- Venue
- Nettie Horn Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, March 21, 2008
- Ends
- Monday, April 21, 2008
- Address
- 25b Vyner Street, London, E2 9DG, UK
- Location
- London
IAN BREAKWELL | LEIGH CLARKE | LUCY HARRISON | DICK JEWELL | CONOR KELLY | BOB & ROBERTA SMITH | PETER SUCHIN (with Mik Godley!) No Letters investigates the dissemination of public information through various forms of reportage, carried out on both a local and a global level. Each contributing artist has made work that seeks to debunk the way we receive news of current affairs, gossip, advertisements and everyday instructions, revealing the truths obscured beneath the familiar yet effective tactics of distraction and deception employed by the media today. No Letters is the third in a series of interlocking projects organised by the artist Leigh Clarke. The book and exhibition borrows its title, as does that of the related from the first headline spoken by the spoof newsreader in Ian Breakwell's 1980 film, The News. Breakwell’s presenter, broadcasting from a local TV station, delivers a series of mundane news items, including stories about old people leaving an auditorium and reports about the sudden appearance of holes in the road. As well as implicitly calling up the issue of the relationship between visual and textual images, the term “No Letters” punningly alludes to the fact that the first draft of the book’s running text went astray in the 2007 postal strike; fortunately its author had retained a copy of his work.
