Jul 26, 2009
Jul 20, 2009
Grey Area supports Make Shift
Fringe Fusina, Venice
Dates: 18th–24th August 2009
Open: daily or by appointment, 1-7pm, free admission
Opening Event: 18th August at 5pm
Christopher Arran, Huw Bartlett, David Blandy, Blast Theory, Bob and Roberta Smith, Nick Carrick, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Adam Chodzko, Nadege Derderian, Jonathan Gilhooly, Ocean Mims, Mocksim, Laura Mousavi Zadeh, Lau Mun Leng, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Daniel Pryde-Jarman, Semiconductor
Fringe Fusina is a newly established contemporary art event launching in 2009 in the form of a diverse exhibition of works during the 53rd Venice Biennale International Art Festival. Activity will be concentrated in a two week period in August and a standing exhibition will remain thereafter. Located at the Camping Fusina site where the Laguna Veneta meets the Brenta River, the selected artworks will be shown at a variety of locations across the site including a shipping container, double-decker bus, and vaporetto stop. Fringe Fusina's lagoon location is a short hop from the island of Venezia to the city’s mainland coastal sprawl of industrial parks.
'Make Shift' has been curated around the theme of temporary production sites and physical/mental spaces where the processes of making can be seen to take place. The exhibition partners a program of screened video works with a collection of placed and interventional artworks created on-site via instructional text messages and a restricted bank of materials. The video works will be screened between 1-7pm over the course of a week from 18th–24th August whereas the physical works will remain in situ until the Venice Biennale closes in November. Official opening and a champagne reception with Camping Fusina administrators will be held at 5pm on 18th August.
Screening Schedule (films on continuous loop or by appointment):
18th: David Blandy, The Soul of the Lakes, 2005, DVD, 25mins
Dates: 18th–24th August 2009
Open: daily or by appointment, 1-7pm, free admission
Opening Event: 18th August at 5pm
Christopher Arran, Huw Bartlett, David Blandy, Blast Theory, Bob and Roberta Smith, Nick Carrick, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Adam Chodzko, Nadege Derderian, Jonathan Gilhooly, Ocean Mims, Mocksim, Laura Mousavi Zadeh, Lau Mun Leng, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Daniel Pryde-Jarman, Semiconductor
Fringe Fusina is a newly established contemporary art event launching in 2009 in the form of a diverse exhibition of works during the 53rd Venice Biennale International Art Festival. Activity will be concentrated in a two week period in August and a standing exhibition will remain thereafter. Located at the Camping Fusina site where the Laguna Veneta meets the Brenta River, the selected artworks will be shown at a variety of locations across the site including a shipping container, double-decker bus, and vaporetto stop. Fringe Fusina's lagoon location is a short hop from the island of Venezia to the city’s mainland coastal sprawl of industrial parks.
'Make Shift' has been curated around the theme of temporary production sites and physical/mental spaces where the processes of making can be seen to take place. The exhibition partners a program of screened video works with a collection of placed and interventional artworks created on-site via instructional text messages and a restricted bank of materials. The video works will be screened between 1-7pm over the course of a week from 18th–24th August whereas the physical works will remain in situ until the Venice Biennale closes in November. Official opening and a champagne reception with Camping Fusina administrators will be held at 5pm on 18th August.
