Our Laughter will Drown Your Sorrows: MA Interim Show

Our Laughter will Drown Your Sorrows

MA Interim Show at The Laundry, Hackney

Students and staff of the Year 1  MA Art & Science, MA Fine Art and MA Photography, had their MA Interim Show :  Our Laughter will Drown Your Sorrows   

Our Laughter will Drown Your Sorrows showcased the work of over 70 CSM postgraduate art students.   The students are all in the first year of their Postgraduate courses,  MA Art & Science, MA Fine Art, and MA Photography.

The underground post industrial setting of The Laundry space in London’s east end provided the perfect backdrop for contemporary work that considered what it means to make in today’s bleak economic and political landscape.  Working as an artists today in London is undoubtedly challenging, and these emerging artists address the problems with a dynamic and politicised vigour.

The students work across the full scope of media available to artists today, including, painting, sculpture, video, performance, and interactive works etc.  Their interests are diverse and address a range of ideas including identity, celebrity, chaos and excess. What brings these works together is a shared sense of urgency, the art shown in Our Laughter Will Drown Your Sorrows is work that needs to be made and needs to be shown.

As part of the exhibition there was a collaborative fanzine produced and manufactured on site by the students themselves.