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Cartel : A THEATRE TO ADDRESS2: in excessive structure Sovay Berriman, Mikko Canini, Tai Shani, Curated by Bridget Crone, featuring a screening curated by Al Cameron and Karen Di Franco Jean Luc Nancy has described representation as an intensification of presentation - his emphasis on the 're' renders not a repetition but a kind of going deeper and more intensely into the performance that takes place before us and is called 'representation'. A THEATRE TO ADDRESS2: in excessive structure begins at this point of intensification with a simple interrogation of what constructs its parts - in this case, text is addressed through an excessive emphasis on its role to describe or to communicate and this is a task rendered so excessively in the case of Mikko Canini's MOHB (2009) that a reduction takes place, or in the case of Milky White Light, Inky Black Hole: A Radio Play by Tai Shani (2010) worlds occur within worlds within worlds interwoven through and by the text itself. A THEATRE TO ADDRESS2: in excessive structure is an experiment and an enquiry into the way language orders or structures experience, exploring the potential for text to block the immersion into the experience of being an audience (in the theatre of the exhibition). The fragility of this moment of possible experience or immersion is heightened through Sovay Berriman's large sculptural work, Entertainment Suite (2010), a structure that with its shiny, reflective surfaces and platforms both invites and repels its activation as a stage. Instead, it becomes a space of intensified but temporally unstable potential - has something just taken place, about to take place, never happen? A THEATRE TO ADDRESS2: in excessive structure explores the idea of the exhibition as a form of theatre, a form of theatre that might invite participants or it might not. This is an exhibition about structures and structuring, and specifically about the power of text to write the structure of this stage (of the exhibition) and deny an ease of identification with its contents. This exhibition follows on from A THEATRE TO ADDRESS: a festival of textual form - concrete, material, scripted and performed , a two day festival of performances, talks and readings exploring the work of artists who use text as something that might block, impose upon or break apart communication (or it might revel in rhythm and rhyming nonsense) producing a gap through which other systems and structures - both visual and sonic - might appear. A THEATRE TO ADDRESS was held at the Arnolfini, Bristol in June 2010. A THEATRE TO ADDRESS2: in excessive structure is curated by Bridget Crone, Artistic Director of Media Art Bath - a commissioning organisation based in South West England dedicated to championing contemporary art and ideas.
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