Adam Chodzko

Before the lecure I researched Chodzko, I found that I couldn't grasp really what his art was about from the still pictures from his video art and was intrigued by the lecture where I hoped we would going to see some of his videos.

I read about Chodzko's video work "Hole" which I found very interesting, the way the artist is creating an imagined future in which an museum mount a LED sign outside an art museum to connect with a women that transmit it's thoughts on this sign. The reason that the sign is put up is that the art museum felt it being obsessed with the crowd and then wanted a relation with an individual, an outsider.

However potentially an unexpected situation occurred by the influence the relation put on the individual involved and the women terminates the relationship. What's left is then these holes in the wall of the museum where the LED sign was mounted, a kind of ruin.

"The holes exist in the present as a trace of something that is imagined to occur in the future."

a futuristic love story. I love the was Chodzko investigates interactions of human behaviour and the way he creates feelings in his video art, mostly it was an uncomfortable feeling of something i couldn't put my finger on. This is also quite weird as I would describe his way of filming style as documentary. In the video piece "yet" I noticed the way he used language in his video art was very interesting and gave almost a surreal tone to the works, as in one of his videos I believed it was Finnish, Chinese (actually it was Cantonese) and English. I'm going to quote the description of this work, I really like this text.

“ It was only early summer… but all the plants were already dying,…

Time had accelerated again.
A small group of IKEA employees go to the local landfill site to try and retrieve some data they had accidentally thrown away.
Instead they found some bags of documents which recorded the history of a place where people met and showed things to each other…Distracted from their original search they took the archive to the editing station in order to look for its questions. But…something bad happened…a disagreement …well, anyway… they fell out…They split up the information in various, but particular ways, each to take it to a separate place for safe-keeping, agreeing to reunite its parts only when they themselves had resolved their differences.
One took it to the ark where everything precious had been stored…
Another chose to entrust it to strangers, offering it to the chalkpit people… And the other took it to the comparison house….And so because of ‘and yet despite all this’ the plants slowly began to recover …..and time….. stood …..still.”

I could go on and on about Adam Chodzko's work but I'm not, I have heard that pictures says more than a thousand words so I'm posting a couple of pictures of his works.

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