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Jeffrey Shaw — Eventstructure Research Group

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The exhibition “Sky & Game: Eventstructure Research Group 1967-1982” is the first retrospective of the artist collective Eventstructure Research Group (ERG), providing an extensive overview of their works. The group was founded in 1967 by Dutchman Theo Botschuijver, American Sean Wellesley-Miller, and Australian-born Jeffrey Shaw, and was active in the 60s, 70s, and 80s of the last century. It focused on creating temporary art in public spaces centered on play and interaction through installations using air and technology. The group constantly challenged boundaries through large-scale inflatable installations, often adding audiovisual elements that elicited immediate physical responses from audiences. Visitors were always participants, and thus authors created through the work; the work was a structure that you could take in, change, and adapt as you wished, a work as an experience, as an event. The main ideas behind the interventions were to interrupt everyday routines, step off habitual paths, encourage citizens' participation and interaction, and especially to (re)introduce play into society. ‍ The name Eventstructure Research Group (ERG) derives from the concept of “event structure” coined by British conceptual artist John Latham, and was used to describe the relationship between structure (spatial and static) and events (dynamic and temporary). Although its name sounds somewhat formal and academic, ERG was nothing of the sort. The group's ideas appeared in the theoretical essay “Concepts for an Operation Art,” published in the journal Art and Artists in 1969. ERG opposed the dominant methods of the art world at the time, and was overly attached to fixed objects that could have only decorative functions. According to ERG, art's essential functions (revolution, self-action, and calls for social change) had disappeared. ERG's works were therefore deliberately temporary and always situated outside museum walls so that the traditional art world could not control them. Moreover, the authorship of each group work was intentional and entirely collective only in the broadest sense. Not only everyone in and around the group but also users authored the work. The exhibition “Sky & Play: Eventstructure Research Group 1967-1982” displays original archival materials (drawings, sketches, material studies, aerial art, video materials, and photographs). ‍ Curators: Rosa van Rumpt and Jorn Konijn Curatorial researcher: Alan Smart Spatial and graphic design: ST—DUO.

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