In Sardegna tutto è tondo
16 Oct - 20 Nov 2010
© Robin Watkins
The Luminiferous Aether, fotocópia em acetato, madeira, estaca e fio eléctrico, 2009.
photocopy on acetate, overhead projector, wood, nail and cord, 2009.
The Luminiferous Aether, fotocópia em acetato, madeira, estaca e fio eléctrico, 2009.
photocopy on acetate, overhead projector, wood, nail and cord, 2009.
IN SARDEGNA TUTTO È TONDO
Exhibition assembled by Joana Escoval
Edmund Cook | Nuno Henriques | Nuno da Luz | Matteo Rubbi | Robin Watkins
16 October – 20 November, 2010
‘in Sardegna tutto è tondo’ was told to me by Giuseppina Carzeda who was making her own bread and cheese, and had her house filled with rocks brought from each location in the world she had been to. I met her during a trip through the island of Sardinia and once sitting down at her kitchen table, she gave me what she had made that day in order for me to taste, as she was going through the books around her. On this island everything is round (in Italian tondo) as all forms seem to lead from one to the other, in a circumference that repeats itself and spreads out, from the carasau bread to the cheese, through the pebbles on the beach, the Bronze Age Nuraghe, up until the horizon line that serves us as guide to the Earth’s circumference.
The works by these five artists are collected here under motivation from this circle, each one representing a unique and particular vision of what makes a collective unconscious go round. But each artist spurs much more than just the work developed so far: they have a way of moving about and in co-relation with the world that finds in artistic practice, the reflex of an intuition boosted by the direct contact that comes with empirical experience, scientific research, voyages or simply everyday life. Based on a rhythm that is their own, any of the works presented here respects the pace of each author’s pulse.
Edmund Cook brings us fragments and remains of a yet unrealised film. This installation encompasses parts of the research he has been developing, resorting to still images, text, video and sound as the building blocks of brief fictive events and occurrences with no distinct historical or temporal context, that are juxtaposed without reaching a univocal resolution.
Nord/Ost is the sound piece presented by Nuno da Luz after an incursion on the German coast to record the sound of the North and the Baltic seas. Geographically divided by the Jutland peninsula and up until twenty years ago, also divided politically, the seas now mix at the centre of the room, each one emitting on a separate channel of a stereophonic sound system.
Nuno Henriques brings us Der, Die, Das, piece that fulfils its main reason of being when placed in a classroom. Two images made to help out foreigners learning German, with a clearly didactic intent, where students can more easily recognise through colour the gender of each human body part.
For this exhibition, Matteo Rubbi presents a piece that is a work in progress, which will start with the staff of vera cortês’ art agency. It will be necessary to build trust, learn to communicate and only then, maybe in many years, can this be considered a finished piece.
Before the opening, The Luminiferous Aether, by Robin Watkins will take place.
This sound screening documents field recordings of solar radiations, made on the region of Yukon-Koyukuk, already on the Arctic Circle – Alaska. These low frequency recordings stem from the same electrical particles that give rise to the Aurora Borealis phenomenon. This experience will be shared through headphones and accompanied by an overhead-projection.
Exhibition assembled by Joana Escoval
Edmund Cook | Nuno Henriques | Nuno da Luz | Matteo Rubbi | Robin Watkins
16 October – 20 November, 2010
‘in Sardegna tutto è tondo’ was told to me by Giuseppina Carzeda who was making her own bread and cheese, and had her house filled with rocks brought from each location in the world she had been to. I met her during a trip through the island of Sardinia and once sitting down at her kitchen table, she gave me what she had made that day in order for me to taste, as she was going through the books around her. On this island everything is round (in Italian tondo) as all forms seem to lead from one to the other, in a circumference that repeats itself and spreads out, from the carasau bread to the cheese, through the pebbles on the beach, the Bronze Age Nuraghe, up until the horizon line that serves us as guide to the Earth’s circumference.
The works by these five artists are collected here under motivation from this circle, each one representing a unique and particular vision of what makes a collective unconscious go round. But each artist spurs much more than just the work developed so far: they have a way of moving about and in co-relation with the world that finds in artistic practice, the reflex of an intuition boosted by the direct contact that comes with empirical experience, scientific research, voyages or simply everyday life. Based on a rhythm that is their own, any of the works presented here respects the pace of each author’s pulse.
Edmund Cook brings us fragments and remains of a yet unrealised film. This installation encompasses parts of the research he has been developing, resorting to still images, text, video and sound as the building blocks of brief fictive events and occurrences with no distinct historical or temporal context, that are juxtaposed without reaching a univocal resolution.
Nord/Ost is the sound piece presented by Nuno da Luz after an incursion on the German coast to record the sound of the North and the Baltic seas. Geographically divided by the Jutland peninsula and up until twenty years ago, also divided politically, the seas now mix at the centre of the room, each one emitting on a separate channel of a stereophonic sound system.
Nuno Henriques brings us Der, Die, Das, piece that fulfils its main reason of being when placed in a classroom. Two images made to help out foreigners learning German, with a clearly didactic intent, where students can more easily recognise through colour the gender of each human body part.
For this exhibition, Matteo Rubbi presents a piece that is a work in progress, which will start with the staff of vera cortês’ art agency. It will be necessary to build trust, learn to communicate and only then, maybe in many years, can this be considered a finished piece.
Before the opening, The Luminiferous Aether, by Robin Watkins will take place.
This sound screening documents field recordings of solar radiations, made on the region of Yukon-Koyukuk, already on the Arctic Circle – Alaska. These low frequency recordings stem from the same electrical particles that give rise to the Aurora Borealis phenomenon. This experience will be shared through headphones and accompanied by an overhead-projection.