Dillan Marsh


Index: Tags / Files / Images
Links: New / Random / Contact

rubber: research / work / exhibition / recent_work / competition / stage / documentation / photograph / equipment / product / facade / sport / text / component / collaboration / repeat / stand / loop / fair / arena / vehicle / race / transport / belief / structure / cycle / car / driving / movement / energy / game / video / ritual / drive / print / light / circle / darkness / space / installation / collection / team / fake / artificial / 2013 / collapse / sun / escape / orbit / publication / time / body / action / Entree / diagramme / Eleanor_Clare / noise / New_Age / black / animation / death / scenery / costume / screen / tube / solar / lights / storage / landscape / show / sound / scaffold / course / simulation / June_Twenty_First / modified / geometry / gallery / music / mask / dance / carnival / cube / engine / pyramid / custom / destroy / fire / wheel / rock / film / shelving / view / pile / motion / tire / disguise / residue / machismo / crowd / burn / dizzy / hole / circus / helmet / steel / Edinburgh_Sculpture_Workshop / dvd / panoramic / set / rubber / garage / track / dome / skin / spinning / presentation / riot / Burnout / wave / nature / earth / road / club / speed / postcard / matter / press_release / rave / nature / water / roundabout / solar_system / Yorkshire_Sculpture_Park / cruise / seek / tool / band / Francois_Hugo / cardboard / viewpoint / feet / obsolete / true / phenomena / Adventure_Island / pool / sick / spectrum / rubish / Apis_Press / camera / ride / touch / balance / hot_rod / drum / free-party / planets / hands / march / tank / Nestle / fibreglass / 2016 / decay / Mathijs_van_Geest / Rush / ladder / feel / edge / Archipelago / rubbing / Goodyear / excitement / Toucher / london / Peter Cailler / Archway / river / bike / geo-dome / Sunderland / John Higgins / Metal / mud_flats / sea / jumping / motorcycle / hour_meter / platonic_solids / estuary / Southend / low_tide / Infernal_Eternal / Kohler / pier / Piramid Stage / tide / fair ground / unconscious / Hordaland_Kunstsenter / Nothing_About_Trees / 1981 / dice / 2000 / Guisers / Marduk / Glastonbury / E_C_Cawte / drinking_straws /


Adventure Island, 22nd April - 8th May 2016-04-22




Hordaland Kunstsenter, Archipelago: Eleanor Clare & Dillan Marsh

Hendene famler
Kloden roterer
Tidevannet stiger

Stadig å fortsette framover; å søke etter
Solen, som slynger sine slående stråler; som forsvinner
Under Brygga, et vesen lever; forråtner
Ved enden av Landet; Sjøen


Det finnes en innside og en utside, et mørkt indre og et lyst ytre. Under huden, inni kroppen, er mye flytende. Dette er stedet hvor det underbevisste virker, fordøyer og prosesserer og samler og skiller substanser.

De lette etter selve begynnelsene av mening og skapelse: for å sammenføye tusener av år tilbake med idag. De ville finne det, men da de ankom, visste de fortsatt ikke hva de skulle gjøre.

I dypene av himmelen fantes ingen speil, og i solens sted gapte et stort blødende hull der kanskje en jeksel hadde blitt vridd ut. Sjøen hadde sannsynligvis blitt tømt, og etterlot seg hulrommet av sin beholder omsluttet av et svimlende stup. Kloden selv hadde forsvunnet, hadde opphørt å være solid.
– Le Clezio, J.M.G., The Book of Flights.


Eleanor Clare og Dillan Marsh bor i Bergen, og har lagd arbeider sammen siden 2013, et samarbeid som begynte som en utforskning av hvordan det å lage kunstverk og å skrive gjensidig kan påvirke hverandre i å forstå mening og utviklingen av form og struktur. Clare har en mastergrad i kunst fra Central Saint Martins, London (2011), og Marsh en mastergrad fra Kunst- og designhøgskolen i Bergen (2011). Sammen har de produsert verk for følgende aktører: Parabol Bergen, Assembly House Leeds, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, ASC Gallery London, Deuxpiece/Büro für Problem Basel og Apis Press Bergen.

Prosjektet er støttet av Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Assembly House Leeds, Metal Arts, Bergen Kommune og Norsk Kulturråd.

www.fossilsandstars.blogspot.no


Archipelago er et lite, fleksibelt visningsrom for å vise enkeltverk og installasjoner i et fokusert, men åpent miljø. Siden rommet ligger i førsteetasje på Hordaland kunstsenter, like ved siden av et større, mer formelt utstillingsrom, åpner Archipelago opp for å undersøke de skiftende egenskapene ved et kunstverk med begrensningene av et lite, fysisk rom, i en tidsalder med virtuelle rom.
Programmet til Archipelago planlegges kort tid i forveien for hvert nye prosjekt, med den hensikt å gjeninnsette kuratorisk smidighet og nåtidig engasjement i institusjonen. Disse utstillingene følger en annen tidsplan enn Hordaland kunstsenters hovedprogram for utstillinger, og er tenkt som en gruppe av «tenkeøyer» som oppstår i tiden.





