JIMMY CAUTY - THE AFTERMATH RELOCATION PRINCIPLE - LONDON

JIMMY CAUTY's

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MODEL VILLAGE: THE AFTERMATH DISLOCATION PRINCIPLE

Comes to LONDON:

19 Nov 2015 - 28 Jan 2016 (Private View: Thursday 19th November 6.30 - 9.00 pm) 
 
as the

8th Wonder of the Miniature World

(in a disused railway arch) America Street, SE1 0NJ



  
Following the media scrum and high density crowds of Dismaland,
for those unable to attend and for those who were rushed through, L-13 LIW and Illuminate Productions are pleased to present Jimmy Cauty's Aftermath Dislocation Principle (The ADP) for public exhibition in London. 

Crashing together the boundaries of high art and mass culture, The ADP is a monumental post-riot landscape in miniature; a dystopian model village where only the police and media teams remain in an otherwise deserted, wrecked and dislocated land.

It seems that in this 'post-event' world the police have nothing left to do and some, becoming aware of their predicament, peer nervously over the edge into the chasm.

Jimmy Cauty and his small team of helpers painstakingly created this vast and intricate scene over a period of 9 months using traditional model making materials and techniques. Entering into the world of hobbyist model-makers and turning it on its head, The ADP presents a flipside narrative packed with exquisite detail and apocalyptic humour, making for an intensely engaging experience. 

 
NEW BEDFORD UNDER CONSTRUCTION

A POST DISLOCATION PARADISE IN PROGRESS

During the exhibition visitors can also witness the construction of a new section of the model being made onsite in a makeshift ADP Workshop.

NEW BEDFORD RISING
Connected to the main section, via a suspension bridge, will be a massive construction site in the shape of the Tower of Babel. A spiral city where an immense (1/87 scale) 323 metre Solid Gold Pyramid is being built to usher in a New Edenic Era that the constabulary believe is imminent. New Bedford is rising from the wreckage; a paradise where policemen can roam free, living idyllic lives and
raising their young in a crime free epoch of law and order, peace, and eternal bliss.


Sponsored by Greggs and the Panacea Society. 

Opening Times: 

12 noon - 7 pm Wed - Friday

12 noon - 6 pm Sat & Sun 

Entry Fee: £4.00. Guaranteed viewing period: 30 minutes. Tickets available at the gate.

About the Artist 

 Over the past 30 years James Cauty has distinguished himself as a musician, artist and cultural provocateur through fusions of high art and popularist mediums - often to spectacular or controversial effect. From a string of number one hits as founder and member of The KLF, to implementation of the The K-Foundation and the seminal action, Watch the K-Foundation Burn a Million Quid (1994), to later artistic experiments with sonic weapons, stamp collecting and model making, cultural subversion and a gleeful level of high humour are elemental to all the work whilst never failing engage its audience in critical pleasure.