Press Record
(2021)
Solo exhibition at Oboro, Montréal, February 13 – March 20, 2021.
Follow-up to Press Play at Zalucky Contemporary, November 26, 2016 – January 14, 2017, Toronto.
The works in the exhibition Press Record comment through a sonic filter on micro-gestures and furtive strategies, plastic waste and manufacturing processes, sited scatterings and dispersal systems. Here, sound is present as both potential and material, reference and inference. The exhibition features three distinct bodies of work: Micro (2014), 4 feet and 33 inches (2014-2017), and Record Release (2012-2020).
The latter will occupy the entirety of the main space and takes as its starting point the basic physical unit to make vinyl records: lentil-sized PVC (polyvinyl chloride) pellets. These minuscule bits of potential sound appear in various works that track the process of releasing in various obsessional ways. A record release, like a book launch, usually marks a project’s culmination; this reverses the process, the release is the project. This reversal enables the project to, hopefully, transcend jejune vinyl fetishism in favour of a more expanded, exploratory commentary on commodities.
As the artist, musician and critic Seth Kim-Cohen put it, in discussing Record Release in his book Against Ambience (Bloomsbury 2016), “this ‘record’ is a record of social exchange, of site, of time, and of the exploded, diagrammatic construct of its potential for signification.” For the artist, the ‘record’ is also a monument to the tiny and barely perceptible; a study in slow and inefficient action; a merging of depletion with completion.
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– Brochure text by Chloë Lum.
– Floor plan.
LIST OF WORKS
(numbers correspond to ones on the floor plan)
[1]
4 feet and 33 inches (ellipse), 2017
neons plus control boxes, dimensions variable
[2]
4 feet and 33 inches (line), 2014
neons plus control boxes, dimensions variable
[3]
Micro (Duo) I, 2014
Micro (Duo) II, 2014
framed photo prints, 19″ x 13″
[4]
Micro (Head) I, 2014
unframed photo print, 38.5″ x 38.5″
[5]
Micro (Head) III, 2014
Micro (Head) IV, 2014
Micro (Head) V, 2014
framed photo prints, 38.5″ x 38.5″
[6]
Record Release (7-inch) Oboro, 2021
77 x 7″ records
[7]
Record Release (12-inch) Trou, 2021
12″ hole
[8]
Record Release (12-inch) Books, 2019
[9]
Record Release (12-inch) 180g, 2012
[10]
RRR (Record Release Record), 2016
12 shelves each containing 12 12″ records
– RRR (Arrows)
– RRR (Art)
– RRR (Books)
– RRR (Card Catalogues)
– RRR (Circles)
– RRR (Flowers)
– RRR (Halves)
– RRR (Hands)
– RRR (Lines)
– RRR (Records)
– RRR (Rocks)
– RRR (Shadows)
[11]
RR12 (Strobe L), 2021
RR12 (Strobe R), 2021
2 videos, 2 flatscreens, 2 players, 2 pairs of speakers
[12]
Record Release 12-inch (grids)
unframed photo prints, 44″ x 58″
[13]
Pelletizer I, 2021
Pelletizer II, 2021
Califone turntables, lightboxes, vinyl pellets
[14]
RR7 Plants, 2021
7 unframed photo prints, 21″ x21″, arranged on a 7ft long metal strip
– RR7 Plants (Geneva), 2018
– RR7 Plants (Montreal lmprevu), 2016
– RR7 Plants (Oaxaca), 2016
– RR7 Plants (Seoul), 2017
– RR7 Plants (Tokyo), 2017
– RR7 Plants (Toronto 21C), 2016
– RR7 Plants (USA), 2016
[15]
RR7 (Foam Core), 2021
– Record Release (7-inch) Silo City, 2015
– Record Release (7-inch) Avatar, 2015
– Record Release (7-inch) Kunstradio, 2015
– Record Release (7-inch) Scratch, 2018
– Record Release (7-inch) Huronia, 2018
– Record Release (7-inch) Power Plant, 2019
– Record Release (7-inch) Fin, 2019
[16]
PP (Pellet Prints), 2020
6 unframed photo prints, 33″ x 33″, arranged on a 12ft long metal strip
– PP1 (lifesized)
– PP12 (12″ sized)
– PP33 (33″ sized)
[17]
RR7 (Tokyo side A), 2020
RR7 (Tokyo side B), 2020
2 videos, 2 flatscreens, 2 players
[18]
Record Release (7-inch) Sans Sillons, 2015
Record Release (7-inch) Sans Disque, 2015
2 unframed serigraphs, 21.5″ X 21.5″
Thanks to Avatar, Rob Cruickshank, Lauren Cullen, Christopher Dela Cruz, Wyn Geleynse, Marla Hlady, Renée Lear, Ryan Legassicke, Dimitri Levanoff, Chloe Lum, Jennifer Martin, McWood Studios, Precision Record Pressing, Lorena Salome, Orest Tataryn, Sam Wagter, Christopher Willes, Jade Williamson, Zalucky Contemporary, et toute l’équipe à Oboro.