Elise Macmillan
Clip Clop Feeler
December
LAND happily presents the solo exhibition
Clip Clop Feeler by the Oslo-based artist Elise Macmillan. The exhibition features new sculptures and audio works created specifically for LAND.
Macmillan’s works are clue-like in their discreteness and cohesive in their formal fragility as they build upon one another - a composition:
- a collection of smooth curved and intertwined beeswax candles - unlit
- a group of painted Europe to USA and USA to Europe power adapters plugged into one-another and into power outlets - ungrounded
- a cluster of helicopter seeds on the fireplace mantle
- a set of petite metal bells hung on the air register – a carillon in effect - rung by blowing heat
- an arrangement for voice, virtual voice, electronics, strings, glass harp – resonating through the rooms from beneath the floor
Clip Clop Feeler is comprised of these distinct sculptures of latent action, abstracted labor, implied engagement, and an entanglement of values that complicate and suggest alternative attitudes of how these otherwise familiar objects might take part in the world we share with them.
Elise Macmillan (b. 1988, US) is currently an FKDS studio fellow at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo. She studied computer music at Stanford University, Hardingfele in Telemark, Norway. She was an artist in residence at the Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva (2019) and will be a guest composer at EMS Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm (2020). Recent exhibitions include Good Speaker (2019) Half Moon Bay Sunday Morning in the Dark (2018) and Heavy Melodies for Seals (2017-2018).
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The project runs December 7 through December 31, 2019 with an opening reception on Saturday December 7, 7:00-10:00 PM