TRASH
Bad Art Presents Trash - a group exhibition of contemporary artists who have created work for the purpose of its own destruction. Trash seeks to protest art as an imperishable, precious institution, focusing more on the transient and experiential. The audience will destroy the artwork over the course of the workshop, taking control of the final outcome away from the artist. When is the show complete? Is it before, during or after the destruction?
With Trash, we are questioning and transforming the fundamental condition of how modern art functions – namely, the radical separation of artists and their publics.
We would like to invite artists to join the event, either as a destructor or creator. If you would like to propose a piece for the workshop please email anna@badartpresents.com or fill out the form below before, otherwise anyone is free to attend and take part. We encourage to get creative when thinking of all the different ways a work can be taken apart in order to become something greater.
21st of February, 1pm-330pm, Woburn Project Area
Please note the workshop will be filmed
Participating artists from the collective
Anna Choutova is a visual artist and curator working and studying in London. Anna is the founder and director of Bad Art Presents and is the Associate Research Fellows at Slade School of Art. She paints cigarettes, exhibits fake food and is allergic to shellfish. @annachoutova1
Harriet Richardson is a digital performance artist, designer, print maker, and arch nemesis of Mark Zuckerberg. Her work is known for its bold versatility, and conceptual underpinnings. She explores themes of identity, sexuality, and social issues in her work. Having worked at design behemoth Pentagram for 5 years, Harriet utilises her image manipulation skills in her performative and graphic pieces. @hatsrichardson
Oscar Farmer is a London based painter, he graduated from Brighton University in 2015 before joining the Royal Drawing School in 2017. Oscar has always utilised humour in his work, which explores themes of the human condition. His art tries to remind us of the normality of anxiety and presence of melancholy in this world, whilst at the same time creating a source of visual entertainment. @oscarfarmerart
Flora Bradwell is a London based artist and curator whose generously grotesque practice encompasses painting, sculpture, performance and installation. Flora exhibits internationally, wins prizes and befriends vagina dentata hybrid characters. @florabradwellart
Andrea Gomis is a Catalan American artist based in London and currently studying for her MFA at City and Guilds. Working mainly in ceramics, her sculptures harken back to traditions of the erotic and grotesque while exploring human anatomy and sexuality. Growing up between Catalunya and Colorado, her work incorporates the aggressive subtexts of American life and the surrealist nature of Catalan culture. She has worked extensively in SFX studios in the UK and Los Angeles. @deadratlove69
J Rounce is a mixed media visual artist based in London and the latest addition to the Bad Art collective. J’s practice and medium of choice is often dictated by hyperfocused obsessions, while navigating themes of identity, community, and nature. @jrounce.art
Installation by Oscar Farmer