This work deploys memory and place (or absence of) and possibility as groundwork as it challenges the bitterness and hostile condition of the postmodern human. Our turbulence is a place beyond time and a time beyond place, an “A life to sleep a restless sleep,” an open and attentive cycle.
This narrative consists of pure images considering the possible theoretical and aesthetic mechanisms and their many faces, a position of both threat and security. The work takes us through a set of slow- paced audio-visual sequences and powerfully colorful projections, often monotonal. It consists of otherworldly like landscapes that reference kind imagery, choreographed gestures (reminiscent of our complicated shared history as humans), reenactment and improvisation, relentlessly alluding toward complexity, emergency, and uncertainty. The soothing voice leads us into the void of our postmodern condition.
The Artist unapologetically builds a poetic and nuanced narrative from his somber self-reflection, ideas, desires, and theoretical background. These include self-references as well as allusions to eastern philosophy, so crucial to the work to allow the title, this “contained turbulence” to exist far outside the metaphor. It’s systemic. We are vivid supernatural projections, stylishly versatile, explicitly interrelated material for memory and projection. “Time will make artists of us all.”
Pedro Inock
Biography: Pedro Inock (1984) graduated from the Fine arts university of Lisbon. He works in the fields of video art, video performance, installation, and painting. Throughout his work, the analysis and observation of issues such as place, memory, and human condition make up for a large part of the process.
Exhibition / Publications / Awards: FORMAÇÃO / Education Ph.D student – Artistic Studies[ NOVA – FCSH-Lisbon] MA Painting / FBAUL [Fine Arts University Lisbon] MA Architecture [ULL-FAA] Lisbon Painting [Ar.Co Lisbon] EXPOSIÇÕES INDIVIDUAIS | Solo exhibitions 2005- untitled – Galeria Vasco Fernandes / Viseu, PT 2007/08 “Duct tape sessions” Interventions – Pedro Inock + Alfredo R – Coimbra / Braga / Viseu, PT 2009 -“Endeavours” / street happening . Almancil, PT Collective showcase 2010- “Catharsis | First Move”, Portimão, PT Solo Exhibition/Live Performance 2011 – Violence in a time of Plenty – Viseu – Artist run space/ Happening PT 2012 – Livid Lips, Meaningless Architecture – Photography Exhibition – Oporto, PT 2013 -“Tabula Rasa” / VAÅG – Artist Run Space, Lisbon PT 2014 – Aussterben In Der Kunstkammer / AAA+ Residency, Lisbon PT 2015 – Genius Loci – Spacetime Discontinuum Phase 04 / Galeria Novo Ciclo / Acert Tondela PT 2015 – Under the bridge / Screening Taipei /CH 2016 – Stand Still – Above the Earth, Beneath the sky [curated by Madalena Dornellas] Galeria da Ordem dos Médicos Lisboa PT 2016 – Selected gallery works (collective showcase) Galeria António Prates / Lisbon PT 2016 – The Dark Playground II / Screening – Lisbon PT 2016 – SIS / Untitled BCN Gallery – Barcelona [ES] 2016 – Luto Branco – Jardins Efémeros Viseu [PT] 2016 – Amorphous beta version [mostra nacional de performance audiovisual] Caldas da Rainha [PT] 2017 – Suspensão (parte1) – Casa da Avenida, Setúbal [PT] 2018 – Visita Studios / Open Studio & Talk / Odivelas – Moderação: Martina Tzvetan 2019 – Screening & Installation + Talk – Studio7 Lisbon /PT 2019 – Anti-Monuments Part 1 – Contained Turbulence/ Screening – Blackbvrn Collective Lisbon [PT] EXPOSIÇÕES coletivas | group exhibitions 2005 – Artistas de hoje – 2002 / Expovis Viseu Portugal Group exhibition 2005-“Big dark comet” / The River art Collective, Coimbra PT Group exhibition 