Enter The Grid / Studio-LAB
Larry Achiampong and David Blandy will be showcasing “A Terrible Fiction”, (2019) & “Finding Fanon Part Two”, (2015) within a virtual exhibition.
Instructions:
The spaces created can be experienced on all types of devices via any browser on desktop/mobile or tablet. Navigating within the space is via the WASD keys on keyboards or by zooming-in on smart phones/tablets. For a fully immersive 3d VR experience use any VR headset [oculus quest/rift/htc vive/valve index] in your Headsets Browser of choice.
‘Finding Fanon 2’ forms part of ‘Finding Fanon Trilogy’, a series of three films by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy; inspired by the lost plays of Frantz Fanon, (1925-1961) a politically radical humanist whose practice dealt with the psychopathology of colonisation and the social and cultural consequences of decolonisation.
In the films, the two artists negotiate Fanon’s ideas, examining the politics of race, racism and the post-colonial, and how these societal issues affect their relationship.
‘A Terrible Fiction’ was a film commissioned by Arts Catalyst and was shown in their solo exhibition Genetic Automata. It forms the first part of an ambitious new body of works by the artists, exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, video games, and DNA Ancestry testing. In the film the artists attempt to address this complex history of classification and segregation.
Studio-LAB is a project funded by the University of Brighton’s Research & Enterprise and Creative Futures funds, awarded by the School of Art and the School of Media.
Louise Colbourne initiated the project with an objective to create an accessible ‘maker space’ within Virtual Reality environments. This VR facility is run via a web-XR based platform, hosted on the studio-LAB website.
The project was developed by Louise Colbourne and amoeba
The website was developed with service of existence; and Our Machines, Judith Rickets and Elfyn Round also helped by testing the possibilities within their developmental projects.