Notes

To be read to Re-made Slow Motion (1st Version), 2009 as part of Programme Three: The Studio as Non-Place, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Australia, curated by Lucy Moore, 27 March 2011.

Download text here: To be read to Re-made Slow Motion

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A text I've written, titled A Rewriting of Decreation was published to coincide with Ian Law's exhibition Add a description, Galeria Plan B, Berlin, June 2011. This text employs an excerpt from Simone Weil's Gravity and Grace, titled 'Decreation' as its structural basis. The main body of this text is accompanied by a series of footnotes developed together with Ian Law in relation to his work.

Download the text here: A Rewtiting of Decreation

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Re-made Slow Motion, for the launch of Issue 2 of Monaco Magazine, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, 28 November 2010.

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Starting in February 2009 Ian Law and I have been working on a project together. Here you can find images of some the objects we are working with.

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For the launch of Monaco Magazine, Issue One, at SE8 Gallery, London in June 2010 - as a part of their exhibition Mulberry Tree Press, I presented a work titled Presentation for Joey Friedman's Rock Collection, which, due to the rocks from Joey's rock collection not arriving, consisted of my Pierre Cardin towel laid out on a table. My contribution to the magazine consists of 4 double-page spreads showing mock-up layouts for a presentation of Joey's rocks. Here the rocks are temporarily replaced by 'cream slice'-style pastries, and the notes which might be written by Joey and myself are temporarily replaced with the notes I made in the margins of the book 'The Story of Philosophy' by Will Durant, initially read while I was in high school.


Presentation:





Contribution:

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As a commission for Generous Structures Casco Issues XII, edited by Binna Choi and Axel John Wieder, I composed a text provisionally titled A Reading of Pragmatism with a Bottlebrush Plant in the Room. This text is a series of notes on both the other contributions to the publication and a forthcoming presentation I am to give about William James' lectures on pragmatism. Download draft layout here: Casco Issues XII.

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For the group exhibition Die Fuge - La Cueva de Cristal, at the Mark Morgan Perez Garage in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21-28 March, 2010 - organised by Hella Gerlach and Roman Schramm, I made a collaborative work titled The Restaurant at Griboyedov House for which I invited three artists whose work I was unfamiliar with, Sydney Hart, David Smith and Steven A. Weeks, to send an object directly to the space in Buenos Aires, to stand in for specific omitted sections of Edgar Allen Poe's detective story 'The Purloined Letter.'

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As a contribution to the exhibition-publication Part 04, published by Gedanken zur Revolution, Leipzig, Germany, edited by Falk Messerschmidt and Prof. Dr. Marc Ries, I made a work for print titled Getting closer / Bringing together / Getting further / Coming closer / Growing apart / Growing distant / Growing into / Getting together. This work is a double-page spread, showing a pair or diagrams. These diagrams are composed using two images (one of a 1600's Bavarian four-poster bed from the German auction catalogue 'Pantheon', and the other an illustration from an atlas showing a particular kind of sink hole called a 'cenote'), two diagrams (borrowed from Michel de Certeau's essay Ethno-Graphy: Speech, or the Space of the Other: Jean de Léry), and a series of indirectly related quotes and short texts, written by a number of authors, including myself. Since the completion of this piece, I have employed each side of this spread as the basis for a biographical film: for the left-hand side the film is focused on the early American coke and steel industrialist and philanthopist Henry Clay Frick, and for the right-hand side 1500's French Calvinist ethnographer Jean de Léry is the subject.

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For the 3rd iteration of the annual exhibition I Love You Here Is What I Made held at The Wilderness Charter School, Ashland, Oregon on the 3rd of January 2010, organized by Christy Cook, I made an invitation to the visitors which you can see here.

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An invitation, a score and plans to re-make 'Slow Motion' at Hermes und Der Pfau, Stuttgart, 5 December 2009-15 January 2010. During the installation period for this solo exhibition I planed for three kinds of events to happen simultaneously in the gallery space: 1) I made an open invitation to the two local art schools for students and staff to temporarily re-locate their practices to the gallery for the duration of the installation period (two artists and one art history lecture joined me in the space), 2) I programmed a number of film screenings in the space, showing English-language 'biopics' which take their name from the biographed protagonist (ie 'Evita,' 'Genghis Khan,' 'Cleopatra,' 'Milk,' 'Lenny' etc.), and 3) I re-made, shot by shot, as much of Jean-Luc Godard's 1980 film 'Slow Motion' as I could, which ended up being the first 40 minutes. Rather than re-enacting the events in Godards film, I focused on re-composing a shot's depth of field, lighting, camera movements and shot duration in the gallery space using whatever what to hand, and a Sony MiniDV HandyCam.

Stills from Re-Making 'Slow Motion', 2009, Single chanel video with sound, 38 minutes

Installation views from An invitation, a score and plans to re-make 'Slow Motion', 2009, Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart, November 2009 - January 2010

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Presentation for 'After Hours', in After Hours, The Wallis Gallery (Vanessa Carlos, Edward Fornieles and Ross McNicol) within the Paradise Row / Prakke Contemporary pop-up show Play (9 October to 3 November 2009), 50 Upper Brook Street, London W1. 6-9pm Friday 23 October. A series of film clips selected and presented by 6 people, organized by Katie Guggenheim and Patrick Shier.

