PRESS RELEASE:
Bishops Move
28th May - 20th June 2004
Private View 28th May 7-9pm with performance by LisaLouise at 8.30pm
Monday 9am Manchester:
The crockery is boxed up and set to go, marked with several oversized luminous labels. A stuffed mongoose that’s seen a few moves in its time pops his flee-bitten head out of the bubble wrap. Twitching light momentarily illuminates the eye of a regal bird propped between a plinth and the cold wall of the van. These all-important documents of the absurd are stacked and ready for transport. Just before the door is slammed a pristine perspex box is carried out and the content, assorted forms of lint, is placed meticulously in corners of the vehicle. A man with a bulging pocket gets in the passenger seat and it’s time to hit the road; there is word that a pair of brightly dressed females will signal their arrival from a nearby hillside.
Friday 7pm Edinburgh
‘better across the board’ - the van pulls out of East Crosscauseway, and with its contents installed The Embassy opens. ‘Bishops Move’ is the first leg of an exchange show with Manchester- based The All Year Round Club and features work by eight artists:
Dave Alker
Mark Briggs
Kerry Harker
Karina Lax
LisaLouise
Paul Needham
Rob Wheeler
For the duration of the private view The Embassy also presents the touring Galerie dans ma Poche with its current show by Oliver East.
