Tomorrow's World #2 @ Project Number / 6
A two‐man exhibition and ongoing collaboration by Dave Evans & Robin Tarbet
Project Number : London
Exhibition open weekends: May 19th 20th and 26th 27th and June 2nd 3rd 2012.
Weekday viewing’s by appointment only.
Private View Friday: 18th May 6‐9pm
Tomorrow’s World is an exhibition of working ideas and material
experiments with the aim to test out and develop initial concepts to create an
open dialogue with the audience in a gallery environment. Beginning at Rogue
Studios Project Space in early 2012 and soon in its second edition at Project
Number, the collaboration brings together two artists who examine the material
residue of technological progress. Evans and Tarbet’s re-workings of past
visions of the future and more recent obsolete technologies attempts to make a
concrete punctuation in the unceasing forward flow of perpetual growth; to not
only explore the ideology of progress under the conditions of late capitalism,
but also question the polemic nature of technological progress itself. Today we
live in a technologically driven society where the latest innovation soon
becomes outdated and obsolete. Internal systems are automatically updated,
infrastructure is invisible and knowledge is hidden behind a shiny plastic
façade accessible to only a few. The New Millennium is not the science fiction
inspired futuristic landscape as promised in our 80s childhoods. Time has
passed, technology has advanced, but when a common device fails most of us are
rendered helpless. Economically, a machine’s failure is just another disposable
material casualty: the product of a culture of consumption that frequently
highlights our own human vulnerability, assuming the role of being mere
operators with only a vague understanding of the tools we depend upon.
Tomorrow’s world is a failed concept: an impossible prediction, but a
spectacular opportunity for re‐examining and questioning our present reality.
Evans and Tarbet are not nostalgic of the past or pining for the future, but as
artists are keen to explore the ideological and material world around them to
consider the notion of progress.
Tomorrow's World #1
A two‐man exhibition by Dave Evans & Robin Tarbet
Rogue Project Space: Manchester
Exhibition open by appointment: 16th to 25th February 2012
Private View Friday: 24th
