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INCUBE8 Part I - Overgave (surrender), Paul Hurley

Preview: 7pm till late

Bar + food + music

Peer Critique: Saturday 10th, 2 – 3pm

Exhibition continues: Friday 9th – Sunday 11th, 12 – 6pm

With a background that crosses experimental performance and fine art, Paul Hurley’s recent practice has consisted almost exclusively of live work, much of which involves explorations of ritualised action, endurance and abjection. It teeters past the limits of the mundane self, approaching vulnerability and actuating affect. It evolves affectivity and joy - as in the capacity for being affected to the point of pain or extreme pleasure - which comes to the same.

Interested in using the body and everyday materials to create visual images that transcend our usual physical and functional orientation, Hurley makes meaningful secular spiritual rituals, seriously, creatively and with warm humour.

For ‘Overgave (surrender)’ (the second word a translation of the first, from Dutch), Hurley creates new performances to be encountered live, through documentation and as trace.

INCUBE8 2012 gives eight emerging artists their first significant solo show at Motorcade/FlashParade and promotes the development of new work and critical engagement with the space. Our panel, artists Katie Davies and Sovay Berriman and the curator of the Exeter Phoenix, Matthew Burrows, have chosen a diverse and exciting programme of exhibitions, covering a range of practices and genres of work from selected artists Paul Hurley, Susannah Douglas, Bryony Gillard and Ryan Curtis.

A call out for the second half of INCUBE8, due to be exhibited in November, will go out later this spring.