LANDFALL | ak28 and BLOT | Stockholm, Sweden | 2005

ak28 och BLOT presenterar: YOUNG SCOTTISH ART
LANDFALL

"We'll Revisit the Scenes of Our Youth"

Video still, 2004, Jason Dee

 

 

In Landfall we have the honour of proudly presenting a group exhibit with five interesting artists ordinarily based in Glasgow. The exhibit is curated by artist Joyce Ip and is a collaboration between ak28 and the recently opened project room Blot.

 

The term landfall pertains to the arrival at, or first sighting of, land during a voyage, as well as the critical point where the eye of the storm first crosses a land mass. In this exhibit, the five artists contribute individual works, which embodies such critical phase in momentum between the unknown and the known.

 

 

 

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............................................................................................Maurice Doherty Waiting to Fall [performance/video installation 2001] After ingesting sleeping pills the artist, clearly affected by sleep deprivation, stands upright, waiting for or struggling against the inevitable reality of a hard floor. Whether the artist falls asleep or wakes up at the moment of the encounter remains unclear.
............................................................................................Patrick Jameson Tokyo & Landing & TEE [all videos, 2005] Patrick Jameson approaches everyday scenarios from a highly abstracted viewpoint. In three films, simple forms signify spatial meaning as they are put in motion: lines in the film TEE, sources of light in the films Tokyo and Landing. Patrick’s works emerge in part from technical blueprints and maps, images which refects a human coding of the world and its objects.
...........................................................................................Rhona Warwick Valpone's Corner [site specific installation, 2005] 1.1 Somewhere in Bombay 1954, a scenographer builds a small model to propose as the set for the play Volpone. The proposal was rejected and the model was photographed then destroyed. 1.2 It is the end of summer in Glasgow 2005 and I find a book, ’Stage sets from around the world’. I realise that most images in the book refer to stagesets that remained only as an idea. The Volpone image pulls my focus – its ramps, stairs, portal proposes another space, an atmosphere unhinged from reality, yet it seemed more true to an actual space or mindscape than any another set. I wonder if its dislocation, its blurring of real and imagined space is the reason for its rejection in the first place. For three months Volpone inhabits the moment before sleep. 1.3 Stockholm at the end of Nov. 2005 faced with a corner. Try to think out from it, built and paint to human scale. The backdrop takes centre stage - Volpone has a life again. Still hovering between three points.
...........................................................................................Victoria Skogsberg On/Off [installation, 2003] Victoria Skogsberg investigates the relationship between methods pertaining to spiritualism and science, faith and experience. Her intention with works such as the installation, On/Off, is to displace the spectator’s perception of the world and the real, to reach beyond the ordinary and suggest a paranormal presence.
...........................................................................................Jason Dee That's All.. & We Will Revisit the Scenes of Our Youth & Her Celluloid Self [2005 & 2004, video] Jason Dee takes his point of departure in existing movies, which he distorts through digital interventions. The result is a confusing and haunting sense of temporal and spatial disorientation. The people in the clips appear oddly dislocated or hypnotised in the new rooms created. Meanwhile, the characters also function as an image of the spectator as consumer of filmic technology, embodying our relationship to isolation and fear, love and desire.

 

 

THANKS TO: Leo Brimberg, Jonas Unger, Tobias Ståhl / Dieselverkstaden, Eberhardt Höller, Fredrik Wretman, Tesa Järvsjö, Karl Tuikkainen, Peter Hagdahl, Clara Bergom-Larsson, Staffan / CRAC, Harald Person, Konstakuten, Tensta Konsthall, Niklas Seglevi, Mille Carasco and Helen Öhman.