Art360 Foundation Press Release 01.10.2020
Adam Chodzko A film by David Bickerstaff, supported by Art360 Foundation Watch @ art360foundation.org.uk/adamchodzko
“ My attention has always been monopolised by the current piece of artwork I’m making. The previous 29 years of practice would, both physically and in my memory, rapidly (and chaotically) recede into the distance.
The Art360 Award allowed me the opportunity to bring everything I had made back into the present. It enabled me to be certain as to not just where the work was and how it was but exactly what it was – and now is – in terms of its individual and collective meanings.
The archiving process showed me how my past work weaves into and interacts with my current practice. Rather than many hundreds of fragments floating in space, archiving brings all my work into a cohesive body that exists actively in the present. Creating a comprehensive archive of one’s art practice is not exactly a comfortable process but its psychological effect is profound. It serves as a highly productive, huge kick up the arse.
Having the archive allows my attention to fully focus on the next piece of artwork, knowing that everything else is right behind it, feeding into it.”
Adam Chodzko, 2019
Images upper right: Because…, installation using a Frank Lloyd Wright interior to make Kurt Schwitters’ “Merzbarn”. Image of installation at Tate Britain, 2013 © Adam Chodzko.
O, you happy roots, branch and mediatrix [live], screen views, commissioned by Camden Art Centre for ‘The Botanical Mind’ exhibition, 2020 © Adam Chodzko.
Image lower right: Stills from ‘Adam Chodzko’, a Film by David Bickerstaff © David Bickerstaff & Art360 Foundation, 2020, of The God Look-Alike Contest, 1991-1992 © Adam Chodzko.
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About the Artist He has shown work in the Venice, Istanbul, Athens, Exhibiting work nationally and internationally since Whitstable and Folkestone Biennials/Triennials, and 1991, Adam Chodzko is an artist whose has received awards from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, multidisciplinary practice explores the interactions the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY, the Arts and possibilities of human behaviours. and Humanities Research Council, and in 2015, was shortlisted for the Jarman Award. Until 2018, Chodzko His artworks include video, installation, photography, was Senior Lecturer of Fine Art at the University of socially engaged practice, drawing and performance. Kent. He lives and works in Whitstable, Kent.
Bringing together fragments from diverse fields of Current and forthcoming exhibitions include: knowledge to make work that sits between documentary and fiction, his artworks are Towner International, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne propositions driven by the question; if this is our current reality together then what, really, should Die Sonne does not shine like Słońce, Trafostacja happen to us next? Sztuki, Szczecin, Poland
Chodzko’s exhibitions range from a solo survey show The Botanical Mind, Camden Art Centre, London at Tate St Ives to major installations at Tate Britain, MAMBo and Raven Row, and commissions range Televistas, More than Ponies from Creative Time, NY, to the Wellcome Trust.
About Art360 Foundation
Art360 Foundation has worked with Chodzko on the development of his archive since 2016.
We are an independent charity supporting artists and estates with archiving and legacy planning. Through the Art360 Programme, we empower artists to shape the narratives surrounding their practice and to preserve a life’s work, for the benefit of present and future generations.
We have supported 45 artists and estates working in a range of disciplines through our tailored bursary programmes in England and Scotland, delivered by freelance specialists across the UK. We work in partnership with museums, galleries and arts organisations to deliver a dynamic public programme, which aims to create both visibility for artists’ archives and new opportunities for knowledge exchange across the visual arts.
Imag es upper right and left: Stills from ‘Adam Chodzko’, a Film by David Bickerstaff © David Bickerstaff & Art360 Foundation, 2020.
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Still from ‘Adam Chodzko’, a Film by David Bickerstaff © David Bickerstaff & Art360 Foundation, 2020, of (left) Secretors, 1993 & (right) Front cover of Frieze
magazine, No. 31 Nov-Dec 1996, with artwork from Kara Walker. Image © Adam Chodzko.
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