TRISHA BAGA: ROCK
Vilma Gold 5 APRIL – 19 MAY
'Baga is a young artist working mainly in video and performance. In terms of technology, plot and resources however, her approach to making is inclusive, playful and highly improvisational, so that her practice begins to unfix such distinctions. Though precarious by its nature, this tack also thrives on the possibility that arises when everything around becomes potential material for narrative making'.
Benedict Drew: GLISS
Cell Projects 20th April - 27th May, 2012
'This step by step visual account documents the artist's futile attempt to implant the living into the inorganic. GLISS is an immersive and visceral installation, which goes further to provoke human sensory and cognitive responses as sound and image induce sensory powers of calm and well being, but it also highlights our anxiety and rejection of technological systems. The exhibition features a chorus of melodic TV talking heads singing a version Cloud Busting, a Kate Bush track based on the bizarre cloud bursting machine of psychologist, Wihelm Reich, to an enormous anthropomorphic lump of clay defiantly rejecting its relationship with technology. Drew’s unlikely material combinations are fused with the electrical pulse of computer technology to catalyse and transform the obsolete nature of analog media'.
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Both these installations are indeed 'immersive and visceral' Baga's is much more random, intuitive and spontaneous and Drew's could be considered as far more orchastrated and slick ( perhaps to an extent the 'hers' and 'his' of moving image installation).
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Both these installations are indeed 'immersive and visceral' Baga's is much more random, intuitive and spontaneous and Drew's could be considered as far more orchastrated and slick ( perhaps to an extent the 'hers' and 'his' of moving image installation).
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