ÉVASION, 2012

Lanchester Gallery Projects, The Hub, Jordan Well, Coventry, CV1 5QT

Installation view, back wall: ‘Art House’, Alison Jones. Foreground left to right: ‘Suite 2’, Nicole Wermers; ‘Contaminator’, Josephine Meckseper; ‘Romance Posters, Series II’, Milly Thompson; stack of VUOTO magazine.

Alison Jones, Josephine Meckseper, Martha Rosler, Milly Thompson, Nicole Wermers, featuring Martha Rosler’s 1982 film Martha Rosler reads Vogue (Rosler, 1982). The exhibition also included Évasionista, ‘live sculpture and creation’, by Jones and Thompson, and the publication VUOTO (2012) which included documentation and other related works by the artists, and an ‘editors letter’ by Nina Power.

Symposium with papers from Nicholas Cullinan, Mark Harris, Ian Hunt, Angela McRobbie and Monika Szewczyk was held during the exhibition; an invited panel of speakers addressed the ideas proposed in ÉVASION. The papers are reproduced in C21st RECENT HISTORY, (2016), also co-designed by Alison Jones & Milly Thompson.

ÉVASION was co-designed and created with Alison Jones.

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