NEU GALLERY LONDON

Brown Noise

Aside from being a euphemism for many things scatological, the term Brown Noise is almost certainly an urban myth, describing a frequency of infrasound vibration that when experienced by humans is thought to induce certain physiological responses, including dizziness, nausea and a movement of the bowels.

The effects of Brown Noise can be compared to the symptoms of ‘Stendhals syndrome’, where sufferers are known to experience dizziness, panic and hallucinations when confronted with the ideals of beauty found in ‘High’ art. For this show, the artists use the metaphor of Brown Noise to suggest an equally extreme response to the more contingent ‘beauty’ of a ‘Low’ art. Their work engages with concepts tending towards the scatological and the abject (or at least the ‘messy’ and the inappropriate), a distinctly non-transcendent vision characterised by its discomfiting use of a shallow and base humour.

Brown Noise will open to coincide with Concrete and Glass, a major music and art event taking place in Shoreditch on the 2nd & 3rd October and remain open throughout Frieze (London Art Fair) until the beginning of November.

SEEN...

An antidote to boredom, cuteness and the fear of tomorrow, The Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery is proud to present ‘SEEN…’

Each Thursday throughout the month of November, the now talent from music and art (including artistes du jour S.C.U.M) will collaborate on a series of art-sound
-sculpture-installation
-performances that exact an event where romantic idealism meets brutal nihilism and where the dystopian, anarchic and chaotic are meshed together to give birth to a new kind of monster, a new set of rules, the likes of which have previously existed, but no-one knew where.

Burn down the gallery, the disco, the system…

Each collaboration will take the form of an art-lock in, where the artist/musician/band are locked in (the gallery), while the audience watch outside, conversely, turning the street into ‘the gallery’.