GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction (2010) (2010)
By Mark Leckey
London-based Mark Leckey, recipient of the 2008 Turner prize, immerses himself in images and objects through a ritualistic process of communication. In doing so, Leckey consumes the already-made in order to conjure new experiences with it. His multi-disciplinary approach is rooted in performance and expands into sculpture, printmaking, sound and moving image. In the early part of the last decade, Leckey began work with large speaker stacks to produce a series of performances. Compositions of sound, voice and music were directed through the speakers, which Leckey refers to as “big surrogate voice boxes”, towards large modern sculptures. These actions offer the artist a common ground from which he is able to speak with a monumental sculpture. Recently, Leckey has expanded his choice of objects to include things from outside the artistic canon. Earlier this year in Manchester, he performed BigBoxIndustrialAction, for a three tonne steam engine, an object that can be read as a proxy for the industrial history of the city. In Banff, BigBoxNaturalAction pairs one of the artist’s speaker stacks with a slab of Rundle rock. This stone is quarried locally and is commonly used for building…
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