"Jason Coburn: Eighteen"
2005-11-11 until 2005-12-04
Coleman Project Space
London, , UK United Kingdom

For his show at Coleman Projects, Rotterdam based  Jason Coburn will be presenting Eighteen, a suite of works that re-enacts William Shakespeare’s Sonnet XVIII replacing every word with a sample found within the lyrics of contemporary love songs. These samples have been collated to constitute two different audio versions of Sonnet XVIII where the meter is given new form through a multiplicity of sound fragments. 

The research for the project began in 2003 and now Eighteen is a series of duets: 2 sound works, 2 large format print works and a 2 monitor video work. In the print and video works the sound samples have been combined with a wide range of typographic fragments, taken from publications and record covers. The installation reconstructs and re-enacts Sonnet XVIII using these fragments of contemporary cultural production.

Jason Coburn takes on a multitude of forms and approaches in his practice and adopts a number of roles . This mode of practice has been informed by his research activity, Recent exhibitions include ‘Project Rotterdam’ at the Museum Bonijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam and he regularly contributes to Rotterdam’s infamous ‘Fucking Good Art’zine

To complete this cycle of works and first public exhibition of Eighteen, an accompanying publication will be launched at Coleman Projects in December 2005.

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