Press Release - For Immediate Release

LOTOS collective is proud to present:

Gods, Heroes, Man, Chaos
A month-long performance-installation in 4 parts

Opening September 22nd 2006 ~ October 19th 2006

The Window Gallery
107 Charing Cross Road
London WC2H 0DU

Installations on view 24 hours a day
Performances vary from 8:00 until 20:00

For more information contact: info@lotoscollective.org.uk 077.2007.4816

This month-long programme of performance installation follows the structure of Giambattista Vico’s Scienze Nuova or New Science, a philosophical tract of 1730 that posited the notion of an “ideal history” consisting of three endlessly repeating cycles; each revolution of three followed by a cataclysmic Ricorso or return to chaos.

Each week of the exhibition takes one of these cycles, identified by Vico, for its inspiration – Gods, Heroes, Man and Chaos.

LOTOS collective is a London-based artists’ collective working towards the creation of hermetic worlds in their scenographic practice, the delivery of a ‘total experience’ by immersing the audience in the themes and aesthetics of the work. LOTOS develops projects of time-based performance media, including live-art, film, video, and spatial design. As with most LOTOS projects, outside artists are engaged to develop new work in collaboration with the core group.

In 2006, LOTOS produced the performance-installations Homebound in a residential site in East London, Prometheus Bound at the event ActArt4, and The Last Ortolan at Nolia’s Gallery; the short films Red Point and Missing workshoped and produced in Prague and London respectively. LOTOS members have represented the collective internationally in performance works Tumor Foderato d’Infanzia in Palermo, Drabina Jacuba in Krakow, El Tiempo Indómito in Santiago de Chile, and Rag and Bone in Salzburg

The grand finale will be the Procession of Specters and Spectators on Thursday October 19th beginning at 18:00 in front of the gallery.