LET'S BE CIVIL

AN EXHIBITION PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN GANDT AND ANDOR

7 JULY - 31 JULY 2011

For their exhibition at ANDOR Gallery London the art collaborative GANDT have transformed the series of complex moral obligations associated with the gallery’s request by taking the hand(s) of ANDOR in a civil partnership. Throughout the opening evening guests of both GANDT and ANDOR have been invited to come and celebrate the partnership and offer a gift to the group taking inspiration from a standard John Lewis wedding gift list.

The greater moral and ethical relationships of the artist and the gallery as well as their expanded networks of peers and friends are being brought together in ANDOR’s gallery space through the creation of a quasi-domestic, quasi performative, semi-public/private amalgamation of kind, friendly and slightly obliged donations.

GANDT’s practice continually absorbs and entertains a wide range of different activities and artworks upon GANDT’s invitations to different people to participate in their projects. Consequently the position of the artist and of artistic production is constantly being mobilised and reinvented. Questioning the institutional structures and obligations inherent in artistic practices as well as the groups and organisations that play host to them.

LET’S BE CIVIL is the second exhibition to take place at ANDOR Gallery’s new space on Mare Street following Ross Jardine’s exhibition Heritage is a Bogus History. The Gallery is running monthly exhibitions with a growing number of artists from London and abroad.

As part of the exhibition LET’S BE CIVIL the following events are scheduled to take place in July:

Saturday 16th: GANDT DINNER

Wednesday 20th: Arabian Nights: Screening of Lawrence of Arabia on super8 + Middle Eastern food

Sunday 24th: Hi-Teen Carnival + BBQ: Music, MIXTAPE SWAPSHOP, Performances, Fortune Telling, Tom Hanks.

Sunday 31st: Brunch of Doom: An annulment brunch accompanied by readings of a gloomy propensity


THE GIFT LIST:

Television
Video / DVD player
Fan Heater
Telephone
Table lamp / floor lamp / ceiling light
Table cloth
Table
Clock
Wallpaper
Barometer
Pictures
Ornament
Luggage
Place mats
Candle sticks
Coal skuttle
Log box
Silk flower arrangement
Vase
Bowl
Photo frames
Chair
Sofa
Chest of drawers
Coffee table
Hi–fi unit
Cd rack
Rug
Skateboard
Display unit
Book case
Coat stand
Poof / footstall