Monday, February 23, 2015

Preview Invitation: Jacob Dahlgren 'Third Uncle' Friday 27th Feb 5pm - 7pm Workplace London, UK

Jacob Dahlgren Third Uncle #8 2015, MDF, acrylic paint, electrical cable, aluminium, 199 x 132 cm. Courtest of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Jacob Dahlgren

Third Uncle

Preview: Friday 27th February 5pm - 7pm

Exhibition continues: 28th February 2015 - 25th April 2015

 

Workplace London

61 Conduit Street

London W1S 2GB

Friday and Saturday, 10am - 6pm

(and by appointment)

tel: +44 (0)207 434 1985

http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk

 

Workplace Gallery is delighted to announce Third Uncle the first solo exhibition of Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren at Workplace London.

 

Third Uncle brings together a series of new abstract paintings made using live electrical cable set into a pristine surface of layered acrylic paint. Oscillating between painting and installation, form and function Dahlgren's plug-in works are connected together alongside lamps, TV monitors, and other everyday electrical items creating a circuit throughout the entire gallery.

 

Dahlgren's work is concerned with a dialogue between the authoritative singularity of pure formal abstraction and its position within a variable, complex and social shared culture. His repetitious collections of ubiquitous and ordinary objects, often domestic, industrially manufactured (and frequently, knowingly Scandinavian); stand in their gestalt form as proxy for High Modernist Abstract Painting and for all of the ideological territory that Twentieth Century Art Theory has staked out for it. The contributing objects, however, signify a collective and human aspect of society, each representing an individual choice, used in a unique way by its consumer. Together these objects stand for the group or community, and as such they become democratic rather than authored. Through endless ingenious amalgams of pattern, abstraction and mass-produced objects, Dahlgren's recent works purposefully inhabit modes of modernist painting, deliberately playing with the inherent autonomy of the source material.

 

Jacob Dahlgren was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970. Dahlgren represented Sweden in the Nordic Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale. His work has been exhibited at, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA, New York, USA, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, and Tramway, Glasgow, UK. He lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

 


Jacob Dahlgren Third Uncle #7 2015, MDF, acrylic paint, electrical cable, aluminium, 110 x 110 cm. Courtest of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK
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Friday, February 06, 2015

Darren Banks: 'The Raven' The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK

Image: Darren Banks, The Raven, Installation view, Mixed media, 2015, Courtesy of the artist, New Art Gallery Wallsall and Workplace Gallery, UK

The Raven

The New Art Gallery Walsall

4th December 2014 - 26 April 2015

 

Churton Fairman (1924 - 1997) - better known by his alias Mike Raven - had an extraordinary life. Starting out as an aspiring ballet dancer and photographer, he then became a pirate radio dj, pioneer of blues music and one of the first presenters on Radio One. He was also a horror movie actor, starring alongside the like of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. In the 1970s he gave up his celebrity lifestyle and moved to Bodmin Moor in Cornwall to become a sheep farmer and wood carver. Fairman's sculpture, which explored religious themes, was exhibited alongside work by Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein, and was well received and collected during his lifetime, but since then has been all but forgotten.

 

Artist Darren Banks, who discovered he had a family connection to Churton Fairman and was intrigued by his life story, has recently created a body of work inspired by Fairman's legacy. Banks' practice examines the relationship between objects and film, so he was drawn to Fairman's work as both a sculptor and horror movie actor.

 

Our 2nd Floor Garman Ryan temporary exhibition space will host a new installation by Banks, which will reference Fairman, alongside works by Epstein and Gaudier-Brzeska in our collection.

 

The New Art Gallery Walsall has been gifted one of the Churton Fairman's sculptures, which will go on display for the first time in our Religion room as part of this exhibition.

 

http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk
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EVENT: Saturday 7 February - 'Fluid Medium' Susie Green at Workplace Gateshead

Image: Susie Green, Viviane's Blue legs, 2013 Watercolour on paper, 21 x 29 cm Courtesy of the artist

Susie Green: Fluid Medium

Workplace Gateshead

Saturday 7 February 2015

11.00 - 13.00

 

Performative Drawing Workshop: Tickets £5 (all drawing materials included)

Participants are advised to wear clothes which they do not mind getting dirty

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/303020

 

As part of the group show EXHIBITION curated by CIRCA Projects.

