Alice Mendelowitz - PROJECT B.
24/05/2012
This series of works is an investigation into the act of pulling scenes together into the single time frame of the painting. Natural scale and colour have been abandoned; there is no hierarchy within the composition of the work. The figures in the paintings exist in their surroundings but also do not. How should gravity be formalised in a 2D work ? The installation is about seeing images in a contrived manner.
The Sensory Landscape of Cities – Charles Landry
The City is a 360 – degree, all embracing, immersive experience, but we sense, feel, and understand it through increasingly narrow funnels of perception. What might those be? Are they set at 90 or even 45 degrees? Our sensory landscape is shrinking precisely at the moment it should be broadening. Our perceptive capacities are cramped because we do not sufficiently recognise or use most of our senses. Yet we need to stretch our awareness so that we can discern the things that matter and deal with them. The sensory landscape of a city is comprised of the totality of experiences we perceive by being in and navigating a city. I refer to not only the classic five senses, including sight, smell, sound, and touch. These are tangible. But our landscape also includes invisible perceptions such as electro perception. The city is a vast, dense sea of electrical energy fields and waves estimated to be 100 million times stronger than they were one hundred years ago. These massive currents crisscrossing the urban environment are unseen, unfelt, unheard, and without taste or smell. The accumulative cocktail of magnetic and electrical fields generated by power transmission line, pylons and masts, mobile phones, computers, television and radio, lighting, wiring and household appliances can seriously interfere with the subtle natural balances of each cell in our body. The sum of perceptions is experienced emotionally. How we experience these senses determines the mood, disposition, temperament, and, ultimately, the personality of a city. In an iterative process, the effect of these tangibles and the imperceptibles shapes reinforces how we perceive the city and what it becomes.
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CAMBERWELL ARTS WEEK - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
To coincide with Camberwell Arts week INLAND will create a temporary structure, a mise en abyme, within the gallery to facilitate a productive space for event based exhibits. INLAND Off-Shore takes as its departure the notion of the ISLAND as a microcosm whereby ideas can by communicated and developed, isolation breeding creation within the physicality of the space. A place in which to realize works. During the three days we hope to encourage an open & discursive environment which simultaneously evolves in its installation as an autonomous work.
This series of event will take place between the 17th and 21st of June. If you have a use for the space please email us at contact@inlandstudios.co.uk
