Bob and Roberta Smith – Will be here!
Art U Need. My Part in the Public Art Revolution (2007)
The Really Super Market (2007)
A one day art fair/market made up of different stalls, which were available for artists, galleries, makers, arts organisations and anyone interested in the arts.
The beautiful poetry of Bob and Roberta Smith (Detail) 2006
Hales Gallery, London, England
The beautiful poetry of Bob and Roberta Smith (Detail) 2006
Hales Gallery, London, England
From instalaltion in the group show ‘Bag Lady’, 2003 at Cell Project Space.
Bob and Roberta Smith (UK)
There is a mix of nostalgia and the impossible in Bob & Roberta Smith’s work made especially for this year’s Tempo catalogue. By making use of our ability to imagine, this work presents three concerts with world-renowned artists in the Bryggeparken, set in the Seventies. But there is an element of the real in this project too, because the concerts are presented by Klubb 44, a club organizer who operated in Skien at the time. The tickets as paper objects are something we are not used to anymore; they have been transformed from decorative and contextualizing elements in our relation to music to become pure function. Now they are papers of confirmation, streamline-delivered through machines from ticket sales and distribution companies. The result is that we get identical looking-tickets to different concerts. The project proposes a discussion on how access is granted or denied, and to what extent there is openness to non-identical access cards.
About Bob and Roberta Smith
Bob and Roberta Smith comments on politics as well as popular culture through statements, sculptures, installations and signs. They have previously published the book Art U Need. My Part in the Public Art Revolution (Black Dog Publishing, 2007) and proposed the work Faîtes L’Art, pas La Guerre (Make Art, Not War) for the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square, London, England.
Bob and Roberta Smith was born in 1963, and lives and works in London, England. Their work has been widely exhibited, latest in the solo show I AM A LIVING SIGN, The Bob and Roberta Smith Diaries at Hales Gallery, London, England spring 2008.