From: kyle knodell
Date: 2009/5/12
Subject: Chatta med kyle knodell
To: blomkvist.erik@gmail.com
13:38 jag: how's it going?
13:52 kyle: hey!
i am writing about my work for you right now
13:53 i had to sleep out the time change
13:54 jag: great!
I have started to write the p.r. but it's quite hard to do it without speculating a lot
kyle: yea i understand
i am just trying to write down some of my basic ideas with the work for you
14:16 kyle: here is a start for you
14:17 kyle: i just emailed it let me know if you have any questions and i am going to look at it myself a bit longer
jag: sure
One thing immediately: Are the photographs your own?
I read that some of them are
kyle: um some are my own and some i take from other sources
jag: not interesting which.
not for me
14:23 kyle: so you are saying your are not interested in which is which
jag: While working with installations around the photographs, how do you relate to the "source"? Or do you?
14:25 Well, what I mean is, do you publish the origin of the photo?
14:26 kyle: ohh well i dont think i relate in a specific way. its more that i look at images as a plentiful source or maybe as preexisting readymades
14:28 jag: So you start around the photograph and install around them? metaphorically speaking
14:29 kyle: yes indeed
the photograph is at the root
14:31 but i look at the display and presentation of them as the final product
14:32 jag: Ok. While looking at the photographs I get a feeling of coincidence. That there is no "plan" behind them, or at least a very loose such. Is that so?
kyle: a poetic entanglement of meanings
jag: mm
kyle: yes they are loose
14:33 i like the sound of a poetic entanglement of meanings
jag: me too
very nice formulation
14:34 kyle: why thank you :)
14:36 i dont know how it fits in but i have also been thinking alot about how meaning is produced
or formed
jag: mm
14:37 I have written that the photographs are pictures of no interest, do you feel offended by that?
14:38 kyle: hmm
jag: And by that I don't mean that they are uninteresting
kyle: like they are of no interest to me?
14:39 jag: No, more like they don't carry any "inherent" values..
They are not directed in any way..
kyle: yea yea that sounds nice
14:43 i think that what the photograph did to images was to allow for the Banal, every day and the fleeting to be more closely looked at
14:45 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/00200/00242r.jpg
jag: like a trick? to bring people closer to the nothingness of reality?
kyle: yea exactly
14:46 the images usually share a formal relationship that Implies some importance but one finds they do not add up
14:47 jag: and the installations vs. the sole photograph? will there be a juxtaposition there or will you try to engrave the nothingness?
14:51 kyle: i think that for me there is a juxtaposition with the photographs and the installation because the photographs become almost opaque objects when put into the installation were as most photographs are looked at as a window to some other place. i look at the flatness of the photo by placing it in more of a sculptural 3D context which brings out the nothingness
14:52 does that answer your question?
14:53 jag: yes. it does.
14:54 very much so
kyle: great
brb
jag: brb?
kyle: sorry
14:55 jag: bra
kyle: I will be right back
going to have a smoke outside
jag: sure
14:59 kyle: ok im back
15:01 jag: good
15:02 kyle: do you have more questions?
jag: here is a rough draft:
Kyle A. Knodell – Sediment, Sentiment
In the subtlety and coincidence of things lies often the reality of life. To me, descriptions of reality often fail to promote an accurate picture of the world because they often seem to be occupied with doing just that. The quest for truthfulness and sincerity often tends to obscure more than enlighten, and life gets lost in naturalistic conformity.
Kyle Knodell’s work in general seems to be based in spontaneity, from the blank and empty PS frame blank layer to coloring of walls and ceilings filtering the gallery’s existing light sources. In a sense his work seems to root in a very organic process were an idea marks the starting point, a seed, but then are allowed to grow almost without interference. The spontaneity draws attention to contradictions and misunderstandings and the display that is the result of the process communicate a visualization of nothingness
The photographs used are pictures of no interest, they are not directed in any way. Some are stock photographs with drained sentimental values while some are the artists own. In the artwork they figure as a trigger, as the unmoved mover, who starts a chain reaction and finally becomes a centre part in the “poetic entanglement of meanings” that is the final presentation.
Within the walls of the gallery everything seems to be Art. And Art is historically a part of the top of the hierarchy of things. In Knodell’s work this hierarchy is broken down and questioned. The banality in the photographs together with the often minuscule installations around them juxtapose the basic elements of documentary photography, the window to some other place, with a more nuanced and interesting view on
15:14 kyle: hold on i am just looking this over
jag: sure
15:36 kyle: sorry i was also chatting with my mother
15:37 kyle: do you know when this needs to be printed?
or finalized
jag: no
not really
before sunday
15:38 kyle: ok because i think its a good start but some things might not be in rhythm with the work. so i think we should keep this and when i know more how the installation will be i will think about the changes.
15:39 there might be some specifics that might be good to touch on
jag: sounds good..
15:42 kyle: cool, thanks alot!
i think i am going to go walk around for a bit
jag: I guess Susanne will try to document the process so you can share photographs..
15:43 Do it
kyle: yea that is important
jag: Walk over to Långholmen
kyle: where is that?
i am at copacobana right now
15:44 jag: north.. down to långholmsgatan. then left, away from the gallery site. towards kungsholmen
15:45 walk up on the big bridge and then off it when you've passed the first stream
15:47 kyle: ok cool what is in Långholmen
jag: Nothing.
It's like the countryside
kyle: o nice
that sounds good
15:48 i will talk to you later
thanks again!
jag: thank you!
