As a part of my Uncreative Practise Workshop we went offsite to the Serpentine Sackler Gallery to visit the Rachel Rose Exhibition: Palisades
Palisades meaning:
forming an enclosure or defence
American artist and winner of the 2015 Frieze Artist Award, Rachel Rose discusses visual and sound techniques in which her works engage with appropriation, collage and memory recall, creating beautifully complex soundscapes and audio-visual presentations
Installation view:
Palisades from Palisades, 2014 (framesF
Notes:
- opportunity to suggests a history behind the landscape, the location
- enclosed or fixed ground/forming an exclosure
- Idea of exhibition comes from the idea of its relation to America, a pastoral enclosure of an area
- reference a something pastoral (relating to nature, farming, cultivation etc.)
- Art history reference; notion of ‘taming’ nature
- 18th Century: nature as satanic and bad, therefore enclosing/enclosure happens, making it good, and our relationship to landscape changes leading to the idea of the sublime that parallels beauty and terror which is heavily romanticised
- Rose’s references in this context is the taming the of nature more suited to the 18th century
- Incorporates 20th and 21st century references alongside this more 18th century depictions (paintings)
- What is our current relationship to nature, and how how this filtered modernism (in reference to the first piece) to architecture structures of the glass house etc?
- Hail Storm Footage – the idea of impending doom and how she mirror it in her pixillation within her visual footage as everything falls apart, linked to the idea of the untamed natural world
- (Visual) fragmentation in her work
- Layering of context and meaning
- References in the work that the installation requires research
- Diversity in presentation – shown in different ways at different locations. In the Serpentine she contrasts the idea of the palisades with chaos and destruction
- Variety of sound sources
- Links in the audio between the projections – physics and literally use of sounds and imagery in both videos with a different treatment employed in the secondary video
- Nothing is heavily allude to
- Different handling of the camera – more steady and considered
- Blue Carpet Presentation
- Eyelash – Blink – heavy visuo-audio associations
- Band
- Marrying of imagery and audio both appropriated and primary so well achieved
- Metaphoric/literary associations and then very plain speaking associations
- White ‘Blur’ as a device
