Dallas Seitz Black shelf 300 18x13.5, (assorted objects) Materials: Found objects, perspex shelf, photograph.
Seitz has, for example, spoken of seeing collecting-and the management of collections, weather art, artifacts or something much more personal –as a form of colonization in which the meaning and benefit of any of the objects included in the collection ultimately become subservient to the will and perhaps unhinged psychology of the collector.
(Ken Pratt Wound Magazine issue 6 2009)
Dallas Seitz is a Canadian born Artist Living in London. He studied at the Juilliard School of performing Arts in New York, The Alberta College of Art in Alberta Canada and the Chelsea College of Art London. His Video and Sculpture works have been exhibited internationally in group and solo exhibitions at 101 Gallery Ottawa, FlipSide Gallery New York, The Freud Museum London, Gallery Gason Rouge Athens, The New Gallery Calgary, Temporary Contemporary London, Curators Space London, Colony Gallery Birmingham and West Germany Gallery Berlin. In 1997 Seitz attended the Apocalypso Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. Up until last year Dallas was Co-Founder of 1000000mph project space in London. 1000000mph was an Artist-run non profit association that produced 6-8 projects a year covering a diverse range of artistic practise from painting to performance, sound, video and writing. The experience of showing and working with artists has lead Dallas to an Associate Lecturing Post in Personal and Professional Development at London College of Communication on BA Photography, Sound Arts and design and Media and Animation.
Dallas Seitz’s video and sculpture work uses colonization in various forms, as its starting point. From bone cells colonizing muscle cells to the father colonizing the son, up to the political colonizing the personal, the works become questions of positioning. Mental and physical relationships are investigated in the works while underpinned with narratives from literature and film and forms of collecting. In the work For Irma (after Interpretation of Dreams: Freud) objects from the case studies Freud investigated were collected by multiple means. (Constructed, found and contributed from a variety of sources including other artists and family members). Seitz’s own Grandmother gave a set of her Dentures bringing new meaning to the object but also its relationship to the text. In the video The Protector Seitz films his Father in a barren winter landscape shooting a coyote and dragging it through the snow as a symbol fatherly protection but also of the “taming the wild beast”. Proteus Syndrome uses the story of the Joseph Carey Merrick (the Elephant Man) as a basis for internal colonization. Through video Seitz distorts his head into that of Joseph’s by use of light and shadow, the video alludes to the process of cellular dominance and mental anguish. Seitz also made a portland stone sculpture of Merrick’s head in 2007. The stone was procured from the old belfry of the church which Merrick once attended in the east end of London. Seitz took a stone carving class to learn the process of carving for this bust. Assorted Candy Dishes (after Less Then Zero) is an ongoing series of abstracted dysfunctional candy dishes based on the Brett Easton-Ellis novel from the eighties. The blown glass forms become symbols of the dysfunctional family, drug addiction and sexual desires which colonise the characters in the book. Formally the objects sit between, drug paraphernalia, internal organs and pseudo-sexual ornaments. Seitz worked in his Father’s hot-shop in Canada along with his Father to build the glass objects and experiment with the glass process. The video works and sculptures (formed often as collections of objects) intertwine and relate through their connection to symbolic representation, narrative, and imagined meaning. |
Artists/Organisatons
Data Wall:
AESD: Agency for Economy and Space Development:
Maziar Afrassiabi, Shahin Afrassiabi,
Sam Basu, John Colenbrander,
with thanks to Julian Meinold and
Piers O'Hanlon
NIS: New International School: Matthew Stock
Treignac Projet: Sam Basu,
Elizabeth Murray.
The Real:
Phyllida Barlow, Tom Burr,
Anne Damer, Karin Ruggaber,
Audrey Reynolds, Fergal Stapleton,
Brian Wall, Martin Westwood.
Oysters Ain't:
Karen Ay, Vanya Balogh,
Fiona Banner, Richard Bartle,
David Batchelor, Rob Beckett,
Simon Bill, Hartmut Bohm,
Jake & Dinos Chapman,
Cedric Christie, Steve Claydon,
Clem Crosby, Cullinan+Richards,
Penelope Curtis, Arnaud Desjardin,
Valerie Driscoll, Richard Ducker,
Garth Evans, Urs Fischer,
FREEE ( Dave Beech, Andy Hewitt &
Mel Jordan), John Gibbons,
Tom Gidley, Paul Gildea,
Katherine Gili, Andrea Giulivi,
Stewart Gough, Naum Gabo,
Robin Greenwood, Brian Griffiths,
Zoe Griffiths, Nicola Hicks,
Peter Hide, Flore Nove-Josserand,
Helene Kazan, Michael Kidner,
Philip King, Simon Liddiment,
Ed Lipski, Colin Lowe,
Sarah Lucas, Christina Mackie,
Rebecca Johnson Marshall,
Bruce McLean, Haroon Mirza,
Cathy de Monchaux, Henry Moore,
Zadoc Nava, Paul Neagu,
Lawson Oyekan, Eduardo Paolozzi
, Nicholas Pope, Richard Priestley,
Michael Sandle, Paul Sakoilsky,
Celia Scott, Dallas Seitz,
Meg Shirayama, Jane Simpson,
Anthony Smart, Bob & Roberta Smith,
Richard Smith, Steve Smith,
Sarah Staton, Dan Stevens,
Simon Stringer, Michael Stubbs,
Gavin Turk, Jessica Voorsanger,
Gary Webb, Richard Wentworth,
Keith Wilson, Mark Woods,
Richard Woods, Lars Wolter,
Christian Wulffen.
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