LONDON.- Way East will present Island, on view 7 – 27 March 2008 with artists Alexander Hidalgo, Niki Kyriakidou, and Hannah Terry. The exhibition was curated by Martin Rasmussen. Way East borders the grounds selected for the London Olympics. The area is enclosed by a high blue fence on which slogans inform us that the London Olympics belong to Londoners. Hackney Wick forms a triangular enclosure bordered by concrete motorways, Victoria Park and the Olympic grounds. Looking at a map, Hackney Wick seems independent from Hackney and Bethnal Green.

This exhibition concerns itself with the possibility of a self-defining and self-regulating body; whether literally a body or a social formation is not important. The desire for invention and a paying attention to that desire is related to the attention paid to death. The artists engage with this notion by drawing attention to The Wicker Man and other social and cultural references to self regulation.