Jason Dungan
Pacific
21 March–28 April 2012
International Project Space presents a solo exhibition by Jason Dungan (b. 1978, Houston, Texas, USA), his first in a public institution in the UK.
Pacific gathers together a number of works produced over the last year alongside two new works produced for the exhibition. Central to the show is an installation comprising a standard theatre lamp illuminating a suspended tree branch, which casts a shadow within a screen-like frame onto the opposite wall. This simple, almost tautological, projection set-up stages a moment of what Dungan refers to as ‘accidental cinema’ whereby any surface might momentarily become a projection screen by means of incidental light and shadow. Dungan’s installation acts as a constant within the dynamic of works in the exhibition, functioning as a structural device against which various image mediations are played out. It also articulates an interest in the shift between the space of the street and the studio or gallery and how the construction of a cinematic space distends the incidental moment into one of dramatic significance.
Many of Dungan’s recent moving image works are concerned with how our consumption of images is increasingly mediated and framed by the digital screen – on personal electronic devices or embedded in the landscape in the form of digital advertising and electronic signs. Pulp (2011) is an hour-long video made during a walk down a local street. As the footage progresses various captured details – a straw, a leaf, the reflection in a car windscreen, a piece of chewing gum – splinter from the image as digital replicas and sit on the surface of the frame. In a new work for the exhibition, a triple 35mm slide projection runs through sets of images that simultaneously depict interiors, objects or characters and light sources. Treated like single frames of a film – a feature also common to Dungan’s series’ of drawings also included in the exhibition – the combinations of images coalesce to create specific narratives, while also making reference to the deconstruction of the film medium by early structural filmmakers such as Michael Snow or Hollis Frampton. Also including several works made using webcams on internet café computers, the exhibition highlights Dungan’s employment of both contemporary and ‘outmoded’ mediums and the formal vernaculars inherent to each as an examination of the image’s increasing malleability afforded by technological progress.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme screening events and a publication containing an interview with the artist. You can download a copy of the publication HERE. Dungan has also produced a limited edition print which will be available to purchase from the gallery website.
Jason Dungan lives and works in London. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include 'Zeugma' (with Dustin Ericksen), Arcade Fine Arts, London (2012); 'Dot Dash', Nicholas Robinson Gallery, NY (2010); 'The Complete Object', Brown, London (2009). Recent group exhibitions include 'Double Object', Thomas Dane Gallery, London; 'Middlemarch', Auto Italia South East, London (both 2009); 'November Again', Harris Lieberman, NY (2008); 'SV07 Annual Members’ Exhibition' (selected by Stuart Comer, Polly Staple and Christabel Stewart), Studio Voltaire, London (2007). Dungan will present a solo exhibition at 176/Zabludowicz Collection in June 2012.
Many of Dungan’s recent moving image works are concerned with how our consumption of images is increasingly mediated and framed by the digital screen – on personal electronic devices or embedded in the landscape in the form of digital advertising and electronic signs. 'Pulp' (2011) is an hour-long video made during a walk down a local street. As the footage progresses various captured details – a straw, a leaf, the reflection in a car windscreen, a piece of chewing gum – splinter from the image as digital replicas and sit on the surface of the frame. In a new work for the exhibition, a triple 35mm slide projection runs through sets of images that simultaneously depict interiors, objects or characters and light sources. Treated like single frames of a film – a feature also common to Dungan’s series’ of drawings also included in the exhibition – the combinations of images coalesce to create specific narratives, while also making reference to the deconstruction of the film medium by early structural filmmakers such as Michael Snow or Hollis Frampton. Also including several works made using webcams on internet café computers, the exhibition highlights Dungan’s employment of both contemporary and ‘outmoded’ mediums and the formal vernaculars inherent to each as an examination of the image’s increasing malleability afforded by technological progress.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme screening events and a publication containing an interview with the artist. Dungan has also produced a limited edition print which will be available to purchase from the gallery website.
Jason Dungan lives and works in London. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include 'Zeugma' (with Dustin Ericksen), Arcade Fine Arts, London (2012); 'Dot Dash', Nicholas Robinson Gallery, NY (2010); 'The Complete Object', Brown, London (2009). Recent group exhibitions include 'Double Object', Thomas Dane Gallery, London; 'Middlemarch', Auto Italia South East, London (both 2009); 'November Again', Harris Lieberman, NY (2008); 'SV07 Annual Members’ Exhibition' (selected by Stuart Comer, Polly Staple and Christabel Stewart), Studio Voltaire, London (2007). Dungan will present a solo exhibition at 176/Zabludowicz Collection in June 2012.
Jason Dungan, 'Pacific', Installation at IPS Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Pacific', Installation at IPS Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Pacific', Installation at IPS Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Pacific', Installation at IPS Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Pacific', Installation at IPS Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Pacific', Installation at IPS Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Pacific', Installation at IPS Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Pacific', Installation at IPS Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, Left: 'Pacific', 2012 Right: 'Breeze', 2011 Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Pacific', Installation at IPS Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Pacific', Installation at IPS Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Transit', 2012, Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Transit', 2012, Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Transit', 2012, Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Pacific', Installation at IPS Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Untitled (Wall)', 2012 Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Untitled (Wall)', 2012 Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Pulp', 2011 Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Bloom', 2011 Photo: John Fallon
Jason Dungan, 'Bloom', 2011
Jason Dungan, 'Bloom', 2011
Jason Dungan, '1000 Piece Puzzle', 2011-
Jason Dungan, webcam videos, 2011-
Jason Dungan, 'Pacific', Installation at IPS Photo: John Fallon
