Ikon Eastside announces 2010 programme

Ikon Eastside has announced its programme of exhibitions for 2010, opening on Thursday 27th May with an installation from German sound artist Florian Hecker.

Florian Hecker installation at Chisenhale Gallery 2010

Florian Hecker
Thursday 27 May – Sunday 20 June
German sound artist Florian Hecker’s work is concerned with the manipulation of psycho-acoustic effects. He creates disorienting installations, developed out of close consultation with software engineers and scientists. For Ikon Eastside, Hecker proposes a trail of four newly commissioned sound pieces. Together, they create the impression that space itself is being sculpted; each work successively becomes more abstract, manipulating spatial perception.

Andrew Cross
The Solo
A film by Andrew Cross, featuring the music of Carl Palmer
Thursday 1 – Sunday 25 July
British artist Andrew Cross presents a new moving-image project exploring the relationship between music and milieu through a much-maligned musical form: the rock drum solo. Carl Palmer (who as a member of the 1970s ‘supergroup’ Emerson Lake & Palmer developed the status of the rock star drummer perhaps to its extreme) performs four new drum solos. Comprising sequences of tightly cropped images culminating in a full drum solo, Cross celebrates a remarkable virtuosity whilst provoking a consideration of the shifting nature of cultural value.

Sergio Vega
Thursday 5 August – Sunday 5 September
Born in Argentina and now based in Florida, Sergio Vega explores the mythologies of paradise underlying the culture and history of Brazil. For Ikon Eastside, he presents an installation of high definition video imagery, shot in the Brazilian state of Matto Grosso. Projections combine the forest, animals, insects and rivers with roads, towns and people. Such a symphony of nature, culture and their contradictions evoke everyday reality at once vivid and strange.

Jolyon Laycock
This Could Happen To You
11-12 September
A re-creation of Jolyon Laycock’s highly-politicised multi-sensory installation from 1974, part of Ikon’s 1970s retrospective of the same name. A randomly occurring collage of video projections and sound recordings, it critically explores the notion of hegemonic rule and Cold War anxiety. This work reveals uncomfortable parallels with today’s global political climate.

AVPD
Hitchcock Hallway
Thursday 23 September – Sunday 14 November
AVPD are Peter Doessing and Aslak Vibaek, Danish artists working in collaboration. Their practice is concerned with relationships between space and its human inhabitants, taking inspiration from literature, film and science. For Ikon Eastside, AVPD create a sequence of apparently identical interconnecting rooms, each linked by a door. However all is not what it seems. The artists also propose making a number of offsite projects around the city.