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‘Rhythm’

2024.8.7 Wed. - 18 Sun.

Artists: Charlie Yetton / Gwil Hughes / Perce Jerrom / Sofia Albina Novikoff Unger / Rie Toguchi

kanzan galleryでは、先日盛況のうちに幕を閉じたアーティスト/ビデオグラファー・外口理恵氏の個展『Ghost Note』(7月19日〜8月4日開催)に続き、その関連企画としてスクリーニングプログラム‘Rhythm’を開催いたします。本プログラムでは、『Ghost Note』の前身とも言える、外口氏のロンドン大学ゴールドスミスカレッジ修了制作『On Belief』をはじめ、同大学院出身の5名のアーティストによる映像作品をキュレーションしました。5名の作家それぞれの視点が交差する本プログラムをぜひご体感ください。
kanzan gallery is pleased to announce the screening program ‘Rhythm’, a related event following the successful solo exhibition “Ghost Note” by artist/videographer Rie Toguchi (held from July 19 to August 4). For this program, we have curated video works by five artists, all graduates of Goldsmiths, University of London, including Toguchi’s graduation piece “On Belief”, which can be considered a precursor to ‘Ghost Note.’ We invite you to experience this program where the perspectives of these five artists intersect and converge.

‘Down’  Charlie Yetton

In ‘Down’ we follow an old man down into the world below. Space opens
and closes. The darkness becomes material. An offering is made of something held.

「Down」では、私たちは老人とともに地下の世界へと降りていきます。空間は開いたり閉じたりします。闇は物質となる。そして持ち物が捧げられます。

‘Reticulate_2’  Gwil Hughes

Digital animation from 3D game engine, stereo sound (3m 22s) Originally part of a 2-channel video installation using stereo sound. The installation components include custom made MDF and printed fabric stools, and perforated window film. Together, the two parts of the video diptych ‘Reticulate’ deal with the digital subject and the playing of roles. They are informed by and draw on Jean Genet’s 1956 play ‘The Balcony’, for its treatment of simulation and for blurring the lines between the cause and effect of actions within and outside of a private space.

3Dゲームエンジンによるデジタルアニメーション、ステレオサウンド(3分22秒) 元々はステレオサウンドを使用した2チャンネルのビデオインスタレーションの一部として制作されました。インスタレーションはカスタムメイドのMDFとプリント生地のスツール、穴のあいた窓用フィルムで構成されます。 2部構成のビデオ作品『Reticulate』は、デジタルな被写体と役割の演じ方をテーマとし、シミュレーションの扱いと、プライベートな空間の内外での行動の原因と結果の境界線を曖昧にする点においてジャン・ジュネの1956年の戯曲『バルコニー』を参考にしています。

‘Scraper’  Perce Jerrom

Perce Jerrom’s video examines our now ubiquitous daily interaction with online media. It is made up of over 9000 pictures taken on his smartphone, interspersed with sections of video. The order of images has been defined by file name, which is assigned numerically. The works title ‘Scraper’ alludes to the process of AI’s scraping data online to build their data sets, this often happens with images shared on social media. So effectively the work is a data set, of the artists lived experience for the past 8 yearswhich has most likely been used to train some form of AI.

Perce Jerromのビデオ作品『Scraper』は、私たちが日常的に関わるオンラインメディアの在り方を探求しています。彼のスマートフォンで撮影された9000枚以上の写真とビデオのセクションで構成されており、画像の順序は数値で割り当てられたファイル名に従っています。タイトル『Scraper』は、AIがオンライン上のデータをスクレイピングしてデータセットを構築するプロセスを示唆しており、これはソーシャルメディアで共有される画像によく見られる現象です。この作品は、事実上、アーティストの過去8年間の生活体験のデータセットであり、おそらく何らかの形でAIの訓練に使われている可能性があります。

‘Special Affects’  Sofia Albina Novikoff Unger

is a narrative about the queer Sea People and a military, who is testing technology on them, presented in monologues. The Sea People may not actually exist in this world, but their myth is real and so is the 3D technology in which they are presented. In this perspective the Sea People are not that far from our reality. We can imagine and perceive them, and therefore, we may also contemplate them as a mythical and historical character.

The narrative in Special Affects starts in an abandoned beach resort. A strange sound has caused the inhabitants to have amnesia and lose their sense of balance and the place is now in a declared state of emergency. The beach resort is taken over by a group of queer Sea People opposing the local military. The military has been training dolphins as coast guards and wants to test new weapons, exoskeletons, on the Sea People. The narrative is not limited to a single perspective and is told by three Sea People, each delivering their own monologue in separate acts.

