CONTENT IN COLLISION
Solo commission
Anarch Gallery
London
2012
Solo commission
Anarch Gallery
London
2012
For its inaugural exhibition Anarch commissioned ATOI to have their first solo show in London, Content in Collision.
The newly opened gallery was transformed into a controlled situation/environment, which altered throughout the duration of the show. Each alteration with accompanying live act played with varying degrees of visibility for the viewer. The core of the sculpture housed a series of live cage fights, physically deconstructing it from the inside out. For each iteration the viewers experience was toyed with. They were locked outside of the gallery, viewing the fight from the glass sound proof door or locked inside of the gallery with a plasterboard wall shutting off the sculpture and any view of the fight until walls were physically broken down, at which point models from the audience bared their clothes and entered the space after the fighters left to lie within the broken walls.
The newly opened gallery was transformed into a controlled situation/environment, which altered throughout the duration of the show. Each alteration with accompanying live act played with varying degrees of visibility for the viewer. The core of the sculpture housed a series of live cage fights, physically deconstructing it from the inside out. For each iteration the viewers experience was toyed with. They were locked outside of the gallery, viewing the fight from the glass sound proof door or locked inside of the gallery with a plasterboard wall shutting off the sculpture and any view of the fight until walls were physically broken down, at which point models from the audience bared their clothes and entered the space after the fighters left to lie within the broken walls.