Kathy Noble reviews Reactor Halls E04
May 23, 2013
Why would you want to make or do something whereby you create a structure that relinquishes complete control over the content presented?
Reactor
About Reactor
Reactor is an art group that assembles new, collective realities in which audiences and Reactor members co‑participate.
Reactor projects explore the ways in which cohesion of social groups is maintained through shared belief systems and collective action. Seeking to transcend the exhibition form, Reactor employ a lateral extension of the possibilities of art practice, encouraging it to spill out from its initial structure into an expanded field of activity.
From the blog
Reactor Halls E05
Apr 13, 2013
AAS present Circle of Fifths, Saturday 1 June 2013 from 19:30. £3 advance tickets / £5 on the door.
MoMAMonarch
Featured: Feb 28, 2013
Reactor intervene virtually in the ‘Clubs, Gangs, and Secret Societies’ class at MoMA, New York – Thursday 28 February, 21:00-23:30 (GMT) #MoMAMonarch
Reactor 2006-2011 DVD
Featured: Nov 29, 2012
Reactor 2006-2011 is the second Reactor DVD and documents projects developed post Total GHAOS.
Reactor Projects
Reactor Halls
2012–13
Reactor Halls is a new flexible project space that will oscillate between hosting live, public events and housing Reactor’s ongoing collection of work.
Function
2003–2005, 2012
It’s that Reactor way of enforcing the premeditated and making a demand that we live in the moment.
The Green Man & Regular Fellows
2011
I held hands with strangers, gave a grown man a piggyback and danced and howled with wonderful irregularity to the jingling of tambourines.
Martinmas Interviews
Ongoing
Reactor sincerely encourages those who feel ready to join the group, and to take on the role of Secret Member, to step forward urgently and present themselves for the Martinmas Interviews.
Deathtrap
2012
If taking part in a staged death, we cannot guarantee that this is staged.
Big Lizard’s Big Idea
2009, 2010
A peculiar type of rebellion in which we don’t fight the system, but we get too involved, we play along too vigorously, we ’really believe in it’.
The Geodecity Project
2007–2010
Already, we were learning and appreciating unrecognized ways of working with each other from just this one small task, the weekend itself had not even begun.
Munkanon
2008-2010
The real everyday action of Munkanon carries on around me; its uncanny logic, its games and tasks, its dynamic of irrectitude.
The Tetra Phase
2007
A project that puts its participants in a goldfish bowl.
Ivan’s Dogs, We Provide The Smiles
2006
Pretty soon we were suspecting the general public and each other of being part of a sinister plan.
Total GHAOS
2005
Very quickly did this world seem to become a reality, an entry to state of mind where new rules applied, but I didn’t know about them yet.
Reactor Party Campaign
2005
Reactor Party activists took to the streets to drum up support for the correct line of GHAOS.
GHAOS
2003–2005
The local dadaist Reactor troupe invaded the Cinema's cafébar on the final night with a hilarious grand-guignol performance.
Toy and Dismantle
2003
There’s that familiar Reactor combination of demand for compliance and playfulness, a bit like a friendly Labrador puppy that comes running up to you with a little stick of dynamite in its mouth.
Reactor
2002
Don’t miss Reactor: Creation before the destruction in this vast factory building which is soon to be reduced to rubble.