 

Drawing on Susie Green's own experience as an artist and musician who also works as a life-model, this event is an alternative to what is often seen as a one-way experience - an audience drawing a model observationally.


Fluid Medium will take the format of an experimental life-drawing class with exercises in drawing, sound and prop design led by Green. With a view to creating a collaborative immersive environment, an openness to (clothed) participation is asked of those who attend. Previous life drawing experience is not required and drawing materials will be provided.

 

Susie Green uses the stuff of everyday life as malleable material, making sculptural works that criss-cross between art, music and fashion.

 

A recurring interest is the concept of fetishisation - how Green herself and others might seek to inhabit an object, surface or texture. Mediation and display are explored through focussing upon the point at which the everyday and casual can become formalised and otherworldly, through lighting and display. Often returning to the idea of pathos, and the exchange between artist and audience, Green is interested in that which is human, emotional and tactile. Making work that is often self-referential, about the pleasures or frustrations of looking and the evocative role of materials, Green explores the potential of an artwork to open up a liminal space in a viewer.


Recent exhibitions and performances include: Double Dare: Day + Night, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (performance with Charm Offensive), The Decorator and the Thief, NGCA Sunderland, EXHIBITION, curated by CIRCA projects at Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, Things We, PH Space, Newbridge Project, Newcastle, SPACE TIME: THE FUTURE, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (performance with Silver Fox) I like the Silver, I like the Gold, The Northern Charter, Newcastle and Tip of the Iceberg, Contemporary Art Society, London. Susie Green performs with the bands Silver Fox and Charm Offensive.

 

Fluid Mediums is supported by Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts.

 

http://circaprojects.org/programme/susie-green-fluid-medium/
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Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Jacob Dahlgren: 'SKULPTUR' Royal British Society of Sculptors Galleries, London, UK

Image: Jacob Dahlgren, The Wonderful World Of Abstraction, 2006, Silk Ribbons and Aluminium,

Moderna Museet, Stockholm (JDA0074) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

SKULPTUR

4 February 2015 - 15 May 2015
Wednesday-Friday, 12:30-5:30pm or by appointment

 

RBS Galleries, 108 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3RA

 

PRIVATE VIEW: 4 February 2015, 3:30-8:30pm

Prince's Gardens, Imperial College London, the Goethe-Institut London and the RBS Galleries in South Kensington, London

 

Royal British Society of Sculptors (RBS) is delighted to present SKULPTUR, an exhibition of contemporary sculpture from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Encompassing indoor and outdoor sculpture, video, installation, and performance, it will be the first ever large scale group exhibition focused exclusively on Nordic sculpture in London, and features the work of many artists who have never exhibited in the city before.

 

Opening on 4 February 2015, the work will be displayed at three sites in South Kensington: the RBS galleries on Old Brompton Road, the Goethe-Institut London, and Prince's Gardens, a public square owned by Imperial College London.

 

The exhibition comprises work by seventeen emerging as well as established artists who were selected from open call and by invitation by a panel including the renowned British sculptor, Richard Wentworth. Exhibiting artists are: Nanna Rützou Abell, Jacob Dahlgren, Elmgreen & Dragset, Sigurður Guðjónsson, Marianne Hall, Timo Heino, Michael Johansson, Otto Karvonen, Tove Kjellmark, Anne Koskinen, Mariken Kramer, Maija Närhinen, Gudrun Nielsen, Laila Pullinen, Karianne Stensland, Hartmut Stockter and Jarno Vesala.              

 

Says RBS Deputy Director and Curator, Claire Mander: "SKULPTUR offers a glimpse of the strength and range of contemporary Nordic three dimensional practice and provides the opportunity to explore its distinctiveness."

