Exhibitions: The New New Black Mountain

An exhibition of new works by:

Colin Clark
Luke Drozd
Michael Lawton

at The Flea-Pit, Columbia Road, London, E2 7RG

Opening event on Thursday 4th Feb, 6-9pm
Exhibition continues Feb 5th-28th

Sunday 10am-2pm
Tuesday – Saturday 6pm-10pm (dependent on events – see website for details: www.thefleapit.com)
 
About The New New Black Mountain.

Sunday. I spent this morning reading Saturday’s Guardian. Starting at the back, I tried yesterday’s Sudoku puzzle. Working forward (through the past), I looked at yesterday’s obituaries. Mathematics and narrative. There’s logic in reading about the recently deceased in old newspapers.

Regardless of how newly out-dated the events, new new-ness, and black mountain-ness, should’ve been filling my thoughts. Serendipitously, a ghostly aide memoir appeared.

Yesterday’s celebrated life was Kenneth Nolan, a spectral alumnus of The Black Mountain College, a recipient of it’s social and liberal arts education. A pupil of Josef and Annie Albers and Buckminster Fuller, a peer of Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage and Merce Cunningham.

This plot is not mathematically factual, but makes for a good story.

There is no college on the New New Black Mountain, I checked on Google Earth, even at a ratio 1:1, a useless tracing shows no sign of anything educational. Can a mountain peak be new? And is ‘New New’ a joke on art school jokes? (Do two news make an old?)

Perhaps this exhibition constitutes a mapping of this doubly new and dark territory, or a potential mapping of a de-territorialisation.

From the pen of the Secretary of the New New Black Mountaineering Club
For further info email: lukedrozd@hotmail.com