Discrete Positions

Kashika Ashley Cooper, Jorge Boehringer, Charlotte Cullen, Eleanor Cully, Beavan Flanagan, Dex Hannon, David Pocknee
Monday 1st May – Friday 15th May
Private View: Monday 4th May from 1pm (Concert from 1:30pm by the London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists)
What is an assemblage? It is a multiplicity which is made up of many heterogeneous terms and which establishes liasions, relations between them, across ages, sexes and reigns – different natures. Thus, the assemblage’s only unity is that of co-functioning: it is symbiosis, a ‘sympathy’. It is never filiations which are important, but alliances, alloys; these are not successions, lines of descent, but contagions, epidemics, the wind.

—Deleuze and Parnet
Discrete Positions presents an assemblage of Huddersfield-based artists working across different media including sculpture, site-specific installation, painting, drawing, sound art and performance. Of diverse backgrounds, they have come together through the shared space of NYA’s Huddersfield studio to present their individual works within the context of a collective exhibition. In doing so they will generate reflective exchanges, beginning a conversation between different ideas and practices and initiating critical dialogue across Huddersfield’s rich spectrum of artistic activities.

For their opening event, soloists from the London Contemporary Orchestra will join the artists, performing a lunchtime concert commencing at 1:30pm. London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists draws together principal players from the London Contemporary Orchestra for intimate performances of contemporary chamber music. This performance will feature string players Galya Bisengalieva, Mira Benjamin, Robert Ames and Gregor Riddell both as soloists and together in a string quartet. The performance will explore an eclectic mix of sounds and styles to complement the Discrete Positions art exhibition.