CARTER PRESENTS & HAPTIC

INVITES YOU TO

A PRIVATE VIEWING OF

Final Count Of The Collision Between Us And The Damned

Bad Beuys Entertainment

Saturday 18th November 2006

6pm - 9pm at Carter Presents London

Haptic is delighted to present a major new installation by Bad Beuys Entertainment at Carter Presents. Bad Beuys Entertainment was founded in 1999, at Cergy-Pontoise, in the Parisian suburbs. Stemming from the "culture of suburbs", the members of this group produce objects and ‘repetitions’ extracted from urban life, which are conceived as singular forms, for the audience to have a physical, sensitive relation to them. These works, with their basic and minimalist aspects, are feed-backs of perceptions, observations of architectural models, media representation and decoration standards. A balance between reality and cliché reveals unusual, repressive, economical, playful, social, cultural and at last aesthetic aspects of our environment.

At Carter Presents, Bad Beuys Entertainment presents Final Count Of The Collision Between Us And The Damned, a major sound installation of samplers and sound-systems The sound materials are placed to evoke the form of suburban towers and this juxtaposition of different machines produces a repetitive, systematic and polyphonic musical experience. The samplers, amplifiers and loud-speakers play Public Enemy’s hip hop interludes, which are simultaneously rewritten and replayed on separated canals via a specific protocol. This is Bad Beuys Entertainment's first solo exhibition in London.

Based in Paris, Haptic is a non-profit exhibition space, which is committed to the diffusion and production of contemporary art. By helping emerging artists to gain visibility, haptic became a footbridge between art schools and the art market. We also develop collaborations between experts from different fields or with similar organisations from abroad. Haptic is supported by DRAC Ile-de-France. For more information, please visit www.haptic.fr This exhibition is part of/organised in collaboration with Paris Calling, a season of contemporary art from France, supported by lead sponsor Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking.