ART PROJECTS

Journey with Restraints

 

...this project references the fall of Icarus and questions the functionality of ‘escape machinery’ devised and proscribed by others. The wings are made from lead and therefor are entirely dysfunctional..

The responsibility of the individual, questioning the authorship an individual can claim over their life and it''s course - i.e. Icarus was not the architect of his own mechanics, so what is the position on his fall? Does he own his own misfortune, his death when it occurred through a fall that he would not have endured had he remained solely responsible for his life and declined the mechanism that Daedalus engineered in order to provide one route to freedom for them both. Whose fortune is it? Is the one experiencing a life always the sole responsible author of it?

In past times lead was revered for it''s alchemical qualities associating it to the process of making gold, it was also used for medicinal properties. Today we know that both of these associations were false, a fault and can at worst affect sanity, infertility, sickness and be the cause of premature death. Still, prior to the discovery of this knowledge, people were advised of the positive values of lead.

The photograph for this project has been used as a book cover by Routledge and is available to purchase in limited edition. 

3-30 minutes

lead wings

£150 / $200 for an approximately A3 sized print.

($ price plus postage + insurance from UK and as a second photographer co-created the image the price is higher as he will receive a nominal sum of each sale)

Devotional Choreography
&
Khoreia

The visual poetry of movement and gesture.

A series of pas de deux between cultures.
An orchestration of a dance about cultural kinship.

An investigation of ritual movements made during devotional practices, rites common to all faiths. The exact choreography differs, but like in any good performance on a stage, individual choreographies combine to a potentially holistic whole. The grammar and composition used within dance … applied to life. For a harmonic performance a certain generosity and empathy towards fellow performers is required. I am temporarily taking the role of a choreographer.

(ORIGIN of Choreography: from Greek khoreia 'dancing in unison' (from khoros 'chorus') + -graphy)

variable dimensions, films looped

16mm cine film

In or Out with Parakeets

 

A series of public interventions, loosely based on the rhetoric covering immigration and settlement of any 'others' into local domain..

The print size currently available loosely corresponds to A2 and A3 formats.

variable

beaks and people

£120 / $180 for an approximately A3 sized print

($ price plus postage + insurance from UK)

A Tale
watch the 3 minute film here: HERE
film, photographs, a tale, an encounter, dipoles,

approximately 4 minutes.

In 2009 I was invited by the A Foundation to respond to a footnote of the Rhizome chapter of Deleuze and Guatari. This was for their second TAXED event in March, 2009, a series of events stolen from other events.. ..after reading Deleuze and having had cause to consider rhizomes, dipoles, arborescent forms.. formal thought and more...

I thought about translation, as I tried to translate this text into something that resonates, I thought about a tale I have long wanted to tell and about images that I have for a long time wanted to make into a film reminiscent of La Jetee. Dipoles seemed to describe the relationship I see between these images and the tale.

A dictionary definition of dipoles is this: a pair of equal and oppositely charged or magnetized poles separated by a distance. From there I departed into translating a tale in layers of language and image.

Deleuze then faded into the invisible fabric of the work. A viewing copy for "A Tale" is on: http://www.vimeo.com/3827235

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A tale of translations and dipoles

4 minutes

photos, film, voice, tale
viewing copy: £15 / $15

($ price plus postage + insurance from UK)

Journey with Virgil

From Babylonian times man has striven to reach the skies, to equal or rival divinity. So we continue to climb today still. Be it to reach goodness in life, be it in arrogance in the belief of our individual or collective supremacy (political for example, also see Babel as a reference…), be it in the hope that things will improve from bad to better or good to greater. We may seek love or status in society, godly/ divine blessing.

The aim is always upwards, ascent. The ladder describes an unstable, un-secured journey, the higher one reaches on it, the more risky, the more treacherous the fall, a journey, also, that at it''''s end may lead to nothing… or to the heavens… this is open to interpretation. The ladder is the most immediate vehicle to ascent and in the way that I use it I also think of it as signifying the growth of trees, I make the ladder the tree in a forest which is created throughout our lives. (…)

To achieve an abstracted folk tale/ dreamlike/ readable but non-direct narrative with references to today''''s society''''s focal points as well as to those of past times.

materials: bamboo

£120 / $180 (approximate size: A3 print)
($ price plus postage + insurance from UK)

