A Trailer for an Artist’s Talk – “Strange looks, ghost codes, & the co-created dreamlife of a community”
video trailer
2 mins 54secsView the trailer on Vimeo.
NB: this current (2024) version is an update to the 2022 trailer: “I’ve tried weaving it. Can we try using it as a sail?”♦
This is a trailer for Adam Chodzko’s performative lecture: “Strange looks, ghost codes, & the co-created dreamlife of a community” where he’ll speak (and probably do some other things) alongside a selection of his artworks in order to try to share his practice with you.
The artist is trying to talk about their artwork.
It is not easy, because this is art.
Some time ago the artist chose to have a relationship with the world through sounds, images, forms and materials, rather than having to keep talking about things.
Although they do also like the act of trying to talk about what they make.
Sometimes the words seem to lead somewhere close to the heart of the work, and sometimes they go off in a totally different direction.
It’s quite unruly.
But these difficulties serve to catalyse new perspectives on the artist’s practice.
The artist learns from all the talking and they also usually find that it just feels pretty good to look back at the piles of dismantled artwork that were added to the words to make them vibrate better.
And the audience sometimes seems to get something from all this too.
But nobody can be absolutely sure exactly what it is they receive from this situation and what they might, in return, be giving back.
And that uncertainty is possibly the best thing about this brief exchange between artist and audience.This is just a short trailer to advertise Adam Chodzko’s longer artist’s talk which usually lasts around an hour. The talk keeps evolving each time it is performed.
The trailer hopes to lure in those who usually might feel, understandably, reluctant to listen to an artist going on and on, and on.♦
Recent iterations of Adam Chodzko’s performative artist talks have been presented at:
– Wei-Ling Contemporary, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (May, 2023)
– MA Fine Art Online symposium, ‘Distance … Learning’ (25th May) Falmouth School of Art, Cornwall
– “…Little legs…” Book Launch: discussion with Michele Horrigan (Askeaton Contemporary Art) at Camden Art Centre, London.
– Performative Artists Talk: whole School of Fine Art (and public); Nottingham Trent University, Arts University Bournemouth, Liverpool John Moore’s University, University of Lincoln, and Leeds Arts University (November 2022- March 2023)
– Conference presentation: RENEW biodiversity parliament: University of Exeter (October 2022)
– Performative Artists Talk: British School at Rome (October 2022)
– Lecture: MA Arts and Place: Dartington Arts School, Devon (May 2022)
– Artists Talk: whole School of Fine Art + public; Anglia Ruskin University (January 2022)
– Artists Talk: whole School of Fine Art + public; University of Leeds (January 2022)
– Artists Talk: whole School of Fine Art + public; University of Worcestor and Meadow Arts (September 2021)
– workshop programme, Open School East, Young Associates, Margate (September 2021)
– workshop programme, Unit 5, Fine Art year 2, Central Saint Martins, (June 2021)
– Artists Talk: Fine Art BA and MA, Slade School of Art, UCL, London (March 2021)
– Artists Talk/ Symposium XD Climate Emergency Event – BAFA XD1, MA Art|Science and MRes Moving Image, UAL, London, (February 2021)
– Artists Talk: Bunker Talk, Manchester School of Art (January 2021)
– Artists Talk: Fine Art BA and MA, UCA, Canterbury (January 2021)
– What is shaping how you think about the planet’s future?, (performative video lecture), Forecast, Invisible Dust (2021)
