Jon Purnell
Jon Purnell formed the art group, Cack-U-Like in London in 2001. The group’s work challenges the inherent elitism within art by performance and video art pieces such as Demonstration Against Toffs in Art and The Sound of Grenville. Since 2002 the work has focused on the static deathlike state of the art world- shown in works such as Haunted Tate, 2005ad and most recently with LET US IN.
Further, since 2008 Jon Purnell has been involved within the art group Scare in the Community. More about this group can be seen here...
Performances and Video work
Rome Cack-U-Like (Coliseum, Rome) 2001
Demonstration Against Toffs in Art. (White Cube London) 2001
Badges Against Toffs in Art (Saatchi Gallery) London 2001
The Sound of Grenville (University of east London) 2002
Haunted Tate (Tate Modern, London) 2002
2005ad (Royal Academy, London) 2005
The Cack-U-Like manifesto- White Cube, London 2008
The Cack-U-Like manifesto (part 2)- Elevator gallery, London 2008
Demonstration Against Commodification in Art (Tate Gallery London 2009)
LET US IN (Tate Britain 2009)
Residents Rip Off (De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill 2010)
SCREENINGS
REEL LIFE- CINEMATEQUE. BRIGHTON (APRIL 2002)
UTROPHIA- 291 GALLERY. LONDON (APRIL 2003)
SPARK INTERNATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL. SYRACUSE, NEW YORK (MARCH 2003)
PURESCREEN, CASTLEFIELD GALLERY, MANCHESTER (MAY 2003)
RECONTRES INTERNATIONALES, PARIS (JUNE 2003
BLOWING UP VIDEO FESTIVAL, CLERKENWELL, LONDON (JULY 2003)
ASOLO ART VIDEO FESTIVAL, VENICE, ITALY (SEPTEMBER 2003)
4TH INTERNATIONAL ART MEETING, KATOWICE, POLAND (OCTOBER 2003)
RANDOMISE, BEIJING VIDEO FESTIVAL, CHINA (NOVEMBER 2003)
RECONTRES INTERNATIONALES, BERLIN (NOVEMBER 2003)
BETTING ON SHORTS, ICA, LONDON (JULY 2005)
HALLOWEEN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL ICA LONDON JAN 2006
FOUL SIDE OF THE SUN , (AMSTERDAM 2007)
BETTING ON SHORTS, ICA, (LONDON 2008)
BLOP, ARNOLFINI, (BRISTOL UK 2010)