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Perdendosi

Site specific text based work for Terminal Convention Exhibition in Cork; Static, Liverpool and curated by Peter Gorschlueter, Deputy Director, MMK, Frankfurt

This piece stemmed from an invitation to make a work for the physical context of a decommissioned airport. I chose to continue my enquiry into making works that are insinuated or disguised into a particular context by employing existing means of display - in this case the dot matrix airport signage above the gates in the airport departure lounge. Previous works in this vein have included 'Mensch', and ' Game and Theory of the Duende'. The word 'perdendosi' was displayed on each of these display units; it is a musical term indicating to the player that the music should die away or lose itself slowly. In the context of the exhibition the term had a poignancy in relation both to the disused and gradually decaying airport and was also relevant to the discussions around the urgency for new models of art practice and production that animated the related symposium. In this way the work was also a continuation of enquiry into making works using text that has an incisive, critical and poetic character, and which makes sense of its material presence as an art work. Within this work I have also been concerned to use text of a short enough length, one word in fact, that it is read like a sign, as a text/image that is absorbed almost instantly. The exhibition was organised by Static, Liverpool and curated by Peter Gorschlueter, Deputy Director, MMK, Frankfurt. Other artists who took part in the exhibition included: Rosa Barba, Douglas Gordon, Le Pavillon (Palais de Tokyo/Paris), Frederic Pradeau, Becky Shaw, Imogen Stidworthy and Padraig Timoney. A symposium took place during the opening weekend of the exhibition at which the speakers included Annie Fletcher, George Yudice, Charles Esche and Stephen Wright.