RECALCULATING

Triangle space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4JU, 24th to 27th April 2013

The Recalculating exhibition arises out of an on-going collaboration between CCW Graduate School, University of the Arts London, and the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Doctoral School, Budapest.  The collaboration has been sustained by a series of workshops in Budapest and London focussed on sites of historical and contemporary interest. In Budapest, the site of interest was the Csepel Island industrial region of city, which up until the late 1980s was the city’s industrial powerhouse, but has since undergone a period of decline and renewal. This workshop resulted in an exhibition entitled Csepel Works at the Labor Gallery in Budapest, May 2011. In July 2011, a second workshop took place in London that focussed on the institutional legacy, i.e., penal, medical and artistic, of the Millbank site and the Recalculating exhibition is an outcome both of this workshop and the legacy of the collaboration.

The title of the exhibition derives from satellite navigation systems, where it refers to recalculating a route following user deviation from expectation. Here, the term is viewed more generally as referring to navigation in an ever changing social, economic and ecological world, inscribed with traces of history and communal trauma. To navigate such conditions invites investigation of the relationship between collective and individual memory. Whilst the works presented at the Triangle Space show fundamentally different artistic approaches they all connect with the invisible layers of historical and traumatic events.

Two one-day events will accompany the exhibition, the first on the Thursday 25^th April, entitled Contextualising Recalculating and the second on Friday 26^th April entitled Budapest-London: Exchanging artistic research.