A collaboration between Jack Lavender & Matthew de Pulford.

With works, performances and instructions from:
Catriona Clayson, Helena de Pulford, James Howard, Nicholas Mortimer, Trish Scott

With thanks to Scott King and Jeremy Deller

Come on Craig, get up / It doesn’t move at all, it’s frozen in space

CRATE, 2017

Come on Craig emerged out of six months processing Brexit-related anxiety, Manston Airport, and the end of a relationship.  

Jack Lavendar and I played a game to generate the title, which is taken from moments of dialogue selected from the television miniseries of Stephen King's The Langoliers. We were drawn to the idea, expressed in that series, of beings feeding on time that has passed (not to mention a space-outside-of-time which happens to resemble an abandoned airport). Put simply, we wanted to poke around the how change and stasis co-exist.   

We invited other artists to participate, with the exhibition lasting only a few hours and evolving according to actions programmed by us and others according to the motions of metronomes. 

The show included:
- An anamorphic projection made into a table, which was sawn through (along with a Billy Bear sculpture) by my sister Helena
- Bootleg versions of a Scott King artwork first shown to me by Jack
- A lurid miniature Mike Nelson-style set, viewed through a tiny door, with Brexit-branded incense, pickle juice and office fans
- A play/set by Nicholas Mortimer where three characters meet in the Op's Ruin and discuss the shifting meaning of 'work' whilst trying to fix a cybernetic black box. The script was recorded and played back with sound effects, through speakers facing a scale model of the Ops' Ruin - repeating every hour.
- A poster of Paul Daniels by Jeremy Deller
- A mobile by Jack consisting of gherkins and prints of an English pub with a pound coin. 
- An action, proposed by Trish Scott, for us to 'cut the show in half'
- Warped space-time by Catriona Clayson and James Howard. 
- Mirror painting with gherkins. 

Holbein, anamorphic projection. Rotation revealing the bias of fixed viewpoints.

Brexit, de-volution, nostalgia, return of empire, return of fascism?

Merry Old England. Plougman’s Lunch (fraudulent feudalism).

Distance=Miniaturisation?  The return of the return, the lost return, King Kong.

Isolated in a rip in time? Time twisted by individual anxiety/ will to discipline…

Langoliers, Benjamin Button, Youth against youth. Film as narrative structure adopted by real life

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 The Truman show,  SlaughteR House Five back and forth in time & memory, a web on which to structure/build real life.

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A social/performative element to the opening would be good/ a social element marking the time as it passes?
Cooking, a hair cut, burning (und using the ash), chewing gum, rearranging the show (or taking it apart), adding or dividing the show. Aeroplane activities: Sleeping, watching movies, aircraft food. DRIED NOODLES. Food in stasis.

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Structures that stand outside of time?👀👀👀👀👀👀

Out side. Outside-outsidE

.out of sight. Other side. 

I have a banner that could be useful as a structure to work with it's a black and white chequered.

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Finishing line

Memory as flawed repetition. Memory tapes. Bad simulations. Bootlegs. Bootleg emotion =>> Scott King

mirrored drawing could be nice 👍🏽 Two performers draw a giant hourglass on the floow without dropping each other’s gaze.