Dead Letters, mixed media installation
2018I was approached by NUA MA students to participate in group show HOUSE GROUND PLAN. The exhibition took place at Nunns Yard gallery in Norwich, April 2018.
Non-Sites within contemporary fine art practice are largely defined as purely speculative space - a space where outcome is secondary to a process of investigation and development. The inherent tension of these sites has been a focus of conceptual Art since the post-modernist 80’s. The overt romanticism of an Artist such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres stands in direct contrast with a practitioner like Barbara Kruger and yet both are exploring the intersectionality of public and private space. In both cases we (the audience) are asked to unpack complex issues and concerns – our indulgence of which being defined by individual taste and proximity to the subject.
HOUSEGROUNDPLAN - with its utilitarian connotations and illusions to German post-industrialism, presented a number of unique concerns. If post-industrial theory asserts that it is the “form” rather than the “content” that is valuable - how to reconcile post-modernism’s research/development paradigm?
“Dead Letters” is an attempt to articulate the problematic nature of an internalised logic while acknowledging this externalised tension. The lines between conceptualisation/development and outcome become blurred and the works presentation is a conscious placement somewhere in that axis.
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Contact Aaron - Dimensions: 1.5m x 75 cm (squared)
- Contexts: Exhibition , Practice-based research , Project , Research , Studio practice
- Artforms: Environment , Film & video , Installation , Performance , Woodwork
- Tags: installation, Art, Artist, video, projection, materiality, research, development, exhibition, installationart