Gallery 2
Daily 12:00 - 18:00 except Saturdays 11:00 - 18:00
FREE
Ahmed Basiony was one of the few contemporary artists in Egypt who was consistently experimenting with the tools of new media. One of them, Thirty Days Of Running In Place (2010) reveals Basiony jogging daily for one hour whilst wearing a suit of electronic sensors that picked up how far he ran and how much sweat he produced. Visualised by computer and projected onto a large screen, the data formed an abstract portrait of a body not just in motion but changing physiologically under the influence of exercise. The piece is all the more poignant as it contains the last echoes of Basiony's life in the form of the data he collected: the artist was killed during the Egyptian uprising just a few months later.
In light of this, AND and FACT are proud to begin considering the legacy of this unique artist with the UK premiere of Thirty Days Of Running In Place. Coinciding with Rewire, the fourth international conference on media art histories, the exhibition is an excellent opportunity to examine new media outside the conventionally Westernised axis of thought and in the Arab world in particular
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