Staying with the Friction

Curated by loop[delirium] Open: 27th of November - 10th of January, Thursday - Saturday (12pm - 6pm), closed between 21st Dec – 3rd Jan Friction may arise between surfaces, bodies, ideas. Friction may be a contest, a caress, a force that holds, a source of heat and energy. Friction is generative. Staying with the friction considers the everyday encounters that give lived experience form, structure and meaning. This show finds a collection of interdisciplinary practitioners engaging with this resistance - creating work in iterative, recursive ways, exploring process as form and effort as reward. The pieces interrogate the nature of labour, the relationship between automator and automated, and the poetic potential within systems of control. The works ruminate on what may emerge when these categories are dissolved - new mythologies and vantage points that lie beyond the predicted horizon. Working across durational performance, sculpture, painting and computational systems, the assembled artists search for the necessary frictions, asking: what are the sites of resistance that ground us, propel us and keep us tethered? With special guests London Fields Life Drawing, L’Atelier Frenchie, more TBC About the Collective / Curators Loop[Delirium] is an art collective comprising recent graduates from Goldsmiths Computational Arts at the start of their artistic careers. Working across film, sound, performance, computation and traditional fine art practices, members include Nathan Bayliss (Frieze, Somerset House), Julian Bramley Burgess (Horniman Museum, Center for Holographic Arts NYC), Owen Planchart (Thin Air, Feels Space -Samsung KX) and Hanaphora (Corsica Studios, Peckham Audio).