PREMIOS IPJ PARA ARTE DIGITAL - BIENAL INTERNATIONAL DE ARTE DE CERVEIRA
5 June - 3 July 2010
Rua Miguel Bombarda, nš572
4050-379 Porto
Portugal
Installation view, Fair Play, 2008, Video HD, 2'37"
ROMANIAN PAVILION at HOTSHOE GALLERY - Exhibition Talk
15 May – 18 June 2010
Friday 4 June, 7pm
29-31 Saffron Hill
London EC1N 8SW
United Kingdom
AXIS at TERRITORIAL PLAY
Video piece Axis has been selected for the platform event, Territorial Play, part of Radiator Festival's forthcoming project Tracing Mobility, a pan-European programme launching in Nottingham mid May 2010 and travelling to Warsaw (June/July 2010), Amsterdam (2011) and Berlin (2011).
Territorial Play aims to illustrate, annotate and animate discourse around the current trend towards a 'mobilised city'. With the emergence of location aware mobile devices and near ubiquitous access to electronic networks in urban and rural areas, a new city is emerging beneath our feet.
Axis, video stills, HD video, 2010, in collaboration with Renata Gaspar
KOPALNIA /MINE PROJECT
Extract from review by Rebecca Lewin
"Entering Marcin Dudek’s installation for the basement of the Edel Assanti Project Space in Victoria is quite an experience. With little more than cellophane and tape Dudek has transformed the studio into a miniature labyrinth entitled Kopalnia (Polish for mine). Sounds and lights come from videos placed in unexpected corners, their projections stretching across the surface of the tunnels. The visitor’s path is already laid out, and we move into the space, wondering what is around the next corner; just as we begin to worry about getting out again we find ourselves unexpectedly back in the stairwell.
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‘When I’m stretching the tape…I’m producing time’ he explains. ‘Thirty centimetres equals five seconds. So I’m constantly producing time, through the tape, and the tape is an archive of time.’ The sounds made by stretching tape can also be heard coming from one of the two videos playing in Kopalnia, thus inserting the sound of the object being made even as we are moving through it as a finished piece.
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In a sense Kopalnia is a sculpture that has formed itself around the movements of the viewers rather than guiding them. With two areas for viewing the video elements of the installation and a corridor that connects them, the ‘perfect cinema’, as Dudek describes the tape and cellophane structure, is an anarchic (but equally carefully structured) echo of the white walls and bright lighting of the galleries upstairs. In many ways it is more of a shock to leave the basement than it is to enter it, and Dudek hopes that visitors will carry an air of unreality around with them after they emerge."
Photograph by Manuel Vazquez
KOPALNIA / Mine Project
25th of March - 17th April 2010
HIVE Projects | T1+2 Gallery in Victoria
276 Vauxhal Brighe Road
London SW1V 1BB
Opening times: Thursday - Sunday 12-6pm, and by appointment.
Marcin Dudek’s new installation explores architecture under the surface. This work takes the visitor through a series of ‘illegal tunnels’, mine-like constructions and underground networks. These spacial interventions seek to reveal something of the lesser-visited areas of the building; spaces that are overlooked by many.
Dudek’s installations are parasites. Much like these organisms, this installation forms a symbiotic relationship with the space, existing to both overpower it (with contrasting materials and shapes) and to reflect its architectural characteristics (understanding that the building plays the role of ‘host’ and in that sense dictates the direction of its growth).
This work builds upon the transient character of Dudek’s previous installation Tunnel Recording I, 2006; an artwork that referenced the illegal construction of a series of underground tunnels at both the US - Mexico border and a tunnel built in Sarajevo by the Bosnian resistance army, where the simple process of ‘walking- through’ begs more profound questions about survival (the transportation of medical supplies, fuel and weaponry), profiting (drug trafficking) and escape (illegal immigration).
