{"id":1170,"date":"2015-02-20T15:40:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T15:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2015-02-20T15:40:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T15:40:43","slug":"adam-chodzko-great-expectations-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2015\/02\/20\/adam-chodzko-great-expectations-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Chodzko: Great Expectations Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

B&Q, Gillingham<\/strong> and Guildhall Museum, Rochester<\/strong><\/p>\n

13 February \u2013 September 2015<\/p>\n

Big Screen, Waterfront Pumping Station, Chatham<\/strong><\/p>\n

13 February \u2013 24 April 2015<\/p>\n

Press preview: 13 February 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Adam<\/a> \"Adam<\/a><\/p>\n

An Eye if placed at five Feet above the Surface of the Earth or Sea, sees two Miles & a Quarter every way: but if it be at twenty feet high, it can see 5 3\/4 miles.<\/em><\/p>\n

David Jennings<\/p>\n

(words found on the reverse of the Seaton Tool Chest inventory,<\/p>\n

from An Introduction to the Use of the Globes, and the<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Orrery: As Also the Application of Astronomy to Chronology<\/em>, 1766)<\/p>\n

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Inspired by a series of enigmas surrounding the world\u2019s most complete collection of 18th<\/sup> century tools, artist Adam Chodzko\u2019s <\/strong>Great Expectations<\/em> weaves together past, present and future in a new video and sculpture connecting public spaces in the Medway towns of Gillingham, Rochester and Chatham with the private interiors of home and school.\u00a0 Great Expectations<\/em> is the final commission in Hoodwink\u2019s three-year programme of site-specific projects in the everyday places of Kent.<\/p>\n

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Housed in Rochester\u2019s Guildhall Museum, the Seaton Tool Chest is a large wooden cabinet housing the 200 tools that were a gift from cabinetmaker Joseph Seaton to his son Benjamin in 1796.\u00a0 Benjamin had responded to his father\u2019s generosity by using the tools to make a beautiful cabinet to store them in, then never used them again. \u00a0For Chodzko this act is the perfect symbol of acceptance and rejection between child and parent.<\/p>\n

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Combining animation and documentary, Chodzko\u2019s video explores these subversive ideas, re-imagining the chest as a conceptual art object transformed into a virtual entity or spaceship in a revolution instigated by the tools. \u00a0Now living in digital form, the tools narrate their history, a tale of familial, social and cosmic joinery.\u00a0 They also claim to have made Ark Eye<\/em>, a wooden sculptural object that has crash-landed from their digital universe into ours, to become a sci-fi museum curiosity.<\/p>\n

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Over six months Great Expectations<\/em> appears in the consumerist surroundings of a DIY store, the rarefied environment of the museum, as a hyper-real intrusion on a massive screen overlooking a busy bus station and car park, in the domestic residence of a traditional sign-writer and his graphic-designer daughter, and within a school community.<\/p>\n

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Adam Chodzko\u2019s art explores the interactions and possibilities of human behaviour through video installations and subtle interventions, situated both within the gallery and the wider public realm.<\/p>\n

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Great Expectations is realised in partnership with The Guildhall Museum Rochester, & Medway Council,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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For further information, images and interviews please contact Janette Scott Arts PR on <\/em><\/strong>janettescottartspr@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/em> or +44(0)7966 486156.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Notes To Editors<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Great Expectations, 2015 (9 mins) and Ark Eye\u00a0 13 February \u2013 26 March, B&Q<\/strong>, Will Adams Way, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 6BY. \u00a0Open\u00a0 Monday \u2013 Friday 07:00 \u2013 20:00, Saturday 07:00 \u2013 19:00 and Sunday 10:00 \u2013 16:00.\u00a0 For more information <\/em>http:\/\/www.diy.com\/store\/gillingham\/BQ_GNG989<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Great Expectations, 2015 (9 mins), <\/em>13 February \u2013 September 2015.\u00a0 <\/em>The Guildhall Museum<\/em><\/strong>, High Street, Rochester, Kent ME1 1PY.\u00a0 Open Tuesday – Sunday 10:00 \u2013 17:00. Closed Mondays.\u00a0 Free Admission.<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0For more information http:\/\/www.visitmedway.org\/places-of-interest\/guildhall-museum<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Great Expectations, 2015 (9 mins), Big Screen<\/strong>, <\/em>Chatham Waterfront Pumping Station,<\/em><\/strong> Globe Lane, Chatham<\/strong> Kent ME4 4SI.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Great Expectations, 2015 (9 mins), domestic interior<\/strong>,Rochester, 27 March \u2013 24 April 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Great Expectations, 2015 (9 mins), Bradfields Academy Special School<\/strong>, Chatham, Kent, 24 April \u2013 23 July 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Adam Chodzko<\/em><\/strong> lives and works in Whitstable, Kent.\u00a0 Since 1991 he has exhibited extensively in international solo and group exhibitions including: <\/em>Tate Britain; Tate St Ives; Venice Biennale; Royal Academy, London; Raven Row, London; Deste Foundation, Athens; PS1, NY; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Kunstmuseum Luzern; Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Athens Biennale; Istanbul Biennial; Benaki Museum, Athens. Recent projects include commissions by Tate Britain, Creative Time, New York, The Contemporary Art Society, Frieze Art Fair, and Hayward Gallery.\u00a0 In 2002 he received awards from the Hamlyn Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, and in 2007 was awarded an AHRC Research Fellowship at the University of Kent, Canterbury.\u00a0 His work is in the collections of the Tate, The British Council, The British Film Institute, The Arts Council, APT, Auckland City Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Society Collection, The Creative Foundation, Frac Languedoc-Rousillon, GAM – Galleria d\u2019Arte Moderna, Turin, Grizedale Arts, MAMBo – Museo d\u2019Arte Moderna di Bologna, Plains Arts Museum, North Dakota, USA, Saatchi Collection, South London Gallery, Towner Gallery Eastbourne, and international private collections.\u00a0 www.adamchodzko.com<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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