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Open: Wednesday 6th May - Saturday 9th May, 12noon-6pm
Preview: Wednesday 6th May 6-8pm
Hall & Sweeney present a body of work that looks at the effortless
ways in which technology has allowed people to class themselves as
‘a creative’. Constantly we have access, via the Internet,
to art and media that purports itself to be of value. The content on
offer to us is mostly, nothing more than self-indulgence.
Never before have such powerful tools been available to the mass of
society to realise ideas. But with these tools, the individuals
creative output is becoming a pre-determined homogeny of instantly
gratifying results leaving the ‘creative type’ marveling in
their own glory, whilst the viewer left with feelings of
déjà vu.
IDLE humorously reacts to this form of lazy creativity and questions
the quality, originality and ownership of output from these
‘art-at-a-click-of-a-mouse’ packages and devices. Idle
pushes the viewer to be fully complicit as spectator, subject and
performer.
Parts of the exhibition contain explicit references that are not
suitable for those under the age of 18 or for those who are easily
offended.
Thomas Hall & Thomas Sweeney are both artists who use technology as
tools for creating art works. Both Hall and Sweeney are East Midlands
based. This is the first time they have artistically collaborated
together.