Event overview
Organised by the Department of Art, artist Adam Chodzko will speak on his recent work.
Adam Chodzko‘s art explores the space between what we are and how we could be; investigating the interactions and possibilities of human behaviour. Working across media, from video installation to subtle interventions, and with a practice that is situated both within the gallery and the wider public realm, his work explores and invents a collective imagination through a poetics of everyday life. By wondering how, through the visual, we might best engage with the existence of others he reveals realities that emerge from the search for this knowledge. Chodzko’s art proposes new relationships between our value and belief systems, their effect on our communal and private spaces, and the documents and fictions that control, describe and guide them. Working directly with the networks of people and places that surround him, often using forms of anthropology, Chodzko focuses on the relational politics of culture’s edges, endings, displacements, transitions and disappearances through a provocative looking in the ‘wrong’ place; a search for knowledge through instability. Chodzko’s practice operates in the tight, poetic spaces he evolves between documentary and fantasy, conceptualism and surrealism, and public and private space, often engaging reflexively and directly with the role of the viewer.
Since 1991 Chodzko has exhibited extensively in international solo and group exhibitions including Tate Britain, Tate, St Ives; Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo); Athens Biennale; Istanbul Biennale; Venice Biennale; Royal Academy, London; Deste Foundation, Athens; PS1, New York; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Kunstmuseum Luzern, among others. Recent projects include commissions by Creative Time, New York; The Contemporary Art Society, Frieze Art Fair, and Hayward Gallery, London. In 2002 he received awards from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York. In 2007 he was awarded an AHRC Research Fellowship in the Film Department at the University of Kent. His work is in numerous public and private collections including Tate; Arts Council England; GAM - Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Saatchi Collection.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 8 May 2013 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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