My recode residency:
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics Project The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that “...in any closed system disorder, or entropy, always increases with time...” (Hawkins, Stephen 1988)
TSLoT is a play on the title of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb where a malfunctioning communications device, the CRM 114 Discriminator, causes the crew of the B52 to start a nuclear holocaust. Consisting of five events TSLoT is a multi-site project where four artists will take it in turn to appropriate, deconstruct, de-author, re-imagine, redistribute and ultimately reassemble the artwork of the participants. The project will de-code and re-code practices to form new interpretations and insights, stretching the artists and challenging their understanding of their own practice. Participating Artists: Samuel Cook, Ryan Curtis, Jean-Philippe Dordolo and Sophie Victoria Elliott. |
Exhibition of the Residency Work:
I was delivered work that had been re-worked twice already as well as new pieces added and old ones remaining.
Major themes that stuck me were the Mount St Helen's disaster and Foucault's text 'Des Espace Autres'.
Major themes that stuck me were the Mount St Helen's disaster and Foucault's text 'Des Espace Autres'.
[ph]allacy:
This was the humorous response to my comments at our first meeting for Vinyl 1:5; Samuel Cook constructed a large phallus from clay he had dug from the ground.
This piece of work commanded attention, it was a demonstration of man's domination over nature with an threatening element. Samuel Cook has shown the ability to extract and manipulate a material that had taken thousands of years to form. He tore it from the ground, kneading and twisting it in to shape. Yet within this imposing action lay nuances of softness, an archetypal parallel to femininity. The traces of finger and palm prints, the cracks gradually radiating around the surface and that same surface beginning to soften to dust, all contradict the initial reaction to this piece as dominating. It gradually reveals its ephemeral vulnerability. An anarchistic moment that will eventually return, once again, to whence it came.
This piece of work commanded attention, it was a demonstration of man's domination over nature with an threatening element. Samuel Cook has shown the ability to extract and manipulate a material that had taken thousands of years to form. He tore it from the ground, kneading and twisting it in to shape. Yet within this imposing action lay nuances of softness, an archetypal parallel to femininity. The traces of finger and palm prints, the cracks gradually radiating around the surface and that same surface beginning to soften to dust, all contradict the initial reaction to this piece as dominating. It gradually reveals its ephemeral vulnerability. An anarchistic moment that will eventually return, once again, to whence it came.
Opening Show: 1/5 Encounter
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1/5 ENCOUNTER
Venue: The Wig 55 Great Tindal Street, Birmingham, B16 8DR Opening: 12 April 2013 (18H00 - 21H00) Further dates: 13, 14 April 2013 (11H00 - 16H00) 2/5 [re]code #1 Venue: Stryx Unit 13 Minerva Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RS Opening: 26 April 2013 (18h00 - 21h00) Further dates: 27, 28 April 2013 (11h00 - 16h00) 3/5 [re]code #2 Venue: Edible Eastside 122 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RS Opening: 10 May 2013 (18h00 - 21h00) Further dates: 11, 12 May 2013 (11h00 - 16h00) 4/5 [re]code #3 Venue: Stryx Unit 13 Minerva Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RS Opening: 24 May 2013 (18h00 - 21h00) Further dates: 25, 26 May 2013 (11h00 - 16h00) 5/5 [re]code #4 Venue: Edible Eastside 122 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RS Opening: 07 June 2013 (18h00 - 21h00) Further dates: 08, 09 June 2013 (11h00 - 16h00) |