#links# Several US websites are protesting proposed legislation that would damage the architecture of the web and censor legitimate free speech. De Swardt has held solo exhibitions at White Cubicle, London; MOT International Projects, London; and blank projects, Cape Town. Recent exhibitions include 'Daata Editions', Frieze London; 'Off to Mahagonny', various sites in Rye Lane, London; 'Blend the Acclaim of your Chant with the Timbrels', Jerwood Staging Series, Jerwood Space, London (all 2016); 'Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015', One Thoresby Street, Nottingham, and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; 'Sightings', KZNSA, Durban; 'Poetics of Relation', LiveInYourHead, Geneva; 'Men Gather, in Speech…', Cooper Gallery, Duncan Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee (all 2015) and 'Field Work', IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow (2014). He was selected as one of Wanted magazine's inaugural Young African Artists in 2011, and included in Arcadia Missa's publication 'How to Sleep Faster 5' in 2014. In 2016 he was shortlisted for the Rome Fellowship in Contemporary Art.
Since 2015, when I encountered an entire video library abandoned in a skip, I have been cultivating a stock footage library of discarded video material; hours of images, dislocated from their meaning. The skip incident was a catalyst, totemic of a stark value judgement on what deserves to be archived and what feels like an encroaching lack of space - to live, to work, to play, to experiment, to consider.
Agatha Valkyrie Ice started as an open-source personality within a Google Doc format, that offered a space for communal authorship to materialise through a critically inclusive practice. The open-ended, cloud-based film script has been a compendium of all Ai activity, a diary, a rant, a selection of dated newsfeed stories and a plagiarised theoretical treatise on becoming real and becoming virtual. For Cosmos Carl, Agatha Valkyrie Ice opens up one last time as a source book of disjointed notes accumulated through the years of Ai activity.
Jack Brindley (b. 1987, London) lives and works in London, and studied at the University of Reading and the Royal College of Art. Selected solo exhibitions include: Sweat, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2014); BC System, Public Work Solutions, with Lucas Clayton, Spike Island, Bristol (2013); and Blueprint, CSA Space, Vancouver, Canada (2013. Selected group exhibitions include: Group Show Jack, Neil, Shane, Gareth and Matthew, Choi & Larger, Cologne, Germany (2014); Tan Lines, The Drawing Room, London (2014); Chromatic Leak, Nam Project, Milan (2014); Foam, Project Number, London (2014); Mud and Water, Rokeby Gallery, London (2013); 21st Century Art and Design, Christie's, London (2013); Slow is Smooth is Fast, Boetzelaer Nispen, Amsterdam (2013); Congratulations you are the most recent visitor, Kettles Yard, Cambridge (curated by Outpost gallery) (2013); and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, A Foundation Liverpool, ICA, London (2012).
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