In 2007, artist Mike Nelson transformed the disused interior of the Essex Street Market on New York's Lower East Side, taking audiences on a journey through his installation "A Psychic Vacuum," a series of reconstructed rooms and ...
The work's title alludes to this collection of complex, fragile belief systems that form an obscured layer - a coral reef - beneath the 'ocean surface' of prevailing orthodoxies.
A carpenter's workshop seems long abandoned and traces of human activity can still be made out, yet this is, in fact, a construct of the artist, just like the spotlit theater stage.
This accompanying publication includes newly commissioned texts by Dan Cameron and Rachel Withers, and colour plates of the new work in progress.
The Old Ghost of thousand deaths roamed the world seeking life.
Follow Meadow Song, a 16-year old transfer student, delve into the darkness of Heaven's Gate, capital of cultivation.
Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons
Mike Nelson: Kristus Och Judas: a Structural Conceit (a Performance in Three Parts), [4.9.2008-3.1.2010]
A publication will be created using the material from the collection to accompany this project.
Mike Nelson: Modernismo Negro
Mike Nelson creates large-scale architectural installations, playing with horticulture and science, found objects, abandoned spaces and weird vibes.
Turner Prize nominee Mike Nelson is known for his large-scale sculptures and installations made up of sequences of interconnecting rooms that suggest real or remembered places. To encounter it is...
Designed in close collaboration with the artist, this book juxtaposes new writings with classic texts on seminal works.
Published to accompany the exhibition held at Whitechapel Gallery, London, 9th September - 30th November 2014.