Performance by Jenny Marketou.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Silence Project - WORKSHOP
Date: Wednesday,May 18 - Friday ,May 27. 2011
Workshop: Delphoi/Athens School of Fine Arts Annex
Participants:
MILENA PRINCIPLE // Athens School of Fine Arts // Yiannis Melanitis // Rhea Thönges-Stringari // Jenny Marketou // George Byron Davos // Enrique Tomas // Geert Vermeire // Stefaan van Biesen
The project Silence is organized with the participation of several artistic labs (over 20 students ) from the Athens School of Fine Arts, organized by Yiannis Melanitis and is the first collaboration of the creative team MILENA PRINCIPLE artist Jenny Marketou and the Athens School of Fine Arts. The workshop will start its activities from Delphi (18-21 May) and will proceed to include actions at ABOUT: and the Goethe Institute (23-27 May). The activities of SILENCE include performances, installations, actions with sound and discussions involving Rhea Stringari, Jenny Marketou, G. Davos etc. Silence will be realized as a process of «constant flux» in the presentation and formulation of projects and activities, focusing our attention on the dialectics of Silence and the concepts derived from this manipulation.
Workshop: Delphoi/Athens School of Fine Arts Annex
Participants:
MILENA PRINCIPLE // Athens School of Fine Arts // Yiannis Melanitis // Rhea Thönges-Stringari // Jenny Marketou // George Byron Davos // Enrique Tomas // Geert Vermeire // Stefaan van Biesen
The project Silence is organized with the participation of several artistic labs (over 20 students ) from the Athens School of Fine Arts, organized by Yiannis Melanitis and is the first collaboration of the creative team MILENA PRINCIPLE artist Jenny Marketou and the Athens School of Fine Arts. The workshop will start its activities from Delphi (18-21 May) and will proceed to include actions at ABOUT: and the Goethe Institute (23-27 May). The activities of SILENCE include performances, installations, actions with sound and discussions involving Rhea Stringari, Jenny Marketou, G. Davos etc. Silence will be realized as a process of «constant flux» in the presentation and formulation of projects and activities, focusing our attention on the dialectics of Silence and the concepts derived from this manipulation.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Images from the Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series
Images from Gateways: Art and Networked Culture exhibition, Tallinn, Estonia
May 12 to September 25, 2011
May 12 to September 25, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series
Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series
Networked environment
Gateways: Art and Networked Culture exhibition
May 12 to September 25, 2011
Watch the trailer on Vimeo.
The work of Jenny Marketou Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series 2011 is a networked environment created on site and set in the courtyard in front of the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. The environment which according to the artist touches upon the vital role of the viewer in directly incorporated in the process of the development of her work consists of the fluid, shifting and ephemeral ecology of 49 Silver Mylar reflective meteorological balloons which are attached on the ground by several yards of transparent plastic tethers. As guests at the museum are sitting under the shelter of the balloons they can hear the mesmerizing patterns of the wind as it blows through the Mylar surface when the balloon touches each other creating a real condition for a sharing experience and rest.
But aside from the silver balloons the environment features nine wireless network video cameras, which are attached under some of the balloons. The nine cameras survey all the aerial activity between visitors and the environment and aided by the Internet they transmit live streaming video to the gallery space, which is located on the 5th floor of the museum. There through a software specially designed for this project enables the artist to seek audiovisual material and other data from global networks of social media like wikileaks, youtube, tweet, flicker arranged in thematic archives which range from images of our self, video reportage, images which convey enforced and repeated rules and codes in the control of crowds, in political and economic upheavals, in administrative apparatuses and military technology, and this heterogeneous and fluid context of images is simultaneously reassembled, manipulated with the streaming video from the cameras and displayed as a single video projection divided into nine channels.
In the spirit of transparency the artist like a contemporary documentarian wants to make us look through the collective gaze of the culture of reality TV, embedded journalism and you tube the uncertain state of images and other universal networks created out of audio, visual and electronic communication which have been normalized and to ask us to critically question the profoundly ambivalent about rhetorics of truth and strategies of authenticity in those images.
Jaron Lanier in his text, You Are Not A Gadget, calls for a more humanist approach to
the way we participate in network culture. Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series speak
to this desire and reveals the human in the networked interface.
Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series at Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia (European Capital of Culture, 20011) has been commissioned by Kumu Art Museum and sponsored by Goethe Institute for Gateways: Art and Networked Culture exhibition curated by Sabine Himmelsbach from May 12 through September 25, 2011.
A catalogue accompanying the exhibition is published edited by Sabine Himmelsbach
http://blog.goethe.de/gateways/index.php?user_language=en
http://www.crumbweb.org/
http://www.goethe.de/ins/ee/tal/etindex.htm?wt_sc=tallinn
http://www.ekm.ee/kumu.php
Networked environment
Gateways: Art and Networked Culture exhibition
May 12 to September 25, 2011
Watch the trailer on Vimeo.
