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Kampman, Anneke. 2023. An Endless Archive. In: "An Endless Archive", San Mei Gallery, United Kingdom, 28 April – 10 June 2023. [Show/Exhibition]
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Kampman, Anneke. 2023. An Endless Archive. In: "An Endless Archive", San Mei Gallery, United Kingdom, 28 April – 10 June 2023. [Show/Exhibition]
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Show/Exhibition |
Creators: | Kampman, Anneke |
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Abstract or Description: | Solo Exhibition at San Mei Gallery, London. At San Mei Gallery, Kampman brings together a series of works exploring the formal qualities and politics of contemporary music-video. Interested in how music-video brings together divergent cultural forms – sound, image and commodity – into a single container, Kampman understands the music-video both as a repository for overlapping histories and contradictory forces and as an aperture beyond the sum of its parts, a kaleidoscope of deferred combinations that are brought to life by the spectator. At the centre of the exhibition, Kampman’s video 'Baby-G' (2023) explores the fragmented history of Casio’s iconic Baby-G, launched in 1994 as a line of women’s watches, “the vibrant, active, stylish little sister of the masculine, unbreakable G-SHOCK” as described by the film’s narrator. In a refracted and syncopated narrative that blurs the division between essay film and music-video, Kampman excavates the affective and material histories of these everyday time-keeping devices within the spread of information capitalism. Presented throughout the exhibition are an archive of cheap commodities, including a series of poker chips cast using the unsold vinyl remainder of Kampman’s own musical past. Kampman looks to these everyday objects as departure points for fantastical explorations of wider social histories and vernacular practices of production, circulation and consumption. |
Official URL: | https://vimeo.com/832214915 |
Additional Information: | This exhibition and its accompanying programme of events was kindly supported using public funding from Arts Council England. |
Departments, Centres and Research Units: | Music |
Date range: | 28 April – 10 June 2023 |
Related URL: | https://www.sanmeigallery.co.uk/an-endless-archive |
Event Location: | San Mei Gallery, United Kingdom |
Item ID: | 34464 |
Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2023 09:33 |
Last Modified: | 07 Mar 2024 15:01 |
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