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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Solo Works’ Category
The Berlin Underground (2006)
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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, [...]
Somewhere Else (Postcards from the Edge) 2005 / Exhibition view
Posted in Artworks, Exhibitions, Minna Rainio, Solo Works on August 15, 2005 | 1 Comment »
“From the North with Love and Confusion. Northern Cities Project” Oulu Art Museum 2005
Somewhere Else (Postcards from the Edge), 2005
Posted in Artworks, Minna Rainio, Solo Works on August 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Digital c-prints, acryl/forex, 7 works, 80 x 100 cm When we travel to new places, how much do we really see? Whenever we travel we are in many places at the same time; we might be there, but we are often also somewhere else. At the same time, travelling to a new and unfamiliar place [...]
Context #4 (2005)
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The spectacle is not a series of images but a social relationship between people mediated by images – Guy DeBord Number 4 in an ongoing series of textual-spatial interventions completed in photographic form. Series of 17 images Varying sizes
Vanishing Point (1999)
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Vanishing Point is a series of large digitally manipulated photographs dealing with the production of space, and specifically the uses of space by power. The images depict public ‘monumental’ spaces in London and Helsinki – for example Trafalgar Square. In the images, the monuments have been carefully removed to create a new space – a space in habited by people who continue to stare blankly at some invisible force. By removing the objects which people/tourists come to see, the invisible power underlying the spaces is revealed.
