Artists: Kevin Gallagher and Perri MacKenzie
Exhibition title: Find Yourself A Human Activity
Venue: Futura (Karlin Studios), Prague, Czech Republic
Date: July 16 – 30, 2015
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and FUTURA, Prague
Perri MacKenzie (Scotland, UK) and Kevin Gallagher (Chicago, US) are two visual artists based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands who often present work together or collaborate on eventbased programming. For this exhibition the artists have chosen to build on a previous collaboration, a storycumartwork. The list of actors include non–human intelligences, painters with writing addictions, troubled genres. How do these actors communicate? > Spun and threaded email chains > interidentity crises > multimedial meltinggg.
The title, Find Yourself A Human Activity, is drawn from a mistranslated painting. Travelers carry germs, ye know, and the microbes of Chapter One have found a new host: Prague. And so continues this Storycumartwork saga. Re-generating legs, crawling, sprouting hairs, and sometimes now even an aching back (through heavy lifting and aspirational reaching).
“Prague interests” become a recipe for homespun bread sculptures and muralistic dragon painting. With ingredients culled from nudist reservoirs and cellphone store architectures. Assembled with the flair of a paintertagonist and the rusty agency of yeast.
Chapter One, entitled Real Snow, was presented in December 2014 at Pracownia Portretu, Lodz, Poland.
Kevin Gallagher, Frozen Carb, 2015
Kevin Gallagher, Frozen Carb, 2015 (detail)
Kevin Gallagher, Frozen Carb, 2015 (detail)
Kevin Gallagher, Untitled (Acoustic O2), 2015 (detail)
Perri MacKenzie, Choices, 2015
Perri MacKenzie, Choices, 2015
Perri MacKenzie, Choices, 2015
Kevin Gallagher, Thirsty Carb, 2015
Kevin Gallagher, Natural Carb, 2015
Kevin Gallagher, Untitled (Acoustic O2), 2015
Perri MacKenzie, Choices, 2015
Perri MacKenzie, Choices, 2015
Perri MacKenzie, Choices, 2015
Kevin Gallagher, Punished Carb, 2015