Marilyn Thompson

BROADCAST (Sunflower FM) (2018)

16/08/2018 - 22/08/2018

A solo exhibition by Marilyn Thompson that took place at Ormside Projects and Peak, London, UK

R.I.P. Germain & 3KAREEM

DIALUP 38253387 (FUCKED UP) (2013)

20/08/2018

A 44 minute homage to Grime in collaboration with 3KAREEM

DIALUP 38253387 (FUCKED UP) (2013) was submitted to Marilyn Thompson’s Sunflower FM to play as a show in BROADCAST’s programme

BROADCAST: Marilyn Thompson

16 Aug 2018 - 22 Aug 2018

Opening Friday 17th August 7 - 11pm

Drinks will be served

Ormside Projects

Penarth Centre

32 Ormside St

SE15 1TR

BROADCAST will be live-streaming radio on Sunflower FM between 17th - 23rd August from Ormside Projects. People can also come and listen at Peak in Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, SE1 6TE.

At both locations, a host of potted sunflowers will be present.

Sunflowers: those big faces, and the tilts of their heads - this one sympathetic, this one haughty, this one jaunty. Grown from small seeds, in a few short months they gain stature, hair, veiny green stalks and leaves. Moving to follow the sun, they toil through their short season to produce one big flower, the centre of which is all seeds, ready to disseminate the next generation.

Before radio, electronic communication was always one-to-one. When radio came along, the new 'one-to-many' model was described as a 'broadcast', which was originally an agricultural term, a way of sowing seeds that mimics nature's mechanism: the sower takes a handful of seeds and casts them onto the ground with the sweep of an arm.

In BROADCAST, listeners are free to tune in, absorb, ignore, analyse, respond to or deal with the content as they wish, and in doing so, this scattering of small seeds may or may not grow.