Sunday 27th March, 2-3pm

As part of the exhibition ‘Going Public’ (open 26.03.11 – 10.04.11) will be the first UK outing of an installation by Eindhoven based artists Erwin Van Doorn and inge Nabuurs. Their work is concerned with the complexity of history and how we are all implicated in its identity, its intention is to unmask that which is erased and ‘make re-indentification a possiblity’ . Van Doorn and Nabuurs have gradually re-traced the activities of his grandfather from the period during and after the 2nd World War, and devised a series of 17 performances which imagine and re-enact the tasks and tortures of his grandfathers’ experiences with the aid of props. These are carried out as rituals for penance and rehabilitation, and take place at specific locations around Europe where he believes his Grandfather was sent. Although distinctly personal their work refers to a wider collective history. The surroundings that form the backdrop to their videos and photographs have lost their potency. The locations are given meaning by an action and an object. In this case site is used as part of a triangulation of real, imagined and symbolic context. The actuality of fact is not important, and any authority of fact is questioned, reduced to document indicators. The reality of the story is not the goal, identifying with it is.