We also have a barrier to the Sea People; they speak a different language and so the video is dubbed to English in order for us to understand it.
One must actively move with the story and one’s own speculations in accordance with a personal and unstable account. There is no certain knowledge for us to perceive, and it presents an opening for us to speculate even further. The mermaid, like the Sea People, are an elusive legend about destruction by a powerful, mythic, group. In Unger’s work they are also being threatened with the equipment of weaponry, a male coded tool, and are suddenly even more dangerous. Even though, this is a speculation, the content and significance of the myth is being contemplated too. The mermaid may be understood as a dangerous power symbol.

This is not far from today’s societal fears of powerful women. In some way, reality is always lurking behind this strange and foreign universe. When the Sea People of Special Affects are 3D animated and overlaid on a background of shot footage, it is obvious that technology affects our thinking. Today, it is not possible to animate figures in our images and accept their resemblance to our reality, but we are close enough to these images for them to affect our sense of truth. When Unger, in Special Affects, speculates in technology, myths and histories with feminine figures in powerful constellations, the artwork never abandons our beliefs, rules and idiosyncrasies. The myths always disclose something about our reality. This is what Unger manipulates us to perceive with the myth of the Sea People.

Edited text by Emil Valdemar Meyer.

『Special Affects』は、クィア(同性愛者)であるシー・ピープルと、彼らにテクノロジーをテストしようとしている軍についての物語で、モノローグ形式で描かれています。シー・ピープルは実際にはこの世界に存在しないかもしれませんが、彼らの神話は現実であり、彼らが登場する3D技術も同様に現実です。この観点から見ると、シー・ピープルは私たちの現実からそれほど遠くありません。私たちは彼らを想像し、認識することができるため、神話的で歴史的なキャラクターとして考えることもできます。

物語は、廃墟と化したビーチリゾートから始まります。奇妙な音によって住民たちは記憶を失い、平衡感覚も失い、場所は非常事態宣言下にあります。このビーチリゾートは、地元軍に反対するクィアなシー・ピープルのグループによって占拠されます。軍はイルカを沿岸警備員として訓練し、新兵器である外骨格をシー・ピープルに試そうとしています。物語は単一の視点に限定されず、3人のシー・ピープルがそれぞれ独自のモノローグを異なる幕で語ります。

また、シー・ピープルには言語の壁があります。彼らは異なる言語を話すため、ビデオは私たちが理解できるように英語に吹き替えられています。 観客は個人的で不安定な説明に従い、物語と自身の推測を積極的に働かせていく必要があります。私たちが認識できる確かな知識はなく、さらに推測の余地を与えられます。人魚のように、シー・ピープルは強力な神話的な集団による破壊についてのとらえどころのない伝説です。Ungerの作品では、彼らもまた、武器という男性の暗号化された道具によって脅かされ、さらに危険度が増しています。これは推測に過ぎませんが、神話の内容や意義も考察されています。人魚は危険な権力の象徴として理解されるかもしれません。

これは、今日の社会が強い女性に対して抱く恐怖とそれほど変わりません。この奇妙で異質な宇宙の背後には、常に現実が潜んでいます。シー・ピープルが3Dアニメーション化され、撮影された映像の背景に重ねられると、テクノロジーが私たちの思考に与える影響が明らかです。今日、映像内の人物をアニメーション化し、その現実との類似性を受け入れることはできませんが、私たちはこれらの映像が私たちの真実の感覚に影響を与えるほど、親しんでいます。Ungerが『Special Affects』で、力強い女性像とともに技術や神話、歴史を思索するとき、作品は私たちの信念や規則や特異性を決して失うことはありません。神話は常に私たちの現実について何かを明らかにします。これが、Ungerがシー・ピープルの神話を通じて私たちに示そうとしていることです。

テキスト:Emil Valdemar Meyer.

‘On Belief’  Rie Toguchi

According to Flusser, the symbol for representing world has changed from “image” – which gave magic and myth to human – to “text” – to explain “image” and gave logic and history to human. It has finally evolved to “technical-image” – to explain “text” which explained “image”.

In the modern Japanese society, Japanese pop idols’ culture, which relies on the media, has given economic impact or even magical impact over the modern Japanese people. As “technical-image” provided through the media technologies involves magical, mythical and logical nature, this work exprole that if Japanese pop idols’ culture could become the alternative symbol for representing the world.