Hordaland Kunstsenter, Archipelago: Eleanor Clare & Dillan Marsh

The hands are scrabbling
The earth is turning
The tide is rising

Constantly forging onwards; seeking
The Sun, casting its glorious rays; disappearing
Under the Pier, a creature lives; decaying
At the end of the Land; the Sea


There is an inside and an outside, a dark interior and a light exterior. Under the skin, in the body, much is fluid. This is where the unconscious is at work, digesting and processing and merging and separating matter.

They were looking for the very beginnings of meaning and making: to connect thousands of years ago with today. They wanted to find it, but when they arrived, they still didn't know what to do.

In the depths of the sky, there were no mirrors, and in place of the sun a great bleeding hole gaped where perhaps a molar had been wrenched out. The sea had probably emptied, leaving the hollow of its basin rimmed by a dizzy precipice. The earth itself had disappeared, had ceased to be solid.
Le Clezio, J.M.G., The Book of Flights.


Eleanor Clare and Dillan Marsh live in Bergen, and have been producing works together since 2013, a collaboration which began as an investigation into how making artwork and writing can mutually influence one another in the understanding of meaning, development of form and structure. Clare received MA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2011, and Marsh MA Visual Art from Bergen Academy of Art and Design, 2011. They have produced collaborative work for the following organisations: Parabol Bergen, Assembly House Leeds, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, ASC Gallery London, Deuxpiece/Buro fur Problem Basel and Apis Press Bergen.

Research and development has been supported by Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Assembly House Leeds, Metal Arts, Bergen Kommune and Norwegian Arts Council.

Fossils and Stars

Archipelago is a small, flexible platform for showing individual works and installations in a focused but open environment. Located on the ground floor of Hordaland kunstsenter, adjacent to a larger, more formal exhibition space, archipelago works with the constraint of limited physical space in order to explore the changing modalities of artworks in the age of virtual space. Archipelago is programmed with short lead times for each new project, with the intention of reinserting curatorial agility and real-time engagement into the institution. This initiative follows a different schedule to Hordaland kunstsenter's main exhibition programme, and is conceived as a group of 'thought islands' appearing in time.

"Click to view Adventure Island, 22nd April - 8th May" Adventure Island, 22nd April - 8th May

Tags: work / exhibition / recent_work / stage / facade / text / collaboration / repeat / loop / fair / movement / energy / video / light / darkness / installation / fake / artificial / sun / publication / time / action / body / Eleanor_Clare / scenery / landscape / simulation / carnival / view / film / wheel / motion / residue / circus / dizzy / hole / set / spinning / panoramic / skin / Edinburgh_Sculpture_Workshop / rubber / speed / wave / matter / nature / nature / water / press_release / Yorkshire_Sculpture_Park / feet / Adventure_Island / ride / camera / pool / viewpoint / sick / touch / feel / hands / Mathijs_van_Geest / fibreglass / decay / edge / 2016 / Toucher / Archipelago / river / excitement / tide / Southend / fair ground / pier / jumping / Metal / unconscious / low_tide / estuary / mud_flats / sea / Hordaland_Kunstsenter /


Adventure Island, Hordaland Kunstsenter 2016-04-22

Adventure Island, Hordaland Kunstsenter

Tags: work / exhibition / recent_work / stage / facade / text / collaboration / repeat / loop / fair / vehicle / movement / energy / video / darkness / light / fake / installation / artificial / sun / time / publication / action / body / Eleanor_Clare / scenery / landscape / simulation / carnival / view / wheel / film / residue / motion / dizzy / hole / circus / set / panoramic / skin / rubber / Edinburgh_Sculpture_Workshop / spinning / wave / matter / earth / speed / seek / press_release / Yorkshire_Sculpture_Park / nature / water / touch / Adventure_Island / pool / sick / camera / ride / viewpoint / feet / fibreglass / hands / Mathijs_van_Geest / 2016 / edge / decay / feel / Rush / Toucher / Archipelago / excitement / rubbing / estuary / Hordaland_Kunstsenter / pier / unconscious / jumping / Southend / fair ground / mud_flats / Metal / tide / low_tide / sea /


untitled installation, Bomb Factory, London 2013-10-19

untitled installation, Bomb Factory, London untitled installation, Bomb Factory, London untitled installation, Bomb Factory, London untitled installation, Bomb Factory, London untitled installation, Bomb Factory, London untitled installation, Bomb Factory, London photography Ben Turner untitled installation, Bomb Factory, London untitled installation, Bomb Factory, London untitled installation, Bomb Factory, London untitled installation, Bomb Factory, London untitled installation, Bomb Factory, London untitled installation, Bomb Factory, London

