WFLCTN010: MACHINE THREADS - james edmonds, 2010, cdr/audiowork

1 mesh
2 splinters
3 substratum

recorded september and october 2009

WE NEED THESE IMAGES

WE
NEED

THESE

IMAGES
25th-28th March, 2011




James Harrison
Richard Forbes-Hamilton
Alex Crocker


With today’s proliferation of imagery, there is need to grasp hold of the images that resonate with us. To plot a personal course through this visual abundance, one must navigate between the indiscriminate signs and names of our own signifiers as a way of capturing our subjective experiences of the world. When looking for a specific image to help us explore this potency it was realised that each of the artists has a reproduction of Fra Angelico's The Mocking of Christ in their studio. For all three artists this image holds a different meaning.

The reproduction – not the actual painting – is taken as a starting point. This allows different questions to be raised and fresh associations to be made. The original image does not
necessarily provide a direct or literal reference for any of our works, but may be said to act as a route through each and every one. It may therefore be thought of as a signpost for a more personal and productive understanding of art history operating outside of chronological bounds or canonical perspectives. As such, this exhibition's terms of engagement are defined by the individual as each comes to a work with a specific vocabulary of images. Through this process, a chain reaction starts and an extant work of art has the potential to be remade anew.


OPENING EVENT: FRIDAY 25TH MARCH, 2011 - 19h
with classical guitar compliments

Artport


Biesentaler straße 16


Berlin, Germany




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image: Alex Crocker- Four Heads

Opacity Materials

GRANDE OFFICIALEEE CLOSING SEROMONIE

FILMS

OPACITYmaterials

sound and light


visions



James Edmonds - Opacity Materials, 2011


FINISAGE EVENT/LIVE CONCERT FROM OPACITY OF DEW
Please join me for some kind of closing and re-orderiong of things in the Artport space, as I transform me current installation into a new direction with live soundtracks from Opacity of Dew (a new project with Mangrove Kipling)

Friday, March 18 · 7:30am - 10:30am

Artport

Biesentaler straße 16

Berlin, Germany

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***next event at wafflecotton opens the following Friday, 25th march:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114361531975520

Grand officiallee opening of "........" (aka Stuttgart 1984)

a solo show buy james edmonds
new paintings, soundtracks and filmworks
25.02. - 18.03.2011

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OPENING EVENT:
friday 25th february, 2011
>with live music concert and super8 filmscreenings

Biesentaler straße 16

13359 Berlin

U8 Pankstraße / S Bornholmer Straße,

M13 Osloerstr./Prinzenallee

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I am revealing fragments of an archive, both real and imaginary, pictorial and abstract, intertextual and nonsensical, through rendering these reclaimed imprints of reality, crystalised for the time being in painted surfaces. The archive is sending out signals, which I am fixing in time as I work. A further layer of subjectivity, contradiction and mystification arises, as these signals become tangled and distorted by my personal vision and the real world is further deconstructed/ fragmented.

Within the chaos something simple prevails. Reflecting upon the essence and memory of these images with the applictaion of colour and texture, the simple arangement of monocromatic plains and forms, the emphasis of the flat surface of the pictorial plane and the materiality of paint builds a soft tension with the pre-defined reality of something recorded mechanically in the past.
Sometimes these reflections arise purely out of the imagination, although this of course is littered with images and associations. This is what im interested in, our subjective and conditioned relationship with aesthetics.
Our own relational memory as a viewer can now complete the picture, whilst all the time being brought back to the present by the simple presence of a physical form.

When presented with a single "image", it is the simple actuality of this one result out of the potentiality of the whole and its endless possibilities, the simple being of one outcome out of the vastness of the archive that creates it's strength and presence. Somehow I think about music in the same way.

http://jamesedmonds.byethost13.com/



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But what about the noise of crumpling paper...

17.12.10 - 31.01.11

(with a break from 23rd dec -4th jan)

FINISSAGE EVENT:
Friday, January 28 at 7:30pm

Biesentaler straße 16

13359 Berlin

U8 Pankstraße / S Bornholmer Straße,

M13 Osloerstr./Prinzenallee

(exhibition continues till 31st Jan)

- inaugural event of wafflecotton presenting at artport berlin -

deborah wargon

petra graf

stephanie gerner

kai teichert

stephan halter

lan hungh

james edmonds

lauren moffatt

adam nankervis

The noise of crumpling paper suggests a proccess, one of deterioration or failure of preservation, of things changing form, ideas being abandoned. The consequences of change always involve chance, in that the dynamics of transformation itself results in new forms being created "by accident". When we engage in a proccess inwhich we do not desire a particular result, these accidents become magic, and suddenly there is life in the object.

A quote of a quote, the original text "But what about..." comes from the title of a John Cage composition, itself a quote of a letter received by Cage concerning the artist Jean Arp, to which the piece was dedicated. The resonance of this title in our exhibition is humble and evocative rather than conceptual, although the instructions for the performance of the Cage piece reflect to some extent our approach: "Dynamics are free, but should be varied. A performance should be without conductor, very slow, each player following his or her own beat. Each performer plays his part twice, but as each player keeps his own time, the second performance will be different, since things occur at different moments."

For the second "performance" of our exhibition at Artport, the closing event if you will, artists are asked to alter their exhibited material, in such a way as to repeat the action originaly carried out by them, as a re-installation of the same exhibition, albeit with different dynamics. This repetition should be carried out as ritual or practicality with the sole purpose of repeating the essential nature of the installation action, any variations which occur being consequential and largely unplanned.

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OPENING EVENT: 16th december 2010

Artport

Biesentaler straße 16

13359 Berlin

U8 Pankstraße / S Bornholmer Straße,

M13 Osloerstr./Prinzenallee

concept: St.&St./wafflecotton
image: adam nankervis

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wflctn at Artport

opening hours: tues, wed, fri, sat, 11-17h or by appointment

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Films Without Music

Wednesday 27th May 2009

FILMS WITHOUT MUSIC will be a temporary installation and event, for

2 hours in the Staalplaat project space, involving several projections

of film footage as well as still images in various mediums. Within

this, a live "soundtrack" will be added by various artists/musicians,

each doing a "scene" within the whole ongoing film.

The title "Films Without Music" can refer to both the fact that the

visual elements are running independently and without overall

structure or "composition" and also that the aim of bringing in a

soundtrack is not to make it more "musical" but to hope that pure

sounds will themselves become a kind of film, whether or not they have

a musicality to them, and whether or not they create meaning through the

traditional languages of cinema, narrative or abstract.

film without a fixed soundtrack, images without fixed meaning, and

music without a performance. In short - Films without Music.

contributing to the instalation:

Adam Nankervis

Adam Thomas

Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky

Deborah Wargon

James Edmonds

Lara Schröder

Lauren Moffatt

Laurent Lavolé

Pravin S W

Stephane Leonard

Stephan Halter

Stephanie Gerner

Testcard

with soundtracks from:

Mangrove Kipling

Nicolas Wiese

Preslav Literary School

James Edmonds

Screening for the only time ever on

Wednesday 27th May 2009 from 19 h (soundtrack begins 21.30 h)

Staalplaat Working Space,

Flughafenstrasse 38

Berlin Neukölln

U-Bahn Boddinstrasse

http://staalplaat.wordpress.com

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WFLCTN009: "Stammtisch" - james edmonds, 2008, cdr

"Stammtisch"


Part One - 7.14

Part Two - 4.48

Part Three - 23.34

LISTEN at last.fm

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