The girls as pop idols are required to be a character of the “fiction” story made by the media and fans. Conversely, the “documentary” factor is also required to the pop idols – namely, they need to expose their lack of personality or the feeling of insufficiency as “human” frailty. As the girls became pop idols in order to fulfil their personal feeling of emptiness, fans also possibly attempt to fulfil their lack, weakness or insufficiency, mirroring the pop idols’ incompleteness.

Idols are not human while they are not gods. They drift between human and gods.

The teenager immature girls generously take those sorts of contradictions amid the various mental conflicts. They act as the fans’ ideal idols, accepting that idols are the consumed commodity. I suppose that their attitude could transcend the business contraction as well as their personal self-esteem needs since we may see beautiful principle of “gift” in them – it is like gods, but not.

Fans possibly find the magical and mythical belief from pop idols, who are the incomplete existence, by having indescribable beautiful gifts. Whilst most media contents can be consumed as free in this modern society, fans invest a huge amount of money to their selection of contents – pop idols – until pop idols finish their short and limited life as if fans reciprocated the gift to their gods. I would say that pop idols, bearing the both principle of logical money exchange and magical and mythical gift exchange, could work as the alternative symbol such as “technical-image” for representing this modern world.

フルッサーによると、世界を表象する記号はこれまで人々へ“魔術性”と“神話性”をもたらした「画像」から、 人々に“論理性”や“歴史”をもたらした「画像」を説明するための「テクスト」へ、そしてそこから「画像」 を説明する「テクスト」を説明するための「テクノ画像」へと移り変わってきた。メディアに依って存在し、人々 に対して魔術的とも言えるほどの影響力を持ち、経済までをも大きく動かす現代日本におけるアイドル文化は、“魔術性”や“神話性”、そして“論理性”を同時に有するメディア技術を介した画像である「テクノ画像」のような、世界を表象する新たな記号と言うことは可能だろうか。

アイドルとしての少女たちはメディアが、そしてファンが作り出す“フィクション”の物語のキャラクターであることを求められると同時に、相反する“ドキュメンタリー性”― つまりアイドル達の、どこかが欠けた、 満たされない不完全な“人間”の部分を提供することも求められる。それはアイドル自身が、自身の満たされない なにかを埋めるためにアイドルになったように、ファンたちもまた、自分たちの満たされなさを、アイドルの不完全さを通すことで埋めようとしているからではないだろうか。

アイドルは、人間ではない。しかし、神さまでもない。
彼女たちは神さまと人間との間を漂う脆弱な信仰対象として存在する。十代の幼い少女たちは多くの葛藤の中 様々な矛盾を引き受け、商品として消費される存在であることを理解し、ファンが求める理想の正しいアイドル像を全力で演じきる。時には自身を滅ぼすほど多くを引き受けるその姿には、自身の承認欲求や金銭に依る契約 を超越した“神さま”のような、しかしそうではない美しくも暴力的で、あるいは自己破壊をも促す“贈与” の原理が在るように思う。

ファンは不完全な存在である少女達からそうした贈与を授かることで、さながら魔術的で、神話的な信仰をアイドルたちに見いだす。だからこそ、多くのコンテンツが無料で消費をすることが可能なこの現代で、ファン は自身の選択したコンテンツ(アイドル)に対して“神様”であるアイドルに対する返礼のごとく膨大な金額 を、少女達がアイドルとしてのその短い寿命を終えるまで投資し続けるのではないだろうか。そして、そうした 論理的な金銭による等価交換の原理だけでなく、魔術的で、神話的な贈与交換の原理という二つの性質を 持ち合わせた存在であるアイドルは、現代においてテクノ画像のような世界を表象する新たな記号的役割を 果たしているように思う。

Profile
Charlie Yetton

Charlie Yetton’s films attempt to re-locate and re-think notions of materiality and authenticity – and something like the resistant qualities of our concrete spatial surroundings – in relation to our karaoke collective unconscious, in which we constantly retell our own everyday stories as scenes from the Sopranos or as the lyrics to the latest song that’s lodged in our head. The complexity of his films also encompasses implicit narratives of displacement, exclusion and marginalisation. These are often communicated through the mode of the film as journey, voyage or quest, where the camera itself is frequently positioned as a kind of vehicle.

