Ceres, 1968.
Shona Kitchen
Shona Kitchen is an internationally recognized artist, designer and educator based in Providence, Rhode Island. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art with an MFA in Architecture, he has divided his time between creative practice and teaching. The practical approach is frequently collaborative, based on research specific to the lloc. Utilizing digital, analog and biological elements, Kitchen’s work offers a terrain for physical and virtual, natural and artificial, real and imagined coexistence. Through practical experience, it explores the psychological, social and environmental consequences of technology failure. Kitchen collaborates with scientists, engineers, writers and software developers. The work has been exhibited internationally in places such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Kelvingrove Museum, Vitra Museum, Montalvo Arts Center, Center for Contemporary Art (Varsòvia), Zero1 San Jose and the Symposi International d’Art Electrònic, among others.
Treball a la col·lecció: Other Days, Other Eyes
http://www.shonakitchen.com/
"Other Days, Other Eyes", 2019
“Altres dies, altres ulls” refers to the evolution of the omnipresent recording infrastructures that surround and reflects on the generation and transmission of this information along with the increasing abundance of everyday and banal information of the society.
Kitchen combines live images of surrounding cameras. different day-to-day curiosities, archival elements and analogue glass blocks carried along with the digital contingut collected. The smallest blocks come from the walls, evoking new innovations that can eventually become one day a speculative camera on the evolution of new architectural organisms. The work reculls the coexistence of the physical and the virtual, the natural and the artificial, the real and the imaginary and the absurd.
This project will be born from IMAGEOBJECTLANDSCAPEEVENT, a research project by the long-standing Kitchen-Hooker team. Much of Kitchen’s work is inspired by the writings of J G Ballard, in this case a short story called “Sound-Sweep” with a diu passage: “the sound layers of everyday urban life… are so senseless that they are literally embedded in the walls and surfaces.” In Ballard’s book, a rubble of his is the equivalent of a house of rubble, which brings together the abundance of everyday sons absorbed by architecture.
The title of the project is based on another science fiction of the 1970s
writer, Bob Shaw.
This work It has been in collaboration with glass artist Evan Voelbel.