Following the success of their recent show at PickMeUp (Somerset House) illustration agency Handsome Frank decided to bring back the Handsome Frank Emporium for a three week stint at The Frontroom. They’ll be hosting a pop-up shop, joining the discussion on illustration vs. art, holding portfolio review sessions and of course playing lots of dodgy records.

 
For the Private View our favorite special guests Steak & Honour are back, providing the finest burgers in town! Come and join us.

http://www.handsomefrank.com/

PRIVATE VIEW

possible area – ‘sole possession’

Friday 31 May, 2013

6 – 8pm

The Frontroom would like to invite you for a last viewing of this ever-accumulating installation representing the results of six weeks of an individual’s attempt to take control of a space for daily activities, plans, obsessions, decisions and indecision. A solitary and immersive visual and sonic installation, a ‘spare’ room where creative projects compete with storage, clutter, collections and chores.

This is the first exhibition after our programme launch in April and has been an interesting and challenging journey for the frontroom.
We would love to trade a drink in return for your thoughts on the installation.

http://possible-area.org/

See you on Friday!

Saturday 18 May, 2013

Workshop – 2-5pm
Drawing on the Wallpaper — sonic live drawing session at The Frontroom
with J. K. Brook, artist behind the project possible area who is currently installing the work ‘sole possession’
drop-in for approximately 5 people at a time, suitable for ages 10+, free

The session begins with a short 10-minute performance of ‘Only Works on Paper’ by possible area showing how the process of drawing with pens, pencils and charcoal can be used to make live sounds, rhythms and music just from the act of drawing and writing.  For the rest of the afternoon, participants will be able to experiment on longer rolls of paper with different textures and discover what sounds their drawing and writing can make, individually or together.  There will be the option to record these.

Drop-in for as long as you like, play/draw with others or experiment with different sounds.
Absolutely no drawing ability needed — scribbling makes some of the best rhythms. You are welcome to bring your own (dry) drawing and writing materials, pens, pencils, crayons, paintbrushes etc.

Dialogue Session – 5.30-6.30pm
The Frontroom in conversation with possible area about the installation ‘sole possession’.
Join us for this unique opportunity to talk about the project with J. K. Brook enquiring about the interest in amateur obsessives and daily activities of collecting, planning, performing and re-organising. With a multifaceted practice encompassing sound, installation, performance and drawing Brook is avoiding conventional categorization and is promoting transient impressions.

http://possible-area.org/

Currently on at The Frontroom:

20 April – 31 May 2013

Workshop and Dialogue session, Saturday, 18 May

Private View, 31 May

possible area takes control of the Frontroom as a personal and creative space,

exposing the accumulating results of an individual’s daily activities of collecting, planning, performing and re-organising (and attempting to combine these).

Over a number of weeks the project will explore the conflicts between different kinds of attempts — creative and neurotic — to control a space, reflecting the cumulative decisions and indecisions involved.  Inspired by individuals and amateur obsessives who are driven to present whatever space is available to them as workshops, museums or public venues, the increasingly undomesticated space will host sound works, live performances and other events.

possible area is interested in creating immersive environments, exploring the creation of spaces within spaces, with a particular interest in scale and place.  Recent installation-based projects have also developed a cumulative way of working, exploring and exposing DIY processes across installation, sound, moving image and visual works.

possible area is an ongoing project of visual work by J. K. Brook across graphics, moving image, installation and intervention. This work primarily is often closely related to live music and sound event production, as part of bad timing and other projects. Recurring themes are place, obsolete technology, breaching the boundaries of enclosed and public space and the mapping of spaces onto each other (and back onto themselves).

Recent activities include installation and cross-arts event production works at Aid & Abet and a DIY arts-centre venue installed within the front room of a small Cambridge terraced house.

http://www.possible-area.org/   (will be updated including a project blog)

twitter @possiblearea