Charlie Yettonの作品は、物質性と真正性の概念、そして私たちの具体的な空間環境の抵抗力のようなものを、カラオケの集合的無意識に関連させて再配置し再考しようと試みています。そこでは、私たちは常に自分の日常の物語を「ザ・ソプラノズ」のシーンや、頭の中に残っている最新の曲の歌詞のように語り直しています。彼の映画の複雑さには、居場所の喪失、排除、疎外に関する暗黙の物語も含まれています。これらは多くの場合、旅、航海、探求といった映画の様式を通して語られ、カメラ自体が一種の乗り物として位置づけられます。

Education
MFA Goldsmiths University of London 2017-2021
BA (HONS) Fine Art Sculpture University of Brighton 2002-2005 BTEC Foundation Chelsea College of Art 2001-2002

Residencies
2013 – ‘Four Scenarios’, Bermondsey Project Space 2, London 2006 – ‘The Reading’ A.P.T Studios, London

Awards/Commissions
2020 – ‘Ferry’ Selected for New Contemporaries 2020
2019 – ‘Where There’s A Way, And There Is A Way’ selected for neo:art prize 2019 2018 – ‘Mud’ selected for ‘Brighton Photo Fringe Open 18 Moving Image’
2013 – ‘Acme 40th Anniversary Website Commission

Exhibitions
2023
‘Nightlife’ group show curated by Loose Screws
‘Stone’ shortlisted for Unit 1 Gallery Workshop Solo Open Call

2022
‘London Contemporary Art Fair’, The Line Contemporary Art Space, London ‘Cave Screening’, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2021
‘New Contemporaries 2020’, South London Gallery Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, London

2020
‘New Contemporaries 2020’, Ferens and Humber Street Galleries, Hull – Cancelled due to COVID
‘New Contemporaries 2020’, South London Gallery – Cancelled due to COVID
‘New Contemporaries 2020’, Online Platform

2019
Interim Show, Goldsmiths MFA Studios, London neo:art prize 2019, Bolton Museum Gallery, Bolton ‘Slippery Sum’ APT Gallery, London
‘Mismatch’, Greenhouses, London

2018
Brighton Photo Fringe Open 18 Moving Image, Onca Gallery, Brighton ‘Unfamiliar Shift’, No Format Gallery, London

2016
Co-Director – 395 Gallery (395 was an artist run space curating a series of events over one year)
‘Damp Course’, 395 Art Licks Weekend
‘Mount Florida Screenings 03’, Mount Florida Studios, Glasgow

2015
‘Reckless Blooming’, 395 Art Licks Weekend

2014
‘Annual Open’, CGP London
‘You Me Us Them’, 395, Art Licks Weekend
‘Seen By Scene’, Film Collaboration with Nicholas Mortimer, Gasworks Dock Partnership Cody Dock

2013
‘Four Scenarios’, Bermondsey Project Space 2
‘Auditoria Props Workshop’, Bermondsey Project Space 2 ‘Open Plan : Ordinary’, Departure Foundation, London Acme 40th Anniversary Website Commission

2012
‘395 Presents Charlie Yetton’, 395, London

2011
‘Open Objects 2/ Record’, Apiary Studios, London ‘Open Objects’, Marine Studios, Margate
‘Circuit’, Margate

2009
‘For One Night Only’, Unit 6, London

2008
‘Fall In Theatre 1’, Take Courage Gallery, London ‘Fall In Theatre 2’, Take Courage Gallery, London ‘Fall In Theatre 3’, Take Courage Gallery, London

2007
‘The Breakfast Club’, Haunch of Venison (staff show), London

2006
‘Zone 3712’, Cabin Exchange, Glasgow International Festival Of Visual Art ‘6 Conversations’, 35a Gallery, Brighton
‘The Readings’, APT Studios, London

Gwil Hughes

(b. 1992) is a Welsh visual artist based in London. His practice investigates the digital subject and the connected processes that shape it. He is interested in how interior selves and shared identities come to be within a landscape of digital, pervasive infrastructures. He explores the myths, narratives and tensions that arise from tracing this
process and the factors that shape it. His work often involves video with 3D animated elements, soundscapes and installation. Having first studied Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, Gwil completed the MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, UoL in 2020.