Poster:




Performance:

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Correspondences / Invitations, 2009
B/w off-set print
182 x 230 cm
Edition of 100 - Each edition is numbered and invites the viewer to an event which could be happening shortly after they have seen the print.
RIGHT Editions 1/100 and 2/100, both made for the exhibition Bold Tendencies III, Hanna Berry Gallery, London, July-September 2009 - c/o LuckyPDF, London.

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This is documentation of an on-going series of temporary sculptures which are made with items on my desktop.

Temporary Desktop Sculpture 7, 2011
Photocopied Cannon SLR User's Manuel, map of Berlin, Vodafone User's Manuel, list of works from 'Mulberry Tree Press' exhibition, pad of acid-free 10lb layout paper, European Union Human Rights publication, white letter envelope containing one of David Smith's sculptures, Tourist's map of London, handmade note pad,
29.7 x 42 x 3 cm

Temporary Desktop Sculpture 5, 2010
'Description of a Struggle And Other Short Stories' by Franz Kafka (Penguin Classics - Paperback), a drawing on purple construction paper, pay slip, 'Leo Tolstoy: His Life and Works' by Aylmer Maude (Routledge Introductions. No. 21 - Paperback), 3.5mm Stereo Jack packaging, Zoo - 2009 map, 'A Thousand Plateaus' by G. Deleuze and F. Gauttari (Minesota - Paperback), Bloomsbuy Bookshop bookmark, S/Z's pink business card, notes for "After a 'Description of a Struggle'", A6 rules notcard
40 x 35 x 7 cm

Temporary Desktop Sculpture 6, 2010
Documenta 12 Film Programme, receipt from Citymarket im Kaufhof - Stuttgart, receipt from Callooh Callay Bar - London, cutting from a magazine.
22 x 28 x 1 cm

Temporary Desktop Sculpture 4, 2010
White A4 envelope, business card, receipt from Tate Catering, receipt from ReiseBank AG - Koln
25 x 20 x 2 cm

Temporary Desktop Sculpture 3, 2009
FedEx Kinko's 'DeskPad 2009' January page, Zagat: Chicago Restaurants 2008/09, AREA Chicago newspaper publication #7, pages D3, D4, D5 and D6 from The New York Times, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 (the article 'The Unintended Consequences of Changing Nature's Balance'), empty 1 lb. See's Famous Old Time Candies box, dust jacket from Newsweek/Mondadori -'Great Museums of the World: Uffizi Florence', empty El Ranchero salted Tortilla Chips bag
60 x 42 x 8 cm

Temporary Desktop Sculpture 2, 2009
Yellow card envelope, Chicago phone book (Yellowbook 2009-2010), 2 Amigos Restaurant paper take-away menu, adhesive SAIC visitor pass, pages C3, C4, C7 and C8 from The New York Times, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 (the article 'From a Vault in Paris, Sounds of Opera 1907'), 1st Anniversary of Kosovo color advertisement printed on newsprint
60 x 10 x 30 cm

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Set # 17 (L'Argent/Logan's Run/The Guardian of The Threshold), 2008
Video on monitor on plinth with DVD player, wooden bench, b/w inkjet print (Excerpt from 'Reviews: New York: 'T.J. Wilcox, Metro Pictures', by David Frankel, Artforum International, November 2007, XLVI, No. 3, New York, 2007, Reviews, p 364. Image credits: View of "T.J. Wilcox", 2007. From left: 'Apparition (Indian Dancers II)', 2007; 'Apparition (Indian Dancers III)', 2007.), wall paper paste, wooden armature of monitor box (wood, screws, 40 x 40 x 40 cm), cobalt linen curtain, magazine tares (x 20), wall tacks
308 x 293 x 230 cm


Video details:
Single channel video with sound, 2008
38 minutes 27 seconds
Excerpts from 'Guardian of the threshold' from 'Four Mystery Dramas: The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of the Threshold, The Soul's Awakening', by Rudolf Steiner, 1913, Translated by Ruth and Hans Pusch, Rudolf Steiner Press, California, 1997 - Excerpts from 'L'Argent'. DVD. Directed by Robert Bresson, 1983; France/Switzerland: ESO Films/Marion's Films/FR3; Artificial Eye, World Cinema Ltd., 2005 - Excerpts from 'Logan's Run'. DVD. Directed by Michael Anderson, 1976; USA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 2008




Installation view: Zayne Armstrong & Olaf Habelmann, Next Visit, Berlin, October, 2008

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Set #16 (Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment / L'Argent / Thriller / Brillo Boxes), 2008
B/w Xerox print wallpaper, wallpaper paste, A4 color ink-jet prints, A0 color ink-jet print, custom acrylic matt green wall paint, 1 x 4 x 8 ft hired rostrum platform, hired free-standing halogen spot lights system, wood armature & b/w Xerox print boxes, digital projector, DVD player, video on loop, boom box stereos, stereo system, CDs on loop, extension leads, push pins.
Installation view: BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, June, 2008

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