Nathaniel Mellors

The Time Surgeon

6 October - 25 November 2007

Reception for the artist: Saturday 6 October: 2pm - 5pm

ArtSway is delighted to announce The Time Surgeon, a new installation from Nathaniel Mellors. This new work was created while Nathaniel Mellors was artist in residence at ArtSway this year, in a partnership with the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. The Time Surgeon, which is a co-commission with Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, features a film-installation in which the central character, ‘The Time Surgeon’, inflicts physical torture upon a tape machine to induce time travel. Nathaniel Mellors is know for his ad-hoc sculpture, psychedelic theatre and absurdist, satirical films which target the question of who controls language

Nathaniel Mellors, Time Surgeon, Installation View, ArtSway

Nathaniel Mellors (born Doncaster, 1974) graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2001 and lives and works
in London and Amsterdam. Selected solo exhibitions include Hateball at Alison Jacques Gallery (2005) and
Profondo Viola, Matt’s Gallery (2004). He is currently resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam and will exhibit
Hateball in The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future at De Hallen Haarlem this Autumn. Nathaniel
Mellors was selected for a residency at ArtSway in partnership with the Arts Institute at Bournemouth’s text
+ work programme.

A full-colour publication will accompany the exhibition, published by text+work, the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.

Nathaniel Mellors was artist in residence at ArtSway during Spring 2007.

Free Coach from London
Saturday 6 October 2007, 11.30am

A coach from London (Tate Britain) to the exhibition with a light buffet lunch on arrival for all guests. Returns to London for approx. 7pm. FREE. Booking Essential

Art in Context (Film)

Thursday 25 October 2007, 7pm

Jacqueline Furby, Film Lecturer at Southampton Solent University and editor of Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies (with Karen Randell) will discuss the way film makers have approached the subject of time and time travelling in cinema. FREE. Booking Essential.

Gallery Talk: Sally O'Reilly and Nathaniel Mellors

Saturday 10 November 2007, 3pm
Nathaniel Mellors will discuss The Time Surgeon, his ArtSway residency and the new publication B.OK with Sally O'Reilly, freelance writer and critic and editor of Implacasphere. FREE. Booking Essential.