Following the ADP’s critically-acclaimed appearance at Banksy’s Dismaland last summer, the installation has taken to the road, re-housed in a specially converted shipping container, which will open its doors to visitors across the UK, at the sites of historic riots.
Housed in a 40 ft shipping container, ADP is a monumental post-riot landscape in miniature. This dystopian model village is set somewhere in Bedfordshire, where only the police and media teams remain in an otherwise deserted, wrecked and dislocated land – all in 1:87 scale and viewed through peepholes in the side of the container.
ARTIST TALK
We are delighted to welcome artist Jimmy Cauty and Steve Lowe (L-13) who will be here in person to talk about ADP Riot Tour 2016.
Talk is free but ticketed - please book ticket here on this page or contact Platform box office on 0141 276 9696
JIMMY CAUTY
Through a string of number one hits as co-founder and member of The KLF, to the implementation of the The K-Foundation and the seminal action The 1994 K-Foundation Award, to later artistic experiments with sonic weapons, stamp collecting and model making, Jimmy Cauty has distinguished himself as a musician, artist and cultural provocateur through fusions of high art and popular mediums; often to spectacular or controversial effect.
STEVE LOWE
The L-13 Light Industrial Workshop*, was founded by Steve Lowe in 2009, is a studio/publisher/gallery that provides a vehicle/platform for a small group of artists to support their individual and group practices through exhibitions, publishing and other creative projects.
L-13 has been described as ”... a co-operative severance from the art world values of success, failure and authorial identity, achieved through a vast imaginative enterprise and resulting in a potent intensity of meanings” **.
Lowe ceased to present onsite exhibitions in 2013, and whilst he continues to support the endeavours of other artists (particularly with Billy Childish and Jimmy Cauty), the space at L-13 is now predominantly the Harry Adams studio where he makes paintings with his long time collaborator in art and music, Adam Wood.
*formally known as the aquarium and THE AQUARIUM L-13, founded 2003 / 2006 and The L-13 Light Industrial Worksop opened in 2009.
** Neal Brown - Harry Adams: The Lay of the Land, Art&Space 2013
