https://leannebock.com Leanne Bock // Visual Artist Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:36:31 +0000 https://leannebock.com en https://leannebock.com/Home Wed, 20 May 2020 01:15:47 +0000 Leanne Bock // Visual Artist https://leannebock.com/Home Leanne Bock is a visual artist working across drawing, assemblage, video and installation. Her practice engages with everyday objects and makeshift materials to explore overlapping realities — personal and collective, rational and intuitive, conscious and subconscious — where the banal slips into the poetic and logic becomes dreamlike. <img width="4000" height="4000" width_o="4000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e190779024bff4c3eb6d6f5459a39b0f65b280264c44fed5faf9773cc2514ac0/Leanne_Bock_double_adaptor.jpg" data-mid="71692660" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e190779024bff4c3eb6d6f5459a39b0f65b280264c44fed5faf9773cc2514ac0/Leanne_Bock_double_adaptor.jpg" /> <img width="1903" height="2600" width_o="1903" height_o="2600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/669e2472ae526956ccf60ca19a17729a10502d478a777e8b0e5541ef5160993c/Realidades_Plegables_Tendedero_Leanne_Bock.jpg" data-mid="209028111" border="0" 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border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b94c4664b0ca5386557c4cba72f04cc215df5ff3d6d7ab2a513729b75f5a6bcc/LeanneBock_La_Sombra_LaTransformacion.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="1914" width_o="1440" height_o="1914" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/878fe1a018bff5f82cf59dc12f5518b8d949b1430f2cf484316bdfa5c8df1780/Reciclando_Sentido_art_Leanne_Bock_6.JPG" data-mid="253033210" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/878fe1a018bff5f82cf59dc12f5518b8d949b1430f2cf484316bdfa5c8df1780/Reciclando_Sentido_art_Leanne_Bock_6.JPG" /> https://leannebock.com/About Wed, 20 May 2020 01:15:47 +0000 Leanne Bock // Visual Artist https://leannebock.com/About Leanne Bock is a visual artist exhibiting and undertaking residencies locally and internationally. Her practice spans drawing, writing, sculptural assemblage, video and installation. <img src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/q/75/i/69b0d68f81a69429ca2cb4b5f16edd55bfd4cb7889edde60272e8e71d20dbb91/Leanne_Bock_Le_Riquiqui_artist.jpg" alt="Contemporary Artist Leanne Bock (Le Riquiqui)" class="content_image" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 1;">Investigating the formation of ‘realities’ – personal and collective experience, conscious and unconscious processes, and constructed and natural systems – she collaborates with the living environment, everyday objects and materials to create ephemeral visual languages that invite reflection on how meaning, memory and perception are assembled. Bock learns from holistic philosophies, Jungian psychology, embodied cognition, cultural criticism and connection with the natural world to access new windows of perception, informed by daily reading and writing in Spanish and reflective/reflexive rituals. Through a slow process of research, observation, dialogue, pattern recognition and play, the familiar becomes strange, and the banal takes on new dimensions. Born in the remote, subtropical town of Theodore, Queensland, Bock has lived and worked throughout Australia, the UK, France and Latin America, maintaining fluent Spanish as part of her everyday life and art-making. Her parallel career in design and illustration since 2002 refines her eye for systems and the construction of meaning. She is currently based in Naarm/Melbourne, holds a Master of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (2021), and works from her studio in Pascoe Vale. RESIDENCIES 2026 Rec.On (2 weeks), Bolaimí, Andalusia, Spain2024 La Casa Móvil (1 week), Algodonales, Andalusia, Spain2023 George Paton Gallery (1 month), Melbourne, Australia2022 Proyecto ‘Ace (1 month), Buenos Aires, Argentina2018 Castelo Studio (3 days), A Coruña, Spain EXHIBITIONS 2026 Reciclando Sentido, Rec.On, Andalusia, Spain 2025 How Cute is Cute? Off the Kerb, Collingwood, Melbourne2024 La Casa Móvil, Algodonales, Andalusia, Spain2023 Le Lendemain, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne2022 Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Fitzroy, Melbourne2022 Proyecto ‘Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina2021 The Last Act (YOHO), Schoolhouse Studios, Collingwood, Melbourne 2020 Installation, PGB Artspace, Brunswick, Melbourne2019 Stand Still, EBV, Brunswick East, Melbourne2017 Le Riquiqui Prints, Something for Jess, Chippendale, Sydney2017 Le Riquiqui Prints, Batch, Marrickville, Sydney2017 An Exhibition of Emerging Australian Artists, Woolloongabba Substation, Brisbane EDUCATION 2021 Master of Contemporary ArtVictorian College of the Arts, University of MelbourneFirst Class Honours2019 Graduate Certificate in Visual ArtVictorian College of the Arts, University of MelbourneFirst Class Honours2001 Bachelor of Communication DesignJames Cook University, TownsvilleFirst Class Honours LANGUAGES Spanish (fluent)French (intermediate) CONTACT LeanneBock@gmail.com Instagram Leanne acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung People of the Kulin Nation as sovereign custodians of the land she inhabits and extends respect to all First Nations people. https://leannebock.com/Reciclando-Sentido Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:36:31 +0000 Leanne Bock // Visual Artist https://leannebock.com/Reciclando-Sentido Reciclando SentidoAn Ecological Exchange with the Sierra Video, walking, drawing, writing, found natural site-specific matter, poetry 2026 <img width="2882" height="4030" width_o="2882" height_o="4030" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f83e2b5185e6ea67a90cf8dae95ad7623a9dd6a4e460e3b3692a548cff2634c/Reciclando_Sentido_art_Leanne_Bock_5.jpg" data-mid="252810413" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f83e2b5185e6ea67a90cf8dae95ad7623a9dd6a4e460e3b3692a548cff2634c/Reciclando_Sentido_art_Leanne_Bock_5.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5d0b0de4199e8f6849d461392a51966a689d643fd8bd6a9d0b01ff382f39520/RecOn_Sierra_Leanne_Bock_art.jpg" data-mid="252810457" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5d0b0de4199e8f6849d461392a51966a689d643fd8bd6a9d0b01ff382f39520/RecOn_Sierra_Leanne_Bock_art.jpg" /> En julio de 2026, pasé dos semanas en una residencia de arte en Bolaimí, un cortijo remoto, cerca del pueblo de Vélez-Rubio, en la sierra de la región de Almería, Andalucía, España.&nbsp;Fue una experiencia única alojarme en la ecoaldea rústica de Rec.On, una antigua granja de cabras de más de 100 años, transformada por Paulina y Bart, una pareja de Polonia enfocada en el reciclaje y sostenibilidad. In July 2026, I spent two weeks at an art residency in Bolaimí, a remote location near the village of Vélez-Rubio, in the mountains of the Almería region, Andalusia, Spain.&nbsp;Staying at the rustic eco-village of Rec.On – a former goat farm over a century old, transformed by Paulina and Bart, a Polish couple dedicated to recycling and sustainability – was like stepping into another world. El verano en la sierra andaluza es intenso, caluroso y seco, y el cuerpo te pide rendirte durante las horas de más calor. Los buitres vuelan en círculos en el cielo y la calima sopla desde el Sahara.