Plan for a Parade with Two Masks    (2004)

Plan for a Parade with Two Masks    (2004)

(Clowes Wood, Kent, U.K. and Sepolia, Athens, Greece)
[from Design for a Carnival]
81 x 35mm slide carousel projection,
6 minutes

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As part of a larger project, Design for a Carnival, Adam Chodzko created a series of three 81 x 35mm slide projections (Pattern for a Procession with Two Masks, 2007, Guide for a Parade with Two Masks and Plan for a Parade with Two Masks both 2004).  Each propose a carnival route for the viewer, alternating consecutive slides between the ‘wearing’ of one Mask Filter (over the camera lens) and another, and between one location and another. Plan for a Parade with Two Masks uses Clowes Wood, close to where he lives in Kent, UK and alternated it with a walk through the streets around Sepolia, Athens, Greece.  For each of the three processions Chodzko was led by a local guide, often a child, sometimes a passerby, on a meandering path through their territory.  The final image sequence is a proposition for a possible parade route, impossible to fulfil physically because of its vacillation between two global sites, therefore existing as deferral, a suggestion, and an experience of a carnival procession that might therefore operate in the imagination only, in the relationship between art object and viewer.

Plan for a Parade with Two Masks  uses:
Mask Filter (2004), Camera lens adapter, plastic bi-plane kit, mohair, dinosaur stickers, and raffia. Approx 23 x 26 x 40cm.
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Mask Filter (2004),  Camera lens adapter, chopsticks, fishing line, beads, hair bands,  and paint.  Approx 23 x 26 x 40cm. 

Like Better Scenery (2000 – ),  Ants Choose Position for Sequins – 2 Seconds Interval  (2003),  White Magic (2005), Because… (2013) and   O, you happy roots, branch and mediatrix  (2020) etc, Plan for a Parade with Two Masks operates in the vibrating space between two apparently disconnected sites apparently communicating with each other.  Like Night Shift  (2004),  M-path (2006),  Ghost (2010),  Props. For memorising the gravity of mime objects. (2013) the work evolves from a process and becomes a proposal for the audience to adopt a particular form of physical movement through an existing space in order to transform perception.

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Related works:

a loose leaf falls between   (2013)
Plan for a Spell            (2001)
Ants Choose Position for Sequins – 2 Seconds Interval   (2003)
Better Scenery   (2000 – )
Ghost     (2010 – ongoing)
I See Through Every Image. (A souvenir for Laarni; A planting template for Belladonna seeds), 2013  
Knots  (2013)      
M-path      (2006)
Mask Filter   (2013)
O, you happy roots, branch and mediatrix  [live]        (2020)
O, you happy roots, branch and mediatrix  (2020)
Props. For memorising the gravity of mime objects. (Flood)   (2013) & Props. For memorising the gravity of mime objects. (Fire)      (2013)  
Synthetic Copse: Our Ash Hospital    (2018)      
The woods shall rise up in those places where you pause    (1995)
White Magic            (2005)