Adam Chodzko
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Born | 1965 (age 58–59) Relational Art |
Website | https://www.adamchodzko.com/ |
Adam Chodzko (born 1965) is a contemporary British artist, exhibiting internationally. His practice uses a wide range of media, including video, installation, photography, drawing, and performance.
Early life and education
Adam Chodzko was born in London, England. He graduated from the
Work
Chodzko's artworks explore the interactions and possibilities of human behaviour "in the gap between how we are and how we could be."[5]
Exhibiting work since 1991, working across media, from video installation to subtle interventions, and with a practice that is situated both within the gallery and the wider public realm, Chodzko's work explores the idea of collective imagination, investigating how the visual might catalyse new forms of engagement between people. His art proposes new relationships between our value and belief systems, examining their effect on our communal and private spaces and working with the documents and fictions that control, describe and guide these systems and spaces. Working directly with the networks of people and places that surround him, often using forms of anthropology,[6][7] he focuses on the relational politics of culture's edges, endings, displacements, transitions and disappearances through a provocative looking in the 'wrong' place.[8] Chodzko's practice operates between
Examples of Chodzko's socially-engaged artworks include Product Recall (1994, posters, advertisements and video installation), using the process of a
Chodzko's development of these ideas and processes later became consolidated into a body of work collectively titled Design for a Carnival (c. 2001–2007). This includes works such as Plan for a Spell[23] (2001, a video exploring ritual within the British landscape through programming its image, subtitles and audio to randomly combine in order to release a potential 'spell' embedded within it); Settlement[24] (2004, the legal purchase of a square foot of land as a gift to a stranger), Nightshift[25] (2004, the tracking of a late night parade of nocturnal animals to the Frieze Art Fair, mapped, to provide animal paths through the fair's 'labyrinth' for human visitors to follow) and M-path[26] (2006, the collection and distribution of "appropriate" footwear for gallery visitors to wear, altering their movement through the gallery space, and therefore their perception of it).
A trilogy of video installations, Hole
Throughout these earlier works, and further explored in later works such as The Pickers[10] (2009, the editing of a British film archive by a group of migrant Romanian strawberry pickers) and Ghost[33] (2010, a kayak designed by Chodzko for "visiting the dead"[34]), are investigations into processes of how memory, archiving, empathy, identification and the imaginary are shaped by the act of looking.
Because,[35] (2013, at Tate Britain, as part of the exhibition Schwitters in Britain[36]) and We are Ready for your Arrival[11] (2013 at Raven Row, London) further develop these ideas through sculpture, video, drawing and photography, presented as manifestations of the unconscious relationships between individuals and groups; their excesses, displacements and disappearances. Invited by the Benaki Museum, Athens, to work with its collection Chodzko made You'll see; this time it will be different,[37][38][39] (2013), an exhibition as retrospective, of 20 apparently 'old' posters advertising exhibitions (with themes ranging from: Jealous Animals to Unpopularity) of the Benaki collection, set in the future (2065–2078), and sited in often 'impossible,’ peripheral spaces, dispersed to the outskirts of Greece.
Place as a site which appears to exercise power and influence over the people who happen to occupy it is often explored through Chodzko's use of displacement, separating objects and images from their familiar and 'natural' time and situation in order to relocate them in the "wrong place" so that a change might be catalysed by that dislocation. A series of works entitled Better Scenery[40][41][42] (2000–2002) sited pairs of mutually dependent billboard signs at various locations in the world giving travel directions to the location of the opposite sign. The Flasher[43] works (1990-1996) were a series of one-minute videos, shot by Chodzko, documenting darkness being temporarily illuminated by marine distress-flares, with these sequences individually disseminated by adding them to the surplus tape following the credits of VHS feature films tapes rented from video rental-stores.
