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The Basement, Brighton

Sat 5 June

Doors open, 7.30pm

Tickets: £6 / £4

Curated and hosted by The Basement’s Supported Artists

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He Do The Police In Different Voices

Blythe Gallery, Imperial College, Level 5 Sherfield Building

Opening Tues 15 June, 6.30pm

Continues16 June 2010 to 16 July 2010

Open daily 9am to 9pm

'These fragments I have shored against my ruins'

TS Eliot, The Waste Land (1922), l. 430

‘He Do the Police in Different Voices’, an exhibition of new work by Claudia Carr, Anna Chapman, Amanda Couch, Carolyn Flood, Chris Shaw and Aline von der Assen, urated by Chris Shaw and accompanied by an essay by James Cahill.

The show takes its name from T.S. Eliot’s working title for The Waste Land (1922), a poem whose array of fragmented voices provides an eloquent metaphor for the alternate parallels and disjunctions between the works.

‘He Do the Police in Different Voices’ is an open-ended experiment in ‘pure difference’, encompassing oil paintings of barren landscapes, diagrammatic drawings, a proposal for an imaginary performance, an installation responding to the writings of Deleuze, historically allusive screen-printing, and collaborative drawings.

Through the disparate visual idioms and conceptual approaches it reveals, the exhibition forms a microcosm of contemporary art in all its heady pluralism. It lays bare the necessarily fragmentary quality of a collective show, pointing to the interpretative potential that exists in gaps, elisions and losses.