raven Row . Its very timely that this is on now, and useful for me to have some kind of chronological overview, having spent all week in the Tate Archive, researching in a fascinating but quite random way. Raven Row is a new and elegant gallery space, a conversion of a row of eighteenth century houses in a bit of old east London near Liverpool Street Station and Spitalfields. This is the link to the show:-
http://www.ravenrow.org/current/
One comment about Archives is how selective history can be, and how one found quote , possibly taken out of its original context, then becomes the defining statement for that organisation and becomes the only ‘truth’ – then that gets repeated over and over in different places, and so on. (I knew this already in principle, but interesting to see it working in practice.) Artists studying Archives about artists are in a unique position to tell that other story and reveal new insights from the practitioners perspective -this in itself becomes a creative act, another artwork.
