clemente ciarrocca

selected work

writing

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Installation View



UNTITLED

Gallery D300, CalArts, Santa Clarita

Januray 15 - 22 2022
MFA Mid Residency Show

press release

Photos by Yasaman Alipour


Untitled (2022) could be referred to as an event weaving (in) the relationship between truth, knowledge, and witness. The syncopated space of a constant aftermath where the materiality of a shattered screen has exploded, fixating words that herald without explaining, that configure without describing. Words composing a poem written across the 67 days leading up to the space's 'opening' and devoid of a clear subject, focus, direction, destination; a collector, the dislocation of a life onto a warping plane. So the poem unfolds along the space's perimeter (a periphery), pronouncing a life of excess, control, excess, poiesis, brainfeeding, ending, the kiss, the trouble with description and describing, configuration, pain, the animal, critique, juices, malady, taming, zones, policing, masks, Brighid, navigating and navigation, loving, water, more kuss, self-mining, islands and retaliation, among other things.




In this audiovisual presentation, the exhibition's original soundscape has been reintegrated with its source visuals, the river flow from the artist's hometown providing the background for a concentrated, tighter grouping of sources set in the middle of the frame. During the exhibition's physical installation, this audio environment was played back through speakers hidden behind the polymer sheeting and placed at the four corners of the exhibition room, enveloping the space and providing sensorial and semantic context for the central work: a 37-pages poem nailed along the entire wall perimeter of the gallery. Referred to as ‘The World’ within the context of the show, the soundscape amounted to a complex, layered experience combining noise tracks, cinematic scores, military communications, music, running water, and the artist's voice(s) addressing himself throughout the writing process with fragmented personal thoughts and readings from source texts, immersing the visitor within an intentionally disjointed, schizophrenic, psychotic and ecstatic sonic environment. 


Installation View
Installation View
Installation View
Poem A (high resolution scan)
2022
archival inkjet print on recycled paper
29.7 x 42 cm
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Poem A (high resolution scan)
2022
archival inkjet print on recycled paper
29.7 x 42 cm
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Poem A (high resolution scan)
2022
archival inkjet print on recycled paper
29.7 x 42 cm
page 16 of 37
Poem A (high resolution scan)
2022
archival inkjet print on recycled paper
29.7 x 42 cm
page 28 of 37