2011-02-02 - Rider Down/Fatality, Kingsland Road/Dalston Junction (London)

Just got this from Charlie.

Dan Cox was killed by a lorry in Dalston last year. The art exhibition opening this evening is a tribute to him.

The Dan Cox Library for the Unfinished Concept of Thingly Time
http://is.gd/R73q5d

The Dan Cox Library for the Unfinished Concept of Thingly Time first appeared as a consequence of the tragic death of Dan Cox in February 2011, while he was curating Andy Holden's exhibition at Kettle's Yard. Each week Dan, in his dual role of old friend and Theoretical Advisor, would visit Andy's studio and the pair would record their conversations, taking Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet as a starting point. The day before Dan's death on his bike at Dalston Junction he had proposed a title for the exhibition: Chewy Cosmos, Thingly Time. Chewy Cosmos is a slogan Dan found on the underside of a Cadbury's Starbar, conjuring up images of ponderous masticatory dialogue and the possibility of consuming the known universe. Thingly Time was to be Dan's Great Theory, drawing on Marx and observations from Andy's sculptures, of a three part-division of Time: Time as Intensive, Extensive, and Thingly. On the morning of the day of his death Dan sketched notes on his idea of Thingly Time, then set out on his bike, colliding with a lorry, and leaving the theory of Thingly Time in its embryonic, unfinished form.

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