OTHER CURRENTS
Nicholas Mangan
READER
Produced on the occasion of Other Currents
Artspace, Sydney
24 September – 1 November 2015
List of works
Gallery
Nicholas Mangan
Progress in Action, 2013
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Nicholas Mangan
Ancient Lights, 2015
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Ideas Platform
Monitor 1
Odinadtsatyi (The Eleventh Year),1928
Dir. Dziga Vertov
52 minutes 49 seconds, black-and-white, silent
Monitor 2
This is Shell, 1970
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8 minutes, colour, sound
Monitor 3
The Coconut Revolution, 2001
Dir. Dom Rotheroe
50 minutes, colour, sound
Friday the 13th, 2009
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on Friday the 13th, 2009.
Talk about the weather, 2010
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Currents of Conversion and Cognition
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Ancient Lights.
“As Paul Valery pointed out, the Sun is a “Brilliant
error”, I should also like to add that the camera
records the results of that error.” Robert Smithson.
- Pointless Vanishing Points 1967
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fleshy matter swelter –
….
A pulse subject to variation.
It gets in – Here - in these rings
– in traces - the sun soaked in
Spots
Black spots
Blemishes - blotches - blots
Cinder or dross
Solar (abscess) boil
Convection current, electrical current - currency
Turns
Eternal returns
A price was to be paid.
They traded with the Sun
For - Eternal returns - Diminishing returns
Losses –
Gains and losses
Chlorophyll
Crops - yields – stocks –
Synthesis - Photosynthesis
Maunders minimum - Frozen assets
Financial - climate
……….
Sun baked - Fossils - Fuel
(It) Burns
Black blooded oil
It lubricates motion – Petroleum
…………
the eye - of day –
Copernican revolution
visions (of excess) - Optics - Nerve
it gets in - cerebral cortex
Solar maximum
coronal mass –
ejection
vomits plasma - ions
Radiant induction - current.
Correlations – Revolutions – insurrectionssuccession
laws
thermal laws
heat death –
endless turns - Falling turns
Burning the daylight
The stolen sun
Is feeds the grid
Kilowatt hours –
a price must be paid.