Event overview
ART RESEARCH INSTALLATION MARIE-ALIX ISDAHL: CHEMICAL WEDDING #3 and MORAG COLQUHOUN // AFONYDD DWFN | DEEP RIVERS | UKU MAYU | LOS RÍOS PROFUNDOS
Marie-Alix Isdahl :Chemical Wedding #3
Chemical Wedding #3 is a video installation with recent work produced as part of Marie-Alix Isdahl’s PhD project Chemical Wedding – The (un)making of white.
Marie-Alix Isdahl is a French-Norwegian writer, imagemaker and researcher. She is pursuing a PhD in Fine Art by theory and practice at Goldsmiths, University of London, supported with a grant by the Henry Moore Foundation. Focusing on a hybrid theory-practice methodology, her research investigates materiality, extractivism, desire and the production of visibility/opacity. Her thesis is formulated as a response to her practice-based research and addresses the question of how artworks can investigate the extractive industry of Norwegian titanium dioxide, locating and critically engaging with the instances when the materiality of the omnipresent white pigment and images of whiteness map onto each other within TiO2’s material-optical regime. Isdahl holds an MA in Critical and Creative Analysis from Goldsmiths, was the co-founder of gallery SCHLOSS in Oslo and is part of The Institute for Scene Experiments, who has hosted events at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2022) and Camden Art Centre, London (2023). Current and upcoming projects include: The Video Show – I can’t see a thing. I’ll open this one at K4, Oslo (2023) and the MOMENTUM Nordic Biennale, Norway (2023).
Morag Colquhoun, Afonydd Dwfn | Deep Rivers | Uku Mayu | Los Ríos Profundos, 2 channel video installation (film: 31 mins 20 secs / playlist: 1 hour 41 mins 38 secs), Welsh flannel, hay, 2023.
A film depicting my own biochar production loops asymmetrically beside a longer playlist of found videos from two continents, activating a grainy disjointed yearning for planetary connection. Footage of biochar that has just been quenched with water marks the point at which the first part of the film meets the second part: a kind of hinge between water-based biological growth and the carbon-neutral physical combustion of plant material in the kiln. Biochar links carbon, water and food chains so that each element supports rather than depletes the others. Borrowing an idea from the Brazilian Quilombola activist Antônio Bispo dos Santos, whose video, Confluências (Do Morro Produções, 2021), is presented in the installation, I see biochar as a ‘confluência’ between planetary need and reconciliation.
Morag Colquhoun’s project, Trofannolismo, reimagines a planetary Tropicália from a perspective of rural Wales. Her installation, Afonydd Dwfn | Deep Rivers | Uku Mayu | Los Ríos Profundos, was exhibited in Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham from 28 January - 8 April 2023 as part of the ongoing Gardd Gorwelion/Horizon Garden project exploring community and alternative growing in response to the societal urgencies that are climate change, social isolation, loneliness and food poverty.
https://www.typawb.wales/programme/horizon-garden/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 23 May 2023 | 12:00pm - 7:00pm | |
| 24 May 2023 | 10:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 25 May 2023 | 10:00am - 2:00pm |
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