Bob and Roberta Smith

Bob and Roberta Smith are an artistic enterprise, sincere in their ambition to bring anarchy to people's perception of art through a conceptual yet playful approach to art and art making.

Help Build the Ruins of Democracy features new and recent work. Eileen (2004) tells the real story of a friend, whose life has been shaped by a series of chance cultural collisions which appear both remarkable on one level but mundane on another. The text is mounted on a structure in the gallery which suggests some form of building. A second work, Conference in Bremen (2004), is shown on a plasma screen and mischievously questions notions of leadership and vehicles for decision making.

During January and February 2005, Bob and Roberta Smith will regularly work in the gallery, making a new sound piece for inclusion in this exhibition, to be recorded and produced at BALTIC. A second text panel work, entitled The Ruins of Democracy, will be developed in conjunction with visitors to the gallery who will be invited to contribute their own texts and help create new panels. Both new works will be added to the show by March.

A new publication about Bob and Roberta Smith is available from the BALTIC shop.

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Bob & Roberta Smith
Help Build the Ruins of Democracy