Initiating the upcoming group show ‘ABJECTS’ at Import Projects, Paul Kneale will be outsourcing a series of ‘Open Source’ performances. Anticipating their absorption into the infinite feedback loop of artworks both online and off, the artist creates these works as a set of instructions that intervene into existing structures. With Kneale making them free to be staged in his name, his performances are to be conducted by the audience in the gallery.
Kneale works across multiple media and infrastructures to process aesthetics out of experiences mediated by technology. In his sculptures, paintings and performances, he incorporates the seemingly abstract and physical as materials and  inhabits and stages the new mechanisms and sensibilities native to the controlled, networked mind. The ‘new abject’ to Kneale here marks a reaction of disgust arising from engagement with cultural products and consumer objects within shifting flows of global communications and production.