The work of Jenny Marketou Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series 2011 is a networked environment created on site and set in the courtyard in front of the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. The environment which according to the artist touches upon the vital role of the viewer in directly incorporated in the process of the development of her work consists of the fluid, shifting and ephemeral ecology of 49 Silver Mylar reflective meteorological balloons which are attached on the ground by several yards of transparent plastic tethers. As guests at the museum are sitting under the shelter of the balloons they can hear the mesmerizing patterns of the wind as it blows through the Mylar surface when the balloon touches each other creating a real condition for a sharing experience and rest.
But aside from the silver balloons the environment features nine wireless network video cameras, which are attached under some of the balloons. The nine cameras survey all the aerial activity between visitors and the environment and aided by the Internet they transmit live streaming video to the gallery space, which is located on the 5th floor of the museum. There through a software specially designed for this project enables the artist to seek audiovisual material and other data from global networks of social media like wikileaks, youtube, tweet, flicker arranged in thematic archives which range from images of our self, video reportage, images which convey enforced and repeated rules and codes in the control of crowds, in political and economic upheavals, in administrative apparatuses and military technology, and this heterogeneous and fluid context of images is simultaneously reassembled, manipulated with the streaming video from the cameras and displayed as a single video projection divided into nine channels.
In the spirit of transparency the artist like a contemporary documentarian wants to make us look through the collective gaze of the culture of reality TV, embedded journalism and you tube the uncertain state of images and other universal networks created out of audio, visual and electronic communication which have been normalized and to ask us to critically question the profoundly ambivalent about rhetorics of truth and strategies of authenticity in those images.
Jaron Lanier in his text, You Are Not A Gadget, calls for a more humanist approach to
the way we participate in network culture. Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series speak
to this desire and reveals the human in the networked interface.
Red Eyed Sky Walkers: Silver Series at Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia (European Capital of Culture, 20011) has been commissioned by Kumu Art Museum and sponsored by Goethe Institute for Gateways: Art and Networked Culture exhibition curated by Sabine Himmelsbach from May 12 through September 25, 2011.
A catalogue accompanying the exhibition is published edited by Sabine Himmelsbach
http://blog.goethe.de/gateways/index.php?user_language=en
http://www.crumbweb.org/
http://www.goethe.de/ins/ee/tal/etindex.htm?wt_sc=tallinn
http://www.ekm.ee/kumu.php
Markers / MAPPING / 2011
Mapping during the 54th Venice Biennale
ArtLife for the World Gallery
Cannaregio 6021 Venezia 30121 (Rialto Bridge)
Venice, Italy
Wednesday, June 1 at 1:30am - July 30 at 4:30am
Curators Doron Polak and Amir Cohen
MARKERS 8 - Mapping - Group Exhibition | Contemporary Art.
Artists: Sol LeWitt, Dani Karavan, Dennis Oppenheim, Nancy Spero, Jack Sal, Yechiel Shemi, Caterina Davinio, Joshua Neustein, Yaakov Hefetz, Margalit Mannor ,Jenny Marketou and others.
ArtLife for the World Gallery
Cannaregio 6021 Venezia 30121 (Rialto Bridge)
Venice, Italy
Wednesday, June 1 at 1:30am - July 30 at 4:30am
Curators Doron Polak and Amir Cohen
MARKERS 8 - Mapping - Group Exhibition | Contemporary Art.
Artists: Sol LeWitt, Dani Karavan, Dennis Oppenheim, Nancy Spero, Jack Sal, Yechiel Shemi, Caterina Davinio, Joshua Neustein, Yaakov Hefetz, Margalit Mannor ,Jenny Marketou and others.
Jenny Marketou - presentation at the Silence project
"Silence" project - A series of workshops, discussions, and exhibition
Organized by the School of Fine Arts, Athens Greece
Sponsored by Goethe Institute and About Art Space
Curated by Yiannis Melanitis
Delphi, Greece
May 23rd to 27th, 2011
You can hear the noise of one tree falling but cannot hear the silence of the forest growing.
Organized by the School of Fine Arts, Athens Greece
Sponsored by Goethe Institute and About Art Space
Curated by Yiannis Melanitis
Delphi, Greece
May 23rd to 27th, 2011
You can hear the noise of one tree falling but cannot hear the silence of the forest growing.
Levels of Disturbance
POLYGLOSSIA
Onassis Cultural Centre
Athens, Greece
March 15 - June 30, 2011
“Levels of Disturbance” 2009-2011
Single channel video projection, color and sound, loop
Jenny Marketou
“We forget too soon the things we thought we could never forget” writes Jean Didion.
Although we are all bombarded by seemingly endless amounts of imagery and “news”, I am convinced that we are also all suffering from information deprivation, and in a multiplicity of ways. While media conglomerates and government powers shield information from us continually – and spin the information that we are being fed – I think we are also all guilty of collectively forgetting our histories. Information is ignored even when we have access to it. Certain things are just too difficult to face. Government handouts, unregulated corporations, corporate takeovers of the media and of the government, industry’s devastation of the environment… These are very old stories. Why should these things surprise us when they continue to happen?
