Death is Their Destiny

Friday 6 th November 2009

7.00 pm til12 midnight

Death Is Their Destiny : Film screening
Kings Road Punk Portraits 1978/81 from the Captain Zip Archive
 
Death Is Their Destiny
"I spent almost every Saturday between 1978 and 1981 filming on the King's Road, "punk is dead” says graffiti outside Seditionaries, but it lives on in every frame of this turbulent time capsule." Captain Zip. March 1978. Standard 8mm. Sound (added 1991). 18fps. 11 mins.
 
The Last Resort
"Rat becomes a shop window dummy. A visit to PX in Covent Garden and milk bottle smashing with Michelle, Nita and Louise." Captain Zip. 1978. Standard 8mm. Silent. 18fps. 14 mins.
 
In The Gutter
"Punks from Warrington, France, Ireland and Oxford. A Tiswas-style impression of a dying fly and Louise's tattoos." Captain Zip. 1978. Standard 8mm. Silent. 18fps. 12 mins.
 
Don't Dream It - See It
"Jordan working as a shop assistant at Seditionaries, Rat jumping into a shop window to pose in new clothes and punk band The Dispozest going straight to number ten (Downing Street) in the days before Mrs Thatcher sealed it off." Captain Zip. 1978. Standard 8mm. Silent. 18fps. 14 mins. Music: CD Sunday Times Anarchy in the UK volume 1.
 
We're No Angels
"The new craze for covering your face with toothpaste begins. A visit to Alaska Studios to see The Dispozest rehearse, a punk squat at Portobello Road, and punk shop Smutz in Beaufort Market." Captain Zip. 1979. Std 8mm. Silent. 18fps. 15 mins.
 
The Battle of Beaufort Market
"Jane Ashtray poses at Colourspace. Julie and Sally show off until the Special Patrol Group arrive. Plus a demo against the closure of Beaufort Market." Captain Zip. 1979. Std 8mm. Sound. 18fps. 15 mins.
 
Brains in Frames
"A foodless punk picnic on Hampstead Heath. Punk shop Smutz. Glue sniffing and a new fashion from Degvilles." Captain Zip. 1980. Std 8mm. Silent. 18fps. 15m.
 
Citizens Banned
"The decline of punk. Katie Thunder poses with a vicar. Wobble gets legless and glue sniffing occurs openly at a graveyard." Captain Zip. 1981. Std 8mm. Silent. 18fps. 12 mins.

Crystalline Days

Studies for Crystalline Days : untitled I 2 3

 Due to public demand Crystalline Days has been extended til NOVEMBER Ist

• Preview :    September 11th 2009 6 - 9 pm
• Dates:       September 12th 2009 – November 1st 2009
• Times:       Fri – Sun 12pm – 6 pm & by appointment

Painter Jack Duplock is the sixth artist selected for Coleman Project Space’s annual residency. The London-based artist will spend 5 weeks in the gallery developing the variant strands of his drawing practice in a single site-specific installation.

Duplock’s savvy reassembly of pop cultural simulacra and art historical concerns extends from the American West Coast school of figuration, a fusion of low-fi countercultural and high-art painterly sensibilities that emerged during the early 1990s. Modes and moods of the movement pervade – surreal anti-narratives, ’zine-style collage, themes of alienation, dislocation – but Duplock’s intuitive amalgamation of timeless-bucolic and trend-driven urban contexts, is very much of this moment.

“Psychedelic Romanticism” is Duplock’s apt umbrella term for what he does: on walls, canvases and paper. Familiar painting constructs and motifs feature – the portrait, landscape, recycled punk and B-movie constellations - cut from source and rejoined as if outlandish designs for an Airfix kit configuration of a mental map. Duplock’s unpredictable yet rather obsessive handling of both everyday and less commonplace ephemera pulls the viewer, time and again, between received knowledge and personal experience of an image-heavy, technologically sophisticated culture.

Jack Duplock graduated from the RA in 2000 and has since shown internationally, a/o at Cynthia Broan and Cohan and Leslie Galleries, New York, Bloomberg Space, London and Arcuate Arte Contemporaneo, Monterey. Most recently he was included in Soul Stripper at Projet Midi Brussels, with a/o Bas de Wit, Andrew Mania and Thomas Raats. He has previously been selected both for the John Moores Painting Prize as well as the New Contemporaries.He is currently represented by the Agency.

Coleman Project Space is supported by Southwark Council