1. ROUTEMASTER: curates
23 works
Room 8, KHIB
Opening Monday 16 November 2015: 18.30
Performance at 19.00, sharp.
In Conversation: Lorcan O’Neill & Richard Launder
In-Gallery Monday 16 November 2015: 14.30
ROUTEMASTER’S DESKTOP, detail from installation.
Vociferous Void exhibition, BCB 2013.
Former Spode Works, Stoke on Trent 2012–2013.
Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum
The ephemeral, periphery, transitory, time-based – actualised into concrete works is the position taken
to the contextual; where sculpture/installation blends into performance or vice versa. The works are
selected from different art research (R&D) projects, which Launder is involved with, on-going &
stabilised momentarily for Room 8.
In 2012 a curatorial direction developed from Richard Launder’s long running installation at the former
Spode Works, Stoke on Trent, UK:
ROUTEMASTER @ Spode Office
is the name of a curatorial project, also the title of a group of works made during the
Topographies of the Obsolete R&D project & exhibited in the Vociferous Void contextual
exhibition during the British Ceramics Biennial 2013.
Presenting a field of works generated via research-led teaching projects which he is currently
involved with, as well as works from his studios in London & Italy: Peripheral
Practice/Peripheral Place, Art in Urban Context, Brick as Cultural Sign, Beirut: Out of
Ruinous Conditions projects, & in particular participation in Topographies of the Obsolete
where a large installation, collaborative performances, sculptures, photographs, videos & text
were all curated from this umbrella project.

2. Live aspects:
 In Conversation: Lorcan O’Neill & Richard Launder.
In-Gallery conversation: Lorcan is director of the LORCAN O’NEILL Gallery, a renowned
independent contemporary art gallery in Rome:
http://www.lorcanoneill.com/site/elencoEsibizioniPresenti.php
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/lorcan-oneill-gallery-rome
 Lorcan O’Neill: Self-presentation: Tuesday 17th
November: 13.00, Room 8
 Performance: The Age of Enlightenment: Launder performs a fragment of Glancing at
Spode collaborative Collura/Launder performance – the film of which is screened.
 Performative intervention in the gallery
 Performance: one wet rainy day in Bergen…
ROUTEMASTER@SPODEOFFICE: The curatorial portfolio of this project also placed works into shows
at TSSK, Trondheim; Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent; The Swedenborg Society, London & Room 8.
ROUTEMASTER@SPODEOFFICE: installation: a physical location (extant Sept. 2012 - Dec. 2013):
former Spode factory, Stoke on Trent, UK; a virtual space: routemaster@spodeoffice.co.uk. It consisted
of installation, sculpture & collaborative performances.
Dadi/Dice
IT (2015)
Image from a shoreline series of works, Aeolian Islands, Italy 2012: on-going.

3. A Hytte for Ø / A Cabin for Ø
NO (2015)
Found signage, fluorescent light, wood, bungees.
Pianura
IT (2014)
Olive branch walking stick, Italian water bottle (starts off frozen) and summer 2015 rope soles.
Water: The Next Oil?
NO (2014)
Photo: International Festival, Performance Art Bergen (PAB), Herdla Fort. Performance equipment.
Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum

4. Dust Contained
GB (2015)
Spode Ventilation and Vacuum Textiles, tension straps, architectural columns.

5. Glancing at Spode
GB (2013)
Screened Film: Collura/Launder collaborative performance, Topographies of the Obsolete,
Vociferous Void Exhibition, BCB 2013, ceramic chocks.
Camera: Bjarte Bjørkum and Numi, Edit: Myles Painter
Forest’s Bell Tolls
GB (2013)
Resin skull, porcelain/wood bell, antique clock vitrine, antique wooden pad-foot legs, tension strap.
Conversations TSSK, Trondheim

6. The Age of Enlightenment
GB (2013 -)
Performance: intervention with The Scales of Enlightenment & audience: Spode transfer mask,
1970’s olive velvet suit, orange gloves/socks, fluorescent light, bird-feeder, mirror.
Live: TSSK, Trondheim, Airspace Gallery and Topographies of the Obsolete, Stoke on Trent, UK,
The Swedenborg Society London. Photo: Julia Collura.
ROUTEMASTER: curates
23 works
In Conversation: Lorcan O’Neill & Richard Launder
Room 8: Gallery for Art Research, National Academy of Art & Design
(KHIB), Bergen Norway.
November 2015
Thanks: R&D/KU project funds KHiB, Julia Collura, Bjarte BjØrkum,
Assistants: Dimitri Komissarov/Mari Norddahl/Linda Westgaard