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An Ordinall of Alchimy
Mark Dion, Robert Williams, and resident fellows at Mildred's Lane
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Listen to a 44 minute recording, or download the file
April 30-June 14, 2010
Slought Foundation
Reception on Wednesday, May 05, 2010
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Slought Foundation is pleased to present "An Ordinall of Alchimy," an exhibition featuring a collaborative work by Mark Dion, Robert Williams, and resident fellows at the Pennsylvania artist's colony Mildred's Lane. The exhibition will be on display at the Slought Foundation galleries from April 30 through June 14, 2010, with an opening reception on May 5th from 6:30-8:30pm. Please note that in conjunction with the exhibition opening, Slought Foundation will host a public presentation by Mark Dion (a recording of this event is available here), followed by conversation with Mildred's Lane fellows Matt Bettine, Joseph Cruz, Kathryn Cornelius, Gabriella D’Italia, Scott Jarrett, Aislinn Pentecost-Farren, John Wanzel, Laura E. Wertheim, and Bryan Wilson from 6:30-7:30pm.
This exhibition inaugurates Cabinet's "999" exhibition series, and originally presented at Cabinet in Brooklyn, NY from March 30-April 17th before traveling to the Slought Foundation. The "999" exhibition series invites artists to assemble work under a single constraint: everything installed in the gallery must have been acquired on Ebay for a total of less than $999. When the exhibition comes down at Slought Foundation, its contents will be offered for sale as a single item, once again on Ebay (view action).
In 2009, Mark Dion, Robert Williams, and the fellows at Mildred's Lane were invited by Cabinet to participate in the series, and used this constraint to explore the theme of alchemical transformation. They assembled a collection of objects based on the seven basic processes of practical alchemy: Calcination, Fixation, Solution, Distillation, Sublimation, Separation, and Projection. The resulting exhibition, unique in its collaborative model, consists of the sculpture formed by this process of collection. The exhibition also includes a projection displaying the items on sale once again at Ebay, in order to emphasize the constraint of the project as well as the origins of these objects subjected to "alchemical" transformation by the artists.
For more information, download the exhibition handout (PDF; 572kb).
This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of the Society of Friends of the Slought Foundation, and Paul Singh, who
donated $999 towards the production budget for the project.
Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
MLA Style:
Mark Dion, et al. "An Ordinall of Alchimy." Slought Foundation Online Content. [05 May 2010;
Accessed 2 September 2010]. <http://slought.org/content/11454/>.
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