Feedback Room
Installation and Audio play
Exhibition during a Residency at the Irish Museum of Art, 2010
The audio play Feedback Room was staged in the Process Room on the hour every hour during regular opening hours at IMMA
Voices: Gina Moxley and Marty Rea
Technical support: David Lacey
Set: Joe Stanley, IMMA
The play Feedback Room is staged as an audio play in a built theatre set.
It is written as a conversation between two people who may or may not have spent the night together. Each character suggests a memory to the other of previous events, their conversation unravels into an argument and memories of events become confused and unreal.
The work is inspired by the television play Nacht und Träume (Night and Dreams) written and directed by Samuel Beckett. It was written in English for Süddeutscher Rundfunk and recorded for Television in October 1982.
The word ‘feedback’ describes a communicative situation as well as a technical event. Feedback as sound or image changes the former situation: giving feedback as assurance or critique, enables the person getting it to reassess a position or point of view. Feeding back sound or an image through a microphone or a camera is instant, changing the amplified sound or distorting the filmed image.
SV12 Studio Voltaire Members Show 2012
Auszeit 2002
Performance
Times variable
The performance Auszeit was first shown in Berlin as part of group exhibitions in project spaces during 2001. The work is a rectangular chipboard box painted bright orange, with the performer inside, her legs dressed in white stockings and black high heeled shoes sticking out to one side.
PERFORMANCES
NOW Gallery, 2016
Contained Hiscox Art Space, 2006
Let me hear your body talk, Arti et Amititiae, Amsterdam 2005
Loewenpalais,Berlin, 2003
Re:Site (after R. Morris) 2018
with Robert Luzar
Commissioned by Beaconsfield,
filmed performance for ‘In whose Eyes' 2018
at Beaconsfield Gallery, London
Originally commissioned by Beaconsfield 2018 for the exhibition ‘In Whose Eyes?’, this work is an adaptation of the performance piece Site by Robert Morris. In the original, Morris ‘dances’ with an 8 x 4 ft. sheet described as plywood, while Carolee Schneemann sits naked on a white bench (in the pose of Manet’s Olympia). A four page long choreography script of this performance describes the movements in detail. I asked the artist Robert Luzar to work with me on this idea, and we subsequently developed the current version of this performance together.
In my adaptation of this script by Morris, the roles of the performers are swapped: here, ‘Robert’ sits on the bench – with clothes on, in no particular pose – while I follow the choreography of the original piece performed by Robert Morris.
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The House
started 2015Objects and Installation
The House is an ongoing series of individual works and installations, taking apart the rooms and furniture of an imagined house to make new arrangements and constallations of strange objects, drawings and immersive spaces.
EXHIBITIONS
Basement, Palfrey space, 2018
The Attic, Project space Glengall rd, 2017
The House at One Night Stand, with M.Urbanek, London, 2015
Curtains
Ongoing work, started in 2015
The curtains are an ongoing series made in the studio, sometimes in relation to specific projects, such as the House project, sometimes as individual pieces. They are made by pumping fabric dye through a drip system inside the rod pocket of a curtain made of cotton fabric. Over time, the different colours mix and particular drip patters appear, depending on the type of fabric used, time, and temperature in the studio.
Frau Perchta 2018
Performance and Photographs
Frau Perchta is a performance, still photographs and sketches in the studio. Borrowing the name from the mythical figure of the Percht in bavarian folklore, Frau Perchta reads a set of cards and plays with fire. The set of cards is based on a tarot set with the cards interpretations reduced to one word. Additionally, a card set of questions was created by collecting questions from friends and family asked to contribute ideas. In card readings, Frau Perchta allows the choice of one question card, and three cards with one-word ‘answers’. Interpretations are not given.
Measure 2 (For Valie) 2012
Partial Re-enactment of the work
Body Configurations by Valie Export (1972-1976)
The work was part of the exhibition ‘Duration’ at APT Gallery in Deptford, (2012) curated by Rose Lejeune, Bea de Sousa and Charlotte Jansen. Based on photographs of Valie Exports series Body Configurations, I chose places in and around the gallery to fit my body into the architecture, the street and furniture of the space.
Measure 1 (For Valie) 2004
Performace for the first major survey of Valie Export’s work in the UK at Camden Arts Centre, September 2004
The performance took place in the education room at Camden Arts Centre. The performer stands blindfolded in the middle of the room on a chair. Slowly turing, she uses a long,thin bamboo cane cut to a length long enough to reach all corners and walls of the gallery. She is pointing the cane to touch the walls of the space and slowly moves it in spiral rounds higher towards the ceiling, while visitors move within the space to avoid the end of the cane touching them.