Gwil Hughe (1992年生まれ)は、ロンドンを拠点に活動するウェールズ出身のビジュアル・アーティストです。彼の実践は、デジタルの主題とそれを形成する関連プロセスを探求しており、デジタルの普及したインフラストラクチャの風景の中で内面的な自己や共有されたアイデンティティがどのように形成されるかに関心を寄せています。このプロセスをたどることから生まれる神話、物語、葛藤を探求し、それらを形成する要因を探っています。彼の作品には、主に3Dアニメーション、サウンドスケープ、インスタレーションが含まれます。オックスフォード大学で現代語学を学んだ後、2020年にロンドン大学ゴールドスミス・カレッジにて芸術修士号(MFA)を取得。

 Education:
2010 – 2014 BA Hons. Modern Languages, University of Oxford 2017 – 2020 MFA in Fine Art (Distinction), Goldsmiths, University of London

Exhibitions:
Summer Marathon, BEERS London, 2021 I Love You, Moi Non Plus, Paris/London, 2021 Southwark Park Galleries Open (London), 2020-21 Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, 2020 Sea2_Serafim Selected Ontology Screening, Seager Gallery (London), 2019 Gold X, part of Deptford X, 2018 Goldsmiths MFA Interim, 2018 Ruth Borchard Portrait Prize 2017, Piano Nobile (London) Koppel Project Hive Group Exhibition (London) 2017 Royal Institution of Painters in Watercolours 205th Exhibition, Mall Galleries (London), 2017 The Thames: The Artery of London, 2016 Unbound, Espacio Gallery (London) 2016 ArtWorks Open 2016, Barbican Arts Group Trust (London), 2016 The Discerning Eye (selected artist), Mall Galleries (London) 2016 Publications/Talks: Artist’s Talk, National College of Art and Design, University College Dublin (remote), 2020 Me, Myself and AI, Banner Repeater (London), 2019

Awards:
RSA funding, Goldsmiths College UoL, 2023 Acme Studio Practice Fund, 2021 Gilbert Bayes Scholarship award, 2018 Jerwood Visual Arts Artist Bursary (shortlisted), 2017 Ibero-American Arts Award (second prize), 2016

Perce Jerrom

Perce Jerrom’s practise is borne out of research into online cultures and creative actions partaken by individuals outside of the art world, to discuss wider social and cultural issues. Works are based on sourced texts, images and events that have occurred online and offline. These often reference symbols from film, tv, music and computer games which are then assimilated with concepts devised by various Art movements throughout history. Pieces are created digitally and physically in a similar fashion to the remix and editing customs that have been popularized online, formed by a perpetual restructuring and manipulation of existing imagery.

Perce Jerromの実践は、より広範な社会的・文化的問題を議論するために、アートの世界の外で個人が行うオンライン・カルチャーや創造的な実践の研究から生まれています。彼の作品は、オンラインやオフラインで発生したテキスト、イメージ、出来事に基づいています。これらの作品は、映画、テレビ、音楽、コンピューターゲームのシンボルを参照することが多く、歴史を通じてさまざまな芸術運動によって考案された概念と同化されます。作品は、オンラインで普及してきたリミックスや編集の習慣と同様の方法で、デジタル的かつ物理的に作成され、既存のイメージの永続的な再構成と操作によって形成されます。

Education:
2017 to 2019 University of Goldsmiths, Distinction Masters Fine Art
2014 to 2015 The School of The Damned, Unaccredited Masters Fine Art
2006 to 2009 Oxford Brookes University, First BA Honours Fine Art

