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TUESDAY
JUNE 10th
APT Gallery on Creekside
Doors open 6:30pm, Films 7:00-10:00pm
Full programme details to follow
Tickets
are limited so
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'... the value of nothing'.
A series of events hosted by DnA as part of Deptford X 08
The first of a series of events hosted by DnA in the run up to Deptford X 08 will be a short film fest at the APT gallery with the title Films About Nothing.
The programme includes AwayDay by Simon Blake, which won both Best Short Film and Best Screenplay at the Valencia Film Festival, and the wonderful Trouble and Spite by Lou Birk shown at the last London Disability Arts Festival.
The title for the series is taken from Oscar Wilde's definition of the cynic as one who 'knows the price of everything and the value of nothing' -
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Everything has a price, all our objects, words, lifestyles and ideas come tagged and bagged and ready for sale in this most materialist of societies. To be is to shop and you can be anything you want provided it's on the rail… In
this moral landscape it is hardly surprising perhaps to find God
emblazoned on a car bumper and hiding behind an AK47. To every action
there is an equal and opposite reaction so, as capitalist materialism
goes global, inevitably there will be an anti-materialist reaction
seeking… something intangible. And perhaps this paradox is there
in Wilde's definition of the cynic - that by giving everything a
price we not only devalue everything but we revalue the concept
of No Thing. |
The
series of events wil continue with a further film night in August, each
being accompanied by a show of mixed media work by DnA artists at the
APT Gallery.
We are currently seeking an appropriate venue in which to stage the
final event in the series, a selected open exhibition under the same title
during Deptford X 08 (26th September - 19th October).
The scale and scope of this show will depend largely on the venue, so
please let us know if you come up with the goods.
The
Value of Nothing series is sponsored by:
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Films
About Nothing
is being organised by:
Anneke Bosma
Hannah Chamberlain
Paul Coombs
Enver Gursev
Christpher Reinhardt
Marcus
Relton