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Critical Dictionary
27 January–25 February 2012
Event
One Plus One: Picture Editing After Bataille
David Evans and Patrizia Di Bello in conversation
Wednesday 15 February 2012 6.30-8pm
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WORK and guest curator David Evans are pleased to present Critical Dictionary, a group show featuring work by David Bate, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Simon Cunningham, Paola Di Bello, Tim Edgar, Christian Edwardes, Simon Faithfull, Dave Hazel, Justin Hibbs, Karen Knorr, Laibach, Ann Lee, Jo Longhurst, Tom Lovelace, Office of Experiments, Richard Paul, Poor Photographer, Chloé Regan, Sophy Rickett, Dominic Shepherd, Penelope Umbrico and Jake Walters.
Critical Dictionary declassifies selected terms in a playful manner to emphasise the open-ended, provisional and unfinished nature of language. The exhibition brings together an eclectic plethora of themes including: Flickr Sunset, Greenwich Meridian, Mycelium, Overt Research, Pencil Test and War Primer. The exhibition is inspired by Georges Bataille’s infamous anti-dictionary for the dissident Surrealist journal Documents. It explores and expands the previous incarnations of Evans’ Critical Dictionary project, which was first developed as the online art journal criticaldictionary.com and later published as an anthology by the same name by Black Dog Publishing.
To coincide with this private view, WORK is also pleased to announce that David Evans will be signing copies of his Critical Dictionary anthology. A limited edition print, O STRAVINSKY PROJECT PART I by Jake Walters will also be available for sale from the gallery.