D-Light Studios is excited to announce Dutch artist Martijn Tellinga’s solo exhibition ‘presence (Un) presence’. After a series of successful EU presentations, ‘presence (Un) presence’ – developed in residence at D-Light – returns to our studios to inaugurate our new ground floor gallery. We warmly invite you to visit at your own convenience during opening hours October 5 – 11, daily 4 – 8pm. A closing event will organised on 11 October at 6pm. Free Admission, All Welcome.

With Francis Fay, Isabella Oberländer, Ben Sullivan, Claire Keating.

Tellinga’s evolving durational installation project traces the increasingly blurred distinction between our physical real and a simulated technological reality. Fusing site, movement, video technology and the human senses, the piece stages a radically slowed-down choreography for 4 performers who scan our fundamental postures —standing, walking, sitting, lying down— as the means to negotiate a heavily medialised installation environment. The performances become gradually expanded and displaced through non-linear video feeds, image transmission and occasional text mediation on large-size canvases mounted in the space. While subject of perpetual broadcast, the postures slowly take shape as still acts of resistance, protesting the never-ceasing scrambling of time and location to quietly (re)enact the relational space the performers share between them.

Martijn Tellinga’s ‘presence (Un) presence’ employs forms of slow encounter in an effort to make us pause and experience a passing present in all its heterogeneity and difference. This work acts and reacts, calls and responds, it folds time upon itself, it persists, it continues. It reminds us that we are affective bodies, constantly pulsing with waves, evolving and creating new energies as we react and interact with other bodies’
— from Mark Garry’s written response ‘I am listening to you’

The artistic practice of Martijn Tellinga occupies an intermedium between spatial installation, music, and durational performance. Drawn from a reduced formalist-seeming vocabulary, it engages site, sound, moving image, choreography, the temporal and the textual. Exploring processual dynamics and open-form composition processes, he seeks to address questions of place, agency and environment from within evolving exhibition settings. He presents worldwide, lectures and works in residence. He is one of the curator producers of the long running series DNK Amsterdam. With DNK Ensemble he interprets and re-enacts seminal pieces on the edge of experimental music and performance art. He lives between Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Dublin, Ireland.

www.martijntellinga.nl