 

http://rbs.org.uk/exhibitions/skulptur
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Workplace at Art Los Angeles Contemporary - Hugo Canoilas 'Dinosaur Paintings'

Hugo Canoilas To be read aloud. To be read aloud, 2014, Ink on linen, 216 x 225 cm, 85 1/8 x 88 5/8 in

Hugo Canoilas

Dinosaur Paintings

Booth C14

Art Los Angeles Contemporary

January 29 - February 1, 2015


The Barker Hangar
3021 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405
http://artlosangelesfair.com

 

Workplace are delighted to present a solo booth of Portuguese artist Hugo Canoilas. His series of 'Dinosaur Paintings' are based on paintings and illustrations by the late Czechoslovakian palaeo-artist Zdenek Burian, discovered by Canoilas in a book he bought for his daughter in a thrift store in Vienna where he lives. Epically enlarged and rendered in a more fluid and gestural style than the originals, the imaginary landscapes are populated by Prehistoric creatures apparently in conversation. The dialogue, shown as speech bubbles derived from International Situationist comics, consists of dérives drawn from Canoilas' own readings of text by writers such Wally Salomão, Arthur Rimbaud, Allen Ginsberg, Malcolm Lowry and Fernando Pessoa, along with his own writings.

 

Above all, these paintings show an existential approach, that of Camus in "the Plague", where the people from the taken city start some activities in order to deal with the absurdity of life (i.e. passing beans from one dish to another in order to pass the days, waiting that the plague will come and take his life). Canoilas July 2014

 

Canoilas' work is strongly linked to the art historical evolution of early Modernism, employing a wide variety of media (informed predominantly by Painting) to represent a political and aesthetic convergence that moves towards a sensitisation of the viewer to the sociopolitical undercurrents that influence historical and contemporary culture. These new works continue this focus through a continued exploration of interests including philosophy, poetry and foundational ideologies of the Modernist period whilst simultaneously occupying a challenging position within contemporary painting.

 

Hugo Canoilas was born in 1977 in Lisbon, Portugal and studied at Caldas da Rainha, Portugal and the Royal College of Art, UK. Recent Exhibitions and Projects include: When elephants march in, curated by Mark Kremer at De Appel, Amsterdam, Performance Proletarians organized by Lili Renaud Dewar and Benjamin Valenza at le Magasin-CNAC Grenoble; Mirror Sea Solo presentation by Workplace Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kongg, 'Fierce: Riding the waves fiercely with no fear', Workplace London Spirit of the Air, Wiener Art Foundation, hosted by Kunstbuero, Vienna; Magma, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK; Paradise Birds - 30th São Paulo Biennial - A iminência das poéticas, curated by Luiz Perez Oramas, Tobi Maier and André Severo, São Paulo; A painting is getting its kicks, 1M3, Lausanne; Endless Killing, curated by Chus Martinez. Huarte Contemporary Art Center; Vota Octávio Pato - Ten reasons to be a member, curated by Tobi Maier, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Strata, curated by Francesco Stocchi, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna; Infinite Tasks, curated by Paulo Pires do Vale, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. Canoilas lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
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Friday, January 16, 2015

Hugo Canoilas: 'Lesen' Kunstraum Niederosterreich, Vienna, AUT

Image: Hugo Canoilas, Was life that beautiful?, 2013, Mixed media, 30 x 26 x 12 cm, 11 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 4 3/4 in (HC0048)
Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Lesen (Literatur)

Kunstraum Niederosterreich, Vienna

Exhibition:
16 - 01 -2015 to 14 - 03 -2015

Assunta Mohamed Abd El Azim, Hugo Canoilas, Clemens thought, Petra Egg, Simon Häußle, Barbara Kapusta, Ute Müller, Annelies Oberdanner, Bernhard Rappold, Dorothea clatter, Jakub Vrba, Flora Watzal


Information is everywhere, knowledge effortlessly available. On many, if not all levels, simultaneity, networking, multitasking and the pressure to succeed seem unavoidable. If not directly serving one's personal positioning in the universal competition, it has become increasingly difficult to be deeply engaged, to sink into a contemplative state, to focus exclusively on one topic. Time is money, efficiency essential.

Language, literature, poetry, stories, novels-also for artists, reading literary texts has become a frivolous luxury if not done for some project-related research, not absolutely useful, not immediately needed. Text and a book, not text and the internet, not text and a Kindle-a different kind of attentive luxury. To hold a book in one's hands, "analog"-the weight, the haptic feeling of turning the pages, the paper, the smell-the world of production and design.

