Courtesy Nicole Bloomer's Flickr photostream.Mutate Britain, a group exhibition of works by Paul Insect, The Krah, Remi Rough, Mode 2, Eeelus, Shepard Fairey, Insa and others, came to my attention today in a short BBC video, featuring the hilarious pole-dancing robots above.
The message that belied this collection, it seemed, was of a slightly sinister nature, inviting the viewer to consider the darker side of human nature and to question our rapidly accelerating reliance upon – and obsession with – technology. The mutation, it seemed, was not so much in the disjointed, hybrid sculptures of birds with human legs and caged monsters, but in the technological evolution we are experiencing in this century. On the upper floor, two feminine robots with CCTV cameras where their heads should be danced provocatively beside a masculine robot DJ. This performance, although unequivocally funny, seemed to encapsulate this sense of inexorable doom; of a humanity so advanced it is on the brink of absurdity.
Mutate Britain is the first exhibition/residency in a new series called "Behind the Shutters" (BTS) at Cordy House in London. The six-story warehouse space (with huge metal shutters) will, according to UK Street Art, "open the venue up four times a year for hand-picked groups to take over and turn it into art galleries, carnivals and whatever else they like." The current show was organized by the collective Mutoid Waste, said to be behind "legendary" squat and acid house parties in the 80s that included sculptures made mostly of vehicle parts and scrap metal.
BTS also includes a coffee shop and print gallery/workshop; ability to purchase any of the installations within the entire building; and, where possible, poster versions of works on view available for ten pounds, according to the website Beautiful Crime. Check out BTS's Flickr set and blog for more info.
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