&nbsp;Las fotos del crepúsculo con las bellas nubes rosadas son de la noche anterior a los incendios forestales en Los Gallardos, a 50 km al sur de aquí, donde el fuego arrasó 80 kilómetros cuadrados y 13 personas perdieron la vida. Durante los días de esta ola de calor y el humo, con helicópteros de agua pasando por encima, estuve bastante preocupada. No fue la primera vez que experimenté la proximidad de incendios fuera de control y, con la intensidad del cambio climático, probablemente no será la última. Summer in the Andalusian mountains is intense, searing hot, and dry; the body seeks refuge during the hottest hours of the day. Vultures circle overhead, and the ‘calima’ (dust storm) frequently blows in from the Sahara.&nbsp;The twilight photos featuring deceivingly pretty pink clouds were taken the night before the wildfires in Los Gallardos, 50 km to the south, ravaged 80 square kilometres and claimed 13 lives. Throughout that heatwave, hot wind, and the smoke – with water-dropping helicopters passing overhead – I was on alert. It wasn't the first time I’d found myself in the midst of bushfires, and given the intensity of climate change, it’s unlikely to be the last. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/908a182707578246d6b79f1d42bbb53a3f80c2ea6996af180d0164cc41fd707d/RecOn_Bolaimi_Leanne_Bock_art_2.jpg" data-mid="252810447" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/908a182707578246d6b79f1d42bbb53a3f80c2ea6996af180d0164cc41fd707d/RecOn_Bolaimi_Leanne_Bock_art_2.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29c7423e2fa376fa67c9585c9335c3aaaa08b0977bd6fc31442e6698a4eb3624/Reciclando_Sentido_art_Leanne_Bock_4.jpg" data-mid="252810412" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29c7423e2fa376fa67c9585c9335c3aaaa08b0977bd6fc31442e6698a4eb3624/Reciclando_Sentido_art_Leanne_Bock_4.jpg" /> <img width="2284" height="3499" width_o="2284" height_o="3499" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2657db270c5fbefc024704f1dfe3cb3e2321623a343f47f19f7e871ed8e862d/RecOn_Gallinas_Leanne_Bock_art.jpg" data-mid="252810453" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2657db270c5fbefc024704f1dfe3cb3e2321623a343f47f19f7e871ed8e862d/RecOn_Gallinas_Leanne_Bock_art.jpg" /> Como un irónico caso de cuerpo en solidaridad con la tierra, mi propio cuerpo ardía en fiebre por dengue, que había contraído en Filipinas de camino desde Australia. Así que no ‘hice’ mucho ‘arte’ en la primera semana, solo el arte de recomponerme, y aguantarlo. Quizás la rendición total y la lógica de sueño febril eran lo que este proyecto, esta experiencia, exigía.Ironically, in bodily solidarity with the terrain, I was burning up with Dengue Fever, contracted in the Philippines on the way from Australia. So I didn't ‘make’ much ‘art’ during that first week, just the art of recuperation and endurance. Perhaps total surrender and fever-dream logic was what this project, this experience, called for. <img width="2414" height="3022" width_o="2414" height_o="3022" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b1fb1a122d3200fd891ac1710ab023b1b88c4380150b4b1d0db051ffa1d551c4/RecOn_Bolaimi_Leanne_Bock_art_3.jpg" data-mid="252810448" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b1fb1a122d3200fd891ac1710ab023b1b88c4380150b4b1d0db051ffa1d551c4/RecOn_Bolaimi_Leanne_Bock_art_3.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2093becf32693dbfbd8fa0056704d7f3db068a46b1d45dd5aabe4ae4efa9827/Reciclando_Sentido_poema_Siesta_Leanne_Bock.jpg" data-mid="252810419" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2093becf32693dbfbd8fa0056704d7f3db068a46b1d45dd5aabe4ae4efa9827/Reciclando_Sentido_poema_Siesta_Leanne_Bock.jpg" /> Así pues, mientras estaba tumbada, en el abrazo de una siesta interminable, incapaz de moverme, el intercambio ya se desarrollaba. Y a medida que me recuperaba gradualmente, fui caminando por la sierra en el frescor de la noche, absorbiendo el entorno vivo y abriendo un diálogo con el lugar a través de los sentidos del cuerpo: vista, oído, olfato, tacto, gusto, sexto sentido.So, while horizontal, in the embrace of endless siesta, barely able to move, the exchange was already developing. As I gradually recovered, during the second week, I went walking in the mountains in the cool of the night, absorbing the living surroundings, and opening up a dialogue with the place through bodily senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and sixth sense. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78b160709e4cf9b689d1c4f27be38110169c24d87844113b2ddafc4426afd68c/Reciclando_Sentido_art_Leanne_Bock_9.jpg" data-mid="252810417" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78b160709e4cf9b689d1c4f27be38110169c24d87844113b2ddafc4426afd68c/Reciclando_Sentido_art_Leanne_Bock_9.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9220d57afef514b51edd8e3c20b54b9693bf3455de2e73cdd14a7e5e6b6fe284/RecOn_FloresSilvestres_Leanne_Bock_art.jpg" data-mid="252810452" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9220d57afef514b51edd8e3c20b54b9693bf3455de2e73cdd14a7e5e6b6fe284/RecOn_FloresSilvestres_Leanne_Bock_art.jpg" /> <img width="1742" height="2699" width_o="1742" height_o="2699" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d6f9bf0f2b69ebe0b03846780708bb90eef52a50379012b63f853f0ef319f77/Materiales_Naturales_ReciclandoSentido_Leanne_Bock.jpg" data-mid="252810408" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d6f9bf0f2b69ebe0b03846780708bb90eef52a50379012b63f853f0ef319f77/Materiales_Naturales_ReciclandoSentido_Leanne_Bock.jpg" /> Con materiales básicos, cotidianos y objetos encontrados, creé un registro sensorial a través del video, el dibujo, la escritura, el ensamblaje (y la ‘pintura’ con jugo de moras). Todo es bastante efímero, y devuelvo todos los materiales naturales al lugar donde los encontré.With basic, everyday materials and natural found matter, I created a sensory record through video, drawing, writing, assemblage, and ‘painting’ with mulberry juice. Everything was ephemeral, and I returned all natural materials to the place where I found them. <img width="2653" height="3538" width_o="2653" height_o="3538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99125d2f732aa66ef4923abb5b0cf9bd260771cbf9bf33877bd2490187dafb56/Reciclando_Sentido_art_Leanne_Bock_3.jpg" data-mid="252810411" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99125d2f732aa66ef4923abb5b0cf9bd260771cbf9bf33877bd2490187dafb56/Reciclando_Sentido_art_Leanne_Bock_3.jpg" /> <img width="2667" height="3022" width_o="2667" height_o="3022" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ac6b5ad7fb4dbac510bb846d617bec8424993f66aed2bf79a14abf3ab5f2665/RecOn_Bolaimi_Leanne_Bock_art_1.jpg" data-mid="252810446" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ac6b5ad7fb4dbac510bb846d617bec8424993f66aed2bf79a14abf3ab5f2665/RecOn_Bolaimi_Leanne_Bock_art_1.