Aoife van Linden Tol

Christina Mitrentse's work

2011-11-02T06:34:00.000-07:00

I am delighted to be showing alongside the work of established artist and curator, Christina Mitrentse, who has lent the name of her large scale installation, Emblem - Deconstructed and Destroyed: A Homage to John Latham (pictured right), to the exhibition. The billboard, on the exterior of Trinity space, created from a beautiful tessellating geometric prints and can be viewed 24 hours a day, on Bardsley Lane off Creek Rd. The pattern is constructed of books, standing on their end and photographed from above, giving the idea that they could be protruding from the building itself, thus referencing the large blue and yellow book sculpture that penetrates the window of the late John Latham's home & studio, Flat Time House.

Inside her installation Meta-Library sits on the floor of the atrium, Trinity's main exhibition space. The audience is welcome to reconstruct
and purchase a variety of books and rare art publications that compose the work and continual ‘Bibliographic Data Flow’.

Please visit Christina Mitrentse's website to find out more about her work.

Aoife van Linden Tol first video of making my work.

2011-11-02T05:14:00.000-07:00

I was very excited to have made my first video piece for the exhibition Emblem - Deconstructed and Destroyed: A homage to John Latham. The piece simple documents the process and gives an insight to the viewer as to how I made the works.
As with John Lathams One Second Drawing series, the receiving object is marked within a fraction of time, a moment of instant physical change. The precarious balance between control and chance giving each piece a unique expression of time and visual interpretation.

Filmed on the evening of the 20th of October in the woods behind Trinity. I created a series of works from vintage books I had collected over the past few years and various black powders. I was delighted to have one of my favorite photographers Alex Welensky, as camerawoman. She was able to capture my process with slightly abstract views giving the piece a wonderful mysterious atmosphere.

There are five examples run one after the other and runs for 11minutes. It is not really intended to be watched all the way through, although it can be and many people did so at the opening, rather something that runs continuously in the gallery space and can be watched as and when.

I think I need develop the sound for the piece. The bangs themselves are important to include I feel but audio still needs some resolution. There were many wonderful sounds such as banging the nails in one piece, turning the book, the clinking of the jars of black powder and the sound of the black powder being sprinkled onto the paper. Much of this is lost due to the background noise, something to do with the architecture amplifying the sound from the road and the Weatherspoon's opposite! I look forward to working on it further and to making new films...I've got the bug now!

Here is the Link: http://vimeo.com/30903934

An post about my work on one of my favorite blogs: Yohizen

2011-11-02T04:23:00.000-07:00

Acclaimed photographer and kinetic artist Yoshi Imamura attended the launch of new space Trinity in Greenwich and the opening night of the exhibition Emblem – deconstructed and Destroyed: A Homage to John Latham. As a practising Zen Buddhist, Yoshi writes about the art and understanding of Zen within the context of contemporary life. His insights are inspiring and humorous.

He took some wonderful photographers of my live performance and posted a blog about the opening.

Follow the link to view the blog: http://yoshizen.wordpress.com/tag/aoife-van-linden-tol/

And do read more of his blogs!!

Douglas Park's text for Aoife van Linden Tol's performance as part of 'Emblem - Deconstructed and Destroyed' at Trinity

2011-11-02T04:05:00.000-07:00

Secretly hidden, incognito and undercover, terrain-wound and body-crater patiently wait dormant, during time passed away, throughout ominous cease-fire calm, before the imminent storm pending, advent well-prepared for.

Live-rail thunderbolt force-field strikes prey. Crashlanded shipwreck pile-ups collapse inwardly. But not spent. Detonated alchemical overreaction outburst erupts discovery.

All along this awhile, lightening-conductor target was really bait-laden trap, set and sprung, gotten ready to fall into, one-way only at that, no escape once caught. Upon delivery and arrival, burning ghost stains flameproof shield.

Grave given birth to comes alive. Ensuing growth, shrinkage and changes follow head-on collision impact.

Flat and shallow facade ends up as infinitely vast and full depths. Unique strangeness, beauty, magic, meaning and power haunt and lure.

Demolition-casualty becomes weather-generator. Thereafter, compulsory enforcement and infliction of broadcast and transmitted export produce and services.

©, Copyright, Douglas Park

Douglas Park, U.K based and internationally active visual artist, author (of literary prose and critical essays), as well as exhibition curator (and increasingly all practices combined).

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New Website!

2011-11-02T03:53:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I broke my website again and am starting a new one...as always is it constantly under construction. Getting there!....

Photo is from when I was collecting thousands of books for Books in Limbo exhibition at Tank....read more about his and other blogs at
www.tanklondon.blogspot.com