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“As a whole, the project is informed by questions of how identity is constructed and the languages and voice(s) it compels us to use. With the artists based in different countries, distance, impossible spaces and mediated communication inform and shape each act. ”
Some Assembly is a series of live and mediated collaborative acts. The first of these was The Field Notes, an ongoing series of books produced by creating, mediating, transmitting and re-mediating work. Each book explores a theme within the larger project, building on what has come before and often suggesting what follows. Their working methods draw upon a 5 decades of combined experience across the fields of art and design, print media, interactivity, typography, and sonic art.
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Palmarin Merges is faculty in BFA and Print Media programmes. She has been creating work across multiple print-based media for more than three decades. She is currently represented by Blackfish Gallery. In January 2018 she will be an artist in residence at Caldera Arts Organization. Her prints and mixed media work can be found in numerous private collections.
Mary Agnes Krell is faculty in the School of Media, Film & Music at the University of Sussex in the UK. She has made interactive works for over 25 years. As an Associate Member of Britain’s Forced Entertainment, she created Nightwalks (an interactive VR project that won the Transmediale in 2000). She also created Traces of Lee Miller working with the Lee Miller Archives and has collaborated with a range of other artists. In 2018, she will lead a project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council titled, “Digital Ghost Hunt”.
These two last collaborated thirty years ago.
The Road Ahead:
Chorus
Stages
Episodic Shifts
Utterances
The four pieces presented here represents the next collaborative acts in this ongoing project. Within these, our ongoing use of analogue and digital tools will expand to include sound and discrete amounts of interactivity driven primarily by the use of conductive inks and sensor technologies.
We are interested in material expressions of even the most ephemeral ideas and digital practices.
With The Field Notes, the project begin as a series of books filled with original and remediated imagery. These new pieces build upon and expand that form.
The notion of language and its limitations, the transition from sound to voice, and the journey to and from constructed identities all remain embedded in our work.
We are concerned with notions of presence, voice, sound, story and movement. We question exactly who is being seen, heard or remembered.
Palmarin Merges
Printmaker, Portland, OR
Mary Agnes Krell
Maker of Digital Things, Hebden Bridge, UK
2017