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The Furnace
   

Goshka Macuga
Sleep of Ulro

15 September - 26 November 2006

For the Furnace commission, Greenland Street invited Goshka Macuga to realise her most ambitious installation to date. Macuga's practice explores the boundaries that define exhibition structures and seeks to put the categories of curator and gallery into a new relationship with each other by hosting the work of other artists within her own immersive environments. Her installations and displays question authorship and hierarchies of value inherent within 'High Art'. Artworks are often displayed alongside artefacts, souvenirs, mementos and scrap that she collects, finds, borrows and purchases.

For Greenland Street, Macuga worked in collaboration with if [untitled] Architects to create an all encompassing environment based on set designs from the film The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. Directed in 1919 by Robert Wiene, the film is well know for the brilliance of its set design by Hermann Warm who enlisted Walter Reimann and Walter Roehrig, fellow members of Berlin's Der Sturm group, to act as art directors. They created the unprecedented look of the sets, costumes and makeup to reflect the mind of a madman and succeeded in embodying the aesthetic of the Expressionist movement.

Taking inspiration from the film's set, Macuga's installation utilised the dynamic architecture of the Furnace in order to create elevated walkways, a complex of corridors filled with display cabinets, rotating platforms, hidden rooms and anti-chambers, all of which combined to create an abstracted and distorted landscape.Within this complex and intriging structure, she curated a series of theatrical tableaux, performances and exhibitions of artworks, objects and curiosities, many of which were borrowed from local, regional and national museums. Audiences were invited to navigate on, in and around the installation. 

Event
23 November 2006, 6.30pm
Goshka Macuga in discussion with Chris Bernard, Sally O'Reilly and Leander Wolstenholme.
Admission Free

Publication - Now Available
This unique artists’ book explores the highly acclaimed 2006 exhibition at Greenland Street, it includes newly commissioned texts and images of the completed installation, alongside research images, found poetry and texts that inspired the installation. Sleep of Ulro will be available from 29 November 2007.

Please click here to download the press release with further information.

£35 (plus £8.50 for postage and packaging within the UK)

If you would like to pay by cash or cheque email info@afoundation.org.uk to order a copy of Sleep of Ulro by Goshka Macuga.




Commission supported by:
Arts Council North West, Arts Council London and The Henry Moore Foundation.

Goshka Macuga

The artists' book Sleep of Ulro by Goshka Macuga is now available to order. See below for details.

Goshka Macuga

Goshka Macuga

Element 7 & 8 , 2006
Photograph by Andy Stagg

Goshka Macuga

Goshka Macuga
Sleep of Ulro , 2006
Courtesy Rob Meighen / the artist
© A Foundation

Goshka Macuga

William Hunt
Call John the Boatman, performance 8 minutes , 2006
Performed as part of Goshka Macuga, Sleep of Ulro, Courtesy Rob Meighen / the artists
© A Foundation