15:49 take care
Date: 2009/5/12
Subject: Chatta med kyle knodell
To: blomkvist.erik@gmail.com
13:38 jag: how's it going?
13:52 kyle: hey!
i am writing about my work for you right now
13:53 i had to sleep out the time change
13:54 jag: great!
I have started to write the p.r. but it's quite hard to do it without speculating a lot
kyle: yea i understand
i am just trying to write down some of my basic ideas with the work for you
14:16 kyle: here is a start for you
14:17 kyle: i just emailed it let me know if you have any questions and i am going to look at it myself a bit longer
jag: sure
One thing immediately: Are the photographs your own?
I read that some of them are
kyle: um some are my own and some i take from other sources
jag: not interesting which.
not for me
14:23 kyle: so you are saying your are not interested in which is which
jag: While working with installations around the photographs, how do you relate to the "source"? Or do you?
14:25 Well, what I mean is, do you publish the origin of the photo?
14:26 kyle: ohh well i dont think i relate in a specific way. its more that i look at images as a plentiful source or maybe as preexisting readymades
14:28 jag: So you start around the photograph and install around them? metaphorically speaking
14:29 kyle: yes indeed
the photograph is at the root
14:31 but i look at the display and presentation of them as the final product
14:32 jag: Ok. While looking at the photographs I get a feeling of coincidence. That there is no "plan" behind them, or at least a very loose such. Is that so?
kyle: a poetic entanglement of meanings
jag: mm
kyle: yes they are loose
14:33 i like the sound of a poetic entanglement of meanings
jag: me too
very nice formulation
14:34 kyle: why thank you :)
14:36 i dont know how it fits in but i have also been thinking alot about how meaning is produced
or formed
jag: mm
14:37 I have written that the photographs are pictures of no interest, do you feel offended by that?
14:38 kyle: hmm
jag: And by that I don't mean that they are uninteresting
kyle: like they are of no interest to me?
14:39 jag: No, more like they don't carry any "inherent" values..
They are not directed in any way..
kyle: yea yea that sounds nice
14:43 i think that what the photograph did to images was to allow for the Banal, every day and the fleeting to be more closely looked at
14:45 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/00200/00242r.jpg
jag: like a trick? to bring people closer to the nothingness of reality?
kyle: yea exactly
14:46 the images usually share a formal relationship that Implies some importance but one finds they do not add up
14:47 jag: and the installations vs. the sole photograph? will there be a juxtaposition there or will you try to engrave the nothingness?
14:51 kyle: i think that for me there is a juxtaposition with the photographs and the installation because the photographs become almost opaque objects when put into the installation were as most photographs are looked at as a window to some other place. i look at the flatness of the photo by placing it in more of a sculptural 3D context which brings out the nothingness
14:52 does that answer your question?
14:53 jag: yes. it does.
14:54 very much so
kyle: great
brb
jag: brb?
kyle: sorry
14:55 jag: bra
kyle: I will be right back
going to have a smoke outside
jag: sure
14:59 kyle: ok im back
15:01 jag: good
15:02 kyle: do you have more questions?
jag: here is a rough draft:
Kyle A. Knodell – Sediment, Sentiment
In the subtlety and coincidence of things lies often the reality of life. To me, descriptions of reality often fail to promote an accurate picture of the world because they often seem to be occupied with doing just that. The quest for truthfulness and sincerity often tends to obscure more than enlighten, and life gets lost in naturalistic conformity.
Kyle Knodell’s work in general seems to be based in spontaneity, from the blank and empty PS frame blank layer to coloring of walls and ceilings filtering the gallery’s existing light sources. In a sense his work seems to root in a very organic process were an idea marks the starting point, a seed, but then are allowed to grow almost without interference. The spontaneity draws attention to contradictions and misunderstandings and the display that is the result of the process communicate a visualization of nothingness
The photographs used are pictures of no interest, they are not directed in any way. Some are stock photographs with drained sentimental values while some are the artists own. In the artwork they figure as a trigger, as the unmoved mover, who starts a chain reaction and finally becomes a centre part in the “poetic entanglement of meanings” that is the final presentation.
Within the walls of the gallery everything seems to be Art. And Art is historically a part of the top of the hierarchy of things. In Knodell’s work this hierarchy is broken down and questioned. The banality in the photographs together with the often minuscule installations around them juxtapose the basic elements of documentary photography, the window to some other place, with a more nuanced and interesting view on
15:14 kyle: hold on i am just looking this over
jag: sure
15:36 kyle: sorry i was also chatting with my mother
15:37 kyle: do you know when this needs to be printed?
or finalized
jag: no
not really
before sunday
15:38 kyle: ok because i think its a good start but some things might not be in rhythm with the work. so i think we should keep this and when i know more how the installation will be i will think about the changes.
15:39 there might be some specifics that might be good to touch on
jag: sounds good..
15:42 kyle: cool, thanks alot!
i think i am going to go walk around for a bit
jag: I guess Susanne will try to document the process so you can share photographs..
15:43 Do it
kyle: yea that is important
jag: Walk over to Långholmen
kyle: where is that?
i am at copacobana right now
15:44 jag: north.. down to långholmsgatan. then left, away from the gallery site. towards kungsholmen
15:45 walk up on the big bridge and then off it when you've passed the first stream
15:47 kyle: ok cool what is in Långholmen
jag: Nothing.
It's like the countryside
kyle: o nice
that sounds good
15:48 i will talk to you later
thanks again!
jag: thank you!
15:49 take care
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