Space is the Place(2021) at Convenience Gallery, Wirral, Liverpool, UK
by Patric Roger & Angelo Madonna
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.
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.
The exhibition encourages the viewer to connect deeper to the environments and places around them and to explore how our connection to place is made through our experiences, dreams, memories and through the landscape itself.
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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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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.
"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.
