ANDY GRAYDON
Untitled (aina) | Berlin | 2008-9 | 26m 21s
super 8 film transferred to video | color | sound
A red flag marks a bomb testing site that stands before a volcanic mound; conveyor belts snake like lava flows as they excavate rocks for a new garbage dump; green waste is churned in an enormous blender. From windmills to observatories to guided tours, Untitled (Aina) captures the natural environment of the artist’s birthplace on the islands of Hawaii in what is perhaps its pure state: constantly metaphorozing, endlessly creative, and wound intimately around the human subjects that shape and depend on it. Aina (meaning “land” or “earth” in Hawaiian) documents the environment as an imaginal field of forces, in both literal and figurative transformation.
Picture and Sound by Andy Graydon
Courtesy LMAK Projects, New York
Andy Graydon (1971, Maui, Hawaii) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. His work focuses on the interaction of media and environment in the forming of personal and social subjectivities. Exhibitions include Unmonumental, The New Museum, New York; You Are Free, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Untitled (plate tectonics), Program, Berlin; Room Works, Portland Art Center, Oregon; Untitled (fault), Marian Spore, New York; Data/Fields, Artisphere, Arlington, Virginia. Graydon has released sound works on numerous labels, including Nonvisual Objects (Vienna), mAtter (Tokyo), Winds Measure Recordings (New York), White_Line Editions (UK), and Leerraum (Switzerland). |
