ADINDA VAN �T KLOOSTER
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
AT GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL 2003-4
Preview: 3rd of September 6:30 -9 PM at Gloucester Cathedral
Exhibition open: from 4th to 26th September 2004, 10.30am to 4pm
Closed on 18th September from 2 pm and during main Cathedral services.
If travelling from a long distance, please ring 01452-508211 0r 01452-506097
This solo show marks the culmination of a one-year residency by Adinda van �t Klooster at Gloucester Cathedral.
Over the year Adinda van �t Klooster responded to the building, creating several sculptural light installations and realizing a major interactive video performance in collaboration with the Cathedral�s music department. Medical photographic stills of the womb have been a starting point for many of the installations which will be seen throughout the Cathedral.
Most of the works are to be found in the Crypt, a part of which was used at sometime as a "bone-house" � storing bones of deceased monks. In the sculptural installation
Receptive Monument, the central crypt space is transformed into a womb-like interior, reinforcing the cyclical nature of life. The red jesmonite shapes emerging from the sand are based on pinopods: cellular swollen protrusions that emerge and retreat on the uterine lining within about two days of the menstrual cycle. Pinopods were first discovered about 45 years ago and are thought to be indicative of the stage when an embryo can implant in the womb, although their precise function is still debated in the medical world. In several different installations, the artist has used the pinopods to communicate ideas about fertility in the areas of science, religion and art.In the Tribune gallery (upstairs in the triforium), the pinopods are scattered across the ancient ceramic-tiled floor. This time they are cast in porcelain; some are broken, reminding us of the fragile balance of life and death.
Near the main entrance, a plasma screen displays documentation of the interactive performance
Sarah Was Ninety Years Old which took place in May 2004. The audience was seated before a large screen in the Slype and the singers and musicians were located in the cloisters above and in the main cathedral. The live sound streams were fed into a computer where a specially designed program responded by translating them into a series of live projected images. Arvo P�rt�s music refers to the biblical story of the miraculous birth of Isaac, son of Sarah who conceives at the advanced age of ninety, but also alludes to P�rt�s own creativity which had suffered a long dry spell but blossomed from the moment he composed the piece. Sometimes the visuals refer to medical imaging and at other times they evoke the artistic abstraction of the �50s and �60s. The performance as a whole invited the vie! wer to reconsider the act of creation.Adinda van �t Klooster has been a practising artist in Britain for a decade. She studied Fine Art and Animation at the Utrecht School of the Arts, Sculpture at the Glasgow School of Art (BA Hons, 1995) and Electronic Imaging at the University of Dundee (Master of Science, 2000). Her work has been exhibited and screened throughout Europe and she has carried out commissions and residencies in Britain and abroad. In 2005 she will be exhibiting in Oslo Cathedral.
The residency is funded by and the Arts Council England (South West), Gloucester Cathedral, the University of Gloucestershire, Gloucester City Council, the Esme� Fairbairn Foundation and Gloucestershire County Council.
See also www.livinggloucester.co.uk/histories/cathedral/artist_in_residence/ adinda/
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