Bianca BaldiSelected Works

2006-2009

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Him & Her (2008)

Him & Her (2008)

Photographic and video documentation of a performance which took place at Blank Projects Cape Town, September 2008.

Him & Her creates an amorous montage combining actors, fiat seicentos, and hefty logistics to set up a frame for sanctioned romance, the backseat of a car. Playing on ideas of public affection, fantasy and the cinematic, letʼs pretend realism is employed to stage a grand romantic gesture.

Conversation (2009-)

Conversation (2009-)

25 conversations with artists recorded in Cape Town with a collection of artefacts from the artists visited.

Total duration of 13,3hrs

Conversation is a collaboration that prompts an open-ended dialogue be-tween two artists.This process aims to gain insight into the person and their artistic practice/process. The conversations are captured using an audio re-cording the tracks are then lightly edited and played in series on a loop. In a darkened space the viewer/listener will access snippets of the whole and both bare witness and become part of the conversation by “sitting in” on the awkwardness of the recorded voice in the pseudo-confessional space.

Adding to the collection of audio as Conversations,‘artifacts’ of the art-ist’s process have been gathered.These objects are collected and dis-played as anthropological displays in vitrines with descriptive labels. Rather than art objects these artifacts are displayed as relics of the art making.

The Conversation that Must Lose (2008-)

The Conversation that Must Lose (2008-) in collaboration with Christian Nerf

Page 31 of a collaborative script constructed from ‘found’ text (Work in progress)

You (Visual Magnitude Indicator 10.1, Right Ascension 16h 37m 44s,

Declination-34 degrees 24’ 15’” Constellation Scorpius) (2008)

Designated star registered in the Name a Star Live Astronomical Catalogue

A star was named ‘You’. It was registered it in the astrologicalcatalogue in on honour of You. This work highlights the presence of the other, someone outside of us. You. This work comprised of an astrological map where the named star, You, was indicated by gold leaf, barely separating it from the rest of the star mass. This star map was accompanied by a certificate which stood to prove this romantic gesture and a star symbol which was affixed onto the window of the gallery.The reflection placed You (the star) into the sky in the position the star would be seen at that time of year.

You (Visual Magnitude Indicator 10.1, Right Ascension 16h 37m 44s, Declination-34 degrees 24’ 15’” Constellation Scorpius) (2008)

Two or More Gathered (2007)

You’re One in a Million (2007)

You’re One in a Million (2007)

Photographic and video documentation of public intervention that took place on Good Friday, April 6, 2007 at 12:00, Cape Town.

Two dozen red vehicles traveled in convoy along the main road, De Waal drive, which leads out of the Cape Town city centre.

The Sky (2007)

Gilded map pins on ultramarine ground suspended by a nine-point pulley system below the

ceiling.

2000 X 3000 X 4000 mm

The Sky plays on the imaging of geography and the body in relation to space. A deep ultramarine ground hangs above the viewer who looks up to the stars presented to them. Only this time the gilded constellations map the lights of the world, Africa is dark

Waiting in Joyful Hope (Small Big Love) (2007)

Red carnations and a helicopter.

Proposal for red carnations to be strewn across the Cape Town city bowl from a helicopter, permission from the civil aviation authorities was denied. Waiting in Joyful Hope is a

representation of the unrealized project.

Red Sky at Night (2007)

Red photographic gels

Light entering the exhibition space was imbued with a red glow.

Siren (2007) in collaboration with Elgin Rust

Public Intervention

Following a series of communications with officials, access to the VIP protections services building, outside Parliament in Cape Town, was granted. A light was shone onto the sidewalk from inside this usually

‘off-limits’ building.

Love’s Labour Lost (2006)

Performative intervention held 18th September 2006, Cape Town.

A gingerbread and cake replica of the historical Michaelis building in Cape Town was constructed and then shared in front of the building.

Love’s Labour Lost (2006)

Bianca Baldi

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