Title(date)009-p215; spread hardback book 305x228mm
Title(date)006-009 (2012) Walter van Rijn
Symbiotext.net documents Walter van Rijn’s art as part of a research project Dispersion as Artists’ Strategy. Each project creates a new situation where specific questions about the dispersion of instances of art are tested. Projects: Symbiote 4, 5, 6, and 7. What is a symbiote? See info.
Symbiote 7 evolved from Sym6 and lives inside existing collections. From private art collections, projects connecting various artists, gallery selections and databases.
Symbiote 6 : glyph/word hybrid
In this version the symbiotic life form adapts and embeds itself into texts and textual elements or glyphs. The font and/or substituted glyphs become the affected space and means of dispersion.
Symbiote 5 @ The Rag Factory London & online >>>>>
An exhibition alongside ‘Feint’. Symbiote 5 appropriates, adapts, changes, eats away the art shown at this gallery. It uses archival material found on YouTube and Flickr and materialises different versions alongside the existing exhibition across various media: onsite, online, in print, on screen.
Symbiote 4 @ The Winchester Gallery >>>>>
An exhibition alongside another exhibition in 2011. This work displays the exhibition events that took place at the Winchester Gallery, but within a different temporal and spacial sequence. It re-uses historic installation photographs from which all artobjects appear to have been eaten away. The pictures are presented as a gallery guide to the current exhibition. All pictures in this project are based on photographs of actual exhibitions at this gallery. Archive images courtesy of the Winchester Gallery.