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be1d83d3b4dded266ae7fbe58f3c6dd378deeda138fe15f069b192124d9d1212/RecOn_SangreDeMorera_Leanne_Bock_art.jpg" data-mid="252810456" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be1d83d3b4dded266ae7fbe58f3c6dd378deeda138fe15f069b192124d9d1212/RecOn_SangreDeMorera_Leanne_Bock_art.jpg" /> Es una forma de ‘reciclar’ y recuperar el sentido de la vida – de conectar con la realidad tangible (y la realidad más instintiva, del inconsciente) a través de los sentidos del cuerpo, para despertar y sintonizarme como organismo, como parte de la red del ecosistema que compone el mundo vivo. Por eso llamo al proyecto ‘Reciclando Sentido’. La conversación con la Sierra fue breve pero feroz! Los detalles y la inmensidad de este lugar han quedado grabados de forma indeleble en la geografía de mi cuerpo, y sé que las huellas invisibles de estas interacciones han permanecido allí de alguna manera.It was a way of ‘recycling’ – reclaiming a sense of what it is to be alive, by connecting with tangible reality (and the more instinctive reality of the unconscious) through the body’s senses, to awaken and tune myself into the living world. Hence the project name ‘Reciclando Sentido’ (in Spanish, *sentido* encompasses meaning, making sense, and sensory perception). The conversation with the Sierra was brief, hot and heavy! The details and vastness of this place have been indelibly etched into the geography of my body, and I know the invisible traces of these interactions have somehow remained there. Related Texts (listed in the language I read them in, in the months before and during the residency) Expulsion de lo Distinto (2016)– Byung-chul Han El Mito de la Normalidad (2023)– Gabor MatéEl Espejo del Cerebro (2021)– Nazareth Castellanos El Pequeño Libro del Duelo (2025) – Camila Sodi Distancia del Rescate (2025) – Samanta Schweblin Pájaros en la Boca (2009) – Samanta Schweblin La Construcción de la Realidad (1975) – Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum https://leannebock.com/La-Sombra Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:50:10 +0000 Leanne Bock // Visual Artist https://leannebock.com/La-Sombra La Sombra y Las Aguas Subterráneas A Descent into the Subconscious Writing, dream analysis, ritual, and coloured paper cutouts 2025 <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a06e7227d04686a4713450818e301ef530f7cdcf564364e4d926ff18bfa3b9d/LeanneBock_La_Sombra_cutouts_jug.jpg" data-mid="245416991" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a06e7227d04686a4713450818e301ef530f7cdcf564364e4d926ff18bfa3b9d/LeanneBock_La_Sombra_cutouts_jug.jpg" /> La Sombra, comprising daily writing in spanish, dream analysis, ritual and visual art, is an exploration that lived with and within me for over a year. It was a tactile channel, facilitating a period of major transformation and discovery by exploring symbols of the subconscious, diving into deep psychology, biological interconnection, integrating death, loss and accessing vulnerable corners of the psyche by stream-of-consciousness making of childlike collage. A selection of works from this series was shown as part of the How Cute is Cute? exhibition at Off the Kerb in Collingwood, Melbourne, in October 2025. La Sombra has been a process of diving into memory, connecting to the subconscious and exposing the flimsy facade of material reality. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8492ad086b0aaef0313b52272e27b5fd0fea50589dbbfc3f4e103f91f0b36f6/LeanneBock_La_Sombra_Processo_boton.jpg" data-mid="245417000" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8492ad086b0aaef0313b52272e27b5fd0fea50589dbbfc3f4e103f91f0b36f6/LeanneBock_La_Sombra_Processo_boton.jpg" /> <img width="2403" height="3455" width_o="2403" height_o="3455" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79d5806fbff39a938987366784573781ced5a48a9d4def5cd15428a386be755b/LeanneBock_La_Sombra_Eligir.jpg" data-mid="245416998" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79d5806fbff39a938987366784573781ced5a48a9d4def5cd15428a386be755b/LeanneBock_La_Sombra_Eligir.jpg" /> <img width="3024" 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data-mid="245416909" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e44267236cd38b7133b64404302c4490ae1d2aa56769d3c5ba516da7a4b5fd1e/LeanneBock_La_Sombra_ArribaAbajo.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e67c2fba10e5f16d416abcf0c6282d2f637c93cda79f29b18099301170ff9a1/LeanneBock_La_Sombra_ProcessEarly2.jpg" data-mid="245448885" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e67c2fba10e5f16d416abcf0c6282d2f637c93cda79f29b18099301170ff9a1/LeanneBock_La_Sombra_ProcessEarly2.jpg" /> <img width="1195" height="1727" width_o="1195" height_o="1727" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc15f449a8a82fa84385cb47739a957feebf824a7e3ad5492532c06d5fcf6053/LeanneBock_La_Sombra_TodoBien_LR.jpg" data-mid="245448695" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc15f449a8a82fa84385cb47739a957feebf824a7e3ad5492532c06d5fcf6053/LeanneBock_La_Sombra_TodoBien_LR.jpg" /> Related texts (in Spanish and English) Light in the Dark / Luz en lo Oscuro (2015) – Gloria Anzaldúa Man and His Symbols (1964) – Carl Jung Mythologies (1957) – Roland Barthes Nuestra parte de noche (2019) – Mariana Enriquez El puente donde habitan las mariposas (2025) – Nazareth CastellanosLas dioses de cada mujer (2023) – Jean Shinoda Bolen Un lugar soleado para gente sombría (2024) – Mariana Enriquez Matisse Cut-outs (2022) – Gilles Néret, Xavier-Gilles Néret Los venenos (1956) – Julio Cortázar Un agradecimiento especial a Fer, mi terapeuta transpersonal de la Ciudad de México, quien me ha acompañado con inteligencia integral, practicidad, creatividad y calidez durante las últimas etapas de la enfermedad de mi amada mamá, y tras su pérdida en la primavera de 2025. A special thanks to Fer, my transpersonal therapist in Mexico City, who has accompanied me with holistic knowledge, practicality, creativity and warmth during the final stages of my beloved Mum's illness, and after losing her in the spring of 2025. &nbsp; https://leannebock.com/Casa-Cuerpo-Sierra Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:28:37 +0000 Leanne Bock // Visual Artist https://leannebock.com/Casa-Cuerpo-Sierra Casa Cuerpo SierraAn Exploration of Embodied Topography Drawing, walking, writing, video, and installation 2024&nbsp; <img width="4000" height="4851" width_o="4000" height_o="4851" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62a85357d93c45878d067d40b912ebb0b3103d680ed07a8e66a78f8e1930a006/Casa_Cuerpo_Sierra_Leanne_Bock_dibujos_textos_4000px.jpg" data-mid="229448268" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62a85357d93c45878d067d40b912ebb0b3103d680ed07a8e66a78f8e1930a006/Casa_Cuerpo_Sierra_Leanne_Bock_dibujos_textos_4000px.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2295" width_o="3000" height_o="2295" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/658029033e14ffb903c60c4d7a22b9ca291813ff0cfe73059c0e48b52ce5edba/1_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_intro_libro.gif" data-mid="246274941" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/658029033e14ffb903c60c4d7a22b9ca291813ff0cfe73059c0e48b52ce5edba/1_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_intro_libro.gif" /> “In my artistic practice, I work with everyday materials and objects to explore relationships between individual and broader, collective realities. Through embodied and expanded methodologies, I experiment with ideas and pose abstract questions to examine constructed realities, deepening my connection with and understanding of myself and the world around me. Here (in Algodonales), by writing and drawing, I investigate the theme ‘bodyhouse / housebody’, from a personal, bodily point of view in relation to the living world. As a traveller, I make use of ordinary, lightweight and portable materials – a notebook, pen and pencil (purchased from the local shop), that’s it!” <img width="3000" height="2295" width_o="3000" height_o="2295" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/649b72dcf01a538fc7f429f108e84e182455cc31e2e71c70305b3fe9a7a17fe8/2_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_intencion_libro.gif" data-mid="246274943" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/649b72dcf01a538fc7f429f108e84e182455cc31e2e71c70305b3fe9a7a17fe8/2_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_intencion_libro.gif" /> “My intention during the residency