Tags: work / exhibition / recent_work / documentation / photograph / equipment / component / repeat / stand / loop / vehicle / race / belief / structure / driving / car / cycle / energy / video / drive / ritual / print / darkness / circle / space / installation / collection / collapse / 2013 / time / orbit / action / New_Age / noise / animation / black / tube / costume / screen / solar / sound / scaffold / geometry / modified / music / gallery / mask / cube / dance / custom / film / pyramid / wheel / rock / fire / shelving / disguise / machismo / tire / burn / dvd / presentation / dome / helmet / steel / rubber / postcard / riot / Burnout / speed / club / road / roundabout / solar_system / rave / rubish / Francois_Hugo / phenomena / cardboard / band / spectrum / ladder / free-party / Nestle / planets / tank / march / drum / Peter Cailler / Archway / london / geo-dome / Piramid Stage / Kohler / hour_meter / John Higgins / Infernal_Eternal / platonic_solids / Sunderland / Nothing_About_Trees / E_C_Cawte / 1981 / 2000 / Guisers / drinking_straws / Glastonbury / Marduk / dice /


Modified Car Cruise Burnout 2013-09-08

Modified Car Cruise Burnout

Tags: research / competition / photograph / arena / race / vehicle / transport / driving / car / movement / energy / drive / ritual / circle / escape / action / noise / sound / modified / wheel / custom / engine / destroy / fire / machismo / tire / burn / crowd / rubber / track / Burnout / road / club / cruise / hot_rod / balance /


Burnout 2013-09-08

Burnout

Tags: research / competition / photograph / sport / arena / vehicle / race / cycle / movement / driving / energy / ritual / drive / circle / team / action / noise / sound / modified / custom / wheel / engine / fire / machismo / tire / burn / helmet / track / rubber / Burnout / road / cruise / Goodyear / bike / motorcycle /


Burnout (text by Eleanor Clare) 2013-08-14



Burn Out

Through the grainy unsteady image and the sound, distorted by low quality compression, it
seems like something is trying to break through. The first few seconds sound like noise
pulled through a synthesizer, screaming and kicking as it emerges, fighting for life in its new
digital form. Something about it is alarming, frightening, tortured and angry. It is half-formed,
raw and unrefined. Streaks of red and white light flash across the screen.

It is an arena for action. Something about this situation that is chaotic; yet there is an
element of control. The driver makes tight circles around a central axis. At first this is
demarcated by a traffic cone, but as things proceed, the silhouette of a young man moves into the
centre. The car stops and revs up, creating billows of smoke in the air, obliterating vision for
a few moments. As the car skids and screeches, I feel a sense of alarm. This is coming close to
disaster for the lone, central figure, potential victim of the anonymous driver, a sacrifice for
the entertainment of onlookers. I can sense also the collusion. One figure willingly places his
trust in the other. There is a tension between these two.

*

A smoky, fiery object is spinning recklessly. One might say things had spun out of control.
Not quite though; for to completely lose control would mean total destruction. It would mean the
end. It all went up in flames. This is a sudden, intense and short lived burst of energy. More
like a supernova than the sun, and more akin to a meteor careering around a planet, than a planet
orbiting the sun. It was more than this, though. This scene was not simply about objects in space;
it was human. It was a game or a task, perhaps even a ritual.

Although I can identify it as a human activity, shot through with the implications of one's
relationship to another, from my vantage point it also seemed anonymous. In the dark, these
figures could be anyone, totally unrecognisable by the light of day. In this moment they had a
relationship to one another. Certainly for the two central protagonists, it was one of great
significance and trust. At any other time, on any other level, it was unclear. In this sense, the
action had become symbolic. The figures could be understood as archetypes. Ones which, for reasons
I cannot yet identify, I associate with the masculine.

***

In the threat of a loss of control, images had already flooded my mind. I remember as the
helicopters circled in the air above my house one evening in August. I had no idea why it was
happening, but this circling was incessant, the noise repeatedly coming close and fading away,
swelling and receding, but never quite out of my consciousness. It always gives me a slight sense
of unease, the idea of something being under surveillance, coupled with the notion that something
might be wrong. Why this surveillance from such a great height? It is a safe distance for the one
who watches. Then I remembered the destruction that had taken place, just minutes away from my home.
The aerial images of buildings and cars set alight, and rioters surging through the streets, anonymous
from this point of view. London's Burning.





Tags: work / recent_work / sport / text / collaboration / loop / arena / race / vehicle / car / movement / cycle / driving / energy / game / video / drive / ritual / light / darkness / circle / 2013 / publication / orbit / body / action / Eleanor_Clare / Entree / noise / death / lights / June_Twenty_First / show / course / dance / custom / fire / destroy / engine / wheel / tire / machismo / burn / crowd / rubber / Burnout / road / riot / roundabout / Apis_Press / hot_rod / london /


Truing and Balancing 2013-07-29

Truing and Balancing Truing and Balancing Truing and Balancing Truing and Balancing Truing and Balancing

Tags: research / product / sport / component / stand / race / vehicle / transport / cycle / driving / circle / diagramme / tire / rubber / garage / tool / true / balance / bike /


Tire Mountain 2012-11-05

Tire Mountain

Tags: research / photograph / driving / storage / landscape / pile / tire / rubber / rubish / obsolete /


top of page