Mar 2007
INTERMEDIA GALLERY
06/03/07 09:08 Filed in: installation
Invitation to my next solo show, to be presented at
the CCA GLASGOW.
18 – 31 march 2007 11am – 5pm
Private View: Sat 17 March, 6pm
ROCK ELECTRONIQUE
An octane fuelled explosive AV minefield, inspired by and with direct reference to the works of the Musique Concrete samplist Pierre Henry.
The “detection, amplification and transfiguration of vibrations given out” by human beings, living and dead, and by materials such as “a diamond or a flower";
….The geometric limitation and building of silence;
F.T. Marinetti and Pino Masnata, ``La Radia," in F.T. Marinetti, Teoria e Invezione Futurista, (Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1968), pp. 176-180. Translated by Barbara Poggi and Douglas Kahn.
The artist, as alchemist, demonstrates that Will imparts significance - that the signs that are utilized are essentially empty but can be used to achieve very real ends. The realisation of this emptiness, that there is no innate property in any sign or material that is in itself of any worth, melds materialist negative dialectics to contemporary gnostic, magickal beliefs. The art object is a symptom of this collision of epistemologies; it symbolises the space where correspondences are temporarily knotted, where contingent meaning emerges.
Extended text to accompany the show by DR Alex Kennedy
18 – 31 march 2007 11am – 5pm
Private View: Sat 17 March, 6pm
ROCK ELECTRONIQUE
An octane fuelled explosive AV minefield, inspired by and with direct reference to the works of the Musique Concrete samplist Pierre Henry.
The “detection, amplification and transfiguration of vibrations given out” by human beings, living and dead, and by materials such as “a diamond or a flower";
….The geometric limitation and building of silence;
F.T. Marinetti and Pino Masnata, ``La Radia," in F.T. Marinetti, Teoria e Invezione Futurista, (Verona: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1968), pp. 176-180. Translated by Barbara Poggi and Douglas Kahn.
The artist, as alchemist, demonstrates that Will imparts significance - that the signs that are utilized are essentially empty but can be used to achieve very real ends. The realisation of this emptiness, that there is no innate property in any sign or material that is in itself of any worth, melds materialist negative dialectics to contemporary gnostic, magickal beliefs. The art object is a symptom of this collision of epistemologies; it symbolises the space where correspondences are temporarily knotted, where contingent meaning emerges.
Extended text to accompany the show by DR Alex Kennedy
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