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Profile Information
- Website
- http://dangreen.awardspace.com
- Relationship status
- in a relationship
- College / University
- Nottingham Trent University
- Program
- Ba Fine Art
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Conceptual, Event, Installation, Painting, Performance, Video
- About my artwork
- My work concerns noise and silence. I seek to create spaces where people can experience these, either individually or together. Perhaps to really experience silence, we must first experience noise.
Noise and silence contrast each other, sometimes comforting, sometimes confrontational. We grow used to one or the other, and the loss of either can lead to sleepless nights and an uncomfortable feeling of being out of place. We can enjoy and loathe both; noise can mean social time or music as well as work and non-stop busyness; silence can mean peace and relaxation as well as loneliness and fear. Engagement with the work, that is the choice to let ones thoughts roam, is necessary to fully experience the work, but this is left as an option. Whilst the viewer doesn’t have a direct influence on the work itself, they influence their own, and possible others’ experience. There is a meditative factor, an interest in spirituality which whilst a way of asking quite personal questions is also an offer to the audience, providing a space where thoughts of identity and the spiritual are encouraged.
I work with parallel mediums of painting and sound. Often separate, occasionally together, I seek to investigate the idea of silence within these. The contrasts and tensions are evident within, the influence of minimal and modernist art contradicting the idea of spirituality. There is a constant presence of structure, the grid form, whether visual or within the production process. Repetition and looping are key components of the sound, whether from instrumentation or from the manipulation of field recordings. The result is often music rather than ‘sound’, raising the question of where art stops and music begins. I use live performance in order to create a unique experience alongside recorded work, the ‘liveness’ meaning that the experience can never be repeated, instead becoming a memory in the mind of those who were there. The composition process is comparable to painting, layering the chromography of sound onto the blank canvas of the space’s background resonance. The process is important, and at times should be shown, but not to the degradation of the experience.
The idea that the contrasts I mention may blend into one, that the country and the city run into each other and at times become one. My work could be seen as a suburb between extremes where the opposing factors become binaries, working together as one, sometimes corporately, sometimes by invasion.
www.dan-green.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/machinemusicstuff
www.myspace.com/nudesefportrait
- Artists I like
- James Turrell, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Mark Rothko, Brice Marden, Brian Eno, Robert Henke, Alva Noto, Kandinsky, Mondrian, David Toop, .......
- The centre of the artworld is
- nowhere and everywhere
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The Malt Cross Gallery
WHO: Emerging and innovative regional and national artists and artistic practices.
WHAT: The newly refurbished Malt Cross gallery is available for hire. With a unique and accessible city-centre location, this quality exhibition space is available at competitive rates for shows, group work, meetings or seminars.
WHEN: Ongoing.
PAYMENTS: N/A
CHARGES: Contact the Malt Cross for details of hire costs and general information.
DETAILS: The Gallery’s unique location, within a Grade II listed building, accessible through the busy Malt Cross cafe-bar, creates a gallery space with great potential. Exhibitors will benefit from the extensive promotional potential of the cafe-bar, which is also a well known and established music venue.
APPLY: To apply please contact Tom Slater. Tel: 0115 941 1048. The Malt Cross Gallery 16 St James’s St Nottingham NG1 6FG.
CONTACT: tom@maltcross.com
www.maltcross.com
Deadline: 1 August 2009
Organiser/employer: Naomi Terry
We are going to organise a preview night at 23rd July for the SaLon Summer 2008 Show, which showcases emerging, innovative artwork from London's SaLon Gallery's annual hunt for the UK's most talented graduates.
We would very love to invite you to the preview night
Would you please leave me a message if you could make it? Many thanks~
More detail see http://www.artreview.com/events/event/show?id=1474022%3AEvent%3A332492
SaLon Gallery always welcome the emerging artists to join our team.
Cheers,
Samir
I often wonder about the place of music in sound art and art. as a listener, when i'm attentive, i percieve many sounds as they occur naturally, as music. quite complex textures and polyphony can arise out of the background. I think Cage framed this for us in formal music contexts.
if the intention is to arrange, mix, compose, edit, improvise, play, spark, sound/music that moves through time -- where and how can this kind of temporal activity fit? I don't think it is just a matter of finding the right physical space, although that's important too. How do music and art interact? I'm interested in bringing music as well as sound into installation. (i've played in all sorts of places - informal, formal, environmental, galleries and my compositions have been performed in auditoriums etc. but i'm interested in spatialising performers as well as sound for multi-channel environments). And then there's visual music. I really liked your paintings - I got immediately that there was movement, rhythm in there..
kika
I'd like to invite you to my forthcoming show at the Goldfactory Research Space, which is at Egerton Studios, Oldknows Building, St Anns Hill on Thursday the 24th of April from 6 till 9pm.
I've recently re-built the space there, so this show will unveil the new gallery/research space, and we hope it will be an exciting venue in Nottingham for artists to have the freedom to experiment with their practice.
My work will include recent paintings, videos and music, the idea being that all three media have cross pollinated with each other, creating a cacophony of happy/sad, brown earthy English/ vibrant kitsch Mexican, sights and sounds.
There'll be refreshments of tapas and beer and bring as many people as you like, the more the merrier.
Hope to see you then.
Geoff Diego Litherland
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