During Flipchart visitors are presented with a snapshot of the creative process, this episode investigates research methods that translate different phenomena into art.
Martin Toloku, as an iii resident of the past month, researches decay as the central theme of his practice. He investigates the history behind dead/rotten woods and other objects within their environment, that act as an archive of hidden moments. Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand investigate the phenomena of black holes through an installation and perfomative lecture. A vortex is created using water in a basin, a white laser beam is then shone across which splits, emitting bursts of colourful rotating light. Maurane Gabriël aims to show that sound can reveal shifts in connectivity and histories, using the impact of mining on the Sami culture. Sounds negotiate the changed landscape differently, which affect the vibrational systems of humans/non-humans alike.
Martin Toloku is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice has evolved from carving to installation, performance, video work, studio practice and collaboration with animals, specifically termites and aquatic species. He is fascinated about the deterioration of materials and the memories they inhabit. He explores spontaneity as revolutionary aesthetics, while investigating decay in relation to time, space, life and death.
Martin will present the outcome of his research residency at iii, using the audience as a tool for interaction. Decay is the central theme of his practice; fascinated by the deterioration of materials, which are raw reflections of their environment. Collaborating sometimes with living organisms, specifically termites, he will perform a studio ritual to confront the complexity of our shared environment with other living creatures.
Evelina Domnitch (1972) and Dmitry Gelfand (1974) create multi-sensory installations and performances that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Their artworks exist as ever-transforming phenomena offered for observation serving to push our sensory threshold.
Within a performative lecture the artists will explain their working process, collaborations and methodlogies. This will lead to the explanation and demonstration of the installation ORBIHEDRON.
“In the middle of a body of water, a dark vortex emits prismatic bursts of rotating light, evoking the radiant ergosphere around a spinning black hole. The singularity lies at the bottom of a dimple on the water’s surface, the crown of the vortex, which acts as a concave lens focussing the laser beam along the horizon of the “black hole” shadow.”
Maurane Gabriël is a sonic researcher and architect from the Netherlands. Her research methodologies look at vibrational systems; recently she has also explored connections between the senses and her experimentation. By adopting this vibrational framework, she seeks to reimagine the cognitive structure of history and its collective memory.
Embodied research and fieldwork aims to show that sound, as a mode of abstraction, can reveal the impact of mining on the Sami culture. A significant aspect of their culture is yoik – a form of spiritual storytelling, a song of the Earth. The yoik as an activity is embedded in the landscape however due to mining, the sounds traverse differently in the changed landscape. This activity is an exchange of energy and materials across scales, influencing the participants in shared ecosystems, both local and global, both human and non-human.
Curator Leon Lapa Pereira is a cross-disciplinary performance researcher who develops experienceable ecologies between humans and more-than-humans. Through anthropomorphising, methods, relational worlds and biological processes are translated into movement, robotic agents and performances. Besides his practice within performance, he co-founded the WASTELAND Festival, the interdisciplinary residency program Resonant Bodies in Georgia, is a teacher at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague and a Creative Producer at the Embassy of the North Sea.
Flipchart is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.