‘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, amplified, [...]
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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 impotence
2 Action [...]
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 the [...]
Scenograph #1: Terra Incognita (2008)
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 of a [...]
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 inscribed into the [...]
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 [...]
The Berlin Underground (2006)
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on July 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Towards the end of the second world war, the city of Berlin—like many other German cities—was largely razed to the ground by allied bombing campaigns. What was left standing was destroyed by the Russian advance in the ground battle for Berlin.
This devastation left Berlin in ruins. The city, whose boulevards and buildings were home to [...]
Working Space / Surface Time (2005)
Posted in Artworks, Mark Roberts, Solo Works on August 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
John Court & Mark Roberts
8-Hour performance with live sound
‘Working Space / Surface Time’ is an eight-hour performance with live sound which carries out an intense investigation of a specific, local space and time. Working within a defined and limited space, John Court slowly rotates, twists and contorts his body over an eight-hour period, while Mark [...]