2006- “Highland Caribbean” – (independently organized) – Oporto PT 2008 -“Pathways” Oporto independent street exhibition Oporto PT Group exhibition 2012/ Meta-Cities – Photo Exhibition – Past – Artist run space (independently organized)) / Oporto / Lisbon, PT 2013/ 2014 / 2015 | “12×12” Galeria travessa. Lisbon PT 2016 – Salão da primavera / Group exhibition – ACMP Gallery 2016 – VIII / Untitled BCN – Barcelona [ES] 2016 – Samples / Transvideo Borderless Image – Mexico City [MX] 2016 – Samples – Aalto University, Olmo [FN] 2016 – Amorphous beta version [mostranacional de performance audiovisual] Caldas da Rainha [PT] 2017 – INSHADOW – 9ª Edição do Lisbon Screendance Festival 2018 – Jardins Efémeros – Sala Snoezelen – Screening [PT] 2019 – Blackbvrn Collective – Year 2 / Steady Ground_ Lisbon / PT 2019 – Cartografias – Quinta da cruz Viseu [PT] SELECTED PERFORMANCES | performances Seleccionadas 2004 – Genius Loci Series / First Movement – Space –Sense of. – Lisbon PT 2004 – “Até amanhã pela tarde” / Chiado intervention , Lisbon PT 2005 – [3 parts] Genius Loci Series / Second Movement – Spacetime – ULL-FAA- Lisbon PT 2007 – TA.MA – A tribute to the Gutai group, Lisbon PT 2007 – A morte dos Mestres – Artist Run Space / IT 2010 – The Traitor – Lisbon, PT 2011 – [2 parts] Genius Loci Series / Third Movement – Spacetime Discontinuum / Second movement – Lisbon / Viseu / Oporto PT 2012 – Kenshikuka – The death of a Dream- Artist run space / Lisbon PT 2013 – O dia em que parei – Castelo/ Monsaraz /PT 2013 – TA.MA – A tribute to Takesada Matsutani and the Gutai group V.02, VAÅG – Artist Run Space, Lisbon PT 2014 – Dark Playground – Performance/ screening /VAÅG – Artist Run Space, Lisbon PT 2015 – [2 parts] Genius Loci Series / ZERO – Lisbon / Madrid 2015 – Por entre paredes” Excertos / in between walls [excerpts] de René Bertholo a Jan Voss / from René Bertholo to Jan Voss 2015 2015 – “Paura” / Barcelona, ES 2016 – Stand Still – above the earth Beneath the Sky. Galeria ordem dos médicos Lisboa, [with Carlos S. + Carolina R] 2016 – Inside / outside the Body of a God – Decay .Lisbon PT 2017 _ OPAF5 [ Online Performance Art Festival ]10-13 August Pedro Inock (Lisbon, Portugal): Conversion [molten stones] 2018 – The beauty of fading away – Public Performance Lisbon/PT 2018 – The beauty of fading away – Public Performance Porto/PT 2019 – Anti-Monuments – Part 2 / Beyond Turbulence – With Raquel Magayevski – Sintra/PT FILM SCORES 2020 – 300 in 60 – by Andrii Kapli [Shortlisted FASHION FILM FESTIVAL KYIV ] 2020 – BOG – by Anastasia Mamontenko. RESIDÊNCIAS | residencies 2008 – Rush / Artistic Residency / Setúbal, PT 2009 – Inferno / Artistic Residency / Vale do Inferno . Coimbra, PT PRÉMIOS / SELECÇÃO| Awards / selected Events 2000 | Prémio Jovem Revelação , Penalva do Castelo 2016 | Untitled BCN, handselected exhibition 2016 | Samples, Borderless image, Mexico / handselected OUTROS TRABALHOS / PUBLICAÇÕES| outros trabalhos / publicações 2001 | Poemas de Hoje / Book Cover 2010 | Revista Arquitectura Lusiada / Article 2016 | Blackheart, Shadows / videoclip Ed. Complementar / complementary education 2003 | Digital Post production 2004 | Digital Photography 2006 | Engraving 2009 | Butoh Workshop 2018 | Light Design Mentions [ Check Interviews/press Tab for more info ] ORIGINAL – Interview by Mohamed Benhajd in Magazine by Altiba9 Interview Agenda Cultural Acert Interview Revista Gerador | “Encontrei-te na Esquina” w/ Gil Sousa Brutal Resonance website (on collaboration in Black Heart Album by Corina Cinkl) TerraRelicta website (on collaboration in Black Heart Album by Corina Cinkl) Interview Eframe by Hema Rishi