D.A.F.T. Related events & participants: THE (deviant) ART FESTIVAL in Trollhättan

Fred Lindberg started THE (deviant) ART FESTIVAL as a society and network of contemporary artists in London 2005. The thought behind these art events was to put people and ideas together rather than single pieces of art. To create a foundation for collaborations. In 1937 Hitler exhibited “Entartete Kunst”, 1962 came Fluxus events like “The Festival of Misfits” and today our Art is striving to exist in-between being singled out as a degenerate, or choosing to be a misfit.

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Sunday, November 05, 2006

(deviant) Artist's other projects: Jay & Hugo

”No Ship”, a concept of a vessel that uses an ixian field to become effectively invisible within Frank Herbert´s book, “Heretics of Dune” was the title of Jay Patel´s show at the Seven-Seven Contemporary Gallery on Broadway Market. The show held from the 21st of September to the 8th of October was the last exhibition before the major conversion of the space, and one of the largest to be held there.

Jay brought in David Farnham to become guest curator for the show. The pair selected many established East London artists as well as international artists traveling from as far as New York to take part. Also exhibiting was Hugo Sterk. His piece dealt with the realisation of a journey into a compatible art piece. The installation- sculpture displayed photographic documentation of a journey, and to the beat of a 1.2metre pendulum his images made their gradual decline into a bleach solution. Over the length of the show the erasing of the images demonstrated the separation of substance from sculpture.