Pauline Marcelle .

 

 

 

see as well: http://www.paulinemarcelle.com

 

 

 

double six animates the game allowing the urban, functional arrangment to restructure a chain reaction.

Head highways and frames of play borderline immortal essentials of brain behaviour.

 

 

 

 

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I was born in the West Indian island of Dominica, not to be mistaken with the Dominican Republic and as a child growing up, there would be all different sorts of people who would come to play dominoes at my grandmother's beach bar. We even had regional wide domino competetions anually. I was at the tables with the older folks who taught me to play and that very skillfully and at three I soon became a challenging players to most villagers. Even today most of the elders can vaguely remember my face but the memories of the games I often played with them.

The play serves as a level of social communication, in a functionally arranged structure and causes a CHAIN communication REACTION between players and the object to achieve a more balanced exchange to that respected habitat.

Games are related to war, fighting and intense competetion which entails defined and powerful stategies. It is a contest played according to specified rules and decided by chance, strength, skill or any combination of these. The project, plan or scheme is designed to defeat others with tricks and dodges. If we look at what is going on around us, we are aware of the different players in the war game.Dominoes might be remembered as a childhood experience. It is at this stage in life where compromise and negotiation have no interaction. Here we are not fighting with guns and bombs but our childhood instincts and domino pieces which gives us a different level of reasoning, compromising and negociating in a social battlefield. Playing suggests the tendency to go against the norm and break rules of convention with unrestricted creativity. Watching a play represents the parts one plays in life and the various acts and personas one puts on.

Play by oneself or with others? The game brings all kinds of people from all aspects of life together and allows a different level of speech, interaction and confrontation in respect to the amount of players. Sense and purpose of double six is the dividing line between meaningfulness and meaninglessness in human emphasis and their structured behavioral patterns. It is a boundary line, which has to do much more with the nature of humans living together, since, urbanity reflects the paradox within. (artist's statement)

 

 

Biography

born in Dominica, West Indies
1984 University of the State of New York
1989 Los Angeles Valley college, Northridge University
1994 University for applied Arts, Vienna C.L.Attersee
2000 MFA University for applied arts, Vienna

 

courtesy: sissi farassat

 

Exhibitions

group shows

2001
KUNSTWIEN Contemporary Art Fair, MAK Vienna
REALLY Kunsthalle Steyr, Austria
FUCNTIONE COMMUNALE Soho in Ottakring, Vienna
2000
DATAKOM www.atropolis.at Collection Essl, Austria
POSITIONS Hohenlohe & Kalb Gallery, Vienna
PARADOX University for applied Arts Vienna
KUNSTWIEN Contemporary Art Fair, MAK Vienna
PROJECTION BROOKLYN Soho in Ottakring, Vienna
1999
DREAM PATH Interpretation Sigmund Freud MAK & City of Vienna
1998
ARTVIEW Salzburg Contemporary Art Fair, Austria
1997
LANGUAGE Collection Essl, Austria
POSITIONS Semperdepot, Vienna
1996
APHRODITE University of applied Art Gallery, Vienna
RED CROSS Stubenring Gallery, Vienna
1994
I AM SICK Arkade Gallery, Vienna City Hall

solo shows

2001
Schikaneder, Vienna www.paulinemarcelle.com
CABLE & WIRELESS Dominica W.I.
2000
THORNS & TULIPS Mckinsey, Vienna
1999
TRANSATLANTIC II i2i Gallery, New York USA
1998
www.viennawalk.at Science Wonder Productions Vienna
TRANSATLANTIC I Hawes Gallery Boston, USA
1996
ART & EAT Artwork Gallery, Vienna

Performances

2001
DOUBLE SIX Schikaneder Vienna
2000
LIMITS OF PERCEPTION PBS America Visions, DogstarFRANCE, ORF, BBC
1998
www.viennawalk.at Science Wonder Productions Vienna

Filmography

2001
DOUBLE SIX Video animation 2:35mins
2000
PARADOGS Video Film 10min BURN Flip book animation 3mins
SNAKE STEPS Paint & video animation 3mins

 

 

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