‘Surfaces’ is an edited selection of tracks from the performance ‘Working Space / Surface Time’ by John Court and Mark Roberts. The sound sources used were generated entirely by the movements of Court’s body as he moved slowly over a raised wooden platform. The sounds of his movements were picked up by four piezo microphones, [...]
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‘Surfaces’ album
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How Everything Turns Away – mp3 Album
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works, tagged music on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘How Everything Turns Away’ is a mini-album of guitar experiments recorded by Mark Roberts under the pseudonym ‘_R’. The album presents 4 tracks of entropic decay. Individual tracks and a printable CD wallet are available for download below. 1 We need to create a political crisis in order to rescue art from a quagmire of [...]
The Fact of the Matter
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works, tagged music on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘The Fact of the Matter’ was a live, four-hour sound performance in the abandoned Lokstall (train depot) of a closed iron-ore mine in Kirkenes, Norway. The sounds used in the performance were sourced from field recordings around the mine and depot. Narration is provided by an ex-worker reading extracts from a 1950s promotional book. The [...]
Scenograph #2: Foreign Apples (2008)
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Foreign Apples is the second work in the Scenograph series, and examines the way that nationalism secretes itself into the everyday. Beside the video, the latest edition of Kotiruoka – a Finnish home-cookery book – is open to a recipe for apple pie, the first line of which instructs the cook to “Wash the apples and peel [...]
Scenograph #1: Terra Incognita (2008)
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on January 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Terra Incognita is the first in a series of single-screen video works grouped under the title of Scenographs. The aim of the each work is to explore one issue in a single scene. As the title suggests, the intention is to combine the static elements of the photograph with the temporality of video and the idea [...]
Nimetön/Untitled from the Series “Subtitled” 2006
Posted in Artworks, Minna Rainio, Solo Works on August 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Digital C-prints 39,6 x 26,3cm
Self Portrait in March 2006 (from the Series “Subtitled”)
Posted in Artworks, Minna Rainio, Solo Works on August 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Self Portrait in March 2006. Series of 15 images. Digital c-prints 12,8 cm x 18,8 cm
Context #5 (2006)
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on July 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Happiness is written only on history’s blank pages – Henri Lefebvre ‘Context #5’ (2006) is part of an ongoing project of textual spatial interventions. The works employ a mirroring of form and meaning, exploring and illustrating concepts of history, space, and the ideological production of meaning within them. In each of the work, text is [...]
Untitled Colour Photographs (2006)
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on July 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
‘Untitled Colour Photographs’ highlights the descriptive nature of the photograph by – literally – describing photographic scenes. Each ‘image’ is printed on photographic paper – it is a photograph. But as with any photograph, we only get a part of the story. There is much left unsaid. Each work emphasises the role that the spectator plays [...]
Three-Legged Trouser Work (For Keith) (2006)
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on July 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Three-Legged Trouser Work (For Keith) is a piece inspired by Keith Arnatt’s 1972 work ‘Trouser-Word Piece’. In his original work, Arnatt offered an ironic commentary on his own position through the use of a philosophical analysis of the word ‘real’. ‘Three-Legged Trouser Work’ extends this analysis to deconstruct certain aspects of artistic production in relation [...]