Screening Schedule (films on continuous loop or by appointment):
18th: David Blandy, The Soul of the Lakes, 2005, DVD, 25mins
19th: Pil and Galia Kollectiv, The Future for Less, 2006, DVD, 10mins
Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Better Future, Wolf-Shaped, 2008, DVD, 15mins
20th: Semiconductor, Matter in Motion, 2008, DVD, 6mins
Lau Mun Leng, Music Box, 2008, DVD, 4mins
21st: Bob & Roberta Smith, A Floating Studio, 2007, DVD Video, 10mins
Blast Theory, TRUCOLD, DVD, 2002, 15mins 21sec
22nd: Mocksim, Rehearse, 2009, DVD, 3min
Daniel Pryde-Jarman, He’s Human Too You Know, 2006, DVD, 6mins
23rd: Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Impasse, 2003, DVD video, 2mins 15sec
24th: Adam Chodzko, Yet, 2005, 9mins 10sec Press Release, July 2009
Fringe Fusina 2009 is kindly supported by:
Camping Fusina, Venice, Italy
Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
Grey Area Gallery, Brighton, UK
Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Jack Hughes Design, Brighton, UK
Ticktoc art publication, Brighton, UK
Vacuum independent art paper, Brighton, UK
Contact Organisers:
Daniel Pryde-Jarman & Micheál O’Connell: makeshift@mocksim.co.uk
Lau Mun Leng, Music Box, 2008, DVD, 4mins
21st: Bob & Roberta Smith, A Floating Studio, 2007, DVD Video, 10mins
Blast Theory, TRUCOLD, DVD, 2002, 15mins 21sec
22nd: Mocksim, Rehearse, 2009, DVD, 3min
Daniel Pryde-Jarman, He’s Human Too You Know, 2006, DVD, 6mins
23rd: Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Impasse, 2003, DVD video, 2mins 15sec
24th: Adam Chodzko, Yet, 2005, 9mins 10sec Press Release, July 2009
Fringe Fusina 2009 is kindly supported by:
Camping Fusina, Venice, Italy
Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
Grey Area Gallery, Brighton, UK
Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Jack Hughes Design, Brighton, UK
Ticktoc art publication, Brighton, UK
Vacuum independent art paper, Brighton, UK
Contact Organisers:
Daniel Pryde-Jarman & Micheál O’Connell: makeshift@mocksim.co.uk
Jul 8, 2009
Forthcoming exhibition...
Empty Space
Eva Kalpadaki
Eva Kalpadaki
Exhibition: 25th July – 9th August 2009
Open: Thurs – Sun, 1-5pm
PV: Friday 24th July, 7-9pm
Grey Area Gallery is pleased to present Empty Space, a photographic body of work by artist Eva Kalpadaki. Empty Space explores the relationship of the abstract photographic image to the inner world, and also notions of exteriority and interiority as these relate to the transition from the unconscious to conscious reality. The photographs negotiate an abstract photographic space of emptiness as a potential space of abstraction between a psychic space of subjective projection and an objective material space of aesthetic contemplation.
In her work, Eva is interested in the psychological aspects of the abstract image, which sees the concept of abstraction in photography as situated in an uneasy territory that not only negotiates the status of the photographic sign between the iconic and the indexical, but also between the objective world and the subjective expression of it.
She is exploring the formal problem of the emptiness by drawing mainly upon Donald Winnicott’s psychoanalytic ideas of transitional phenomena in an intermediate area of experience between the internal and external reality. Within this area – the potential space, creativity originates as a zone of fictive play and free mentation that facilitates the subject’s journey from ‘what is subjectively conceived of’ to ‘what is objectively perceived’ throughout his/her development towards adaptation in the reality world.
Flirting and playing with the real she enters a performative creative process where she intervenes in the construction of the images with the gestural act of placing pieces of thread in the space of reference. Out of this play abstraction emerges as a journey about the real, a journey following the route of a circle; beginning in the real world, withdrawing to an inner world of unconscious processes and returning back to reality. The line that draws this space is both abstract and concrete, both abstract and figurative creating multiple directions in a photographic space of emptiness, which eventually appears full of potentialities waiting to be realised. It is a transitional line, which implies that the relationship between inner and outer reality can be performed and can become a space of action and intervention.
She is exploring the formal problem of the emptiness by drawing mainly upon Donald Winnicott’s psychoanalytic ideas of transitional phenomena in an intermediate area of experience between the internal and external reality. Within this area – the potential space, creativity originates as a zone of fictive play and free mentation that facilitates the subject’s journey from ‘what is subjectively conceived of’ to ‘what is objectively perceived’ throughout his/her development towards adaptation in the reality world.
Flirting and playing with the real she enters a performative creative process where she intervenes in the construction of the images with the gestural act of placing pieces of thread in the space of reference. Out of this play abstraction emerges as a journey about the real, a journey following the route of a circle; beginning in the real world, withdrawing to an inner world of unconscious processes and returning back to reality. The line that draws this space is both abstract and concrete, both abstract and figurative creating multiple directions in a photographic space of emptiness, which eventually appears full of potentialities waiting to be realised. It is a transitional line, which implies that the relationship between inner and outer reality can be performed and can become a space of action and intervention.
Eva Kalpadaki lives and works in Brighton. Eva was awarded a Greek State Foundation scholarship to undertake a PhD research in Photography. She has recently completed her PhD at the University for the Creative Arts. Empty Space is the practical outcome of her research.
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