Elizabeth Price will talk about her current Platform project in the context of other works which will be screened during the talk.
For the duration of this Site Platform project the Gallery will become the location for the gradual construction of a tableau: a detailed film-set intended to render the interior of a fictional institute of art. The set will include props to stand in for all the usual artefacts to be found in a gallery, including artworks, furniture and signage. However, whilst these props may constitute a convincing gallery scenario, it will not be an entirely realistic one. Rather the intention is to create a parallel, allegorical world.
This project is the first episode in a long-term work by Price, in which she proposes to ‘build’ a fictional institution of art room by room, to establish an entire institution, collection and building. Constructed in parts, the completed whole will be formulated in video. Viewers will be able to witness the first evidence of this unfolding process, via a projection installed in the adjacent gallery.
Elizabeth Price’s work incorporates diverse mediums and strategies, but a consistent characteristic is that work is produced incrementally by ongoing activities, often over many years. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include: ‘At the House of Mr X’ Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston Upon Thames; ‘A Public Lecture & Exhumation’, Studio Voltaire, London; ‘ The Affirmation, Chelsea Space, London; and White Room 1, White Columns, New York. Elizabeth Price studied at the Ruskin School of Art (1985-88), the Royal College of Art (1989-1991) and University of Leeds (1995-1998)