"The Origin of Painting" by Disinformation - luminous graffiti, live electromagnetic sound and shadow photography, autodestructive portraiture and experimental painting installation, live at Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK, Nov 2001.
A huge new version of "The Origin of Painting" features in "The Party Project" fiesta (organised by JB, Diageo and Advanced Music / Sonar Festival) - a major exhibition of urban street art and graffiti culture that tours Seville, Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, La Coruña, Malaga in July and August 2008.
"The Origin of Painting" has also been exhibited at NIMK / Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst / Montevideo (Amsterdam), the Sonar festival at CCCB (Barcelona), The Hayward Gallery (London), The Huddersfield Art Gallery, Wrexham Arts Centre, The Mac (Birmingham), South Hill Park (Bracknell), Q Gallery (Derby), Saltburn Artists Projects (Teeside), Quay Arts (Isle of Wight), Fabrica (Brighton), The Ashcroft Arts Centre (Fareham), in a Festival of Light organised by Home Live Arts and Moti Roti (London), on The Brunswick Centre housing estate in Kings Cross (London), for The Wembley Public Art Programme (London), for "The Art of Permanence and Change" (in a disused railway tunnel under Sydenham Hill Woods, London), at Study Gallery of Modern Art (Poole), and in a "Major" Music TV Awards event at Palau Sant Jordi - the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona.
For the Brighton exhibition, Fabrica also commissioned the Disinformation "Spellbound" DVD and a "National Grid" video installation by Barry Hale. Artist group Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt) were (non-contributing) artists in residence during this exhibition, and went on to produce a whole raft of exhibits that closely resemble Disinformation's (much earlier) work with eg - amplified electromagnetic fields, natural VLF radio AND solar astronomy etc. 9,300 people came to see the Fabrica show. Special thanks to Matthew Miller, Jonathan Swain, Liz Whitehead and Danny Wilson.
This Disinformation installation was first exhibited under the title "Artificial Lightning" at The Hayward Gallery in London in April 2000. The installation takes its current name from the painting "The Maid of Corinth, or The Origin of Painting" depicted by Joseph "Wright of Derby" in 1782 (and Disinformation's tribute was exhibited at Q Arts, 35 Queen Street, Derby in June 2004, just a few doors from Wright's former home at 26 Queen Street, Derby). This exhibit also inspired the production "Luminous" by experimental choreographer Saburo Teshigawara, on which Disinformation worked with the Japanese dance company Karas. "The Origin of Painting" also inspired a project called "Anti Matter" (exhibited at Huddersfield, Wrexham etc) - a Disinformation video which explores themes suggested by ideas of the physicist Paul Dirac.
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SO FUNNY !!!
wow, very nice:D
do you guys know what tools did they use for this installation?
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SO FUNNY !!! 
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