Exhibition26.05.201011.07.2010
PAST EXHIBITION

Oliver Beer

Training

Exhibition26.05.201011.07.2010
PAST EXHIBITION

Oliver Beer

Training

Ikon shows Training (2008), a video projection by emerging British artist Oliver Beer. This is his first presentation in a public gallery.

Housed in Ikon’s Tower Room, Beer’s work depicts a role-play scenario where a group of young adults are learning to be volunteers for a telephone counselling service.

The group listens to a woman’s voice as she explains that she was abused as a child. She is reading from a script written by Beer, but the trainees are unaware of this, and as she speaks the camera captures their emotional reactions. The discomforting intimacy of the cinematography makes us voyeurs, as we cannot stop looking and listening.

 

 

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This project marks Oliver Beer’s return to Ikon, following our 2011 presentation of his remarkable video installation Pay and Display, produced in collaboration with Ex Cathedra. Outside-In, a permanent piece installed in a window of Ikon’s reception space looking out onto Oozells Square, is the outcome of the artist’s recent collaboration with Hermès, giving him access to their crystal-works, with highly skilled artisans and specialist equipment. It is essentially a simple transparent form in crystal, fitted into a window pane like an ear trumpet, so that the echoes of the world outside are filtered and directed to a tiny point where visitors can lend their ears.
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