"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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