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adam chodzko
taken in, fall out

23 SEPTEMBER - 30 OCTOBER 2010
OPENING: THURSDAY 23 SEPTEMBER, 20.00

The title of the show ‘taken in, fall out’ implies a position where one is poised, temporally, in between the two, i.e.: we were taken in, then we will fall out. It refers to a movement in and out of: a) belief and disbelief b) truth and fiction c) interior or exterior space.  d) the unconscious and conscious etc etc etc.

The work in the show emerges from a combination of, or flow between these meanings.

Taken in 

-1) literally: being led into somewhere, being escorted inside.
-2) Literally: a drawing together.
-3) figuratively meaning: to become a believer in something. to reach a point of seeing a proposition as being true.

-4) to perceive something in its wholeness; eg; a comprehension of the reality of something.

Fall out

–1) literally;  stumbling out of an interior space into the exterior space. To fall out of a bar. Fall out of a window etc...
-2) figuratively: to stop being friends after a disagreement.
-3) figuratively: The after-affects of an event. The outcome.
-4) figuratively: a dispersal.
-5) figuratively; nuclear radiation after a nuclear bomb attack -  but I am not interested in this meaning here.

LECTURE: FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER

Longshore drift lecture, 40 minutes, in English only

Longshore drift, early detroit techno and other processes of erosion... A performative lecture by Adam Chodzko about memory, chance and sequence; an initial attempt to understand the moons affect on tidal flow gives way to an account of beachcombing collections of deposited artefacts along a coastline. A series of washed up 35mm slides provides the order for a narrative that drifts together 1960's tourist snaps with a history of Detroit techno, and NASA's drug experiments on spiders.

The lecture images and discussion is altered each time it is performed.