{"uid":"XKurv78aD8qwLFwM","type":"artist","tags":["painting","performance","instalation","object"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Elegy (wind unwind rewind)","summary":"\u2026\u201dif nothing else, life has taught us all this one thing: whoever is here now will not be here later.\u201d Paul Auster\n\nAn exhibition\/performance of paintings with collaborative musical works; of presence...absence; remembering\u2026forgetting\u2026 \n\nElegy is based on a trove of fabrics discovered at the studio of friends in rural Finland\u2014old clothing & textiles torn into strips; wound tight into balls; to be woven into traditional rugs.\u00a0\n\nAt peripheries\u2014where odd things bump up against one another\u2014these found objects carry stories; discreet bearers of authentic history; each pattern & color marking time; transmitting lives current & past; prima materia.\n\nI paint portraits as a gesture of respect & preservation; a dialogue with each solitary character; & of community.\n\nElegy is also a homage to Gabriel Faur\u00e9\u2019s \u00c9l\u00e9gie (for Cello & Piano op. 24).\n\nUsing each pattern, texture & binding I will as well make linear works\u2014songlines\u2014to be interpreted\/improvised by a cellist\/s; a figurative unwinding to be \u2018played\u2019; each ball as linear landscape.\n\nI am also at work with Australian composer Linda Kouvaras on music for solo cello & we will collaborate in a residency at the University of Melbourne later this year.   \n\nEngaging temporality & the possibilities offered by images & music; beginning where verbal\/written language ends; with echoes that reverberate & dissipate; the fugitive possibilities of melody & repetition; with impermanence; with personal songbooks & the poetics found in silence.","space":"The project is variable in dimensions and number of pieces and adaptable to be crafted to work in any site-specific interior space where two dimensional works can be displayed (hanging, leaning, suspended etc) together with performance\/s by a cellist\/s.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"names":"Andrew","surname":"Cooks","email":"andrew@andrew-cooks.com","dni_type":"Other","dni":"P6092761","address":"137 Ohland Rd","city":"Stanfordville","nacionality":"Australian","country_id":"236","birthdate":"1956-12-15T05:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1956-12-15T05:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+1 646 9192223","web":"www.andrew-cooks.com","fileCount":10}