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tectonic industries is a collaboration between Lars Jerlach (b. 1964, Copenhagen, Denmark) and Helen Stringfellow (b. 1975, Wallsend, UK). The members started collaborating in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1999, and currently live and work in the Twin Cities, USA. |
| About the Artist | |
The fundamental concerns of tectonic industries relate to the sometimes tenuous relationship between artifice, reality and artificial representations of reality. A specific scenario has a number of factors removed, replaced or distorted to present an environment of calculated heightened artificiality. Iconic motifs are chosen to stand in for, and represent, the myriad of diverse meanings and interpretations of a given situation. The reality-substitution is instantaneously recognised as containing the essence of that which it replaces. The iconic images are perceived as "more real" than the reality which they have come to represent. |
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If you wait long enough...
2006 |
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| "If you wait long enough, something always happens."
Five particpants were invited to collectively view the film "Five Easy Pieces". They were each asked to individually recount as much as they could remember of the film, later that day, to a video camera. The narratives of all five participants play in the exhibition space at one time, on five monitors placed opposite the sofa. The placement of the monitor reflects where each participant sat to be filmed. The viewer must sit in the sofa in the place of the participant to discern that individual's narrative, in the cacophony of voices. |
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The longer I sit...
2006 |
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| "The longer I sit, the less inclined I am to stand up" is a video installation exploring our constant quest for self improvement and the celebrity cult of the chef.
The installation consists of eight monitors simultaneously playing footage of different participants cooking different meals. The audio features instruction from the original TV program, in addition to the sounds of cooking
Eight participants have been filmed cooking in real-time to the instruction provided by an episode of 30 Minute Meals with Rachael Ray. |
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All it takes...
2005 |
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| "All it takes is a little willingness to make the necessary adjustments."
A wooden rockinghorse casts a disproportionate shadow on the wall and floor. The shadow is made of self-adhesive oak-effect vinyl. |
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And then I woke up...
2005 |
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| "And then I woke up and it was all a dream" is a site-specific installation consisting of a large-scale, double video projection exploring the epic themes of love, romance, jealousy, despair, drama and tragedy.
A walking, barking battery operated puppy is moving at 1/5 real time, barking into the installation space. A walking, meowing battery operated kitten responds in 1/5 real time, on the opposite wall. |
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My wife is so proud of me...
2002- 2005 |
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| "My wife is so proud of me..." is a project initiated in the summer of 2002. tectonic industries measured the grounds of the house in Wisconsin in which they were living and produced an aerial plan depicting the placement of the house, trees, pathways etc. A grid system was drawn up, dividing the property into 130 squares, each measuring 10 x 10 feet. From September 4th to October 14th, 2002, each square was systematically searched using a metal detector. When a metal item was located, a numbered flag was placed into the ground, and a photograph taken using a Polaroid camera. The item was then dug up and sealed into a plastic bag, with the date, time and position of the find recorded.
In total, 519 items were found including a multitude of screws, nails, pieces of aluminium foil and bottle tops.
The installation consists of a vinly wall diagram detailing where each item was found within the aerial plan of the property, 519 Polaroid images detailing the numbered flags of each find, and a 55 minute video showing a photograph of each object found, in chronological order. |
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| Education and biography | |
| Education:- Lars Jerlach Master of Fine Art (Sculpture) Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, UK. 1997-1999 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Sculpture Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, UK. 1994-1997 Helen Stringfellow Master of Fine Art (Sculpture) Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, UK. 1998- 2000 Master of Arts (Hons) Fine Art (Tapestry)University of Edinburgh & Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, UK. 1993- 1998 Exhibitions:- Automation The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, USA. 2007 I could do that (as I'm already up). [solo] Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. 2006 Ephemeral Space. AZ Gallery, St Paul, Minnesota, USA. 2006 The longer I sit, the less inclined I am to stand up. [solo] Emerging Artist Series; Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. 2006 My wife is so proud of me... [solo] ONEZEROprojects, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 2006 Tuesday night, 8pm. [solo] Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. 2005-06 And then I woke up and it was all a dream. [solo] Thorp Building, Minneapolis Minnesota, USA. 2005 Artshanty Medicine Lake, Minnesota, USA The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 2005 My wife is so proud of me... [solo] Franklin Art Works (Project & Video Room), Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. 2005 Physical similarities do not necessarily indicate close relationships. (tectonic industries: Recent and New Works) [solo] CSPS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. 2004 No Name Exhibitions Project Room The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 2004 YOU ARE HERE Festival Citywide Art Event, Nottingham, UK. 2004 Untitled 3 SOO Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 2004 Art Inside/Outside Space XVII Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 2004 Document TIXE Art Space, New York City, New York, USA. 2004 Ready, Set, Go! Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. 2003- 2004 CAST University Gallery, U-W La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. 2003 2003 Outdoor Sculpture Invitational U-W Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. 2003 Illusions/ Delusions and Other Modes of Reality Furlong Gallery, Wisconsin, USA. 2002 Hayvend: Art in Vending Machines Various Gallery Venues, London & the UK. 2002 A City To Live In Festival Exhibitions 2000, Edinburgh International Festival, Scotland, UK. 2000 |
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| Future shows | |
| Corporate Identity The LAB, San Francisco. March 2007 |
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| Website: tectonic-industries.com | |
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