is to open a dialogue with myself, my body, with the natural world here and with the other artists in the Casa Móvil. I want to play with constructed reality and language, and explore the relationship between my bodyhouse and that of the living world that I inhabit. The residency attracted me for its inherent themes – care (the idea of practising art as a form of self-care and reflection), body and nature. For me, body and nature are almost the same thing, as the concept of bodyhouse that I explore, the body is ‘nature’, intrinsically part of a living system – the body houses a system of living organs and nature houses a system of living bodies. Zooming out, the universe is a bodyhouse, a system housing infinite, interconnected bodies.” <img width="5000" height="3825" width_o="5000" height_o="3825" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9507087950398720a5a63f82f4723b04273103e6148e5db5f5a09be668ed485/3_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_diagrama_libro.gif" data-mid="246274946" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9507087950398720a5a63f82f4723b04273103e6148e5db5f5a09be668ed485/3_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_diagrama_libro.gif" />Diagram outlining the language-swapping of concepts ‘body’ and ‘house’ and how their meanings overlap.<img width="3000" height="2295" width_o="3000" height_o="2295" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d049b88343ca59618c719cd97695ad5b43c86ccfaa6b127795315b9c9bc41adf/4_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_en_un_mundo_libro.gif" data-mid="246274948" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d049b88343ca59618c719cd97695ad5b43c86ccfaa6b127795315b9c9bc41adf/4_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_en_un_mundo_libro.gif" /> “In a world with layers of colonisation and war to gain territory and resources, it’s possible to ask – where are my roots? Where do I belong? ... As I age, my veins are starting to bulge, almost popping up and out of my body, as if they want to make contact with something external, like the roots of an old tree do, popping up and out of the earth. But the objective realities are that I’m not a tree, my bodyhouse is mobile, the earth doesn’t belong to anybody, to anything, we belong inside the housebody of the earth. And little by little, I will become less mobile, as my body returns slowly to her, the earth.”<img width="1500" height="1148" width_o="1500" height_o="1148" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c744f33cfbbe48574d828ad8eb03ffb822df0a2bfed572f5645a449b48933059/5_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_el_primer_dia_libro.gif" data-mid="246274949" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c744f33cfbbe48574d828ad8eb03ffb822df0a2bfed572f5645a449b48933059/5_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_el_primer_dia_libro.gif" /> “On my first day in Algodonales, a few days before starting the residency, I went to find a laundry to wash my clothes. In Google Maps, there was a ‘public laundry’... so I happily went off to investigate it, with my bag of dirty clothes and powdered detergent. But what I found wasn’t a room full of coin-operated washing machines and dryers. Nope, it was a historic shelter with rectangular stone depressions in the floor, full of fresh water from the mountain spring. Nextdoor was the Fuente de Algarrobo (the spring of the Carob tree), accompanied by its namesake tree, with arms outstretched, providing shade. I crouched down and tasted a little pristine, sweet, cold water pouring from one of the outlets. It seemed miraculous on that hot afternoon – a rich gift below the dry earth, bleached by the sun. I thought of the writing of Gloria Anzaldúa and swallowed some of that pure water with the intention to clarify my connection with the subterranean world of the subconscious, and my heart.”<img width="2000" height="1530" width_o="2000" height_o="1530" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95db6d0fc0dd02d399e6ff2d18856d0639bce0f6c1959e522ba9ef7f4648fff9/6_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_habitamos_libro.gif" data-mid="246274951" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95db6d0fc0dd02d399e6ff2d18856d0639bce0f6c1959e522ba9ef7f4648fff9/6_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_habitamos_libro.gif" />“We live in a fragmented world, constructed from layers of imaginary realities, made by human beings, forming systems –social, political, economic – which value false hierarchies, separating concepts that can’t exist on their own, that belong to an objectively real network: ie – The mind is part of the body, it funcions, depends on and belongs to a network of the entire body. Humans are organisms that are part of the living world, and we belong to it; we depend completely on the earth and its waterways, not the reverse. Aren’t economic systems supposed to serve and support humans, not the other way around? Bodyhouses are inhabitable and interconnected biological organisms. Networks of human perception fragment and malfunction when natural channels and threads are interrupted, separated and broken. I ask myself how I can start to reconnect with the sustainable fonts (springs) of reality, rejoin the threads of perception and reimagine alternative constructed realities?”<img width="3000" height="2295" width_o="3000" height_o="2295" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffa2bc3b1d7d6ad80659eec1b79939837210721b41d95093a5bc522c6aafb1ca/7_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Text_a_medida_libro.gif" data-mid="246274952" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffa2bc3b1d7d6ad80659eec1b79939837210721b41d95093a5bc522c6aafb1ca/7_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Text_a_medida_libro.gif" />“As the dots connect, more dots appear...”<img width="3000" height="2295" width_o="3000" height_o="2295" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/acc228d5afb8039a1bd296ab71fad40d69616512a4def249f50fb15c626741e7/8_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_palabras_relacionadas_libro.gif" data-mid="246274954" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/acc228d5afb8039a1bd296ab71fad40d69616512a4def249f50fb15c626741e7/8_Leanne_Bock_Casa_Cuerpo_Texto_palabras_relacionadas_libro.gif" />“Networks. Strokes. Imprints. Patterns. Layers. Fragments. Chanelling. Inerconnection.”Durante la residencia en La Casa Móvil (Algodonales, Andalucía, España), indagué en la idea cuerpo-como-casa, casa-como-cuerpo, explorando relaciones entre realidades (lo que sean construidas u orgánicas) – internas y externas, del mundo viviente, que habito y que me habitan. Como viajadora, busqué materiales portátiles, ligeros y cotidianos en la papelería local, y planteé preguntas abstractas para abrir un diálogo con mi cuerpo-casa y la casa-cuerpo del entorno más amplio. Realicé el proyecto a través de metodologías encarnadas y expandidas, y salió un proceso fluido por medio de la escritura y dibujos lúdicos, y un video como registro de huellas dejadas del entorno en mi cuerpo-casa. Pasé horas en la sierra siguiendo senderos de cabra, abriendo mis sentidos y saboreando las llamadas de las chicharras, los susurros de los árboles, olores de paja y tomillo silvestre, las texturas de rocas jurásicas, colores y sensaciones del seco y ardiente entorno natural, bañándome en el río, tomando el dulce agua subterráneo y poniendo atención en los animales y plantas alrededor. Jugué con realidades y sistemas construidos como lenguaje – intercambiando las definiciones