{"id":2812,"date":"2018-04-30T13:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T13:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2018-04-30T13:22:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T13:22:58","slug":"smfas-adam-chodzko-features-in-international-cornish-summer-art-festival-groundwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2018\/04\/30\/smfas-adam-chodzko-features-in-international-cornish-summer-art-festival-groundwork\/","title":{"rendered":"SMFA\u2019s Adam Chodzko features in international Cornish summer art festival Groundwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2813\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/04\/chodzko-ghost-plymouth-installation-2012_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2813 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/04\/chodzko-ghost-plymouth-installation-2012_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/04\/chodzko-ghost-plymouth-installation-2012_.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/04\/chodzko-ghost-plymouth-installation-2012_-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghost<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SMFA Fine Art Senior Lecturer and acclaimed artist, Adam Chodzko, is featured in <em>Groundwork<\/em> \u2013 a festival season of exceptional international contemporary art\u00a0in\u00a0Cornwall from 5th May through to September. With an emphasis on moving image, sound and performance, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/groundwork.art\/artists\/\">programme<\/a>\u00a0of exhibitions and events in 2018 includes presentations of important new commissions and acclaimed works by internationally celebrated artists in venues and outdoor sites across West Cornwall. You can experience Adam\u2019s work 5-7<sup>th<\/sup> May at St Anthony-in-Meneage, Helston and the waters of the Helford River. <a href=\"http:\/\/groundwork.art\/programme\/adam-chodzko\/\">http:\/\/groundwork.art\/programme\/adam-chodzko\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adam Chodzko\u2019s iconic vessel\u00a0<em>Ghost<\/em>\u00a0will be taking passengers on voyages on Gillan Creek, near Manaccan on the Lizard peninsula, during Groundwork\u2019s launch weekend.\u00a0<em>Ghost\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0a hand-made wooden kayak fabricated from hundreds of strips of different woods and is both a vessel and a sculptural object. First exhibited in the Whitstable Biennale in 2010, it has since travelled along the River Medway and the River Tamar, through The Olympic Park, London, along the Tyne and in creeks through Essex. In each location members of the public are carried in a reclining position, in a state between waking and sleeping, their passage recorded by\u00a0a camera mounted on the boat\u2019s prow.<\/p>\n<p>Using a wide range of media, including video, installation, photography, drawing and performance, Adam Chodzko\u2019s work focuses on\u00a0our relationships to life&#8217;s\u00a0edges, endings, displacements, transitions, disappearances and in-between states and often involves looking in the &#8216;wrong&#8217; place or in the \u2018wrong\u2019 way to discover productive mis-readings and to propose alternative realities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More info about the festival here <a href=\"http:\/\/groundwork.art\/artists\/\">http:\/\/groundwork.art\/artists\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; SMFA Fine Art Senior Lecturer and acclaimed artist, Adam Chodzko, is featured in Groundwork \u2013 a festival season of exceptional international contemporary art\u00a0in\u00a0Cornwall from 5th May through to September. With an emphasis on moving image, sound and performance, the\u00a0programme\u00a0of exhibitions and events in 2018 includes presentations of important new commissions and acclaimed works by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2018\/04\/30\/smfas-adam-chodzko-features-in-international-cornish-summer-art-festival-groundwork\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SMFA\u2019s Adam Chodzko features in international Cornish summer art festival Groundwork<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24626,124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}