Goldsmiths
CCA

A new commission by artist Adam Christensen, with a performance at the opening event on Saturday 27 April 6pm–9pm.

We are now screening Mike Kelley's film 'The Banana Man' (1989) as part of the parallel programme for How Chicago! the film will be running during exhibition hours until 5 May.

Kelley has often cited Imagist Jim Nutt as being an influence on his work, particularly his painting on Plexiglass. In his first complete video work, Kelley interprets a children’s TV character taken from Captain Kangaroo, basing his interpretations on others' descriptions, having never watched the show himself. His manic and melancholic character navigates slippery language and vivid tableaux to create an absurd physical comedy.

Now Open! Goldsmiths CCA presents the most significant UK exhibition in 40 years of work by the Chicago Imagists.

Artist Adam Christensen will create a new work shaped in response to the architecture of CCA's distinctive exhibition spaces. Combining performance and fabric pieces, his installation is rooted in a practice that stages a ‘blurring of reality and fiction through moments of extreme performativity’. Through intimate lyrical performances of songs, and spoken recitations of anecdotes, he transports audiences into a private world of heartbreak and loss, at once tragi-comic, moving and elevating.