“Levels of Disturbance” is a single channel video projection, which is usually shown projected from floor to ceiling on the end wall of a long corridor where the viewer experiences an extreme perpetual suspension and disturbance while he /she walks and watches the animate projected image. The television works of German novelist and filmmaker Alexander Kluge (1980) are a departure point of my work.
The material for video for “ Levels of Disturbance” has been shot over a week’s period from an aerial view distance while I was flying over the town of Los Alamos and it was conceived during the period of my artist in residence at the Center of Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the fall of 2009.
Los Alamos which currently stands as a national monument and a tourist attraction is still contaminated by the nuclear waste and by turbulent human emotions going back to the late 40’s when Los Alamos is the most secret city in the world; the home of the renowned scientific community, known as the laboratory of the Manhattan Project where a weapon of incredible power, the atomic bomb has been produced and tested.
During montage the recorded aerial views of the breathtaking landscapes has been edited frame by frame into a slide show and has been used as a backdrop over which is imposed a red round shape which evocatively symbolizes the standardized measuring principles used for all natural phenomena. The two layers cycle assembled in a continuous flow of rotations and transformations through the use of computer animated graphics which take their rhythm from the ambient soundtrack composed by the sound of the propeller of a plane. The constant red color ripples of the circle seems as a powerful way to divert the viewer’s gaze on the surface of the image and intentionally abstracts and distorts any passage to the landscape, and information is intentionally fragmented, abstracted and distorted.
The reason I set up “Levels of Disturbance” this way is to test the rhetoric of cultural and historical amnesia in contemporary images. Amnesia forms a vast territory of disintegrating or disappeared information. In an effort to map this sea of mind my video “Levels of Disturbance” explores one of the major themes related to the loss of memory and history which is the deliberate suppression of memory by a society, the loss, confusion, destruction of information or alteration of a culture’s record of itself and investigates how technological mediation produces specific qualities in the images which erase memory, create disorientation, influence knowledge.
Jenny Marketou
New York City
March 21,2011
Onassis Cultural Centre
Athens, Greece
March 15 - June 30, 2011
“Levels of Disturbance” 2009-2011
Single channel video projection, color and sound, loop
Jenny Marketou
“We forget too soon the things we thought we could never forget” writes Jean Didion.
Although we are all bombarded by seemingly endless amounts of imagery and “news”, I am convinced that we are also all suffering from information deprivation, and in a multiplicity of ways. While media conglomerates and government powers shield information from us continually – and spin the information that we are being fed – I think we are also all guilty of collectively forgetting our histories. Information is ignored even when we have access to it. Certain things are just too difficult to face. Government handouts, unregulated corporations, corporate takeovers of the media and of the government, industry’s devastation of the environment… These are very old stories. Why should these things surprise us when they continue to happen?
“Levels of Disturbance” is a single channel video projection, which is usually shown projected from floor to ceiling on the end wall of a long corridor where the viewer experiences an extreme perpetual suspension and disturbance while he /she walks and watches the animate projected image. The television works of German novelist and filmmaker Alexander Kluge (1980) are a departure point of my work.
The material for video for “ Levels of Disturbance” has been shot over a week’s period from an aerial view distance while I was flying over the town of Los Alamos and it was conceived during the period of my artist in residence at the Center of Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the fall of 2009.
Los Alamos which currently stands as a national monument and a tourist attraction is still contaminated by the nuclear waste and by turbulent human emotions going back to the late 40’s when Los Alamos is the most secret city in the world; the home of the renowned scientific community, known as the laboratory of the Manhattan Project where a weapon of incredible power, the atomic bomb has been produced and tested.
During montage the recorded aerial views of the breathtaking landscapes has been edited frame by frame into a slide show and has been used as a backdrop over which is imposed a red round shape which evocatively symbolizes the standardized measuring principles used for all natural phenomena. The two layers cycle assembled in a continuous flow of rotations and transformations through the use of computer animated graphics which take their rhythm from the ambient soundtrack composed by the sound of the propeller of a plane. The constant red color ripples of the circle seems as a powerful way to divert the viewer’s gaze on the surface of the image and intentionally abstracts and distorts any passage to the landscape, and information is intentionally fragmented, abstracted and distorted.
The reason I set up “Levels of Disturbance” this way is to test the rhetoric of cultural and historical amnesia in contemporary images. Amnesia forms a vast territory of disintegrating or disappeared information. In an effort to map this sea of mind my video “Levels of Disturbance” explores one of the major themes related to the loss of memory and history which is the deliberate suppression of memory by a society, the loss, confusion, destruction of information or alteration of a culture’s record of itself and investigates how technological mediation produces specific qualities in the images which erase memory, create disorientation, influence knowledge.
Jenny Marketou
New York City
March 21,2011
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