RANDOM PASSAGES | PAUL TECKLENBERG
EVENT: RANDOM PASSAGES | PAUL TECKLENBERG
DATE: 25th February 2010 - 4th March 2010
VENUE: Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH
ARTIST/S: Paul Tecklenberg
Final Piece: Random Passages
For his Artist Residency at Swedenborg House, Paul Tecklenberg created a sound installation in the basement of the building, integrating experimental photographs with recorded readings from Heaven and Hell.
The images are hand-printed, using transparencies from hand-made pin hole cameras with apertures as big as f 750. They are not digital but analogue, made as a means of connecting with Swedenborg, who was fascinated with camera obscures. Some of the exposures contain 16 hours of light captured into one image.
Paul also involved Swedenborg Society members in his project. Volunteers were invited into the basement of the building, to be recorded reading random passages from Swedenborg’s Heaven and Hell. These recordings eventually formed part of the sound installation, broadcast from speakers installed among the books in the basement. The photographs were also hidden amongst the books, producing an unpredictable and immersive experience for the exhibition audience.
Random Passages was installed as part of the major site-specific exhibition, Swedenborg House: Fourteen Interventions from 25 February – 5 March 2010.
PAUL TECKLENBERG lives and works in London. Since graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art in 1999 (under the tutors Stuart Brisley, Tim Head, John Hilliard and Bruce McLean) he has been involved in numerous exhibitions including The Map Is Not The Territory I, II, III, Sartorial and After A Fashion at England & Co where he has exhibited since 2002. In 2008 he was elected a life member of the London Group. Further information.
Much of my practice is about perception; revealing what is usually hidden. This has taken the form of revealing the intimate details of an alcoholic’s life (in the video piece ‘Lift’), or experimenting with photographic paper, objects and drawings to make images that resemble medical X-rays or microscopic images of what looks like bacteria, viruses or cell structures. However, on closer inspection, they are fabricated from things you would find inside a kitchen cupboard or bathroom cabinet.