About
D-Light Studios is happy to announce Dutch artist Martijn Tellinga’s first solo exhibition in Ireland. After a series of successful EU presentations, ‘presence (Un) presence’ —developed in residence at D-Light— returns to our studios to inaugurate our new ground floor gallery. With this large-scale, post-industrial space we wish to contribute to Dublin’s vibrant scene and provide an open platform for contemporary and experimental border crossing practices by emerging and established artists, both national and international.
This exhibition evolves through different stages. D-Light warmly invites you to visit at your own convenience during opening hours October 5 -11, daily 4 - 8pm. We won’t host an opening but rather a closing event to celebrate the work’s unfolding on October 11, 6pm. Free Admission, All Welcome.
With performers Francis Fay, Isabella Oberländer, Ben Sullivan, Claire Keating.
Tellinga’s ‘presence (Un) presence’ —a 7-day durational performance installation— traces the increasingly blurred distinction between our material real and a simulated technological reality. Fusing site, performance, video technology and the human senses, the piece stages a radically slowed-down choreography between 4 individual performers who silently scan our fundamental postures —standing, walking, sitting, lying down— as the means to negotiate a heavily medialised installation environment. Ceaselessly observed and registered by a digital camera system, the reduced forms drawn by the sustained postures become gradually expanded and displaced through non-linear video feeds, image transmission and occasional instruction-like texts appearing on large-size canvases mounted in the space.
Within this continuous imbrication of the physical and the virtual, diffused temporal instances of the work contingently collide and evolve, offering ongoing speculation on its chronology and narrative. While subject of perpetual broadcast, the postures begin to function as embodied interruptions as well, quietly protesting the never-ceasing scrambling of time and location. Over time, these still acts of resistance increasingly gain both a sensing and contributive function by which to observe, (re)draw and (re)enact the relational space the performers share between them.
'Martijn Tellinga’s "presence (Un) presence" uses a constructed, carefully arranged spatial encounter to recognise a fundamental disjunct between the perceptual, conceptual and lived strands of contemporary spatiality . . . It employs forms of slow encounter to engage with extended structures of temporality, with strategies of hesitation, delay and deceleration, in an effort to make us pause and experience a passing present in all its heterogeneity and difference . . . This work acts and reacts, calls and responds, it folds time upon itself, it persists, it continues. It reminds us that we are affective bodies, constantly pulsing with waves, evolving and creating new energies as we react and interact with other bodies'
—from Mark Garry's written response 'I am listening to you'
ARTIST
The artistic practice of Martijn Tellinga (The Netherlands, 1974) occupies an intermedium between spatial installation, music, and durational performance. Drawn from a reduced formalist-seeming vocabulary, it engages site, sound, moving image, choreography, the temporal and the textual. Exploring processual dynamics and open-form composition processes, he seeks to address questions of place, agency and environment from within iteratively evolving exhibition settings. Much of his work is score-based and includes a wide variety of conceptual actions and chance operations, probing the emergent field between intended and accidental occurrences. He receives frequent support for his work, presents worldwide, lectures and works in residence. With DNK-Amsterdam he is co-responsible for a long-running series of events, concerts and exhibitions. He currently lives and works between Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Dublin, Ireland.
WHEN
5th - 11th Oct
DURATION
4pm - 8pm, daily
11 Oct 6pm - 8pm, closing event
PRICE
Admission Free, All Welcome
