| Evolution 2004: 1-6 November |
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 Liquid Crystal projection, Gustav Metzger |
To coincide with the release of a new documentary film directed by Ken McMullen for Arts Council England, Evolution is pleased to welcome back Gustav Metzger. As a small child in Germany, Metzger witnessed the rise of Nazism in the early ’30s before escaping to Great Britain aged thirteen. In his first auto destructive art manifesto of 1959, Metzger suggests a new form of public art for our industrial society, an art centred on the process of destruction. Fusing art with politics and social activism Metzger’s work offers profound insights into the relevance of art, and the importance of understanding the destructive impulses in society. Metzger will talk alongside Ken McMullen, a film director and artist whose work has involved collaborations with artists, physicists and philosophers such as Brian Eno, Lindsay Anderson and Jacques Derrida. Ross Birrell, Glasgow based performance artist and lecturer at Glasgow School of Art will mediate the event. | ||
| Recommended events/exhibitions:
The Nature of Technology/Film
| City Slivers and Fresh Kills Further reading: Arts Council England DVD | Ken McMullen website | Gustav Metzger (Astrid Bowron, Kerry Brougher, Norman Rosenthal, Modern Art Oxford) | Damaged Nature, Auto-Destructive Art (Gustav Metzger, Coracle) |
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