ALI
DARKE
DIRECTIONAL
FORCES PSARADES RESIDENCY 2015
Above
the main factory floor I found a room. It was covered in goat shit and the task
was to create something out of all this decay. I would transform the goat shit
into gold and show the remains of a miniature, abandoned factory within a
factory – reflecting both the previous industry and the work of the visiting
artists as they responded to the environment. What had been a canning factory
became my ’Uncanny Works’. It felt like
child’s play – building sandcastles and dolls houses – I was in my own world.
I left
behind mounds of earth where the nuggets had been excavated into rusty tins.
These were sent through the window to the factory below where they poured out
of a tap,alchemically transformed into gold.
In my
imaginarycivilization, the wealth from the factory was displayed in a gold mosaic
path that led to three rusty tin towers or temples. Other artists’ work and the
environment were referencedthroughout my installations– a camouflaged tiny figure
stands overlooking the land (mimicking Susana Sanroman’s photography)A flag is
held aloft by an oxidized plastic headless baby doll – (like Harris
Kondoosphyris’ work from the previous year’s residency.) and blue water in jars
displayed in my next piece –respond to the theme of ‘Purification’ in Veronica
Shimanovskaya’s work and the lake Prespes itself.
In
another room upstairs, using an upturned cupboard I created the ‘Undirectional
Forces Open Museum’ displaying bits and pieces I had collected during my stay
in Psarades - a museum within a museum. It became a kind of tower of life seen
through things and memories left behind –golden eggshells, local myth and
landscape, art, and finally our own bodies, seen in the flattened skin and bone
of frogs picked up from the road.In the end scene is an old
black shoe that leads us to the dust and debris on the factory floor.
This
last installation very much reflected my whole extraordinary experience on the
residency – not having any idea what work I would create – but allowing a response
to the place and people to unfold freely, and to leave behind traces of my
industry.
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