In this sense, the exhibition addresses reading (literature) with a major focus on books read and selected by the artists containing texts by twelve authors. Twelve short text citations in the original language form the basis of each artistic work in the exhibition. These attempt at enveloping an atmosphere, they do not appropriate or illustrate. Tones that are related, a brush with the contents, concrete, abstract, poetic.

The selected books are provided on a table for viewing and inspiration. The graphic artist and font designer Willi Schmid has provided the graphic design of the text-citations for the exhibition and the catalog. In addition to contributions of the artists, the catalog contains an essay by the author and musician Martin Kubaczek.

 

Kunstraum Niederoesterreich Herrengasse 13
A-1014 Vienna
Tel +43 1 90 42 111
office@kunstraum.net
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Hugo Canoilas: 'O TEMPO E O MODO, PARA UM RETRATO DA POBREZA EM PORTUGAL' Júlio de Matos Hospital, Lisbon, PT

Image: Hugo Canoilas, The Miracle Exists, 2015, Agitprop objects, Installation view, Dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

O TEMPO E O MODO, PARA UM RETRATO DA POBREZA EM PORTUGAL

TIME AND MODE FOR A PORTRAIT OF POVERTY IN PORTUGAL


Preview:
16 January 2015 21: 30 H

Exhibition:
16 January - 27 February 2015

Pavilion 31
Júlio de Matos Hospital - Hospital Psychiatric Center Lisbon
Avenue of Brazil, 53, Lisbon

A project by PAULO MENDES and EMÍLIA TAVARES

GUSTAVO SUMPTA, HUGO CANOILAS, JOÃO TABARRA, MARGARIDA CORREIA,

MARIA TRABULO, NUNO RAMALHO, PEDRO BARATEIRO e RENATO FERRÃO

 

Recent economic indicators show that in Portugal for the first time since the 1990s, the level of poverty increased. According to recent figures advanced by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the poverty rate is 18.7% - and affects more than two million people. According to INE, a quarter of the population is at risk of poverty. Looking at these segments of the population, there are insurmountable findings that highlight these numbers: under 18 years, families with children in charge and the unemployed are the most affected. These are fragile social groups that are more exposed, and on which the imminence of social shock waves are more violent.

 

Poverty was one of the social conditions that more was fought, in all political persuasions of democratic regimes in the spirit of minimal social solidarity in order to eradicate the economic exclusion in a state of prosperity. The common denominator of discourse and political action, had a clearly identified public face 'welfare state', which some argue as eradication system of exclusions (economic, social and cultural), and others reject arguing with their economic unsustainability.

 

Emilia Tavares & Paulo Mendes

(Excerpt from exhibition text - Translated into English)

 

http://planogeometrico.com/OTEMPOEOMODO/
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Tuesday, January 06, 2015

9 January - 'EXHIBITION' & Tim Etchells 'The Play' curated by Circa Projects at Workplace Gateshead

EXHIBITION
9 January - 21 February 2015
Workplace Gallery, 19-21 West Street, Gateshead

Friday 9 January, 5pm
'It's moving from I to It: The Play' by Tim Etchells
Booking Essential - Tickets Here

Friday 9 January, 6pm
EXHIBITION Preview

Saturday 7 February, 11am
'Fluid Medium' by Susie Green

EXHIBITION is a group show curated by CIRCA Projects at Workplace Gallery, Gateshead.

Featuring works by Ian Breakwell & Mike Leggett, Matthew Crawley, Henry Coombes, Tim Etchells, Keith Farquhar, Josephine Flynn, Susie Green and Cara Tolmie.

CIRCA Projects present the group exhibition... 'EXHIBITION'... a response to Tim Etchells' ideas reflecting upon the position and nature of a host (an institution) and its relationship with invited guests (which could include artists and the audience, amongst others).

'It's moving from I to It - The Play' by Etchells will take place on the 9th January at 5pm, before the preview of EXHIBITION which will begin at 6pm.

EXHIBITION carries an attitude which is interested in the conventions of the gallery situation, the infrastructures within the field of art - attitudes and codes which exist therein. In this sense each artist also shows self-awareness in their artwork and uses humour not only to satirise individuals and groups of people they work with, but their own implicit role within this schema, as an artist. Within each artist's self-conscious position there is a further interest in the archetype - using humour and often pathos.

