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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Indoor Street Art by Paul Baines

Posted: 01 Jun 2011 08:38 AM PDT

Presence-Absence

'Presence – Absence' the inaugural exhibition at the brand spanking new Kingsland Road Studios in Hackney next week on Thursday 9th June. The debut show features fresh young artists James Irwin, Alida Sayer, Brendan Olley and Zachary Eastwood-Bloom.The theme explores aspects of the everyday, the intangible, forgotten and ignored. varying approaches are taken to investigating personal and social preoccupations with technology, communication, memory and perception.

Zachary Eastwood Bloom uses digital processes to create his works, meticulously engineered in the virtual realm before becoming tangible objects, drawing attention to our everyday relationship with technology. An antique table is shown, partly milled down according to a geometric digital design. In ‘We Control the Horizontal and the Vertical’ Eastwood Bloom illuminates multiple sheets of perspex, with edges cut to a digital pattern. Suspended vertically, light is emitted through the cut edges only, forming a 3-D digital geometry.

James Irwin makes sculptures and drawings that examine the relationship between contemporary art and technology from a critical perspective. The objects that I produce are an attempt to reaffirm a sense of the ‘here and now’ in an age of remote real-time communication.

Brendan Olley will show a performance piece recorded in Pyramiden, an abandoned ex-Soviet mining town in the Arctic desert. He plays an abandoned piano to a mountain, and documents his actions on film. The instrument technically remains under Russian ownership after being left and forgotten in 1980. That the sound does not and will never reach the top of the mountain expresses the futility of the action and comments on the historical corruption of socialist hierarchy, as well as being a swan song to a melting mountain.

Alida Rosie Sayer contributes a series of ‘three dimensional stilled animations’ which strive to capture the transcendental and intangible, namely the human perception of time. Inspired by the literary works of Kurt Vonnegut, Haruki Murakami and Vladimir Nabokov, Sayer provides typographic representations of individuals’ encounters with altered states of reality and consciousness.