SPACE IS THE PLACE ACT 2: a transfigured
movement in time
movement in time
In this multi-media art and film experience the artists explore concepts of psychogeography and psycho-magic through a series of conceptual and symbolic artworks and film.
The aim of this exhibition is to encourages the viewer to consider the processes and practices through which we, as human beings connect aspects of our conscience such as memories, associations, myth, and folklore to the landscapes we inhabit.
The aim of this exhibition is to encourages the viewer to consider the processes and practices through which we, as human beings connect aspects of our conscience such as memories, associations, myth, and folklore to the landscapes we inhabit.
Above: still frames from film.
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A space within/out of place: a performative lecture by Dr Silvia Battista
A space within/ out a place is a performative lecture, a journey and a creative exploration in ten movements inspired by Space is the Place Act 2: A Transfigured Movement in Time. Hilbre Island acts as protagonist and main activator of the event - a talk informed by speculative fiction intersecting spirituality, imagination, resistance, activism and ancestral mythopoetic. ++ More images |
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Above: Tide comes in, tide goes out.
Media: Piano, wood brackets, step motors, Arduino, table, lamp.
Media: Piano, wood brackets, step motors, Arduino, table, lamp.
Above: details from the installation.
'Clearance' - Collective at Lewis's store building - Liverpool, UK
Title: Bod_j_ect act2: Conversations and songs(2022)
Title: Bod_j_ect act2: Conversations and songs(2022)
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Film from video installation:
Mixed media: HD monitor, dunnage bag, melodica.
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Space is the Place at Convenience Gallery, Wirral, Liverpool, UK
by Patric Roger & Angelo Madonna
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Space is the Place is Patric Rogers in collaboration with Angelo Madonna's deeply personal memoir to his most sacred of spaces, Hilbre Island. It is a cerebral exhibition project exploring the psychogeography of one of Wirral's iconic landmarks.
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The project began it's life during the our recent lock down period in the mind of its creator Patric Rogers. Patricspent many years during the summer months working on Hilbre Island. Often alone he was left in the quiet of the island to explore it's history, secrets and mysteries. For him the island became a teacher and a place of reflection and solace. Our recent period of national difficulty has opened the doors for people to explore their surroundings with a new found appreciation and it is through the telling of the stories of the island, its history, mysteries, folklore, psycho-geographic power and the people who are drawn to it that this exhibition aims to help others connect to their own spaces of reflection and solace.
In this multi part installation experience, Space is the Place encourages the viewer to consider their own sense of space and place exploring how, place, dreams, memories and landscape combine to create a deeper connection with the landscape.
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Still image from: Space is the Place 2021
Mixed media: sound speakers, video projectors, Light, selenium cell, fan.
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Still image from: Space is the Place 2021
Mixed media: sound speakers, video projectors, Light, selenium cell, fan.
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"Virtual Matter(S)" (2021) - at The Hive Art Community
Curated by Kathie Halfin
Virtual Matter(s) are online performance art series that focused on deepening the understanding of bodily representation in a realm of the virtual.
The Virtual Matter(s) questions how this experience transforms our way of thinking and what this re-orientation has to offer for performative practices. If we imagine the virtual space as an opportunity to construct a new performative space, what then are the new definitions of the body and its physical presence in this space? The term “Body Without Organs” coined by the philosophers Deleuze and Guattari offers a vast reservoir of potential traits, connections, effects, movements and it becomes deterritorialized socius — the wilderness where the decoded flows run free. What has the deterritorialized socius become in our reality of Zoom and other virtual spaces and social media platforms? How does the body react to the alienation that the digital engenders? How do we express the tension between longing for the sensory with its imperfection of organic and palpable and embrace the flat disembodied space with its quickly evolving social space and ethics.
