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Marinetti’s 11 points from the Futurist Manifesto is read out by a computer, overlaid by footage of Heathrow airport at a standstill, closed due to a no fly zone imposed by a volcanic ash cloud.
Das Lied der Deutschen or The Song of the Germans was recorded in Kreutsberg, Berlin after the Germany vs Argentina quarter final in the FIFA 2010 world cup. Germany won 4-0.
Economics, experts, Alan Greenspan, gambling, pot-luck and where the cow shits
The Domestic Industrial Military Complex (semiotics of the kitchens) Materials: irobot vacuum cleaner, cardboard box, kitchens, paint DVD projection duration: 7 mins loop Martha Roslers Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975) "replaces the domesticated meaning of kitchen tools with a lexicon of rage and frustration." The video was made 27 years before the introduction of the first mass-market domestic robot - the i-robot Roomba. The Roomba is produced by America’s biggest manufacturer of military robo...
The year is 2034. The era of free market capitalism and neo liberalism is well and truly over, and a new world order has taken its place. In its wisdom, the Federal Council of Autonomous Zones has issued a directive abolishing all cash transactions. To celebrate, Adams & Smith proudly offer 13 lots of genuine, once ubiquitous late capitalist artefacts taken from the Hollington & Kyprianou estate. Each lot reveals a curious aspect of that bygone age, shedding light on the odd and dangerously co...
Documentation of an installation that looks at the cyclical nature of the nuclear energy debate in the UK. The exhibition consists of a nuclear showroom (B.A.N.G have set up shop on Shoreditch High Street in the City) through which visitors can enter a warehouse and visit the deserted nightwatchman's hut, before passing a container store and entering a security area. Through the end doors, barred from the outside by a mop, visitors can observe some form of nuclear storage facility accident, re...
One of the videos shown in the exhibition Goodbye, Vile Earth, The footage comes from the former Royal Aircraft Establishment archives at Farnborough Air Sciences Trust.
Interviews with five former employees of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, UK - a once top secret military establishment.The film is shown as part of an installation - 'Goodbye, Vile Earth!' that uses text and objects from the museum that the former RAE employees set up to preserve its history.22 mins
Hollington & Kyprianou's presentation at the RSA Nuclear forum. In partnership with RSA Arts & Ecology, The Arts Catalyst and SCAN present a forum exploring the impact of nuclear power in art and culture. Prominent artists, writers and experts discuss their work and engagement with the issues around nuclear energy, from Hiroshima through the 50s' white heat of technology and the Cold War nuclear tensions to present day energy debates. Speakers: James Acord, artist and 'nuclear sculptor' Keith ...
Footage from the Ryal Aircraft Establishment's work with early flight simulator systems shown as part of the exhibition Goodbye, Vile Earth!