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Barbarians at the Gate - a Blackbird show on SuperRare

Barbarians at the Gate | September 8 – October 13, 2022

Blackbird on SuperRare

Blackbird works with contemporary artists who have a critical and thoughtful practise away from the world of digital art. Using the SuperRare Spaces platform, and the NFT or crypto art audience which that provides, artists are able to reimagine their work and take it in unexpected directions. In this fifth Blackbird show, the first as a SuperRare Space, four contemporary artists approach the worlds of digital animation and the enormous possibilities it allows.

"Working now in the world of NFTs, is a bit like being in at the start of vinyl and the 3-minute pop song. The experimentation and blue sky possibilities are incredibly exciting."

The expression 'barbarians at the gate' was used by the Romans to describe foreign attacks against their empire. It is now often used within a sarcastic, or ironic context, when speaking about a perceived threat from a rival group of people, often deemed to be less capable or somehow primitive.

Blackbird understands that not even the most celebrated traditional contemporary artists will necessarily be successful in making the switch to a digitally native format, but we believe that these artists will make an incredibly valuable long-term contribution to crypto art and how it is seen in the future. They bring progressive and conceptually thoughtful work and there is a real excitement for this to be a forum for brilliant experimentation.

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JAMES SCOTT BROOKS / KATE STREET / MARKUS VATER / DOUGLAS WHITE

 

This series of animations by JAMES SCOTT BROOKS utilises the verbs from 1960’s folk songs that were attempting to encourage action and change in society and the environment. The artwork utilises nuanced footage and images that explores a relationship between nature and civilisation and the delicate balance between progress and detrimental change. In addition, the specific verbs have been aligned to system-based sound creativity intentionally developing a pertinent and melancholic folk rock instrumentation.

Verbs of a Folk Song II

 

KATE STREET presents her Celestial Bodies series. In astrological terms a celestial body is a single, tightly bound, contiguous entity. These silent floating entities each pertain to their own characteristics whilst talking of human relations, fetishism and otherness.

Symbiosis

 

MARKUS VATER

Sometimes this is how life feels like: Living inside a large mouth, being carried around, in danger of being swallowed at any moment. But we make the best of this existential precarity, by using the tongue as a bouncy castle, together with someone we like. There is nothing better, than bouncing together.

Life

 

Triclops III

 
 

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The SuperRare Sessions

The SuperRare Sessions

Thursday 9th saw the launch of the third Greg Rook Advisory (blackbird) NFT exhibition on the SuperRare platform and I think that this is the best show yet. The artists involved have really responded to this new media and new platform, and produced work that they would not have made before and have certainly found an audience that was not there before. I’m incredibly proud of the contribution that they are making in this new world.

How to buy an NFT

How to buy an NFT

My interest is in helping create and share NFTs made by contemporary artists that are as much a part of their practice as anything else they create. I’m focused on just those NFTs that are made by pioneering contemporary artists - those who are exploring and really excited by the possibilities of the new media, new platform and new audience.

Ansel Krut and Jem Finer on SuperRare

Ansel Krut and Jem Finer on SuperRare

At 6pm on the 7th October, 2021, on the SuperRare NFT platform, Ansel Krut’s animation, Profile with Pipe, with music by Jem Finer, will go to auction. Following his celebrated 1000 year composition, Longplayer, Jem Finer has composed a 10 second piece of music for Ansel Krut’s animation. This is a unique collaboration between two beautifully idiosyncratic creative forces.

From can see to can't see

From can see to can't see

We might feel that we can grasp the majesty of the pyramids, the beauty of a far-flung wilderness, or the haunting atmosphere of an interior, but, if experienced through a screen, our understanding is distorted. In this second SuperRare exhibition with GRA, the artists consider natural and man-made environments, interior and exterior landscapes, and investigate the possibilities and distortions of the new technologies on our ways of understanding the world around us. They consider the magical possibilities of the digital realm as a positive companion to ‘real’ experience. They explore what it is to experience and be confused by it.

A lot of what I'm about to tell you is made up

A lot of what I'm about to tell you is made up

I’m delighted to announce that GRA’s first NFT show on the SuperRare platform launches at 6pm UK time today, 9th July, with the auctions starting throughout the day. Further NFTs will be dropped by the artists at intervals throughout the period of the show.

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From July, Greg Rook Advisory will be curating a series of group exhibitions on SuperRare - the most credible of NFT platforms. Please follow @greg_rook and @gregrookadvisory on Instagram and @gregcorbeau on Twitter for updates on these drops. In the coming months there will also be further collaborations with rights consortiums and first class Contemporary Collections.