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GODWOTTERY
Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan
25 Feb – 26 Mar 2006
Private view - Friday 24 Feb 7-9pm
Gallery open Fri – Sun 1-6pm or by appointment
Godwottery is an exhibition of collaborative works by Jacob Cartwright
and Nick Jordan. The result of months of suggestion, bickering and
coercion, the exhibition forms another stage in the artists’
ongoing würstundgritz project, which highlights the
contingencies and encounters of collaboration - through rudimentary
props, ad-hoc devices, sculptures, books and films. Godwottery includes
a hand-cranked zoetrope, a ‘gothic’ suspense film, a bi-plane,
and a chorus of American Bullfrogs. Drawing together disparate elements
in a willfully cock-eyed manner, würstundgritz runs
alongside Cartwright and Jordan’s independent practices like
a pet mongrel tugging at the leash.
godwottery - 1: An embellished or elaborate garden,
usually composed of incompatible plants and objects 2: Affected
use of archaic language. [From the line "A garden is a lovesome
thing, God wot!" in My Garden, Thomas Edward Brown, 1876
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More
on the artists:
Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan are based in Manchester and have
been trying to work together for a number of years.
Recent manifestations of würstundgritz include The
Last Picture Show, Undergrand, Clitheroe, 2004;
The Goose Fair, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 2004; Some
Mild Peril, publication, 2004. In spring 2006, Book Works will
be publishing their collaborative book: Alien Invaders: a guide
to non-native species of the Britisher Isles. |
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