de cuerpo y casa y experimentando con interconexiones entre sistemas orgánicos. Fue una experiencia única y experimental de autorreflexión, flujo y conexión corporal que – gracias a tener tiempo, espacio, y desconexión de responsabilidades diarias – me permitió claramente identificar patrones y huellas ecoculturales, seguir un sendero interno, interconectar una red de fragmentos por trazos e hilos, transponer capas de realidades y canalizar ideas conceptuales, internas y externas. El proyecto continúa! Como una rica fuente de ideas. During my residency at La Casa Móvil (Algodonales, Andalusia, Spain), I explored the idea of body-as-house, house-as-body, delving into the relationships between realities—both constructed and organic/objective—internal and external, of the living world that I inhabit and that inhabits me. As a traveller, I sought out portable, lightweight, and everyday materials in local stationery stores and posed abstract questions to open a dialogue with my bodyhouse and the housebody of the wider environment. I carried out the project through embodied and expanded methodologies, resulting in a fluid process through writing and playful drawings (shown in detail below), and a video documenting the traces left by the environment on my bodyhouse. I spent hours in the mountains following goat trails, opening my senses and absorbing the calls of the cicadas, the whispering trees, the fragrence of straw and wild thyme, the textures of the jurassic rocks, the colors and sensations of the dry, scorching natural environment, while bathing in the river, drinking from the sweet mountain springs, and paying attention to the animals and plants around me. I played with realities and constructed systems as a language—exchanging the definitions of body and home and experimenting with interconnections between organic systems. It was a unique and experimental experience of self-reflection, flow, and bodily connection that — thanks to having a week of time, space, and a disconnection from daily responsibilities — allowed me to clearly identify ecocultural patterns and traces, follow an inner path, interconnect a network of fragments with strokes and threads, transpose layers of realities, and channel conceptual ideas, both internal and external. The project continues and evolves my work as a rich source of development. https://leannebock.com/Realidades-Plegables-Collapsible-Realities Mon, 15 Apr 2024 04:20:57 +0000 Leanne Bock // Visual Artist https://leannebock.com/Realidades-Plegables-Collapsible-Realities Collapsible Realities / Realidades Plegables An Inquiry into Existential Stability Everyday objects, writing, geometric cutotut portraits, installation 2023 <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd1e2c36a18f3ade593799b5290a87543cc400e71b5e77fbd4a9f8ccaa4ae9f9/REALIDADES-PLEGABLES_graficos_b_rgb.jpg" data-mid="208954014" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd1e2c36a18f3ade593799b5290a87543cc400e71b5e77fbd4a9f8ccaa4ae9f9/REALIDADES-PLEGABLES_graficos_b_rgb.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6166815ea5e68cf9e47fca6ed3fc3eef36ba392c1ea3668fc7c601d36d4996d3/REALIDADES-PLEGABLES_graficos-02_rgb.jpg" data-mid="208954008" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6166815ea5e68cf9e47fca6ed3fc3eef36ba392c1ea3668fc7c601d36d4996d3/REALIDADES-PLEGABLES_graficos-02_rgb.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="1230" width_o="5000" height_o="1230" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73826378f9968b913928e6c666ec92b28539e0827b66e9e75a580235fccd2900/Realidades_Plegables_series_juntos_paraguas.jpg" data-mid="209024967" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73826378f9968b913928e6c666ec92b28539e0827b66e9e75a580235fccd2900/Realidades_Plegables_series_juntos_paraguas.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bffdc327552bbbfe280517bc762b58ada1e60aaaa95f2cf07dabe953cab46d71/REALIDADES-PLEGABLES_graficos-03_rgb.jpg" data-mid="208954009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bffdc327552bbbfe280517bc762b58ada1e60aaaa95f2cf07dabe953cab46d71/REALIDADES-PLEGABLES_graficos-03_rgb.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/614b28c8bc0e151d8779287666d4093d0be019f2227ac2510f3056fd5cc59765/REALIDADES-PLEGABLES_graficos-04_rgb.jpg" data-mid="208954010" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/614b28c8bc0e151d8779287666d4093d0be019f2227ac2510f3056fd5cc59765/REALIDADES-PLEGABLES_graficos-04_rgb.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="1230" width_o="5000" height_o="1230" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed98f9626efe15c8036ad812acdcf736d24dbef0c45631f49cfde1ab8d04fc6c/Realidades_Plegables_series_juntos_escalera.jpg" data-mid="209024965" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed98f9626efe15c8036ad812acdcf736d24dbef0c45631f49cfde1ab8d04fc6c/Realidades_Plegables_series_juntos_escalera.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec423ca8196959457d5ec083b1f8576ccd14e4e9856efdadf405e0b569d25aeb/REALIDADES-PLEGABLES_graficos-05_rgb.jpg" data-mid="208954011" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec423ca8196959457d5ec083b1f8576ccd14e4e9856efdadf405e0b569d25aeb/REALIDADES-PLEGABLES_graficos-05_rgb.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4c3db0bf9c67c6f5cc0ae2dd0eb49b25496e050b239d8a8e5579df465e62278/REALIDADES-PLEGABLES_graficos-06_rgb.jpg" data-mid="208954013" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4c3db0bf9c67c6f5cc0ae2dd0eb49b25496e050b239d8a8e5579df465e62278/REALIDADES-PLEGABLES_graficos-06_rgb.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="1230" width_o="5000" height_o="1230" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/484b1d6cd22de6a7d3c190831d0b7c0c4b751380506770b747dd842deb3526eb/Realidades_Plegables_series_juntos_silla.jpg" data-mid="209024968" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/484b1d6cd22de6a7d3c190831d0b7c0c4b751380506770b747dd842deb3526eb/Realidades_Plegables_series_juntos_silla.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/994c8d76bcd1febc3a46753b4fca8ea6c49a389cbcb797a2ed1e50ec02699161/Realidades_Plegables_GP_2.jpg" data-mid="225159735" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/994c8d76bcd1febc3a46753b4fca8ea6c49a389cbcb797a2ed1e50ec02699161/Realidades_Plegables_GP_2.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3d6ee167923a31ad6dc443a0e911cfa9ea1afe43cb70ba72db73e7c8dd99f81/Realidades_Plegables_GP_1.jpg" data-mid="225159734" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3d6ee167923a31ad6dc443a0e911cfa9ea1afe43cb70ba72db73e7c8dd99f81/Realidades_Plegables_GP_1.jpg" /> “Me refiero a los objetos como lugares de descanso para la vida porque estabilizan la vida humana. La misma silla y la misma mesa, en su semejanza, prestan cierta estabilidad y continuidad a la voluble vida humana.