{.. installation details from the installation commissioned by Nicole Bartos for her unusual gallery and her exhibition Meet me at Sunset, part of the Independent Biennial Liverpool 2008. a sketchy outline: From Babylonian times man has striven to reach the skies, to equal or rival divinity. So we continue to climb today still. Be it to reach goodness in life, be it in arrogance in the belief of our individual or collective supremacy (political for example, also see Babel as a reference…), be it in the hope that things will improve from bad to better or good to greater. We may seek love or status in society, godly/ divine blessing. The aim is always upwards, ascent. The ladder describes an unstable, un-secured journey, the higher one reaches on it, the more risky, the more treacherous the fall, a journey, also, that at it's end may lead to nothing… or to the heavens… this is open to interpretation. The ladder is the most immediate vehicle to ascent and in the way that I use it I also think of it as signifying the growth of trees, I make the ladder the tree in a forest which is created throughout our lives. (…) To achieve an abstracted folk tale/ dreamlike/ readable but non-direct narrative with references to today's society's focal points as well as to those of past times.

variable, approx. 300cm x 200cm x 200

newspaper and supporting materials

£250 (~$500) to recreate the installation + transport and accommodation costs, assistants will be required 

Dungbeetle and Sisyphus

 

'Searching for inherent and interpreted purpose in daily activities.'

The Artist uses Mythological Characters, insect life and Folk Tale Protagonists and brings them together in a place they have never met before. This could be a conversation, a play, a dialogue or monologue, but Birgit Deubner creates an unusual performance for the public realm, for an unsuspecting audience; and a film for exhibition in gallery contexts as well as waiting rooms and all manner of public spaces that are frequented and lingered in.

Photographs of the project are available in limited edition from £150

hay and dung

£120 / $180 (print approximately A3 size) Please contact me for cost for performance as the preparations can occupy a very busy full time week, your assistance with transport will also be required and assistants will be needed (for the making of the dungball as well as during performance to keep an eye on the audience)

($ price plus postage + insurance from UK)

Performance Test / with cushions

The images are from a selection of performance intervention tests. I tried out an idea in Ohio, US. The project is as much of my work performance but also photograph / film. I am still playing with the idea and enjoy the images that came from the day's exploring. 

I hope you enjoy the process, too and perhaps you would like to invest in a piece of work, your purchase makes future art work possible.

The main image for sale is the photograph which shows the artist, swaddled in cushions against a white background. I have currently have 2 prints of this available. Please contact me if you would like one.

50cm x 50cm

photographic print, inkjet & c-type

£120 / $180 (print, approximately A3 size) / £150 + travel performance / intervention

($ price plus postage + insurance from UK)

Beine (legs)

 

This is a project with about 40 images that I worked on a little while ago. I had fun with the process and enjoyed seeing the outcome. It was through this lighthearted and humorous start that the more serious project: Chorus / in vain I will away developed. I hope you enjoy these images as much as I do.

50cm x 50cm

inkjet print

£120 / $180 (print)

($ price plus postage + insurance from UK)

Chorus / in vain I will away 

 

Chorus / in vain I will away is a project by Birgit Deubner that works with the body in unconventional ways, distilling a single heap of body, stripped of the privilege of identity, into dark spaces; exploring the representation of violence, fear and the unknown; influenced by Dante's Divine Comedy, Butoh, Mythology and Folk Tales, a range of classical painting traditions, contemporaries like Giorgio Agamben, foreign correspondents and the timeless notion of Homo Sacer.

(a half size edition is also for sale, for lower cost)

100cm x 100cm

photograph

£1400 / $2000 (a 1/4 size edition starting at £300 / $500 is available)

($ price plus postage + insurance from UK)

Wish we were where? 

In 2010 I was invited by Coexist to participate in Artside an annual Art festival in Southend on Sea. It has been one of the most enjoyable projects to participate in.

Thanks to my dedicated volunteers we were able to create a small flock of 'others' who explored each of the Artside exhibition venues. We moved in a tight flock, attracting attention to whatever we were looking at. Our beaks gave our gaze direction and it was great fun.

I would welcome the opportunity to develop this project (not least because I have a whole basket full of beaks) and other public spaces interventions. I would also love to work with a group of volunteers again, ideally there would be a budget (as there was for Southend on Sea) as I would love to be able to compensate the volunteers for their time and enthusiastic help.

3 hours

people and paper beaks

£120 / $180 (print approx A3 size) / £150 + travel costs for performance 

($ price plus postage + insurance from UK)