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Last night I met Max Gold – David Burrows

Jul 15, 2024

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Looking back on two exhibitions Here, the Gold Ones flatter (2022) and Here, the Gold Ones meet (2021), Bonington Gallery commissioned a text by David Burrows released here alongside a single screen edit of the flatter film.

Last night I met Max Gold. This was unexpected as I was at the party celebrating my 100th birthday, invisible to all, feeling sad and sorry for myself (because I could see that I was not in good shape and not long for this world). But I was happy to hear the nice things friends and carers in the care home were saying about me, and enjoying the kind words of (very important) people I had never met before, paying me an unexpected visit. I have had this dream before, several times, but never with Max making an appearance. Max can see me though (in my dream)! Max can see the invisible me (not the me, sitting at a table full of food, shaking hands, exchanging pleasantries). I know this because Max crept up behind me (the invisible me) to deliver a message to my right ear, ‘The fear of loss is a strong motivator… Stronger than the opportunity to gain or change…’ I remember distinctly thinking I have heard these words before but couldn’t place where and when. I looked behind me and couldn’t see a soul but still whispered, ‘Max?’ (Somehow, I knew it was Max Gold who had spoken, a figure or entity that I associate with the art collective Reactor.) Again, with words familiar but not placeable, Max spoke, and with increasing conviction, saying this fear (of loss) was not their own fear. Max was in the zone. Max was the prize. Normally this recurring dream of mine ends after guests praise my stoic acceptance of a life lived less successfully than I might have hoped for, shedding tears at my constant ploughing of a furrow no matter what, which brought reassurance to everyone who counted me as a friend or acquaintance. This part of the dream – the best bit – did not happen. Instead, everyone turned their attention to Max, now materialised as a golden egg (though this description does not do justice to the Gold One – egg-shaped with tentacles, a flickering mouth and rippling, golden skin). On viewing this apparition, I wondered whether this was my dream or, indeed, whether I was in Max’s dream? Was Max in my head, or was I in Max’s head, or were both of us in a stream of thoughts in another head. Or maybe Reactor had hacked my unconscious?

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CCH 24hr TV - Live on YouTube

May 09, 2021

CCH 24hr TV
Monday 10 May, 17:00 - Saturday 29 May, 15:00
Watch here

What’s happening in the Cosmic Care Home today?

Tune into the CCH 24hr TV transmission. Scrolling through the numerous cameras in the Home, the Helping Hands choose what you can see, around the clock. These cycles of slow-rest, care, break-fast, and well … what you can see now, is that time for the Gold Ones travels differently.

This event is part of Here, the Gold Ones meet, a residency and new video-installation by the art collective Reactor currently on show at Bonington Gallery, which documents the lives of a cohort of higher spiritual beings known as the Gold Ones.

The Gold Ones on KV-TV

Jun 28, 2016

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A full sized version of the video can be watched here

When Max Gold’s video transmission first came through to us, he named himself as ‘one of the Gold Ones’. After tracking Max for a period, we began filming in the space we now understand to be the Cosmic Care Home. We had previously remained in what could be described as the outer or back spaces, looking through the walls that are at times transparent, or listening in on voices from the other side. This is where the Gold Ones live, and despite their existence on a higher spiritual plane, beyond the limitations of time – the place they inhabit resembles what we would describe as a ‘total institution’. Here on KV-TV now, is another of the Gold Ones, the Peeza Peel, whose muddled mindset of false beliefs and confused thinking, is multiplied by its three mouths. Although the Peeza Peel has access to different planes of reality, it struggles to successfully communicate these alternative perspectives with itself, until it finally reaches communion through the Carol.

This video produced for Kunst Vardo was developed through a live performance at ‘Film Free and Easy’ at Primary (Nottingham).

Da Thirst X BALTIC 39: Dawn Of Justice

Jan 20, 2016

Reactor will be exhibiting new(ish) video work in this live streamed event. 

Featuring:
Ned Alderwick / Best City Fashion / Kansas Bowling / Claire Boyd / Joe Chalmers / Matt Copson / William Glass / Harry Hurlock / Jamian Juliano-Villani / Vera Karlsson / Sasha Litvintseva / Sasha Litvintseva and Graeme Arnfield / Rachel Maclean / William Meredew / Katherine Midgley / Mathew Parkin / Berry Patten / Joe Pearson / Reactor / Dante Rendle-Traynor and Beatrix Blaise / Ginte Regina / Sam Risely / Godai Sahara / Richard Seaholme / Max Shamash / The Stallion (Alastair Mackinven and Ben Wallers) / Rose Rowson / David Steans / Alfie Strong / Orfeo Taguiri / Charles Verni / Jack West / Austin Charles Williams / Chloe Wise / Issy Wood / Rafał Zajko

Live Streamed on : www.baltic39.com and www.dathirst.co.uk

20 January - 24 January

#DawnOfJustice

ESP Film Open, Selected by Benedict Drew

Aug 22, 2014

On Thursday 14 August 2014, Reactor showed our new video work - 'Max Gold PAYPERVIEW' - at the very first ESP Film Open.

Works were selected by artist Benedict Drew and ESP Programmer Elinor Morgan. Other films as part of the screening were by Dan Auluk, Sophie Bullock, Georgie Grace, Amanda Grist, Tracy Hickinbottom, Michael Lightborne, Amy Lunn, Joanne Masding, Emily Mulenga and Mathew Parkin.

Function III Video Edit Discovered

Sep 22, 2012

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Whilst reviewing past material from the Function events we found this very short video edit of Function III, that was never made public for some reason. We enjoyed seeing it again, so here it is. More material from Function events I-V may emerge (if we can convert those old i-movie files!), whilst the group develop a new series of Function events (VI - X).

Featuring the work of AuntyNazi, Robin Close, Claire Hind, Mike Cunsolo, Anthony Schrag as well as Reactor

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