END OF THE LINE ...
(an occurrence of 'things not worth keeping' concluding the Millennium
Collection)
Platform, 3 Wilkes Street, London E1 6QF
21 May - 31 May
Kirsten Lavers and cris cheek will be on site daily from 2pm - 6pm
Opening Event: 26 May 1pm - 3pm, you are all invited
The Millennium Collection (having toured as an exhibition to car boot sales
across the country - Suffolk Wildlife Park, York Race Course, Ford
Airfield, Bristol Tollgate, Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, Burscough
Airfield, Bassett's Pole, Ross-on-Wye Livestock Market, Hounslow Tube Car
Park, Cambridge Industrial Estate, Brighton Station, Corby Market) will be
exhibited for the last time in a skip on the street outside Platform and
monitored 24 - 7 by CCTV.
Assemblages from the collection will be shown both in the skip and in the
gallery throughout the week culminating in a full display for the opening;
those in the skip are viewable through a windowed tarp.
The objects and stories in this collection have been peered at, handled and
conversed over by several thousands of people intrigued by the mesh of
ideas about value, memory, ownership and loss that the collection provokes.
They have acquired their own collective pattina.
Unlike most other art shows the 'opening' will occur halfway through the
exhibition and it will literally be an OPENING of the skip and its contents
to the vagaries of skip culture, skip diving will be inevitable and
perpetrators will be caught on camera.
The final destination of the GB skip and whatever remains in it at the end
of the exhibition will be the nearest landfill site.
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Just before Christmas 1999, one thousand people received an invitation to
nominate a thing of their own that they considered to be 'not worth
keeping' and to suggest why this might be the case.
One hundred nominations were selected by 'things not worth keeping' to
constitute a Millennium Collection. The collection comprises a conversant
range of objects and ideas, from simple household and everyday items,
through to highly personal or controversial nominations. The artists cite
both the work of Mass Observation and Fluxus artist, Daniel Spoerri's 'An
Anecdoted Topography of Chance' as being key influences in the development
of this and other occurences of their collaboration.
"This project raises some serious questions not least about how we invest
the material world with deeply personal significance. How and when do we
decide that a thing has or no longer has a value?" David Kennedy, A-N
Magazine February 2001
A 160pp full colour catalogue, available at Platform, features all of the
objects combined with the stories and nominations that activate their
significance.
Contacts:
Platform 0207 375 2973
www.thingsnotworthkeeping.com
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The Millennium Collection has received support from Small Acts For The
Millennium, East England Arts and Arts Council of England's National
Touring Programme
Kirsten Lavers and cris cheek
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