Jem Noble
Self-Storage | 2009 | 20:00mins | Action | UK (Offsite) FREE
Born: 1974, Stone UK
Lives and works in Vancouver and Bristol.
Combining conceptual play with the challenges and chance findings of technological and gestural exploration, Jem Noble’s practice embodies shifting combinations of actions, materials and media, loosely defined by concerns with the phenomenology of attention and tensions between individuation and interdependence in different forms of human engagement. Using production and appropriation strategies in collaborative and solo contexts across a range of fields including sound, video, sculpture, social encounter and site-based gesture, Noble’s work often draws on elements of intimacy and alienation, exploring spectacle as a means to amplify complexities that underlie the processes and relationships we take for granted in the everyday. Recent group exhibition: SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (2009); Manifesta 7, Tate Britain, ICA London (2008). Solo exhibition: Spike Island (2008).
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An increasingly popular accessory to diverse contemporary lifestyles, the Self Storage facility can be seen as a zone of displacement, extending the reach of our complex relationships with the domestic and its counter-currents of freedom and dependence. In the heart of this zone, Jem Noble leads an experiment in collective sensory-deprivation, muting the possibilities of audio-visual engagement and intensifying the role of imagination. In these controlled conditions, a practice of attention will unfold that speaks to questions of encounter and inter-subjectivity, aesthetics and transcendence, materiality and place. Go on. Check yourself in..”
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