Jenny Pickett

by JULIEN OTTAVI and JENNY PICKETT

2 – 22 December, 2011

Tenderpixel is pleased to present Dislocated Flesh, an exhibition featuring the work of Julien Ottavi and Jenny Pickett. This new body of work stems from their long term collaboration exploring perception, memory, and architecture. Considering physical and virtual space they are intrigued how these phenomenons influence the body, particularly in a post-human construction of society. Ottavi & Pickett’s dialogue interrogates the cross-section between sound, space and image. Dislocated Flesh explores the ability of these junctures to affect our interpretation and create a tension in our readings of language, the results of which are poetic and bemusing.

Possession, the main work on the ground-floor, is a suspended human scale cocoon-like sound sculpture, constructed with ivory fabric and crinoline cages. The sound of Possession fluctuates between high frequencies of varying intensity before dropping out altogether. The sonic affect coincides with a burst of light flashing from the objects interior, leaving behind a salivating oral impression. In the basement Radotage which translates as Drivel consists of six scalps, hung from the ceiling, turning slowly upon cymbals. Each endlessly scraping and scratching away at their amplified metallic surfaces, Radotage repeats upon the space through combined and individual visual and audio loops.

http://www.tenderpixel.com

the engine room: exhibition
New Sound and Visual Art Works
24 November – 16 December 2011
Morley College – Morley Gallery, London.

The engine room exhibition is a selection of sonic and visual artworks by established and emerging artists from across the globe. The works share a common ground in that they have all been inspired in some way by Cornelius Cardew’s music and/or ideologies.

The works programmed in this exhibition were selected from an international call for works which attracted over 50 submissions from over 15 countries.

the engine room exhibition showcases the far-reaching influence that Cardew continues to have on artists working across a diverse range of disciplines and media today.

The exhibition includes sound installations, graphic scores, video works, acousmatic works, and interactive works.

Curated by Camilo Salazar, the engine room exhibition includes works by:

Craig Allan, Dominick Allen, Ian Baxter, Nance Davies, Diane Dwyer, Rita Evans, Mathevet Frédéric, Dave Gedosh, Seth Guy, Tim Howle & Nick Cope, Steve Jones & Sally Rodgers, Gary Kempston, Panayiotis Kokoras & Dimitris Vourdoglou, Angelo Petronella, Martyna Poznanska, Julien Ottavi & Jenny Pickett, Ailis Ni Riain, Mike Richison, The Gluts, Amber Vistein.

Posters/Flyers/Program/Catalog/Website Artwork and graphic design produce with APO33 by Jenny Pickett and Julien Poidevin for Piksel 2010 Festival using FLOSS tools; APODIO operating system with the software: Gimp/Inkscape/Scribus.

Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of FLOSS & art.

The 9th edition of the Piksel Festival takes place on November 17th-20th 2011. The festival subtitle re:public connects to various strategies for rethinking and redefining public space, both as a concrete physical space, and in a larger social and political context.

The PIKSEL LOGO 2011 was constructed as a working physical streaming installation. The concept of this logo is to take the DIY ‘open’ hacking graphics used for the previous two editions of piksel one step further by creating a fully operational portable Piksel broadcasting graphic.

http://www.piksel.no

A sound installation. The piece relates to an order given to silence non-military radio broadcasts. Radio silence can also be maintained for other purposes, such as for highly sensitive radio astronomy, or in nautical and aeronautical communications to allow faint distress calls to be heard. The order: Seelonce seelonce seelonce is given when it is necessary for the radio stations in a the vicinity to stop transmitting. The written word ‘ seelonce’ is the English phonetic spelling of the French pronunciation of ‘silence’. Using found mayday alerts from the US coast guard and radio interference and silences at its base – “Seelonce seelonce seelonce!” models the movement of the sea – periods of calm, moderate, rough and choppy compositions flow in and out of the space with the tides. The mayday messages emerge from the radio waves and sonic currents of these transmissions – Seelonce FINI.

“Seelonce, seelonce, seelonce!” was composed for Grande exposition d’art sonore – première édition
-du 28 October to 06 November – 11 artists, 1 piece per day.

Sound art is an artistic genre atypical at the intersection of noise music, visual arts, contemporary music and experimental. It is a visual arts field that uses the space as writing itself. The Grande exposition d’art sonore is a series of exhibitions that offer artists/composers sound projection space within a time constraint: Invest in the exhibition space for a day.

Brandon Labelle, Jason Kahn, Achim Wollscheid, Kasper T Toeplitz, Francisco Lopez and Apo33′s – Jenny Pickett, Julien Ottavi, Julien Poidevin, Christian Galarreta, Dominique Leroy.

Ensemble Subtecture: A 2 hour live audio visual sub-base performance. Jenny Pickett, Julien Ottavi, Julien Poidevin and Christian Galarreta at La Fabrique Inauguration September 2011, Nantes.