Exhibitions:
13 March – 31 May 2024 Artists Against the Bomb, Malta Biennale, Malta
14 – 18 March 2024 2012, Continuum, Bordeaux, France
14 Feb – 14 July 2024 Artists Against the Bomb, Lago Algo, Mexico City, Mexico
12 Dec 2023 – 1 Jan 2024 Gift Shop, Disneyland Paris, Perth, Australia
5 Dec – 10 Dec 2023 Piccalilli Fundraiser, Piccalilli, London, UK
28 Nov – 6 Dec 2023 Artists Against the Bomb, Judd Foundation, New York, USA
26 Sept 2023 Ubiquitous no.14, Tube Gallery, Palma, Mallorca
21 March 2023 STRESSTEST, New Scenario, Online Project
7 March 2023 DreamWorks 2, IKO, Online Project
2 Dec – 16 Dec 2022 Photocopies II, Recent Activity, Birmingham, UK
11 Sept – 1 Oct 2022 RGB, Disneyland Paris, Perth, Australia
17 Oct – 17 Nov 2021 La institucion del relajo, Deviant, Mexico City, Mexico
8 August 2021 psyopd, Scatalogicritesofallnations, London, UK
13 July 2021 #videotutorials, AQNB, Online Project
27 Oct – 18 Nov 2020 Me and my friends, Koraï Project Space, Nicosia, Cyprus
24 July 2020 Ultra Nightmare, Peak, London, UK
28 March 2020 OUTPOST Open Sound 2020, Outpost, Norwich, UK
27 – 28 March 2020 Everything You See Is In The Past, Heritage Gallery, London, UK
25 Feb – 25 March 2020 Office Space, isthisit, Online Project
25 Oct – 5 Nov 2019 nosleep, Koraï project space, Nicosia, Cyprus
5 April 2019 Carton – Magazine Launch, Drawing Room, London, UK
25 – 17 Jan 2019 ◊P | Waiting for the Final Collapse, Gossamer Fog, London, UK
31 Aug – 2 Sept 2018 Polar Editions, Rinomina at ART-O-RAMA 2018, Marseille
16 – 23 June 2018 Duty Free, isthisit, Chelsea UAL, London, UK
24 March 2018 Inaugural, Hedges, Hong Kong
29 April – May 1 2017 BAU (SUBMIT YOUR INVOICE), Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin
11 March 2017 La larga exposición, Bikini Wax, Mexico City, Mexico
9 – 24 July 2016 Duo exhibition with Josh Whitaker, CBS, Liverpool, UK
12 May – 11 June 2016 Empathy Inc. Art Exchange Gallery, Colchester, UK
20 – 26 Feb 2016 Cradle 2 The Grave, Bikini Wax, Mexico City, Mexico
2 – 10 Feb 2016 Do The Hokey Kokey, Espacio Arterial, Mexico City, Mexico
16 – 20 Dec 2015 Cascading Relevant Information, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
13 Oct 2015 @BAE_AQN, Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2 – 31 Oct 2015 BAU, Pyramid Art Centre, North Contemporary, Warrington, UK
9 – 31 July 2015 Business As Usual, Turf Projects, Croydon, UK
5 July 2015 So Low, Caustic Coastal, Manchester, UK
26 June – 26 July 2015 People You May Know, Bosse & Baum, London, UK
9 Jan – 6 Feb 2015 A Pixel or Digit, Turf Projects, Croydon, UK
7 – 14 Nov 2014 Time Pieces, Rouge Project Space, Manchester, UK
4 – 19 Dec 2013 Wu Tang, Blip Blip Blip, Leeds, UK

Residencies:
22nd Sept – 6th Nov 2019 Koraï project space, Nicosia, Cyprus
29th Jan – 5th Feb 2017 Spare Room Residency, Liverpool, UK
31st Nov – 31st Dec 2015 Casa Maauad, Mexico City, Mexico
21st – 25th Aug 2015 STCFTHOTS, Denmark
15th Nov – 15th Dec 2012 Lac Esarq, Guadalajara, Mexico
1st Jul 2011 – 1st Apr 2013 Departure Foundation Studio, London Docklands, UK
4th – 10th July 2008 Griezedale arts centre, Lake District, UK

Artists Talks:
4th Nov 2019 Korai Project Space, Nicosia, Cyprus
26th Feb 2016 Bikini Wax, Mexico City
16th Dec 2014 Croydon School of Art, London, UK
14th Dec 2012 LAC, ESARQ, Guadalajara, Mexico
7th Nov 2012 LAC, ESARQ, Guadalajara, Mexico

Awards:
2018 Gilbert Bayes Charitable Trust Scholarship
2017 Goldsmiths Masters Scholarship
2014 Short listed Baltic 39 | Figure One open call
2012 Long listed Dazed/Converse emerging artist of the year award
2009 John Brookes Memorial Prize

Sofia Albina Novikoff Unger

a multi-disciplinary artist working with video, sound, installation, sculpture, and writing.

Her artistic research seeks to converge unexpected connections between deeply researched biological and cultural phenomena that are intertwined in unusual criss-crosses to examine the relationship between the self and technology in a tentacular network. Thus the work contemplates ‘nature vs culture’ as a hybrid form that exists as a space for transformation, rather than something solid. Somewhere where technology creates points of tension in our everyday existence and identity can shift into something else.

The projects are most often experienced through full installations, which are arranged around carefully created sound, image and light. Everything is holistic, just like the world and Novikoff Unger’s view of it.

If a short logline was to describe Sofia Albina Novikoff Unger’s practice, it would read as follows:

‘The connection between the rave, the love story, the analogue, the hypertechy, the cross-hatching of nature and artifice folding in on each other, creating new hybrids, new myths created by new finds, new plutocracy, globalisation, falling apart, new hope, dykey powers in new constellations.’