&nbsp;Podemos demorarnos con los objetos. Con información, sin embargo, no podemos.” Byung-Chul Han <img width="5000" height="1230" width_o="5000" height_o="1230" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a7d01f80f5b8867291f4dc6310dbf0015f37bdb42fb3e5041f2816fbdca5ef2/Realidades_Plegables_series_juntos_tendedero.jpg" data-mid="209024969" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a7d01f80f5b8867291f4dc6310dbf0015f37bdb42fb3e5041f2816fbdca5ef2/Realidades_Plegables_series_juntos_tendedero.jpg" /> Realidades PlegablesUna obra en progreso realizada por una obra en progreso:Leanne Bock Trabajo con objetos cotidianos para explorar realidades personales y colectivas a través de alegorías lúdicas. ‘Le Lendemain’ ha sido un proceso experimental de (re)creación por medio de la recreación, desconectándome de las realidades virtuales para interactuar con lo tangible. Los objetos cotidianos son familiares, democráticos, inmediatamente reconocibles, concretos, utilitarios, aunque generalmente pasados por alto, y conductos ideales a través de los cuales se puede investigar realidades existenciales, construir lenguajes visuales coloquiales y plantear preguntas abstractas. ¡Los objetos cotidianos plegables, en este sentido, son de otro nivel! Exudan confianza existencial con su propósito sólido, con su identidad estable y su libertad para moverse. No sólo son funcionales, atractivos, livianos, portátiles, fáciles de usar y ordenados, sino que también son socialmente expertos en fluir sin esfuerzo dentro y fuera de la realidad: estando presente cuando sea necesario y casi invisibles cuando no lo sea, desapareciendo graciosamente. Me divierte y luego inmediatamente me perturba, cuando me doy cuenta de que puedo identificarme con haber aspirado encajar en esa descripción, la de un objeto inanimado, y reflexiono sobre las fuerzas sistémicas más amplias que programan socialmente a ciertos individuos y grupos a plegarse y desvanecerse. Aquí, sin embargo, observo los objetos en su estado activo y desplegado: ocupando un espacio con orgullo, ensamblados triunfalmente con el pecho y la barbilla en alto, listos para cumplir el propósito para el que nacieron (pero, como ya sabes, con el potencial de colapsar dramáticamente, o peor aún, acabar en un desmadre espectacular). El proceso consiste en trabajar alegremente con las manos, cortando y pegando como si fuera un niño, sin medir ni perfeccionar, formando ensamblajes con materiales y parámetros básicos. Este juego táctil, con la coordinación mano-ojo enfoca la intención y la atención, mientras activa el instinto encarnado y el procesamiento subconsciente. A medida que interpreto las relaciones entre mi punto de vista y mi percepción, entre el color y la forma, y entre el objeto y la realidad, inevitablemente surgen paralelos y proyecciones más abstractas. Poco a poco voy juntando las piezas de forma improvisada. Intento conocer profundamente la fenomenología de estos objetos, haciendo retratos desde diferentes perspectivas. (Pero al final, en realidad solo son retratos geométricos de uno mismo. No importa dónde me mude geográficamente, no puedo escapar de mi piel ni de las condiciones de mi mirada). Este sencillo ejercicio, repetido quietamente durante dos semanas, da como resultado una colectiva simplista de perspectivas ligeras y traducciones torpes, que son marionetas de la realidad, apuntaladas por pensamientos interconectados y preguntas invisibles... ¿Qué tan plegables son nuestras realidades e identidades hoy? ¿Se está expandiendo, desconectando, desvaneciendo o plegando la capacidad colectiva para captar las perspectivas contrastantes? ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias del consumo constante de información desechable y de las perspectivas desencarnadas? ¿Cómo describirías tu identidad sin referirte a un estado de acción? ¿Cuáles son tus puntos de anclaje existencial? Textos Relacionados Oda a las Cosas – Pablo Neruda (Poema, 1959) Byung-Chul Han: “El mundo se está volviendo menos tangible, más nublado y más fantasmal.” (Entrevista, 2023) Los objetos nos llaman – Juan José Millás (Libro, 2008) Comfort Zone – Maddy Weavers (Ensayo, 2023) El Zahir y El Aleph – Jorge Luis Borges (Cuento, 1949) Final del Juego – Julio Cortázar (Cuento y Libro, 1956) Blind Men and an Elephant (Parábola, del antiguo subcontinente de La India) Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Play – Lawrence M. Hinman (Ensayo, 1974) The Smooth Spaces of Play: Deleuze and the Emancipative Potential of Games – Tauel Harper (Ensayo, 2009) <img width="5000" height="1717" width_o="5000" height_o="1717" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62e977eac916c519c8d50e02f82867267ae7cc422a9b360264aa8cfbb4361b6a/Realidades_Plegables_Collapsible_Realities_thumbnail_Leanne_Bock.jpg" data-mid="253031062" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62e977eac916c519c8d50e02f82867267ae7cc422a9b360264aa8cfbb4361b6a/Realidades_Plegables_Collapsible_Realities_thumbnail_Leanne_Bock.jpg" /> “I refer to objects as resting places for life because they stabilise human life. The same chair and the same table, in their sameness, lend the fickle human life some stability and continuity. We can linger with objects. With information, however, we cannot.” Byung-Chul Han<img width="5000" height="1230" width_o="5000" height_o="1230" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/484b1d6cd22de6a7d3c190831d0b7c0c4b751380506770b747dd842deb3526eb/Realidades_Plegables_series_juntos_silla.jpg" data-mid="209024968" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/484b1d6cd22de6a7d3c190831d0b7c0c4b751380506770b747dd842deb3526eb/Realidades_Plegables_series_juntos_silla.jpg" /> Collapsible RealitiesA work in progress by a work in progressLeanne Bock Working with everyday objects, I explore personal and collective realities through playful allegories. ‘Le Lendemain’ has been an experimental process of re-creating through recreation, disengaging from virtual realities to engage with the tangible. Everyday objects are familiar, democratic, immediately recognisable, concrete, utilitarian, yet generally overlooked, and ideal conduits through which to investigate existential realities, to build colloquial visual languages and pose abstract questions. Collapsible everyday objects, in this sense, are next level! They exude existential confidence with their rock-solid purpose, stable identity and freedom to move. Not only functional, attractive, lightweight, portable, easy-breezy, neat and tidy, they’re socially adept at flowing effortlessly in and out of reality: being there when needed and almost invisible when they’re not, graciously vanishing. Amused, then immediately disturbed, I realise I can relate, and have aspired to fit that description, that of an inanimate object, and reflect on broader systemic forces and social programming influencing the folding-away those who don’t fit the factory default. Here though, the objects are observed in their active, engaged state: proudly taking up space, triumphantly assembled, chests up, chins high, ready to serve the purpose they were born for (but as we all know, with the potential to dramatically collapse, or worse, reverse into some kind of untameable shitshow). The process involves working with my hands through simple cut-and-paste child’s play, without measuring or perfecting, making assemblages using basic materials and parameters. This tactile hand-eye coordination focuses intention and attention, engages embodied instinct and activates subconscious processing. As I interpret relationships between vantage point and perception, colour and form, object and reality, more abstract parallels and projections inevitably emerge. Slowly piecing together in a makeshift way. I try to get thoroughly phenomenologically acquainted with these objects, making portraits from different perspectives. (But in the end, they’re really just geometric portraits of myself. No matter where I move geographically, I can’t escape my skin or the conditions of my gaze). This straightforward exercise, repeated quietly for two weeks results in a simplistic collective of lightweight perspectives and clumsy mistranslations, puppeting reality, underpinned by interconnected thoughts and invisible questions… How collapsible are our realities and identities