The theme of physically remote but intimate cross-cultural
Deep Above[49] (2015) and Rising[50] (2013) expose a process of 'making sense of imagery' in relation to our collective and individual responses to the threat of climate change. These works speculate that, inadvertently, a repurposing of ‘art thinking’ might be the only way of short-circuiting the psychological paralysis (caused by our brains’ hardwiring[51]) so that we might take action in order to avert climate change, while Sleepers[52] (2016) explores our empathic projection when encountering the imagery of the unconsciousness of others. Channel, Rupture[53], 2015 and Design for a Fold[54], 2015, both continue Chodzko's speculations about the effects of flows of empathy across time and space and between the local and the remote. Many of Chodzko’s works evolve through this sense of projecting outwards from the self into the perception of, not only other people, but also the inanimate through migratory embodiments with objects, rooms, places, institutions, images. Recent works have continued explorations into the relationships between place (particularly the idea of ‘the garden’), perception, identity, mythology, ritual, language, the body and the unconscious (e.g.; A Hostile Environment[55] (2019), Fluid Dynamics; The Quail is Rising[56] (2020), O, you happy roots, branch and mediatrix[57][58] [live] (2020), Thru hole I blind/O/Thru hole oui see[59][60] (2020)).
Although curated into many of the major
Exhibitions
Since 1991, Chodzko has exhibited at numerous venues around the world including
His commissioners include Creative Time, NY; The Contemporary Art Society; Frieze Art Fair; Hayward Gallery and Film And Video Umbrella.
Chodzko has been included in many British Council curated international exhibitions of British Art including General Release[64] (1995) in Venice, Micro/Macro: British Art 1996-2002,(2003), Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Breaking Step[65] (2007), Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, and Private Utopia[66] (2014), Japan.
Awards
In 2002, Chodzko received awards from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award, and in 2007 was awarded an AHRC Creative Research Fellowship in the Film Department at the University of Kent, Canterbury. In 2015 Chodzko was shortlisted for the Jarman Award.[67][68] In 2016 Chodzko received an award from DACS ART360[69][70] in order to facilitate the comprehensive archiving of his artwork from 1990 to the present.
Collections
Chodzko's work is in the collections of the
Teaching
Chodzko's involvement in teaching Fine Art at
He is on the Faculty of Fine Art for the British School at Rome.[80]
Notes and references
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Further reading
- ISBN 1902854004
- Interview with John Slyce, "Looking in the Wrong Place", Dazed & Confused. August 1999, no.57, pp;100-106.
- David Barrett, "Adam Chodzko", Art Monthly, no.229, September, 1999. pp. 29–31
- Chris Darke, Jeremy Millar, Polly Staple, Will Bradley. "Plans and Spells: Adam Chodzko", Film and Video Umbrella. 2001 ISBN 0 95386 347 6
- Adam Chodzko,"Romanov", ISBN 978-1870699518
- Rachel Greene, "Internet Art", ISBN 978-0500203767
- Jane Rendell, "Art and Architecture: A Place Between", ISBN 978-1-84511-222-6
- Lisa Le Feuvre, Alex Farquharson, Mark Godfrey, Andrea Villani, "Adam Chodzko". ISBN 9788861305663
- ISBN 978-1-904662-08-2
- Martin Clark, Martin Herbert, Lisa Le Feuvre, Andrew Wilson. "Adam Chodzko Proxigean Tide", ISBN 978-1-85437-825-5
- Jane Rendell, "Site-Writing", ISBN 978-1845119997
- Grant Pooke, "Contemporary British Art, An Introduction", 2010, pp206–8, ISBN 978-0415389747
- Emma Chambers and Karin Orchard, "Schwitters in Britain", ISBN 978-1849760263
- ISBN 978-1-909693-05-0
External links
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- Interview for Stretcher Magazine
- Tate Britain commission of work by Adam Chodzko as part of Kurt Schwitters exhibition, 2013.
- Adam Chodzko exhibition at Raven Row, London 2013.
- Article in Frieze magazine, written by Adam Chodzko about films that have influenced his practice
- Martin Herbert, 2012, article written about Chodzko's moving image work Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- Interview with Adam Chodzko for ISIS magazine, 2013