ソフィア・アルビナ・ノビコフ・アンガーは、ビデオ、サウンド、インスタレーション、彫刻、執筆など多岐にわたる分野で活動するアーティストです。

彼女の芸術的研究は、徹底的に調査された生物学的および文化的現象の間に意外なつながりを見出し、それらが複雑に絡み合うことで自己とテクノロジーの関係を探求します。このようにして、作品は「自然対文化」を変容の場として捉え、何か強固なものではなく、ハイブリッドな形態として考察します。テクノロジーが私たちの日常的な存在に緊張を与え、アイデンティティが別のものへと変化するような場所です。

彼女のプロジェクトは、多くの場合、音、映像、光を慎重に作り上げたフルインスタレーションとして体験されます。すべてが包括的であり、それはまさに世界とノビコフ・アンガーの見方と同じです。

もしソフィア・アルビナ・ノビコフ・アンガーの実践を短いキャッチフレーズで表現するなら、以下のようになるでしょう:

「レイブとラブストーリー、アナログとハイテク、自然と人工のクロスハッチングが互いに折り重なり、新たなハイブリッド、新しい神話が新たな発見によって生み出され、新たな富裕層、グローバリゼーション、崩壊、新たな希望、新しい星座における力強い女性の力を生み出す。

Sofia Albina Novikoff Unger / Born Copenhagen
Education:
2016-2019 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University, London (UK)
2011-2015 BFA Fine Art, The Funen Art Academy, Odense (DK)
2009-2010 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (US)

Solo Exhibitions:
2023
‘Stone Heads’, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, DK
‘Special Affects’, Svartlöga/OXER, Ebeltoft, DK
‘Scissorama’, Dot project space, Berlin, DE

2022
‘Special Affects’, Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK
‘Faith is a Cascade’, March Waters, Margate, UK

2021
‘21st Century Fox’, Tranen, Copenhagen, DK
‘Spectacular Slippiness’, In The Closet, Tromsø, NO
‘Faith is a Cascade’, Seager Gallery, London, UK

2019
‘A Slow Longing Collapse’, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City, UK
‘Sea2_Serafim+’Bama on The L Word’, ilyd.nu, online lydudstilling

2018
‘Donna, Amore, Delfino’, Relæet, Copenhagen, DK

2017
‘Item for a Resurrection’, Changing Rooms, London, UK

2016
‘Fragile Environments’, Access Space, Sheffield, UK

Group Exhibitions and screenings (selected):
2023
‘Cypher: Narrative and Co-Evolution’, Arcade, Seoul, KR
‘Anouk de Clerq and Sofia Albina Novikoff Unger’ (duo), In The Closet, Vilnius, LT
‘Supersublime’, Giant Gallery, Bournemouth, UK
‘RestArt Urban Festival’, Parsec, Imola, IT
‘Le Lapin Experimental’, Cinemathéque de Toulouse, FR

2022
‘Callings from the deep’, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AT
‘Strange Strangers’ Parsec, Bologna, Italy, IT
2021
‘Flydende Fiktioner’, Rønnebæksholm Kunsthal, Næstved, DK
‘One month video showcase’, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, JP
‘To Be Human’, Zona Mista, London, UK
‘Traverse Video Festival’, ENSAV, Toulouse, FR

2020
‘The Slow Longing’ screening at 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DE
‘The Slow Longing’ screening at CPH:DOX Film Festival, Copenhagen, DK
‘Get Out of my Starchart’, Nikola Tesla Technical Museum, Zagreb, CR
‘Chasing Unborn Shadows’, Gossamer Fog, London, UK
‘Traverse Vidéo’, The Abattoirs Museum for Modern Art, Toulouse, FR
‘Phenological Time Twist Cards’, cosmoscarl.com, online solo commission

2019
‘Befriending Hyperobjects’, Navel, Los Angeles, US
‘Sea2_Serafim Selected Ontology Screening’, Seager Gallery, London, UK
‘刹那即永恒 – One Minute is Eternal’, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, CH
‘6×6 Project Screening’, SET Dalston, London, UK
‘Plucky Pony Makes Break For Freedom’, SET, London, UK
‘Skin-Contact’, Enclave Lab, London, UK
‘Gold on Film 2019’, Film festival, Curzon Cinema Goldsmiths, London, UK
‘The Eyes of the Outsiders’, Chalton Gallery screening at USSR Studio, Mexico City

