Exhibition
at Vauxhall St Peter’s Heritage CentreWednesday 4th to Saturday 7th October 2000
REAL BODIES : VIRTUAL CITY alludes to a contrast between the flesh and blood of direct human relations and the increasing mediation of our existence by the electronic image. For the more pessimistic critics of our times this is a source of anxiety of an anticipated loss of the immediate body in favour of a distant image of the other via the window of the television or increasingly the internet. For others the new media of communications offer more liberating possibilities of escape from the constrictions of fixed identities. A further direction for our theme is towards a contrast between 2 and 3 dimensions — the image and the object through to the contemporary urban shift from place to space. Outside Edge has a policy of showing work in environments outside of the sterile fiction of the white cube gallery. We believe that our work should interact and be contaminated by spaces with a living identity.
St. Peter’s is a Victorian Gothic Revival Church where Christian worship still takes place every Sunday. The site itself clearly provides a strong reference to history, ritual and past and present Vauxhall communities.