Hellicar & Lewis
Interactive Installation
20 April - 29 May, 2011
Peter Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis have been working in collaboration since 2009. Their extensive archive of open source software installations, upholds an ethic where the invention and exhibition of art is equally apposite to its free dissemination
Creating art as software, Hellicar & Lewis utilise technological innovation to produce a virtual experience of the physical self as a social being. The viewer’s body is not only incorporated into their work but is the very medium through which the work exists.
The librarians’ choice of poems, the first Scottish Makar, Edwin Morgan’s poetry is transposed as an interactive installation entitled White Heat. Through his flirtations with poetic forms, from the sonnet to concrete poetry, Edwin Morgan’s treatment of language is in an open and experimental approach. Hellicar & Lewis mimic his prolific output and subversion of literal styles by 'updating' it into the digital sphere. Selected poems are projected onto a computer monitor and synced through a 3D camera to embody the text, to expand and envelop itself around the visitors in the library. The activities of revision, tracing and deconstruction are performed literally, replacing its phonetical utterance. An artists’ book will develop over the duration of the exhibition as the second of twelve artists’ books in response to the Saison Poetry Library’s collection as part of Art on Poetry
Peter Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis are based in London and exhibit internationally. The Hello Wall installation was a commission by Wasted Spaces as part of their Wembley Wall Project. At the beginning of this year they created a similar twitter responsive wall installation in collaboration with Coca-cola and Maroon 5 for a 24 Hour Live Session. Other works include a collaborative dance performance Divide by Zero (2009) and Diaghilev Mask (2010) an installation of audio responsive masks for the V&A Educational Department. They have exhibited at the Watermans and Outline Editions Galleries in London, The Banff Arts Center in Canada and Yota Space, the International Festival of Audiovisual Arts in St. Petersburg.
All of their software is available on their website, www.hellicarandlewis.com.
Prompted by the Festival of Britain celebrations, Art on Poetry is a dedicated season of artists' books at the Saison Poetry Library. Twelve internationally acclaimed artists are given a rare opportunity to draw upon Southbank Centre's archives and re-consider British identity sixty years on.
The Saison Poetry Library is situated on the fifth level of the Royal Festival Hall and open from Tuesday to Sunday, 11am - 8pm.
| Antonio Claudio Carvalho | 20th April - 22th May |
| Hellicar and Lewis | 20th April - 29th May |
| Meghana Bisineer | 1st June - 3rd July |
| Godfried Donkor | 1st June - 3rd July |
| Alexandre Bettler | 6th July - 31st July |
| Alex Czinczel | 6th July - 31st July |
| Oona Grimes | 6th July - 31st July |
| GOTOTEN | 3rd - 28th August |
| Katherine Jones | 3rd - 28th August |
| Alex Knell | 31st August - 25th September |
| Dawn Scarfe | 31st August - 25th September |
| Martin Sexton | 31st August - 25th September |
Open: Tuesday to Sunday, 11am - 8pm.
Saison Poetry Library
Level 5
Royal Festival Hall
London SE1 8XX
Phone: 020 7921 0943 / 020 7921 0664
Underground stations: Waterloo & Embankment
Railway stations: Waterloo, Waterloo East & Charing Cross
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