today? Is the collective ability to grasp contrasting viewpoints expanding, disconnecting, folding away or collapsing? What are the consequences of continuously consuming disposable information and disembodied perspectives? How would you describe your identity without referring to an active doing state? What are your existential anchor points? Related material Oda a las Cosas – Pablo Neruda (Poem, 1959) Byung-Chul Han: “I Practise Philosophy as Art” (Interview, 2021) Los objetos nos llaman – Juan José Millás (Book, 2008) Comfort Zone – Maddy Weavers (Essay, 2023) El Zahir and El Aleph – Jorge Luis Borges (Short stories, 1949) Final del Juego – Julio Cortázar (Short story and book, 1956) Blind Men and an Elephant (Parable, from the ancient Indian subcontinent) Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Play – Lawrence M. Hinman (Essay, 1974) The Smooth Spaces of Play: Deleuze and the Emancipative Potential of Games – Tauel Harper (Essay, 2009) https://leannebock.com/Letra-de-la-Calle-Street-Lyrics Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:02:04 +0000 Leanne Bock // Visual Artist https://leannebock.com/Letra-de-la-Calle-Street-Lyrics Letra de la Calle / Street Lyrics A Dialogue with Urban DebrisPublic installation, found object assemblage, poetry and video 2022 10-minute video capturing the following material-constrained sound poem, made with found bits of metal on the streets of Buenos Aires. The poem is spelt out on the distinctive ‘veredas’ (pavements), characteristic of the city. A playful, poetic, and abstract exploration of language, the urban environment and the construction of realities. Weeeeeeeee They eat it They chew it The white ice The wet mice Tie the team Beat the heat Bed heat Debt beat Ewe meat U me Tu y... Che Bite me Cite me Meme it Hit it It wit It huit bit Weetbic Hey Ce mec He twee We he Tee hee hee Heeeeeeee <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/694038a60ee428d95db4657c40fef4758842950717610039df77de750db3bfcb/IMG_5690.jpeg" data-mid="180750853" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/694038a60ee428d95db4657c40fef4758842950717610039df77de750db3bfcb/IMG_5690.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c0ff4e23f29c31ebf7e4a94163d685e98562756db4c5acf649966cad92837f1/IMG_5702.jpeg" data-mid="180750855" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c0ff4e23f29c31ebf7e4a94163d685e98562756db4c5acf649966cad92837f1/IMG_5702.jpeg" /> Multimedia indoor and outdoor / public installation exhibited in Buenos Aires, Argentina, following a one-month residency at Proyecto ‘Ace, April 2022. Paso 1: bien comunicada (Step 1: well connected / communicated) Referencing concrete poetry and the Situationists’ Dérive as a jumping-off point, the video and installation work Street Lyrics explores abstract notions of the street and language, the familiar and the unfamiliar. It’s a playful, personal response to the unique urban environment of Buenos Aires. The street is often a habitual mechanism, a well-trodden linear route from ‘A’ to ‘B’ (like stubborn cerebral pathways). A logical, alphabetic system of succession, traversed automatically and repetitively in everyday life. Yet the street, like language, is also an abstract, chaotic, magical space of random exchange, offering infinite possibilities. Traveling to somewhere unfamiliar is a way to de-rail our day-to-day repetitions of both street and language, reminding us that both the street and language are active worlds, living entities, in constant states of change and evolution. As we go from A to B in daily life, pathways of experience connect us and surrounding matter. We leave invisible woven jet streams over time and space, building up rich tapestries of memory in the ecology of the street and in our bodily memories. Las veredas (the pavement and footpaths), also record traces over time, storing memories fastidiously as cracks, scuffs, residue, and discolouration. They slowly wear down and decay, destined to eventually be updated or replaced. Like language, the street is alive with relational meaning, loaded with signs, symbols, history and politics. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0df739fe6a9e6ffc1b491e1cd4cbf448f3848801b291884a76520df5daef5f8/IMG_5925.jpeg" data-mid="180750854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0df739fe6a9e6ffc1b491e1cd4cbf448f3848801b291884a76520df5daef5f8/IMG_5925.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35b92b91071491644e48a71f2ff924f245516dad119e915545ed8e5362ca44e0/IMG_5707.jpeg" data-mid="180750856" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35b92b91071491644e48a71f2ff924f245516dad119e915545ed8e5362ca44e0/IMG_5707.jpeg" /> Public street posters pasted up around Buenos Aires. Paso 2: la calle me habla (Step 2: the street talks to me) The work emerged by exploring the city of Buenos Aires on foot, absorbing, observing and thinking as I went. Walking over 70km in the first week of the residency, I set destinations in unfamiliar areas to carry out everyday, mundane tasks, taking routes which piqued my interest in the moment. The walks and conceptual parameters were influenced by the midtwentieth century practices of the Situationist International movement (the dérive and psychogeography). From the first day, I was drawn to discarded metal shapes on the street, unwanted machine offcuts. Aesthetically scattered on the pavement like poetry, claves, clues. Worthless treasures waiting to be interpreted. Quietly asking to be reassembled, scrambled, scrabbled... Como la calle me habla! Taking a playful approach (and having realised with delight that the metal offcuts are ubiquitous and familiar to Porteños / locals of Buenos Aires), I developed videos by building an extemporaneous poem out of 11 metal shapes, from which I could form 12 makeshift letters. I used mainly English and borrowed from the other languages insistently chattering in my head: Spanish, local Rioplantense, which I’d heard on the street, and French. The abstract assemblage of words follows an irregular yet rhythmic flow and a slow, pedestrian pace. The distinctive veredas of Buenos Aires provide the centre stage for this dialogue with the calle. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35a8296a48ced2dacba05814349bbaebbd6f992bfd6c9c2d908681270d75071b/Carrousel5-Streetlyrics.jpg" data-mid="180750782" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35a8296a48ced2dacba05814349bbaebbd6f992bfd6c9c2d908681270d75071b/Carrousel5-Streetlyrics.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2732" width_o="3000" height_o="2732" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0533572527c55d29587c098965b8a2858b9bcfaace256ae5523065fa20c28a4b/LeanneBock6_grey.jpg" data-mid="180750770" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0533572527c55d29587c098965b8a2858b9bcfaace256ae5523065fa20c28a4b/LeanneBock6_grey.