Surnadal

In Surnadal again, seven months after the last time. Same house, different room. Same view, different angle. Getting ready for the opening of the first exhibition in Billag Festival 2021, a six month programme of events at art centre Surnadal Billag. I am one of two guest curators for the festival. This is a new phase in my prolonged entanglement with the place. Previously I have organised workshops and events, run courses here with students, helped to recruit artists to the residency programme. So it is a kind of home from home. Each time I return between now and the end of September there will be a different group of artists, a different focus, another set of expectations and challenges. Having ended my teaching career almost a year ago, having been, like everyone, a virtual prisoner of Corona for the past year, it is good to have this project. 

18 September 2020

22 April 2021

Updates

Digital print from series ABOT (a box of time) 2021

The whole site has recently been significantly updated. Inactive links have been repaired and more documentation material has been added. The Photo Gallery page has been updated with a selection from a new ongoing image and text project (so far without title) which will be further developed during 2021. The digital print above is from the series ABOT (a box of time) made between December 2020 - March 2021, consisting of 52 prints based on collages. The series forms part of a larger project that will incorporate multi screen audio visual installations and performances later in 2021.

Also online now, Reiterate, Rerun, Repeat, an exposition in VIS, the Nordic journal of artistic research, by Michael Francis Duch and myself.  The exposition consists of an email conversation illustrated by excerpts from some of our joint projects, including the ongoing audio visual work "Accumulator". See videos for Accumulator 1 / Accumulator 3 / Accumulator 4

Reiterate, rerun, repeat

Reiterate, rerun, repeat is an exposition by Michael Francis Duch and Jeremy Welsh, published in edition 7 of the Nordic Artistic Research Journal VIS. (Norwegian/Swedish and English. 

Accumulator, performed at Dokkhuset, Trondheim, January 2019.

ABOT (a box of time)

ABOT (a box of time) is an ongoing project started in late 2020. The first phase of the project, which will later be developed into installations and audio visual performances, consists of a series of 52 digital prints, based on collages. As prints, the images are produced in Super A3 format on archival matte paper. In digital format they can be presented as a slide show and incorporated into video projections.

Some of the images in the series are considered to be visual scores that can be interpreted through sound, and as audio visual events. Those featured here are intended as stand-alone images, either in print form, on screens, or projected.

Collage has been a format that is suited to the reduced circumstances of working under COVID restrictions. Converting the collages to digital format increases the potential for distribution and exhibition through a variety of channels, online and offline. It is planned to exhibit them as prints in connection with a video and sound installation, when possibilities to do so become accessible again.

The full set of images can be seen here