- Venue
- KARST
- Starts
- Thursday, March 13, 2014
- Ends
- Sunday, March 23, 2014
- Address
- 22 George Place Stonehouse Plymouth PL1 3NY
- Location
- South West England
Live Event: Thursday 13th March 7pm | | | | | In a sculptural, custom-built arena within the gallery, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters will take position as the dynamic core of the exhibition. The live happenings are set to generate highly charged scenarios framed within artist duo ATOI’s sculptural practice. In previous live works MMA fights were staged to deliberately impact on the constructed environments. The destructive and unpredictable force of combat gradually erodes and wrecks the sculptural structures from within. ATOI relinquish a level of control and authorship over the works. They evaluate the violent events in terms of the energy, tension, force and psychological dynamics generated, traces of which can be measured in the aftermaths of the fights. Within the gallery, distinct from the main enclosure, are sculptures constructed from the residual material from previous cage fights at prior locations. The artists describe these outcomes as having a ‘radically unrefined’ aesthetic.