Paper sculptures
2014-17
Shellac, pigment, paper
Furniture
I have made commissioned furniture pieces since 1995. These are some of the works made over the last 20 years.
Shelves
2007
Cherry wood, wax finish
4m x 1.20m x 0.40m
A set of cherry wood shelves made on commission for a town house in London. The cherry wood used was sourced locally from Bavaria, with 6 trees used for bot shelves and carved elements.
Set of 4 tables, benches and chairs
2012
Shuttering ply, dimensions variable
A set of 4 tables, 8 benches and 4 chairs made for the exhibition Duration at APT gallery in London. The elements are modular and can be assembled to serve as different designs: a bar, loungers or just as benches and tables.
Dining Table
Cherry wood, wax
400cm x 120cm x 100cm
The dining table was made as a commission for a London town house. The two tables are fit together with the inside legs linking.
Work table (self-assembly)
2020
Birch ply, tinted oil
100cm x 60cm x 80cm
This work table was made for my flatmate as a ‘work from home’ table during lockdown 2020. The table can be assembled without any screws or fixings: all the joints are wedged and can be easily put together without tools.
Drawings
2015 - ongoing
A selection of drawings from a continuous practice. Drawing is the medium that I consistently come back to again and again as an independent part of my practice and as an important process to develop any work.
Untitled series 2023
Cotton Paper, gesso, casein and pigment
Pine wood, paint
70cm x 50cm
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Ausstellung zum 50ten Jubilaeumsjahr Kunstverein Gauting, DE
2020 ATEF Art Technician Emergency Fund (online auction in support of art workers) UK
2019 Basement Palfrey Space
2018 In Whose Eyes? Beaconsfield Gallery, (ACE funding) London UK
2017 The Attic Willowbrook rd, London UK
2016 ColourBlockParty Now Gallery, UK
2015 10 One Night Stands, London, UK
2015 Club Bohemia, Hastings, UK
2015 Woman House Apartment, Studio RCA, London UK
2014 Parts and Labour, Osan Musem, Osan, Korea
2014 HOUSE Part 1 Space studio, London, UK
2013 A space called public, 4th Plinth Competition Munich,Germany
2012 Duration [1.8.12-13.10.12.] (ACE funding) APT Gallery London, UK
2012 Dead Cast Collection, Home Front, London UK(Solo)
2012 Temporary Residency in the Unconcious Arthousefoundation, London UK
2012 Parts and Labour Camberwell College of Art, London UK
2012 SV 12 Studio Voltaire Members Exhibition,London UK
2012 Man.Woman Simon Oldfield Gallery, London UK
2011 Friendship of the Peoples, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London UK
2011 All is not lost Cafe Gallery Projects, London UK
2011 Portrait of Space, Clonlea Studios, Dublin
2011 Freies Material, curated group exhibition at the project space Weltraum, Munich, DE. Funded by Grants for the Arts, British Council
2010 Feedback Room, Exhibition in the Process Room at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin during a residency at the Museum.
2009 Visual Mechanics, Production of new performance work for a solo exhibition at the newly established contemporary art space Malta Contemporary in Valletta, Malta, funded by Malta Council for Culture and the Arts
2008 The Problem of Error Commissioned production of new sculptural work for a solo exhibition at Studio Sassa Truelzsch, Berlin
2007 Contained Group exhibition with Virginie Litzler, Lucy Orta, Santiago Sierra, Katrina Palmer, Jemima Burrill at Hiscox Art Projects, London curated by Jemima Burrill
2005 Let me hear your body talk Arti et Amititiae, Amsterdam with Martha Colburn, Oskar Nilsson, Joep van Liefland, William Hunt, Kathrin Schlegel, Joanneke Meester presented by the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
Martina Schmuecker is an artist and teacher of fine art. She further works as a freelance art technician for various institutions in the UK and abroad.
Her work shifts between performance, drawing and sculpture. She takes elements of architecture and found images as starting points to work with, using diverse material processes such as carving, casting, dyeing of fabric and making furniture. Her performances place the body at the centre, questioning relations to her surroundings, be that encased in a box or through the re-working of seminal performances in art history. Martina is currently developing the project ‘Building Home’, an investigation into cooperative living spaces in cities.
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Her work shifts between performance, drawing and sculpture. She takes elements of architecture and found images as starting points to work with, using diverse material processes such as carving, casting, dyeing of fabric and making furniture. Her performances place the body at the centre, questioning relations to her surroundings, be that encased in a box or through the re-working of seminal performances in art history. Martina is currently developing the project ‘Building Home’, an investigation into cooperative living spaces in cities.
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