Resident 18: MILLY THOMPSON
Saucisson Chiffonaire
Resident 26: NICHOLAS MATRANGA
...If these old directions still direct.
Resident 16: ERIC D. CLARK
Instant gratification
Quarta, 27 Abril 2011 22h
Quinta, 28 Abril 2011 17h
The first Lisbon residency is celebrated together with former residents number 18: Milly Thompson, number 26: Nicholas Matranga, and number 16: Eric D. Clark.
Thompson and Clark, independently from each other, continue time- and context-specific works that originate from their individual residencies at Caribic Hamburg, whilst Martanga's contribution consists of two performances over two days.
Milly Thompson makes a new balloon sculpture, a series of immediate and temporal works that seem to have developed out of the short notice and light luggage invitations of the Caribic. Sauccison Chiffonaire is a mosaic cluster of two tone sausage balloons and a delicate chiffon curtain, matching the overall colour-scheme and aesthetic of the tile and bathroom showroom. Although frail and makeshift in material, Thompson's formalist approach (one of colour field painting and post-minimalist sculpture) makes the installation, once again, appear glamorous and monumental. However, as with QUIXOTIC SAUSAGE SCENARIO (2010) Thompson knowingly avoids any categorization and turns things around when they just seem a bit too comfortable. Saucission Chiffonaire is disturbingly tactile and sensory, suggesting an underlying sexuality and surrealist interpretation that thrives on the irony where the seemingly mundane is combined with the very perverse, leaving the viewer disturbed, yet in awe to the beauty of Thompson's highbrow composition.
For the second time, Eric D. Clark records the first opening of the Caribic in a new city. Instant Gratification is an audio documentation of a place in time: microphones throughout the space are recording conversations, noise, and background music over 48 hours. Whilst the first Instant Gratification was recorded during our first opening in Hamburg, the second recording in Lisbon includes the Hamburg recording which is played in the background. Therefore, creating a double-audio-layering of Caribic Hamburg and Caribic Lisbon, resulting in a new recording that fuses two different places at different times. This process could be infinitely continued as the Caribic keeps moving and every following first residency is being recorded.
On the First day of the joint residency Nicholas Matranga presents a performative reading titled Works yet to be worked (2009), a witty, collaborative script (with the Post Brothers) including many difficult words. Matranga manages these super. On the second day the artist presents in the same reading-out-loud-while smoking-too-many-cigarettes manner, a new text that is as the previous one slightly longer than the average attention span lasts. In an interview with his friend Sami, titled Sami discussing his twin Siamese cats (2011), he interviews his friend about his cats. The outcome is highly informative not only for cat lovers but also for those who enjoy psychology or philosophy, the text is full of interesting observations and it alternates with incredibly comical moments. What happens is that Sami, the friend of the artist who seems to have a great interest in his pets and tends to closely observe their behaviour, agrees to an interview that Matranga conducts. It starts with Sami saying... (*some text missing due to copyright infringement) |
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