#theinfinitemix

A Hayward Gallery o!-site exhibition presented

in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory at The Store, 180
The Strand.

*Exhibition extended* Friday September 9th - Sunday

December 11th

Tuesday to Saturday, 12pm – 8pm

Sunday, 12pm – 7pm

Free entry

"A wonderfully various show -

mesmerising" - The Obser ver

"Somewhere art has never been

before" - The Sunday Times

✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ "A contender for show of

the year" - The Evening Standard

✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ "Ten of the most engaging

pieces of visual art you’ll see
together all year" - TimeOut

✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ "It’s hard to imagine a more

exhilarating exhibition" - The
Telegraph

✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ "A weird, wonderful

assortment of videos’ that ‘dances
madly with big ideas" - The
Guardian

The Infinite Mix: Contemporary Sound

and Image brings together
audiovisual art works that are soulful
and audacious in their exploration of
a wide range of subjects. In all of the
works in this exhibition the interplay
bet ween moving image and sound is
crucial. Most of the artists have
composed, commissioned or remixed
soundtracks that relate to the visual
element of their work in unexpected
ways, and ensure that what you hear
is just as important as what you see.

The Infinite Mix includes works that

address tumultuous histories and
cultural tensions in ways that are
thought-provoking as well as deeply
entertaining. They also pointedly
remix our notions of history and
fiction, the real and the staged, and
the sublime and the everyday.
Drawing on varied genres including
documentary filmmaking, music
video, experimental film and
theatrical performance, these
art works dispense with
straightfor ward storytelling and
unfold in a manner akin to musical
compositions. Together, they expand
the ways in which we experience
moving images and sound, and open
up new veins of meaning in art’s
potentially ‘infinite mix.’

THE SPACE

Having originally launched at Soho

House in Berlin and London Fashion
Week, The Store is now expanding
with the opening of this creative
space and complex of 10 studios,
which house a mix of creative
companies including Dazed Media,
The Vinyl Factory, The Spaces and
FACT magazine, all of whom will
share the broadcast studios.

The studio spaces launched this

September with the opening of The
Infinite Mix, with each of the ten
immersive artworks showcased in
their own studio. The building also
includes The Store organic cafe, retail
and creative space featuring
exclusive collaborations made with
the artists in the show.

The space has previously hosted

exhibitions including The Moving
Museum, Lazarides presents Brutal
and Louis Vuitton Series 3, as well as
London Fashion Week Men's and
fashion shows by Roksanda Ilnic,
Christopher Kane and Thomas Tait.

"The future of all space is both the

physical experience of being in that
space and broadcasting that
experience to the world," says Alex
Eagle, Creative Director of The Store.

The Store, 180 The Strand

London WC2R 1EA
info@theinfinitemix.com

ARTISTS

Martin Creed - Work No. 1701

(2013)

Work No. 1701, 2013 © the artist

Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Gavin Brown’s
Enterprise, New York

Martin Creed’s work often focuses on

a single movement or gesture. In
Work No. 1701 a range of individuals
cross a New York street,
accompanied by a jubilant pop song
written and performed by the artist.
Talking about the film, Creed has
commented that ‘doing things in life,
living and working, is always using
your body’, and that ‘life can look like
a dance’. Work No. 1701 is a
celebration of the act of getting from
A to B, as well as the different ways
in which people move through the
world.

Creed, who has been writing songs

and leading a band for over 20
years, describes his music and his
visual work as an ‘attempt to make
something for the world’. As he
explains, they both stem from the
same place: the desire to ‘say hello,
to try to communicate somehow.’

Stan Douglas - Luanda-

Kinshasa (2013)

Luanda-Kinshasa, 2013 © Stan Douglas

Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner, New York / London and
Victoria Miro, London

Shot like a documentary film on a set

carefully crafted to resemble a
legendary New York recording studio,
Stan Douglas’s Luanda-Kinshasa
depicts a fictional 1970s jazz-funk
band engaged in a seemingly endless
real-time jam. The band’s music
echoes the then-current confluence
of American jazz, funk and Afrobeat
– a musical fusion made possible, as
the video’s title indirectly implies, by
the emerging independence and
rising profile of African nations.

As the camera appears to seamlessly

circle around the studio, the sound
mix highlights whichever musician it
lingers on, enhancing the impression
that we are watching a live
performance. But the band’s
improvisation is actually a
construction: intricately remixed by
Douglas in the editing room, it
ex tends through over six hours of
‘alternate takes’ created by
recombining various shots and
accompanying sections of music.
Conjuring a never-ending sequence
of variations, Luanda-Kinshasa
conjures a vision of culture as a
potentially ‘infinite mix.’

Jeremy Deller & Cecilia

Bengolea - Bom Bom’s Dream
(2016)