Ed Atkins, Refuse.exe

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"Refuse.exe" by Ed Atkins, developed by 2n for the artist's solo show "I like spit now" at Gavin Brown's enterprise.

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from the press release by Vivian Rycroft:

Spanning the first and fourth floors, Refuse, made and conceived for this exhibition, is comprised of acoustic panels, bread, paintings, a disassembled kitchen and a two-channel real-time 3D simulation, authored in a custom version of the Unreal Engine.

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“I like spit now” stems from the untitled sandwich video in Old Food , falls through Artaud’s list of wants – as seared into the slab of hardtack bread at the entrance – and ends with Refuse.exe, the simulation of some crap falling to a stage. Expression is trammeled, here: the heart is thwarted. The works in “I like spit now” are impoverished in one way or another: animation is merely gravity’s effect; tears roll incessantly and without cause; literature’s treacle, the list, is everywhere. If ‘etcetera’ is the dreck that need not be named, there being no point to that which is contained within the category – then Atkins’ work is perhaps an attempt to spend time in that place of digression, uselessness and poignancy. It’s reclamation.

Refuse.exe is an exercise in the profound impoverishment of redemption, grace, and recuperability. Refuse.exe dramatizes the seeming return of repressed, deferred and otherwise metaphorized matter, by way of a theatrical play reduced to crude:

ENTER Drop

ACTION Fall

INTER-ACTION Land

DEATH Cease

REFUSE Remain

The physics simulation of Refuse.exe is calculated and rendered in real-time. This means that every runthrough is unique. While the meter is the same every time – with the crap falling in the same order – the rotations, paths of travel, and interactions with other objects are subject to the glum, chaotic will of entropy.

‘Refuse’ is a homonym resolved only in speech; it signifies at least both ‘unwilling’ and ‘trash’. Most of the works in I like spit now are either unwilling or trash or both.

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additional graphics programming by:
Arbitrarily Good Productions
Chelsea Hash
Thomas Huynh
Brett Lajzer
Jonathan Liu
Joshua Sarfaty
Christopher Sweeney
Audio Design by Chris Lane

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