The exhibition will be held in Workplace Gallery, Gateshead - a commercial gallery run by two artists Paul Moss and Miles Thurlow. CIRCA are interested in the standpoint of Workplace where two artists have intercepted the normal hierarchy of art collector/art dealer/artist.

The departure point for EXHIBITION is 'It's moving from I to It - The Play' - a new performance for two actors, written and directed by Tim Etchells and commissioned by Form Content, London. This is a touring play and performances have taken place at: Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Spike Island, Bristol, Tate Modern and David Roberts Art Foundation, London.

PERFORMANCES

9 January 2015, 5-5.45pm
Tim Etchells - 'It's moving from I to It - The Play' (Limited tickets available here £5 each)

7 February 2015, 11am-1pm
Susie Green - 'Fluid Medium' (Limited tickets available here £5 each)

 


Supported by:

 



About CIRCA Projects

CIRCA Projects is a non-profit curatorial organisation active since 2009, who produce contemporary art exhibitions for audiences in the north east of England. We work across different sites and with different partners, to produce projects which cannot be repeated again. We focus upon lens and time based artworks in relation to site and we work with artists who wish to test and push exhibitions at this intersection.

This might be through an exhibition at the centre of a transforming regeneration site (Space Release), a sound poetry concert in Newcastle's oldest social club (GIG) or a constructed pavilion/ghost house bringing digital avatars into corporeal experience (Benedict Drew: The Persuaders).

Through taking into account the people, places and histories that combine to produce different contexts for art, we aim to stimulate new ways of thinking about how contemporary art is made and shown. This approach in turn produces new audiences for contemporary art and new possibilities for what an art exhibition might be.
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Saturday, December 20, 2014

Seasons Greetings from Workplace

Mike Pratt, Hot Summer, 2014, Styrofoam, silicone, enamel, resin and plastic grapes, 241 x 181 x 19 cm

Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery

Seasons Greetings from all at Workplace

Wishing you all the best for 2015

 

Seasonal opening times:

 

Workplace Gateshead

Closed from Saturday 20th December 2014 - Tuesday 6th January 2015

We will reopen on 9th January 2015 with Exhibition curated by CIRCA Projects including work by: Tim Etchells, Cara Tolmie, Henry Coombes, Ian Breakwell, John Hilliard & Mike Leggett, Josephine Flynn, Keith Farquhar, Matthew Crawley, and Susie Green. 


Workplace London 

Closed from Saturday 20th December 2014 - Friday 9th January 2015

the current exhibition Mike Pratt, The Meeting of Two Eyebrows will continue until 31st January 2015

 

 

Workplace Gallery

The Old Post Office

19 - 21 West Street

Gateshead, NE8 1AD

+44 (0)191 4772200

(open Tues - Saturday 11am - 5pm, and by appointment)

 

Workplace London

61 Conduit Street

Mayfair

London, W1S 2GB 

tel: +44 (0)207 434 1985

(open Friday - Saturday 10 am - 6pm, and by appointment)

 

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Final week: Cath Campbell / Richard Rigg at Workplace Gateshead

Final Week: the 2 solo exhibitions at Workplace Gateshead Richard Rigg 'After Noon Distance' and Cath Campbell 'Everything we do corrects the space' end on 20th December 2014 

 

 

Richard Rigg

After Noon Distance

1 Nov - 20 Dec 2014 

Workplace Gateshead

 

 

 

 

Richard Rigg

After Noon Distance, 2013

Subway light, Wire, Steel, Plastic, Rubber, Battery

Dimensions Variable

Unique

Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

 

Private view: http://privateview.net/1/1fcc18f4d367cd52a0d5e9

 

Workplace Gallery is delighted to present After Noon Distance our second solo exhibition of new work by Richard Rigg. In the darkened ground floor gallery of Workplace Gateshead is a light with fixtures and fittings from a pedestrian underpass; the wiring at one end visibly cut. Maintaining its vertical and horizontal position despite being removed from its architecture, the linear structure of After Noon Distance implies the absent architectural context of the subway; as well as our ambiguous associations with such subterranian spaces. Despite its severed wiring the light remains impossibly on, creating a paradoxical and uncanny situation.

