Melbourne, Australia
anderrennick@gmail.com
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anderrennick@gmail.com
flickr.com/anderrennick
aelxndr.tumblr.com
Motivated by architectural and constructive philosophies, I am engaged with a practice that unifies research and experimentation of the structural and the fluid in space and the art object. In spatial engagements, our intellects require us to skeletalize, analyze, and simplify in order to develop cohesive understanding of structures around us. Then, what does it mean to engage with space as a container of structures, or contrarily, structures as impetus for space? How do we deal with this when further problematized by scattered, fluid bodies of interruptions and residues such as digitalization, atmosphere and destruction? How have our habitual modes of perceiving structures in physical space been altered by an increasing interdependence with digital space? The primal necessity of architecture as shelter and containment, composed of the binaries of interior and exterior, need to be readdressed when aligned with the increasing fluidity and complexity of the spatial skin that surrounds and occupies it. Through an interdisciplinary approach consisting of drawing, sculpture, installation and new media, I aim to explore these issues utilizing constructive and architectural processes. From this, I am attempting to form interconnected bodies of work that are informed by, and reflect the dialogues of construction and deconstruction—as privileged, transitory points of in-between, in-process, neither here(in space, fully completed) nor there (outside of space, hypothetical) offering malleable and flexible systems open to change and affect.
Ander Rennick
Derrida demonstrates that all discourses on art are premised on this binary… you ask the question ‘what is the meaning of art?’ or ‘what does that painting mean?’ and automatically, perhaps unintentionally you have reactivated the conceptual opposition between object/form and meaning/content, an opposition which sets up the promise that art will mean anything at all. Art becomes predetermined by the question you have asked. This is representation, an operation that produces a kind of hollowed out entity, in this case ‘art’ objects.
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…’Movement, which is reality itself.’ This is movement in the widest sense: of process, of change. Space, then, cannot be a static slice orthogonal to time and defined in opposition to it. If movement is reality itself then what we think of as space is a cut through all those trajectories; a simultaneity of unfinished stories.
Space has time/times within it. This is not the static simultaneity of a closed system but a simultaneity of movements. And that is a different thing altogether.
Doreen Massey, ‘Some Times of Space’
In Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project
In Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project
In space I am inside of me the space outside of me the space nowhere I am outside of me in space inside is space
outside of it nowhere I am in space etcetera
outside of it nowhere I am in space etcetera
The Collected Poems
