Workshop
Movement Workshop with Andrea Buckley
21 Oct 2017
Siobhan Davies Studios
London, United Kingdom
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Katinka Bock, courtesy the artist and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff Paris, Meyer Riegger Berlin / Karlsruhe, Greta Meert Brussels
Exhibition
Traces Commission: Katinka Bock, Mesonya/
30 Aug 2017
Event times
Open Fri-Sun, 12-30pm-5pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 85 St George's Road
- London
- SE1 6ER
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- By Bus: 1, 35, 40, 45, 63, 68, 100, 133, 155, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 196, 333, 343, 363, 468, P5
- By Tube: Northern Line (Elephant & Castle), Bakerloo Line (Lambeth North, Elephant & Castle)
- By Rail: Waterloo Station, Elephant & Castle
Event map
Mesonya/ is Katinka Bock’s exhibition of new sculptures made for Siobhan Davies Studios. For her first solo presentation in the UK, Bock addresses the specific conditions of the Roof Studio.
About
Mesonya/ is Katinka Bock’s exhibition of new sculptures made for Siobhan Davies Studios. This is the first of three Traces Commission projects to be presented over the coming months, in which three artists have been invited to spend time getting to know the building and the artists and practice that occupy it, leading to the creation of a new body of work.
For her first solo presentation in the UK, Bock addresses the specific conditions of the Roof Studio at Siobhan Davies Studios. Bock’s installation, incorporating ceramic with other common construction materials, responds to and emphasizes the space’s constantly changing use for classes, rehearsals and other events. The installation will be more or less present according to the interests and needs of users of the studio. During exhibition hours, it will fully occupy the space, creating a landscape of forms that will also extend beyond to the outside of the building and into the adjacent school. The exhibition’s title, an anagram of some / any, hints at these conditions of presence and absence.
Bock makes her practice sensitive, in a variety of ways, to the influence of various situations that it encounters. As well as responding to Siobhan Davies Studios’ architecture and activities, Mesonya/ is the third in a series of projects where Bock incorporates a process of exchange with others into her making process. The sculptures centre on ceramic forms made by wrapping objects acquired by trading her sculptures for shop goods with shopkeepers in Toronto, the site of the project’s last iteration in her exhibition _o_o__o at Mercer Union. This continues a process started with Bock’s exhibition Zarba Lonsa at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers near Paris in 2015.
Witnessing the making and presentation of Siobhan Davies Dance’s recent touring performance installation material / rearranged / to / be has also informed Bock’s process. It has led to a dialogue with Andrea Buckley, a dance artist who participated in that project, and will result in a performance and workshop to take place inside Bock’s exhibition.
The Traces Commissions are supported by The Henry Moore Foundation
The work of Katinka Bock will receive additional support from the Goethe-Institut London and Fluxus Art Projects