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"Bod_j_ect" (2020)
This project it is part of ongoing Artist In Residence programme at:
MAKE - Hamilton Square
MAKE - Hamilton Square
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Still image from - Act1: imagining Bod_j_ect video
Mixed media: body, sound, performance, plastic air-bag, video projectors, air pump
Still image from - Act1: imagining Bod_j_ect video
Mixed media: body, sound, performance, plastic air-bag, video projectors, air pump
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Residency at: MAKE - Hamilton Square
"Encounters" (2020)
Following a series of performance: Single Acts and Sensitivity to differences it is my intention to continue to investigating my fascination and at the same time the obsession that I have with the form and what is within: the visual and tangible aspects of media and its opposite or the other something that is not - the ineffable.
Encounters is a long term project that contains a series of 1 minute single act performance created following a specific script. The film shows an attempt of a human body in isolation, to imagine and find the other; an object, a person or an emotion and try to embrace it.
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"Radiant feelings with affective qualities',(2020)
Mixed media: A1 poster, print on archive paper
"Sensitivity to differences",(2020)
This new work of performance came to exist weeks of conversations with Henry Chan at Liverpool John Moore University. The initial idea started with looking at new possibilities to activate object with the human body through a series of performance. We were both looking for art that seek to achieve a poetic statement with the simplest of mean. Somehow a return to simple materials reveling laws and processes deriving from the power of the imagination.
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Live preformance at ERL Gallery at LJMU (2020)
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"Single acts - Actions that affect or reduce form",(2020)
Live performances: Henry Chan, Angelo Madonna, White Dunnage Bags
Location: X Gallery, ERL Gallery.
Single Acts are a series of sketches using performance as a method to create the work. I was looking at new possibilities to activate object with the human body through a series of performance. In this sketches both artists are looking for art that seek to achieve a poetic statement with the simplest of mean.
Still Frames from video
Live performances: Henry Chan, Angelo Madonna, White Dunnage Bags
Location: X Gallery, ERL Gallery.
Live performances: Henry Chan, Angelo Madonna, White Dunnage Bags
Location: X Gallery, ERL Gallery.
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'Sonic Act'(2020)
Mixed media: electric fan, square LED light, amplifier, metal cables, selenium cell
This work is part of and ongoing research on sound, sculpture and sonic experiments. For this specific sound installation, I have exposed two selenium cells under a suspended light box. Each cell is wired and connected to a mixer and then connected to an amplifier. The oscillation of the fan towards the light box makes the box moving in and out. This engagement between light and the selenium cells create different qualities of white noises. What we may experience when sitting in this room is quite similar to what we may experience when sitting in an outdoor landscape. For example like the one being in front of the sea and listening to the sound of the waves coming in and out in a loop motion.
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'Acoustic Emergencies' (2020)
Mixed media: bare conductive sound device, mixer, sound system, video projectors, perspex structure
Below: still frames from video
Below: still frames from video
The installation is a juxtaposition of visual and sound, it is language which attempt is to affect the audience when they experience the work. The work consisted of a film projection on a wall passing through a transparent acrylic structure or perspex positioned in the middle of the room. The perspex split the video in multiple part of the room creating an immersive environment for the viewer.
The video had two different elements in it: on the left there was a side view of a human body moving forward and backward from the wall. The oscillation of the body was activating and dis-activating an electronic device placed on the wall and the sound produced by this interaction was amplified and played back in the room. The second element was the view of an infected land of olive trees.
What I wanted to present for this exibition, was this juxtaposition; this dialogue between the body and this land. Create the possibility where the body could enter in connection with that land, absorbing and let the mater of that space enter the body and from there start to imagine a creative process, a creative act of tranformation.
The video had two different elements in it: on the left there was a side view of a human body moving forward and backward from the wall. The oscillation of the body was activating and dis-activating an electronic device placed on the wall and the sound produced by this interaction was amplified and played back in the room. The second element was the view of an infected land of olive trees.
What I wanted to present for this exibition, was this juxtaposition; this dialogue between the body and this land. Create the possibility where the body could enter in connection with that land, absorbing and let the mater of that space enter the body and from there start to imagine a creative process, a creative act of tranformation.
Watch the full video:vimeo.com/387287940
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