Recent research projects involving Jeremy Welsh.
Reiterate, Rerun, Repeat is an exposition by musician Michael Francis Duch and Jeremy Welsh, festured in issue 7 of VIS, the Nordic journal for artistic research (2021). In the exposition Duch and Welsh discuss their ongoing collaboration which consists of audio visual concert performances and digital films. Parts of the collaborative project have been presented in exhibitions, at conferences and in concerts in Norway, Germany, Austria, Great Britain and Ireland. Several of the video recordings can be viewed through the online exposition at VIS, which is based around an email conversation between the two artists. The exposition is here.
Re: place was an artistic research project launched at Bergen Academy of Art & design in October 2012. Re: place was supported by the Norwegian Project Program for Research in The Arts and was developed in cooperation with Oslo National Academy of The Arts and Griegakademiet, the music conservatory in Bergen. The project brought together a diverse range of practitioners active within video/film, photography, sound, installation, performance and site-specific projects. During the project's duration there were arranged several seminars and workshops, in Bergen and Oslo, and the whole concluded with an exhibition and seminar at Kino Kino in Sandnes, Norway, in the autumn of 2013.
Se: (to look, observe, watch) a project developed by Jeremy Welsh between 2009 - 2012. The project was first developed during a residency at Artspace, Sydney in 2009. "Image gathering as visual research": an investigation of place, time, image, memory through photography, video, sound and text. A central work in the project is "maZine" a photo series arranged as a series of grids within which sets of images elaborate possible narrative readings of situations observed in urban environments. The series has been p;ublished as a limited edition artist's book and also exhibited digitally. Part of the project was the seminar "Placeholders" held in September 2011, which became the foundation for the new research project Re: place. Paranoid Ecstacy, an exhibition of parts of the "Se" project was held in the KHIB gallery Rom 8 in September 2010. Some of the images and video were also featured in Silent Spaces, an exhibition at MacQuarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, in 2010. Elements of this project have continued over the past decade and images related to it have been exhibited more recently at Surnadal Kulturhus (Vårsøg utstilling 2019) and in members' exhibitions at Kunstgarasjen, Bergen.
Dialog/Overgang (Dialogue/Transition) was a series of installations developed by the group LMW (Trond Lossius, Jon Arne Mogstad, Jeremy Welsh) between 2004 - 2011, within the framework of an investigation of Painting in The Expanded Field. Taking as a starting point Rosalind Krauss' influential essay "Sculpture in The Expanded Field", the project set out to define an "unstable" meeting space in which the material practice of painting would be merged with the processes of digital media in the form of electronic images and sound. Several large-scale installations were produced for museums, galleries, theatre spaces and festivals, and the project was also presented within the framework of seminars and conferences. The most recent installations in the series were Please Note After Image, at Bergen Art Museum in 2010/11, and in 2018 the collaboration was revived for Light Years, at the art centre Surnadal Billag in Surnadal, Møre og Romsdal.
Images from Please Note After Image: installation with wall painting, five digital video screens and eight channels of audio. LMW, 2010. Further images here.
