Tweety Pie – this summer’s sound sculpture – has taken flight alone into the world, in the form of a travelog – work in progress… here is a preview.
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Manifesto
Alienated People of Earth, enter our Circle of Power: There is a crisis not limited to our shores, it is worldwide and universal. It is cultural, ethical, existential, personal, and political.
We Resist in Many Voices. We defend our Planet.
Whaaaa Whaaaa, drink your fill of the Bitter Cup of Rhetorical Over-indulgence, in our multi-sensory pressure chamber, and let our shamanic outpourings wash over you in a Sound Bath of Aggravated Resistance.
Feel your inner Furie and join your voices to ours … Do you Question our clarity of Vision? Are you with us or against us?
See the rest – a virtual show experience – at yourleaderlovesyou.com
More photos of this exhibition at Portfolio page
Gestures 3,4,5 - one of the videos made for LoAG Lexicon of Artists' Gestures - Lea Torp Nielsen's project, April 2017. See Board, on LoAG. [...Click linked titles to view each one...] The stage is set for doodling around...
Active things, playful gestures, interacting with my stuff, thinking about the Lexicon, LoAG, Lea Torp Nielsen's online archive of artists' gestures. January 2016
How the studio installation, An Unimagined Utopia, took shape, October to November, 2016. Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield, Yorshire Art Space.
From considered...... to Bonkers
Now we're talking, Lea Torp Nielsen!
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When living under Ming the Merciless, finding and defending your own planet is no joke. Negotiating terms in your chosen language risks drastic misunderstandings, or slipping into the inept script. It might mean resorting to the corny or ham-fisted line; or invite the alienation of confronting the unfamiliar. Take me to your Leader subjects you to mild peril and disorientation as it plunders worlds within imagined worlds, mines the astronomical in the everyday, and contemplates paradoxical objects and post-apocalyptic calamity.Made North Gallery, Persistence Works, May 2016.
My work in the exhibition was called Game On. It consisted of two videos, painted mixed media and a savoy cabbage. This is the text I wrote for it: " A games console to delight and frustrate the imagination - in making this work I have been thinking about retro sci-fi and computer games, war games - power games. The console is a site of creation and destruction, power and powerlessness. It can engage and distract. Standing at the controls, the decisions are ours - we have the freedom to imagine, to play, to take action. Faced with the objects and spaces in front of us, including those spaces that open up in the mind, you can be the pilot or the passenger. Or the Time Lord. But is that freedom as real as it feels? Have we been manipulated? Are we collaborators? Perhaps we are willing slaves. Perhaps we are aliens on someone else’s planet. The low tech temporary structures, the tentative experimental things, the thoughts that range across form and surface, know that they don’t have long to get the message across. They do what they can. They resist, they open up, they give clues. Take your place at the controls. Game On."