Are you a Skipper? If so, please contact Chloe Vaitsou on chloe.vaitsou@gmail.com.

Your mission will be to sail Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich's mirror paneled yacht from St Catherine's Dock to Regents Canal in time for the opening.

More details below.

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
2 – 31 May 2009
Yinka Shonibare Space
Curated by Chloe Vaitsou
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Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s 1973 science fiction novel, Breakfast of Champions is a group exhibition curated by Chloe Vaitsou, exploring alternate realities and parallel universes, using everything from a mirror panelled sailing boat and perfume-infused tampons, to re-appropriated Evening Standard advertisements and re-imaginings of Bible stories. Featuring work by Larry Achiampong, Ziad Antar, Dan Attoe, Rinat Kotler, Henry Krokatsis, Oswaldo Macia, Rallou Panagiotou, Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich, it takes place at Yinka Shonibare Space from 2 – 31 May 2009.

In Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions, one of the main characters, an unknown pulp science fiction writer who eventually becomes the intellectual and spiritual leader of all mankind, amuses himself by pretending that mirrors are in fact holes or leaks between different universes. One’s own reflection becomes the ‘entry’ and ‘exit’ point to a self-contained separate reality, whose purpose assumes a metaphysical triumph of re-invention, re-incarnation and re-generation.

In the exhibition Breakfast of Champions, different entry and exit points are explored through a plethora of sensory information, media and diverse experiential environments, creating a narrative-less journey between psychological and cultural reference points which bring the viewer closer to the bare mechanisms of memory, desire and fear in the quest for self-realisation.

Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich’s works, which fuse installation, public performance and sculpture, open up a plethora of transitional spaces between fantasy and reality and here include Celestial Radio (2004-ongoing), a mirror panelled radio-broadcasting sailing boat which will be moored on the canal outside the gallery before setting sail for Greece and Venice. It also features as a special radio broadcast on Resonance FM. In Limbo Land (2002, 2007) follows an astronaut’s encounters with the moon, exploring escapist ideals.