Disinformation "The Origin of Painting" 2

"The Origin of Painting" by Disinformation - luminous graffiti, live electromagnetic sound and shadow photography, autodestructive portraiture and experimental painting installation, live at Wrexham Arts Centre, Oct to Dec 2006. Exhibition curated by Tracy Simpson. A huge new version of "The Origin of Painting" features in "The Party Project" fiesta (organised by J&B, Diageo and Advanced Music / Sonar Festival) - a major exhibition of urban street art and graffiti culture that tours Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, La Coruña, Malaga and Madrid in July and August 2008.

This installation was first exhibited under the title "Artificial Lightning" at The Hayward Gallery in London in April 2000 (with the CD track "Artificial Lightning" being published on the Disinformation "R&D2" CD by the record company Ash International in 1997). "The Origin of Painting" has also been exhibited at Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst / Montevideo (Amsterdam), the Sonar festival at CCCB (Barcelona), The Huddersfield Art Gallery, Wrexham Arts Centre, The Mac (Birmingham), South Hill Park (Bracknell), Q Gallery (Derby), Saltburn Artists Projects (Teeside), Quay Arts (Isle of Wight), Fabrica (Brighton), The Ashcroft Arts Centre (Fareham), in a Festival of Light organised by Home Live Arts and Moti Roti (London), The Brunswick Centre (London), The Wembley Public Art Programme (London), "The Art of Permanence and Change" (in a disused railway tunnel under Sydenham Hill Woods, London), at Study Gallery of Modern Art (Poole), and in a "Major" music TV Awards after-show party at Palau Sant Jordi (the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona).

The installation takes its name from the painting "The Maid of Corinth, or The Origin of Painting" depicted by Joseph "Wright of Derby" in 1782 (and Disinformation's tribute was exhibited at Q Arts, 35 Queen St, Derby in June 2004, just a few doors from Wright's former home at 26 Queen St). This exhibit also inspired the dance producton "Luminous" by experimental choreographer Saburo Teshigawara - on which Disinformation worked with the Japanese dance company Karas (Saburo visited The Hayward Gallery exhibit with photographer Ravi Deepres in April 2000 and visited Disinformation in London several times that year, and Disinformation worked with Saburo in Tokyo in January 2001).

To see this installation as exhibited in 2001, please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-DnH0EU0mc

As well as the electromagnetic noise produced by the installation's live and automated soundtrack, this footage also features sounds from a simultaneous Disinformaton DJ set. "The Origin of Painting" also inspired a project called "Anti Matter" (exhibited at Huddersfield, Wrexham etc) - a Disinformation video which explores themes suggested by ideas of the physicist Paul Dirac.

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[feythdemacedo]

Very nice!