Mike Nelson

Talk Art

Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

We meet legendary artist MIKE NELSON!!!

Nelson’s installations take the viewer on enthralling journeys into fictive worlds that eerily echo our own.

Constructed with materials scavenged from salvage yards, junk shops, auctions and flea markets, the immersive installations have a startling life-like quality.

Weaving references to science fiction, failed political movements, dark histories and countercultures, they touch on alternative ways of living and thinking: lost belief systems, interrupted histories and cultures that resist inclusion in an increasingly homogenised and globalised world.

Utterly transforming the spaces of the Hayward Gallery, the exhibition features sculptural works and new versions of key large-scale installations, many of which are shown here for the first time since their original presentations.

Nelson represented Great Britain at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011 and has shown in leading galleries around the world. He has also been featured in numerous international exhibitions, including the 13th Biennale of Sydney, the 8th Istanbul Biennial and the 13th Lyon Biennale.

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Visit Mike's major solo exhibition EXTINCTION BECKONS at Hayward Gallery, runs until 7th May 2023: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions/mike-nelson-extinction-beckons

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0:00.0	Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, whatever you are in the world. I am Russell Tovy.
0:09.0	And I'm Robert Dianne. And this is TalkArt.
0:11.0	Welcome to TalkArt. How are you today, Rob?
0:14.0	Today, Russell, I feel like my reality is a labyrinth and I am caught up in this dream.
0:23.0	But not David Bowie, the labyrinth.
0:25.0	I was actually, that was my life. We don't even confer before these recordings.
0:30.0	Have a confer.
0:31.0	You and I are so like the same era. Yeah, David Bowie's labyrinth actually had a massive impact on my life.
0:36.0	There was some scene where there was like a, I can't remember her name, was it Julia Gartner?
0:40.0	Jennifer Connelly.
0:41.0	Jennifer Connelly.
0:42.0	Yeah.
0:43.0	I think she had like a lipstick, like a lip salve or something in it.
0:45.0	And you wanted it.
0:46.0	I wanted it so badly.
0:47.0	By the end of the film, I was like, Mum, I want it.
0:49.0	I need some lipstick.
0:50.0	I need your lipstick.
0:52.0	But that was actually about possessions being charged and having like talisman.
0:57.0	It was something about the lipstick that I think gave the cat.
1:00.0	I can't actually remember, but there was something about it that it wasn't about it being lipstick
1:03.0	and even though I loved dressing up when I was a kid,
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