Still Lifestyle
Still queuing.
Waiting.
Weaving,
Through constructions like red, blue, yellow,
Green horizons
Feeling kinda hot, breathing,
Exhaling looking at you, looking at me,
Exhaling with you,
We are exhausted,
Or excited
Exhausted from anticipation,
Or maybe kinda bored
Wondering what to ask you, after you asked me
About next weekends plans (as we are currently weekending now)
Weekdays waiting for the weekending to begin.
Looking forward,
To the back of someone in front of me.
Turning Space is excited to present Metrons & Logons, a new body of works by Matthew Johnstone. The show includes a collaboration with eva duerden, in the form of a series of display systems that respond to four of Johnstone’s works.
‘Metrons’ and ‘Logons’ sound like things – atomic particles or something computational, names of obscure Greek gods or nerdy references to Star Trek. Suspending these and other plausible guesses, the exhibition takes its name from theoretical units used by early cybernetician Donald MacKay to give structure and measure to abstract information, quantifying how observations of the world become descriptions of it. This embodies one of Johnstone’s ongoing areas of intrigue: what presents itself as a bounded thing does not have a bounded meaning.
Turning Space is a platform
for creative dialogue
Shaped by ongoing collaboration, our unruly, artist-focused programme unfolds through public talks, exhibitions, performances, and other unconventional contributions. Bringing together voices from different fields, we explore the structures that shape culture and the ways meaning shifts across contexts.
What are we talking about?
Between Frames
On plural meaning, performing roles, and unstable value
Between Frames explores how meaning changes as it moves across roles, disciplines, and cultural systems. This enquiry celebrates creative practices that enable multiple readings and reinterpretations — through acts of translation, role-play or subversion.
Futures in Friction
On uncertain times and shared futures
Futures in Friction explores how we live with uncertainty — socially, ecologically, emotionally — in ways that are unevenly distributed and unequally endured. Resisting the idea of the future as singular or linear, this enquiry approaches it as plural, entangled, and shaped by histories of extraction, resistance, and responsibility. It asks what kinds of futures are being imagined, by whom, and for whom.
Overloaded
On image fatigue and the metabolism of digital culture
Overloaded looks at our relationship with mass media, digital messaging, and the algorithmic systems that shape how we see and are seen. This enquiry explores what it means to create, challenge, withdraw, or adapt in a landscape built on attention.