Dunseath, J (2018) Hard hard hat hat & Cosmetic.wished.explorer. In: On Repeat, GiG Gallery, Munich, Germany, 22 September - 26 October 2018.
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| Item Type: | Exhibition |
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| Creators: | Dunseath, J |
| Abstract: | Dunseath's work Cosmetic.wished.explorer (2018) was a Digital film embedded in GIG website for duration of the show. The film cosmetic.wished.explorer raised questions and discussion about the nature of authorship, appropriation, language and interpretation, exposing categories of truth and error. It is a palimpsest of presentations, and positions. Using the advances of current technology, perhaps this is a version of Spatium, the cosmic analogue of the Idea and the mechanism of abstract relations becoming actualised? The film was made using Google Translate’s instant camera translation app. The app is designed to translate text from signs, handwritten notes, printed menus etc. by just pointing your camera. But what happens if it is used to ‘translate’ non-textual information? When pointed at buildings (with no text to decipher) the app attempted to ‘translate’ the building in front of it and revealed a magical quality by virtue of its translation of nothing into a different time and place. The unpredictable effect of producing deciphered gibberish revealed a unique series of language constructs. The title refers to the 3-word location of the filmed building. The 3 words generated from what3words is a new simple method used to describe global locations. In it, the world has been divided into a grid of 3m x 3m squares and each one assigned a unique 3-word address. It proposes that the system enables anyone can accurately find any location and share it more quickly, easily and with less ambiguity than any other system. It uses grid and language to reveal, classify and order. Dunseath's other work for the exhibition, Hard Hard Hat Hat (2018) was a Digital print on silver film. The hard hat is emblematic of function and construction. Hard hats make workers safe, protecting them from precarious and fast changing building sites. As an image the hard hat it is rendered useless. Repeated and inverted the hard hat becomes phallusised floating on an over elaborate shiny surface with embellished garish tones to be a reproducible image. Hard Hard Hat Hat is an oscillation between skill and de-skilled, authority and simulation, style and procedure, and distribution over production. |
| Official URL: | https://gig-munich.com/category/on-repeat/ |
| Date: | 22 September 2018 |
| Event Location: | GiG Gallery, Munich, Germany |
| Number of Pieces: | 2 |
| Medium: | x1 print on Silver Film and x1 Web based film |
| Measurements/Duration: | Print: 30.5 x 40.5cm; Film:looped 25 sec footage |
| Note: | ‘On Repeat’ is GiG Munich’s latest exhibition, featuring work by Alasdair Duncan, Jenny Dunseath, Jonah Gebka, Jane Harris, Melina Hennicker, Steffen Kern, Claudio Matthias Bertolini, Michael Schmidt, Amanda Ure, Magdalena Wisniowska. The starting point for this show was the paper, ‘Genius and Genesis’ first presented by Magdalena Wisniowska at the 2017 Deleuze and Artistic Research Conference at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent. Curator for this exhibition was Magdalena Wisniowska. |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NB Sculpture N Fine Arts > NE Print media N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general |
| Divisions: | Bath School of Art, Film and Media |
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| Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2018 12:24 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2021 09:51 |
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