The past 7 days has seen the start of two residencies!
One is a month in duration at The Lombard Method in Birmingham. During this residency I am exploring how you can experience a specific space from a distance; taking all contact and dialogue with studio holders as points in an expanding network of information… this may become a printed diagram of some description…
I am also thinking about the development of heterotopias (other places) and the relationship between production and leisure in a given space. This seems to be taking the form of video projection onto blinds (see working drawing and video attached). I’m using blinds as a border of a space and as a refrence to screens, the videos are still and focus on objects so that these objects begin to occupy the heterotopia. I haven’t just used photographs (or other actual ‘images’) so that when light changes in the footage you begin to get the sense of the heterotopia as an ‘actual’ space. the work explores the idea that A technological universe where virtual space substitutes itself for real space. Screens mediate this substitution. Meaning Liam Gillick pp.173.
The other residency is one year in duration and is with Southam’s Cardall Collection, a heritage centre in rural warwickshire. The residency is titled Exploring Local History through New Media I will be producing work after an extensive period of research but will be making publications and possably hosting events during the year as well! The first publication looks set to be a project introduction and press release but there will be more information on this soon… Another relevent quote from Meaning Liam Gillick (pp.178) in relation to this project: Time can now be thought of as a knot in which past, present and future merge, not by the mere fact of temporal retroactions, but by the emergance of a transhistorical community.
I’m increasingly being asked to describe my work and have been making notes towards a new artist statement, so far I have:
My practice takes elements of aesthetic minimilism, social media, web 2.0 and global communication, psudeo-architecture and techno culture and rearranges them into a new kind of hetrotopic, political space in which the audiance become users
More on all of this soon, hopefully the next post will have more photos and some video…