2018
‘Abracadabra’, 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow
‘Bufo Bufo (aeons below)’, Screening at Art & Technology Conference, Sogang University, Seoul ‘GIOTPOR’ as Novi Young (online compilation album), Assembly Point, London
‘(+dis-)embody’ by Proxy Mund, Deptford X Festival, London
‘g_URL 2.0: techno-utopia’, Sluice Projects, London
‘Proxy Mund’, External Pages, online solo commission

2017
‘Selected VII by Jarman Awardees screening’, Whitechapel Gallery; CCA Glasgow; Nottingham Contemporary; Fabrica; Plymouth Arts Centre; Exeter Phoenix, UK
‘Selected VII Southeast Asia Tour’, The Reading Room (Bangkok); Hanoi DocLab & Six Space; Lost Frames (Quezon City); 1335MABINI (Manila)
‘Irridescent Oil (aeons below)’, Jupiter Woods, London
‘#33 Annual Open Exhibition’, CGP, London
‘Deptford X’, performance, MFA Goldsmiths Open Studios, London
‘MONO8’, Courtyard Theatre Hoxton, London and Porthmeor Studios, St. Ives

2016
‘The Door that isn’t locked at night’, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin
‘A YES SCREAMING NO’, The One minutes, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
‘Traveling Sole’, Hotel Valberg, Copenhagen

Rie Toguchi

1990年東京生まれ。2015年に多摩美術大学美術学部絵画学科油画専攻を卒業後、2019年にロンドン大学ゴールドスミスカレッジMFAファインアートコースを修了。

これまで民俗学や人類学、哲学などを参照しながら現代にまで続く儀礼行為や土地の持つ霊性にまつわる人間の精神性、あるいは身体性に関する考察を写真、映像、音響、絵画、テクストなど多様なメディアを縦断しながらインスタレーション作品として制作。

近作ではそうした考察を現代社会における人々が無自覚的に持つ信仰とは何かいう点から日本社会においての過剰な同調圧力や規範意識から生じる排他的欲求の問題にまで展開し、食と性の関係性を巡った規範意識に関する作品や、アイドル文化を通して見る信仰の脆弱性、暴力性、そして贈与を巡る問題についての作品を制作している。

Rie Toguchi is a Japanese artist currently works in Tokyo.Toguchi’s multimedia installation works, including painting, photography, glasswork, sound, video and text, explore the psychological structure in human society by reference to the idea of folklore, anthropology and philosophy. Her works particularly focus on the fragility of human’s insensible beliefs; spirituality in the existence of invisible borders between human and sacred places, the weirdness of social norms such as understanding for ‘eating’ and ‘sexual intercourse’, the mythological structure of Japanese pop idols’ culture, and the difficulty of having sexual perversion to live in the society.

Education
Goldsmiths, University of London MFA in Fine Art course 2017-2019
Tama Art University, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Course B.F.A 2011-2015
ロンドン大学ゴールドスミスカレッジ MFA ファインアートコース 修了 2017-2019
多摩美術大学美術学部絵画学科油画専攻 卒業 2011-2015

Exhibitions
2021
“Nakanojo Biennale 2021” Former Daisan Elementary School, Nakanojo town, Gunma Prefecture

2019
“Skin-Contact: Ephemeral Editions” Enclave, London

2018
“GoldX” Goldsmiths, University of London, London

2018
“When They Flow” Chisenhale Studios, London

2015
“Tama Art University 2015 degree show” Tama Art University, Tokyo

2014
“When she died, she wore the rouge given by her sister” Cave Contemporary, Kanagawa

2012
“Reverberation” upstairs gallery, Tokyo

2021
“中之条ビエンナーレ 旧第三小学校, 中之条町

2019
“Skin-Contact: Ephemeral Editions” Enclave, ロンドン

2018
“GoldX” Goldsmiths, University of London, ロンドン

2018
“When They Flow” Chisenhale Studios, ロンドン

2015
“多摩美術大学 2015 卒業制作展” 多摩美術大学, 東京

2014
“昨日の口紅で天国へ行く” 洞窟現代, 神奈川

2012
“Reverberation” upstairs gallery, 東京

Workshop
2019 – “ACTUAL CREATIVITY:Discovering Reality & Originality in Sampling Culture”
INTERNATIONAL LUTHERAN STUDENT CENTRE, London

Awards
2020 – STARTPOINT Prize for European Art Graduates
2015 – Tama Art University Degree Show Excellence Awards
2020 – STARTPOINT Prize for European Art Graduates
2015 – 多摩美術大学卒業制作展優秀賞

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