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Kihlberg & Henry A Mountain Close Up is Only Rock video still 2016 |
16 April - 22 May 2016 |
For their exhibition Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry have invited the Disembodied Voice research group to show new works and host a series of events. The group includes Maia Conran, Patrick Coyle, Karen Di Franco, Kihlberg & Henry, and was formed in 2014 as a format to explore manifestations of the disembodied voice within their own work and in wider culture. The disembodied voice, and its often inevitable re-embodiment in objects other than the original speaking body, are variously reflected in the exhibition and its associated events, from the recorded voice in moving image to its traces in written correspondences and archives. An accompanying essay by Chris Fite-Wassilak will be available as part of the exhibition. Kihlberg & Henry's video work A Mountain Close Up is Only Rock forms a digitalogical dissection of deceased architect Jørn Utzon. Narrated by a series of unfixed voices in combination with an associative flow through Utzon's digital footprint, the video envisions an obscure afterlife in the traces of the architect's mythical house on Mallorca, its geographic location kept private by the architect and its evidence on the internet scant. Patrick Coyle will be posting a series of items to Danielle Arnaud which will be on display for the duration of the exhibition. Envelope Opening for Closing Event will deliver the promise of its title on the final day of the exhibition, when Coyle will deliver a performance in which he opens these items and uses them as a script. Karen Di Franco will present I Decide Not to Operate Without Direct Communication. A postcard from Lee Lozano located in the archive of writer and critic Barbara Reise is taken as a starting point to discuss the temporalities of the archive. The philosopher Karen Barad has described the archive as trace rather than repository - as an assemblage of interactive phenomena. By articulating documents, the presentation will explore such interactivities. In Maia Conran's video work Meat, a film studio lighting rig is repurposed as the protagonist of a scripted psycho-narration. Internal monologues, social desires and multiple selves are revealed through the interface of this character's voices. The glistening, dark presence of the rig is punctured by Youtube-culled footage of the rig's counter-character, Meat. The Disembodied Voice research group is funded by
Arts Council England and Vision Forum. |
Events: |
Sunday 24 April 4pm - I Decide Not to Operate Without Direct Communication, presentation by Karen Di Franco. |
Friday 29 April 6:30pm - John Smith film screening and conversation with Kihlberg & Henry. John Smith will be screening a series of films followed by a conversation with Kihlberg & Henry about the use of voiceover in his work. John Smith was born in London in 1952 and studied film at the Royal College of Art. Inspired in his formative years by conceptual art and structural film, but also fascinated by the immersive power of narrative and the spoken word, he has developed an extensive body of work that subverts the perceived boundaries between documentary and fiction, representation and abstraction. Often rooted in everyday life, Smith’s meticulously crafted films rework and transform reality, playfully exploring and exposing the language of cinema. |
Sunday 22 May 4:30pm - Envelope Opening for Closing Event, performance by Patrick Coyle. |
Kihlberg & Henry are artists working with moving
image, performance, interdisciplinary research projects and publications.
They have had recent solo exhibitions at Fig-2, Institute of Contemporary
Arts and Res, London; Artsway, Hampshire; Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth;
Gallery Box, Gothenburg, and Danielle Arnaud, London. They have participated
in group shows and projects at Camden Arts Centre, London, Eastside
Projects, Birmingham, Fundació Miró, Mallorca, Tate Modern and the Hayward
Gallery, UK. They won the Great North Run Moving Image Commission in
2012 and were artists in residence at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge,
2011, Futura, Prague, 2007 and Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, 2006. |
Patrick Coyle (b. 1983, Hull, UK) is an artist and
writer working predominantly with performance and sculpture. His practice
considers the difference between sense and nonsense in verbal communication.
Often borrowing from the conventions of guided tours and poetry readings,
Coyle examines both the supposed authority of the lone orator and the
psychological affect of reading aloud on both the listener and the speaker.
Coyle completed MFA Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London
(2010) and BA Fine Art at Byam Shaw, University of the Arts London (2005).
He recently delivered performances at El Tercer Lugar, Buenos Aires;
Catalyst Arts, Belfast; Van Alen Institute, New York; Global Committee,
New York; Tate Modern, London; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London;
Nottingham Contemporary; Wellcome Collection, London; ANDOR Gallery,
London; Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Spike Island, Bristol (all
2014-16). |
Karen Di Franco works as an archivist, a curator,
and is currently PhD candidate with Tate Britain and Reading University
researching forms, strategies and contexts within artists’ publishing.
Recent projects include the exhibitions The sun went in, the fire
went out: landscapes in film, performance and text, CHELSEA space
(2016), Icons of a Process, Flat Time House (2014) and the
development of Book Works online archive and publication Again,
A Time Machine (2010-12). |
Maia Conran graduated from the University of West of England, Bristol in 2010 and lives and works in London. She has had solo exhibitions at Kingsgate Workshops, London; Grand Union, Birmingham; Phoenix Gallery, Exeter; and G39, Cardiff and has also been selected for international group exhibitions, screenings and residencies. Her work was published on DVD by Filmarmalade in 2012 and was the subject of a monograph entitled Here is the Yard published by Grand Union in 2014. |
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Kihlberg & Henry
A Mountain Close Up is Only Rock 2016 unique slides, x-ray lightbox and sound |
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Kihlberg & Henry
A Mountain Close Up is Only Rock 2016 unique slides, x-ray lightbox and sound |
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Kihlberg & Henry
A Mountain Close Up is Only Rock 2016 unique slides, x-ray lightbox and sound |
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Maia Conran
Meat 2016 HD video 4'30 minutes |
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Maia Conran
Meat 2016 HD video 4'30 minutes |
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Maia Conran
Meat 2016 HD video 4'30 minutes |
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Patrick Coyle
set up for Envelope Opening For a Closing Event 2016 performance on Sunday 22 May 2016 |
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Patrick Coyle
set up for Envelope Opening For a Closing Event 2016 performance on Sunday 22 May 2016 |
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Kihlberg & Henry
A Mountain Close Up is Only Rock 2016 HD video installation with 4.1 sound 13 minutes |
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Kihlberg & Henry
A Mountain Close Up is Only Rock 2016 HD video installation with 4.1 sound 13 minutes |
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Kihlberg & Henry
A Mountain Close Up is Only Rock 2016 HD video installation with 4.1 sound 13 minutes |
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Kihlberg & Henry
A Mountain Close Up is Only Rock 2016 HD video installation with 4.1 sound 13 minutes |
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