CATHERINE YASS
HIGH WIRE
17 September - 26 October
The German Gymnasium,
Pancras Road, London NW1.
Ninety metres above the ground, a thin metal wire stretches between three tower blocks in North Glasgow's Red Road. A solitary figure steps off the edge of the building, moving slowly and gracefully, step by silent step, along the wire...
A multi-screen film and video installation HIGH WIRE continues Catherine Yass' interest in vertiginous spaces. Architecture, height and scale have been dominant formal themes in her previous work.
HIGH WIRE draws on Yass' filmed footage of acclaimed high wire walker Didier Pasquette, and is as much concerned with the isolated physical space inhabited by the walker – in a landscape dominated by the brutalism of the tower blocks – as with remarkable mental and physical transformation. The exhibition also includes a new series of Yass' lightboxes evolved from the project at Red Road.
For more information about the project see
www.high-wire.org.uk.
HIGH WIRE was Co-commissioned by Artangel and Glasgow international Festival of Contemporary Visual Art 2008 and produced by Artangel. It is supported by the National Lottery through the Scottish Arts Council, Glasgow international Festival Contemporary Visual Art 2008, Rèpublique Française/Institut Françias and The Henry Moore Foundation.
Open
Tuesday – Sunday 11:00 – 19:00
Closed Mondays
HIGH WIRE: Talks Programme
Talks begin promptly at 19:00.
All talks are free and take place at The German Gymnasium.
Booking essential, please email info@artangel.org.uk to reserve a place.
Wednesday 8 October
Clare Grafik
Clare Grafik is a curator at The Photographers' Gallery in London and Photo Editor for Contemporary magazine.
She recently published a book about the work of Keith Arnatt.
Wednesday 22 October
Steven Connor
Steven Connor is a writer, broadcaster and Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck College, London. He has published important studies on ventriloquism and the history of sound and is working on a new book concerning the politics of air.
How to get to the German Gymnasium:
Please note: entrance to the exhibition is at the back of the building.
King's Cross Underground
(Piccadilly, Victoria, Hammersmith & City, Northern, Metropolitan and Circle Lines).
Buses: 46 and 214 go to Pancras Road and buses to Kings Cross include 10, 30, 59, 73, 91, 205, 390 and 476.
Parking: NCP Car Parks are located at nearby Euston Station NW1 and Judd Street WC2.
Didier Pasquette