TU Dublin PhD Student Hosts Solo Exhibition 'presence (Un) presence' - 5-11 October
D-Light Studios is happy to announce Dutch artist Martijn Tellinga's solo exhibition' presence (Un) presence'. We warmly invite you to visit at your own convenience during opening hours October 5 -11, daily 4 - 8pm. Free Admission, All Welcome.
Tellinga's evolving installation project traces the increasingly blurred distinction between our physical real and a simulated technological reality. Fusing site, movement, video technology and the human senses, the piece stages a radically slowed-down choreography for 4 performers who scan our fundamental postures —standing, walking, sitting, lying down— as the means to negotiate a heavily medialised installation environment. The performances become gradually expanded and displaced through non-linear video feeds and, image transmission and occasional text mediation on large-size canvases mounted in the space. While subject to perpetual broadcast, the postures slowly take shape as durational acts of resistance, quietly protesting the never-ceasing scrambling of their time and location and (re)enacting the relational space the performers share between them.
'Martijn Tellinga's "presence (Un) presence" employs
forms of slow encounter in an effort to make us pause and experience a passing present in all its heterogeneity and difference. This work acts and reacts, calls and responds, it folds time upon itself, it persists, it continues. It reminds us that we are affective bodies, constantly pulsing with waves, evolving and creating new energies as we react and interact with other bodies'
—from Mark Garry's 'I am listening to you'
With Francis Fay, Isabella Oberländer, Ben Sullivan, Claire Keating.
Supported by the Irish Arts Council, Dutch Mondriaan Fonds and TU Dublin.
The artistic practice of Martijn Tellinga occupies an intermedium between spatial
installation, music composition, and durational performance. Exploring processual dynamics and open-form composition processes, he seeks to address questions of place, agency and environment from within evolving exhibition settings. He presents worldwide, lectures and works in residence.
D-Light studios 46 NORTH GREAT CLARENCE STREET, DUBLIN 1 D01 K2Y1
www.d-lightstudios.com/presence-un-presence | www.martijntellinga.nl