JEWELSH: Recent Activity, September 2019

After a pause over the summer, the early autumn has been productive and relatively hectic. The first project of the season was "Cross Cities", taking place in Sant' Agata De' Goti in Campania, Italy. I was not physically present, but showed the video work "Moving Towards, Drawing Back, Passing Through: Each Moment In Time A Point In Space". This is a single screen HD version of an earlier multi-screen installation with sound by British composer Robert Worby.

Late August saw the opening of the latest in an ongoing series of collaborative works with Trond Lossius, The Atmospherics 9 (a blue million miles), at TEKS - Trondheim Centre for Electronic Arts. The show continues until 29 September.

Soon after the opening in Trondheim I travelled to Toscana to take part in Pasta and Pixels, an intimate and convivial meeting of film and video artists, with discussions and daily screenings in an ad-hoc cinema installed in an ancient chapel. The event was hosted by artist/film maker George Snow at his home, Castello Neve, in Poggione, near Cortona.

On 13 September, as part of Culture Night in the city of Trondheim, I hosted a concert within the installation at TEKS, featuring two musicians with solo sets. Bassist Michael Francis Duch performed a piece which was a continuation of a project we have been working on for the past two years, combining live and pre-recorded performances for solo double bass. Magdaléna Manderlová performed with field recordings, live electronics and spoken word, mixed with the installation sound by Trond Lossius. See video links below.

Coming up next, on October 10, another exhibition in Trondheim, this time at Trondhjems Kunstforening, in collaboration with textile artist Kari Dyrdal. The show features some existing works, but the main event is a new collaborative piece combining woven textile and digital video projection. The textile part was recently produced in the experimental digital weaving workshop at the Dutch Textile Museum in Tilburg. Documentation will follow in due course! Our last collaboration was in 2015, when I was artistic consultant for a commission for the new University Auditorium at the University of Bergen, and Kari was winner of the commission. Her monumental textile work, 60°23’45.96”N, 5°18’31.96”Ø,
is on permanent display.

Links to online video documentation:
A short documentation of the installation The Atmospherics 9:
https://vimeo.com/360116042

Recordings of the two performances in the concert The Atmospherics 10:
Michael Francis Duch: https://vimeo.com/360112724
Magdaléna Manderlová: https://vimeo.com/360114308