 

Richard Rigg's sculptures reproduce and manipulate everyday objects, transforming them into reflexive propositions and theoretical paradoxes. Employing culturally resonant objects that signify the foundations of our civilization through drawing upon the histories of science, mathematics and literature, Rigg pitches reason against itself, elegantly and iconoclastically undermining our own rational basis, yet suggesting an ulterior route. Rigg's reductive, minimal works open up potential meanings and ontological possibilities. Attempts to pin the works down into an exact reading are thwarted through their eliptical nature. In his work there is often a direct meeting of its beginning with its end. 

 

Richard Rigg was born in Penrith, Cumbria in 1980 and graduated from Newcastle University in 2005. Recent exhibitions include Satellite Satellite Workplace London, Chance Finds Us MIMA, Middlesbrough, The Difference Loom Iziko South Africa National Gallery, be like water Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, Lacuna Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (solo), The Inhabitant of the Watchtower High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, California, USA (solo), Cage Mix: Sculpture & Sound Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, The Glass Delusion The National Glass Centre, Sunderland, Suns Neither Rise Nor Set Royal College of Art, London. Rigg lives and works in Newcastle. 

 

Cath Campbell

Everything we do corrects the space

1st November - 20th December 2014

Workplace Gateshead 

 

 

Cath Campbell

for quartets, 2014
HD video (16:9)
2:56 Minutes (looped)
Edition of 3 plus 1 AP

Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Click here to view movie online

 

 

 

Cath Campbell 

for the yellow smoke, 2014
HD video (16:9)
03:10 Minutes (looped)
Edition of 3 plus 1 AP

Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Click here to view movie online

 

Private view: http://privateview.net/1/c7eab2775e78e9f178f020

 

Workplace Gallery is delighted to present Everything we do corrects the space our second solo exhibition of new work by Cath Campbell. Two short video works - for quartets and for the yellow smoke continue an on going process of appropriating, manipulating and deconstructing found images and documentary travel photography collected from publications and the internet. The videos are made up of collected footage from travel diaries and documentaries found on YouTube depicting different American States - Alaska and California. Each video is structured as a series of short acts, parts or chapters, and the content of each is determined by the narrative contained in the subtitles. In each found movie clip, the original dialogue is translated through Google's automatic captions, leading to a series of slight mistranslations that lends a poetic subtext to the work. The disparate film clips are then carefully stitched together to create a dreamlike narrative that refers to the literary device of the 'inner monologue' or 'stream of consciousness' in which the writer attempts to remove rational thought, instead presenting the inner consciousness of the character. Each title is taken from a poem by T S Elliot, who uses this device in his work.

 

In making each work Campbell films the original video on her phone, direct from the computer screen, allowing the process to slightly distort the image and bleach the colour, and deliberately revealing the scratches and marks on the screen. These filmed clips are then edited and stitched together on her phone and uploaded back to Youtube, where the final subtitles are them added, and the work is re-filmed in HD to create the final work. This deliberately lo-fi mode of working intentionally reveals the layers of translation from the source material to final work, making apparent the fiction of the resulting film, and the contrasting experience of the artist and (documentary maker), in an attempt to explore relationship between reality, desire and experience. 

 

Cath Campbell was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire in 1972 and graduated from Newcastle university in 1995. Recent exhibitions include Satellite Satellite, Workplace London, Mostyn Open 18, Oriel Mostyn, Wales, An arrangement in white, XO, Leeds, UK, Ideal Mexico, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, Enter slowly, The Lab, San Fransisco, USA, Natural Language [nach-er-uhl lang-gwij], Vitrine Gallery, London UK. Recent commissions include Untitled (Trellis), Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, UK, '21 arches instead of a gate', London, UK and 'marathon', Washington DC, USA.

Campbell lives and works in Newcastle, UK.

 

 

Workplace Gallery
The Old Post Office

19 - 21 West Street

Gateshead, NE8 1AD

tel: + 44 (0)191 4772200

(open Tues - Saturday 11am - 5pm, and by appointment)

 

Workplace London
61 Conduit Street

Mayfair
London, W1S 2GB

tel: +44 (0)207 434 1985

(open Friday - Saturday 10 am - 6pm, and by appointment)

 

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