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Paul
Malone
(UK)
curator Ottica TV
co-curators Paul Malone
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Born in 1953 in Warrington, Great Britain.
Education: Fine Art at Reading University for B.A. Degree (1976)
and MFA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (1980).
www.a2arts.co.uk/malone
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2010 DériveLab 2, Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton St., London,
UK (group) / Heterotopia Provocations, Stamford Works, London, UK (group) /
The Synaptic Sun, SITE Santa Fe Biennale, 1606 Paseo de PeraltaSanta Fe,
New Mexico, US / 2009 Aphrodite Urania’. Screening, Whitechapel Art Gallery,
London, UK / Anastrophic Monday, Streaming Festival, Amsterdam, NL /
Art of the Night Sky, Bankside Electric Universe event. Bankside Centre,
London SE1 / Souvenir, Scala Mata Gallery. Venice Biennale Collaterali, IT /
2008 Perpetuum Mobile, APT Gallery, London, UK (group) /
2007 Objects – Rooms, Galleria Grounds Art, Parma, IT, NL, UK (group)
Terminus is about the end of the line and a new adventure...
This movie introduces a sequence of encounters between
walls, destruction and the 00 scale model railway environment.
The movie starts and ends with a scene of peaceful devastation,
populated by the random entrance and exit of its avian
inhabitants. In the central developmental section, the movie
migrates to the interior of a vacant gallery space.
Projected onto the walls are a series of movie clips of walls
and tunnels dissolving into daylight. This sequence is re-viewed
from the aspect of a camera mounted on a model train,
as it twists and turns across the floor. This ‘dream’ sequence
is augmented by the appearance of a pair of giant feet that
proceed to engage in pursuit.
My movies are a new departure and fall mainly into two groups.
Firstly are those art projects where I am enjoying exploring
the potential of my mini camera, taking footage from in amongst
the urban environment, the geology of seashores, and around
my studio on a model railway ‚micro-dolly’. Sourcing from this
footage, I am also compiling narratives that weave my interests
in alternative astronomy into journeys through strange and
unfamiliar perceptual landscapes.
I also have a particular interest in the writings of Julian Jaynes,
in the hallucinogenic transfer of temporal lobe metaphorical
traffic, and the generation and development of consciousness
in the historical movement away from bicameral modes of thought.
Paul Malone