TONIGHT
Curated by Paul O’Neill
16 April – 30 May 2004
IMAGE: TONIGHT, 2003
Pavel Buchler
Installation view
Courtesy of the artists
Installation view
Courtesy of the artists
Artlab – C. Cullinan + J. Richards/ Georgina Batty/ Simon Bedwell/
Dave Beech/ Ólöf Björnsdóttir/ David Blamey/ Kathrin
Böhm/ Ian Breakwell/ Pavel Büchler/ Gerard Byrne/ John Chilver/
Adam Chodzko/ Declan Clarke/ Cornford & Cross/ Jeremy Deadman/ Mark
Dickenson/ Jeanette Doyle/ Markus Eisenmann/ Matt Franks/ Babak Ghazi/ Liam
Gillick/ Lothar Götz/ Andrew Grassie/ Brian Griffiths/ Anthony Gross/
Matthew Higgs/ Mark Hutchinson/ Gareth Jones/ Janice Kerbel/ Stephen Little/
Brighid Lowe/ Frank Lüsing/ Caroline McCarthy/ Ronan McCrea/ Goshka
Macuga/ Aleksandra Mir/ Jonathan Monk/ Suzanne Mooney/ Hayley Newman/
Stefan Nikolaev/ Harold Offeh/ Mark Pearson/ Elizabeth Price/ Nike Savvas/
Lindsay
Seers/ DJ Simpson/ Bob and Roberta Smith/ Mark Titchner/ Mungo Thomson/
Markus Vater/ Christopher Warmington/ Lawrence Weiner/ Annie Whiles/
Ian Whittlesea and Michael Wilkinson.
TONIGHT is a non-thematic group exhibition featuring over fifty artists, curated by Paul O’Neill. Each artist has been invited to contribute a singular work that documents a specific process of production employed on a particular night. TONIGHT explores art as an act of ‘killing time,’ passing the night away, doing something, perhaps mundane, maybe obsessive, but always about making the passage of time material. TONIGHT is a gathering together of the results of a selection of things that have been done. The exhibition is accompanied by a user manual/ poster work designed by Liam Gillick with a list of these acts, each act corresponding with a work on display.
TONIGHT will represent a kind of over-sensitized and playful ‘Atmosphere Room.’ Two of the gallery walls will be covered with ‘back-ground’ works: a newly designed wall painting by Liam Gillick and Kathrin Böhm’s ever expanding work and millions and millions, which uses multiple combinations of brightly coloured posters, will provide a sensory backdrop for other works. The gallery will perform as a container of ideas, each flowing into, over and on top of each other. Installed from ceiling to floor with every wall, ceiling, floor and surface occupied by the artists’ works. Dividing the space will be a functional display structure that will sit just below eye level and house many of the video, audio and sculptural works, allowing the viewer to see the entire exhibition at one time.
TONIGHT derives its title from a piece by Pavel Büchler featured in the show. Büchler found a day-glo pink sticker displaying the word “tonight” which had fallen off a poster for an unknown event. Büchler copied and enlarged the sticker to produce a fly-poster, which was put up on and around public sites. The poster advertised nothing other than the word depicted. TONIGHT is an exhibition in response to Büchler’s invitation to take part in the doing of something ‘tonight’.
Supported by Arts Council England, London;
Cultural Relations Committee, Ireland
and Furnival Press