http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/exhibition-jameel-prize/jameel-prize-4/#David%20Alesworth
“The Age of Wonder” Lahore Literature Festival, February 2015
David Alesworth has a long history of working in public spaces and collaborative practices. These began in the late 1980’s and throughout the 1990’s. Resulting in works such as “The Promised Lands” Frere Hall 1997, “Heart Mahal” 1996 and “Very Very Sweeet Madina” in 2000. For the Lahore Literature festival-2015 Alesworth will be facilitating a project based around the microscopic, inviting members of the public to view aspects of the everyday environment that are normally invisible to the unaided eye. These will be viewed and shared through both the optical microscope and video projections, moving from the infinitesimally small to the large format of the public display. Here musing upon the relationship between the individual and society and reflecting upon the Age of Wonder that has been a long standing feature of the artist’s research interests.
(text from LLF catalogue)
“Constellation” 2010
Constellation 2010
digital print 45″ x 45″ Ed. 1/6
A disembodied collection of vehicle registration plates from Lahore city, where only lip service is paid to the idea of the official government issued number plate. A majority of the populace adjust their plates to suite their needs. Most of these plates contain codings of affiliations to tribal or governmental departments as a warning to the police or other motorists.
Cultured Meat
First taste of £250,000 test tube burger cooked up in London. Disgusting! and it just serves to remind you just how disgusting and immoral all meat consumption is anyway. Definitely time to go Vegan!
Karachi Pop
Hammad Nasar’s piece for the Guggenheim site.http://blogs.guggenheim.org/2013/02/11/karachi-pop-vernacular-visualities-in-…
“Beautiful Life : Memory and Nostalgia” April 2012
– at “The Pier-2 Art Centre”, C1 Gallery, No.1, Dayong Rd., Yancheng Dist., Kaohsiung City 803, Taiwan
– a touring show curated by Dr Ming Turner
showing “Domestic Displacements” HDR photographs
The end of the Sawar Road, Water Towers, Cantt., Lahore. 25th July 2011.
Felled like trees in their entirety
some having stood for almost 150 years
exquisite brick detailing, gone forever.
Goithic revival flourishes
a minor earthquake when this one came down
