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MARK AERIAL WALLER
Saturday 16 January - Sunday 28 February
THE CASSIOPEIA PLAN

Mark Aerial Waller’s idiosyncratic film making draws on an extensive knowledge of cinema, ranging from sci-fi, early surrealism and greek tragedy. The Cassiopeia Plan will feature 3 video installation works, forming a loose trilogy, beginning with two artists faltering on the brink of a journey towards an idyll. The final work, which was filmed at Wysing following a public call for aprticpation, examines the relationship between the individual artist and the artist collective – a relationship Waller relates to the absurd and satirical paradox created by GK Chesterton in The Man who was Thursday. In the 1908 novel, a poet is forced into a conflict between the forces of structure and anarchy, unaware of how intertwined the competing forces are.

As part of Wysing' Year of the Improbable, Waller is curating a number a series of events: on 21 Jan, Waller will host a screening of the early French film serial Judex; Thurs, 4 Feb there will be a reading with writer Tom McCarthy; 18 Feb, Mike Sperlinger, director of Lux will introduce a screening of Invasion. Further events during March will include France Fiction, and Brown Mountain College.

Mark Aerial Waller lives and works in London. He is also the founder of The Wayward Cannon, a platform for event-based interventions in cinematic practices. Recent exhibitions include Resistence Domination Secret, 0-60 ICA 2008; Children of the Revolution, Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul; The Flipside of Darkness, South London Gallery 2008; You Have Not Been Honest, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina in Naples 2007; La Societe des Amis de Judex, Tate Modern 2007; Videozone 3, Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv 2006; Go Between, Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Austria 2005.

Exhibition Launch: Saturday 16 January, 4-6pm. Open daily, 12-5pm until 28 February.

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