Brown Noise - Maurice Eienhardt Neu Galleries London 02.10.08 - 02.11.08



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Brown Noise was the inaugural exhibition at Maurice Eienhardt Neu Gallery, which was surrounded on three sides by music recording and rehearsal studios. The collaborative exhibition by Sean Dower, Lohan Emanuel and Nick Waplington explored pop culture and was as politically serious as it was puerile. The exhibition pitched itself as a kind of low-brow relief from the cultural excesses of a London art scene busying itself during the Frieze art fair. Several weeks before the exhibition, the artists organised an unpublicised 'teaser' night in the gallery and exhibited a single large poster for the forthcoming exhibition alongside a guitar amp playing brown noise at high volume, in the otherwise empty and brightly lit gallery. During this teaser event, an unsolicited action took place by an uninvited artist, known for defecating in art galleries. During the exhibition there was also a live performance by Ghost Drummer.