data/fields: andy graydon
ANDY GRAYDON Untitled (band pass Arlington), 2011, sculptural video installation
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Artist Spotlight on Andy Graydon.
In
Untitled (band pass Arlington), a single white line of video light moves slowly over a pile of stones and debris. It is unclear to the viewer whether the pile is made from the raw materials for future building, or if it is the remains of a demolition or a structure’s decay. Whether pre- or post-construction, the pile represents a position near the bottom of the arc of becoming: an entropic assembly of material either to be composed or decomposing. Across this, the white line of light cuts a kind of index mark, a way of traversing the material’s topography in time. The line of light operates dually, at once “playing” the rough material texture and form that it glides across (as if it were the long white cursor ubiquitous in audio software interfaces), while simultaneously being deformed by that very material’s texture and form. This dual functioning of the line reflects upon the material it describes: if the line is a cursor, the pile becomes the elements of a composition-in-process, while if the light forms a line of topography, the pile is its field, its given environment. The work finds its balance, its simulation of data collection and visualization, in this space of oscillation between composition and environmental art—as if scanning data of the past while reforming some future. This is the first gallery exhibition of Graydon’s work in the DC area.
On view in Data/Fields, a new media exhibition in which the
viewer/listener becomes another connection in the flow and transfer of
data. The artworks presented act as hubs of sensory information—sites of
signal, noise, presence, and absence. The exhibition features works by
five noted international artists, Caleb Coppock (U.S.), Mark Fell
(U.K.), Andy Graydon (U.S./Germany), Ryoji Ikeda (Japan), France Jobin
(Canada), and is curated by renowned sound artist Richard Chartier.
About the Artist
Andy Graydon ( b.1971) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. Born
and raised in Maui, Hawaii and originally trained as a filmmaker, both
experiences have been influential on Graydon’s current work, which is
focused on the interaction of media and environment in the forming of
personal and social subjectivities. Taking the form of projected light
and video installations, photographs, sound works, and architectural
interventions that are attuned to site and context, Graydon’s work
explores the interplay of phenomenal, ecological, and social
constructions that make up our composite notion of place. Exhibitions
include Unmonumental, The New Museum, New York; You Are Free,
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Untitled (plate tectonics), Program,
Berlin; Room Works, Portland Art Center, Oregon; and Untitled (fault),
Marian Spore, New York. Graydon has released sound works on numerous
labels, including Nonvisual Objects (Vienna), mAtter (Tokyo), Winds
Measure Recordings (New York), White_Line Editions (UK), and Leerraum
(Switzerland).
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