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47d462d291f1334a2a63a1f6c5884d331c131721c4e0b3621173145ba6159b84/Carrousel4-Streetlyrics.jpg" data-mid="180750781" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47d462d291f1334a2a63a1f6c5884d331c131721c4e0b3621173145ba6159b84/Carrousel4-Streetlyrics.jpg" /> Indoor video projection and poster installation, Proyecto ‘Ace, Buenos Aires, 2022Paso 3 (Step 3): calle-to-action The posters echo the material forms in the videos while calling upon the vernacular of street publicity. The photos of the veredas were taken while walking, some accidentally, some impulsively and without a particular intention. Pasted as an indoor installation and out on the street, the posters may appear to advertise something by following the logic of sharing details of a service. But there is no commercial purpose, no contact details, no call-to-action or social media handle. They repeat the abstract poem lines from the videos with the same metal letterforms, offering tabs to be torn off and kept. Somewhat opaque, they evade accepted systems and expectations. They propose possibilities of confusion, annoyance, pointlessness, mistranslation and misunderstanding (a passer-by was overheard saying they were about the council repairing the footpaths). Yet also of imagination, open interpretation, connections and random exchange, not conforming to the linear A to B logic of language and the calle. A familiar public language with unfamiliar intentions. A playfully open proposition which carries no expectation of return. Sólo letras ensambladas con la música de la calle (Just lyrics / letters assembled to the music of the street). https://leannebock.com/Patience-and-Solitude Sat, 08 Jan 2022 02:58:58 +0000 Leanne Bock // Visual Artist https://leannebock.com/Patience-and-Solitude Patience and Solitude Domestic Isolation and Existential Absurdity Video, projection, assemblage and installation 2021 <img width="2845" height="2134" width_o="2845" height_o="2134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f68e7b070d8f2ac77d3288258e3984e878e9aa495d6877e16ac101638f053a1/PS_Video1_LeanneBock_1_web.jpg" data-mid="129407060" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f68e7b070d8f2ac77d3288258e3984e878e9aa495d6877e16ac101638f053a1/PS_Video1_LeanneBock_1_web.jpg" /> <img width="3186" height="2390" width_o="3186" height_o="2390" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cffe1e2dbc3fa5498952f3f41349024ddfc15bf0be22df841cf07c0299adc4b1/PS_Video1_LeanneBock_2_web.jpg" data-mid="129407064" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cffe1e2dbc3fa5498952f3f41349024ddfc15bf0be22df841cf07c0299adc4b1/PS_Video1_LeanneBock_2_web.jpg" /> Video light projection installation of Patience and Solitude (1) at VCA Artspace, 2021.Patience and Solitude explores losing control and the intersection of personal anxieties and global crises on a coffee table. Everyday objects serve as memory and identity markers anchoring the narrative. Pandemic confinement highlights life's absurdity, balancing mundane routines and coping mechanisms with global unravelling.The full essay can be read here. 3-minute colour video of Patience and Solitude (1), silent. <img width="820" height="547" width_o="820" height_o="547" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e81ad72d02cfc3473bde016ee9c6f20981467f8440c6b8c0e6511751421a02b1/Leanne_Bock_Le_Riquiqui__video_art_Patience_Solitude_GSPF_2022-12.jpg" data-mid="181531501" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/820/i/e81ad72d02cfc3473bde016ee9c6f20981467f8440c6b8c0e6511751421a02b1/Leanne_Bock_Le_Riquiqui__video_art_Patience_Solitude_GSPF_2022-12.jpg" /> <img width="820" height="547" width_o="820" height_o="547" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed34a8da82e0aa112b3822d23350948b90ce89306a9ae0eadf3ffa5ada065d77/Leanne_Bock_Le_Riquiqui__video_art_Patience_Solitude_GSPF_2022-1.jpg" data-mid="181531492" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/820/i/ed34a8da82e0aa112b3822d23350948b90ce89306a9ae0eadf3ffa5ada065d77/Leanne_Bock_Le_Riquiqui__video_art_Patience_Solitude_GSPF_2022-1.jpg" /> <img width="4392" height="2928" width_o="4392" height_o="2928" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b0baed1767a0a18fd34b7d16c4a143e5969ad8bc5be4757680f5378e0953354/Leanne-Bock_GSPF_2022-4.jpg" data-mid="181531517" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b0baed1767a0a18fd34b7d16c4a143e5969ad8bc5be4757680f5378e0953354/Leanne-Bock_GSPF_2022-4.jpg" /> <img width="820" height="547" width_o="820" height_o="547" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97baacca90ef3d54adc341eb862ddfbc076ed60f583b309b9d08e40824d0074f/Leanne_Bock_Le_Riquiqui__video_art_Patience_Solitude_GSPF_2022-7.jpg" data-mid="181531506" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/820/i/97baacca90ef3d54adc341eb862ddfbc076ed60f583b309b9d08e40824d0074f/Leanne_Bock_Le_Riquiqui__video_art_Patience_Solitude_GSPF_2022-7.jpg" /> Patience and Solitude shown at Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2022. (Photography by Astrid Mulder) 10-minute colour video of Patience and Solitude (2), silent. <img width="3152" height="4116" width_o="3152" height_o="4116" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7438e4378cddbf0cebe654b202f3ccb7408679d1ffc00feb3c26091ce1f5dd3a/Patience_Solitude_Art_Installation_Leanne_Bock_1.jpg" data-mid="129407673" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7438e4378cddbf0cebe654b202f3ccb7408679d1ffc00feb3c26091ce1f5dd3a/Patience_Solitude_Art_Installation_Leanne_Bock_1.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="4503" width_o="3456" height_o="4503" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c15e4888c4ed986ad5a9a19b67f1179f2033220d0e9acaa40fd17bf11ff4e254/Patience_Solitude_Art_Installation_Leanne_Bock_2.jpg" data-mid="129407675" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c15e4888c4ed986ad5a9a19b67f1179f2033220d0e9acaa40fd17bf11ff4e254/Patience_Solitude_Art_Installation_Leanne_Bock_2.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="4503" width_o="3456" height_o="4503" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf330bb24f6d5b3c58447e30bf587d25bd8f3b73f59461d978245bdbdf96ebbd/Patience_Solitude_Art_Installation_Leanne_Bock_3.jpg" data-mid="129407688" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf330bb24f6d5b3c58447e30bf587d25bd8f3b73f59461d978245bdbdf96ebbd/Patience_Solitude_Art_Installation_Leanne_Bock_3.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="4503" width_o="3456" height_o="4503" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e38f16e03259f585f6d02f4de89ca1290c29d4e162d234b71b14f712078dd529/Patience_Solitude_Art_Installation_Leanne_Bock_6.jpg" data-mid="253032756" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e38f16e03259f585f6d02f4de89ca1290c29d4e162d234b71b14f712078dd529/Patience_Solitude_Art_Installation_Leanne_Bock_6.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9d26026614b1fca5f69edf5fd801074343421eb572904d3453d0de15fc40373/Patience_Solitude_Art_Installation_Leanne_Bock_4.jpg" data-mid="129408568" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9d26026614b1fca5f69edf5fd801074343421eb572904d3453d0de15fc40373/Patience_Solitude_Art_Installation_Leanne_Bock_4.jpg" /> Installation of Patience and Solitude (2) at VCA, 2021. https://leannebock.com/Handy-Footage Sat, 08 Jan 2022 02:23:36 +0000 Leanne Bock // Visual Artist https://leannebock.com/Handy-Footage Handy FootageEcological Imprints and Consumer CultureMini projector installation and looping, hand-held global video documentation 2021 <img width="5698" height="3799" width_o="5698" height_o="3799" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60440cfde7a37b51ea50d1bf8de0f86928bc1f71a3fd095fe43555b59af57647/Handyfootage_projector_installation_art_Leanne_Bock_1.jpg" data-mid="129406106" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60440cfde7a37b51ea50d1bf8de0f86928bc1f71a3fd095fe43555b59af57647/Handyfootage_projector_installation_art_Leanne_Bock_1.jpg" /> A sister installation to Hand-Held (2021), Handy Footage comprises raw travel footage compiled across four continents, condensed into an intimate, site-responsive video installation, which explores ecocultural identity, cellular memory and advanced consumer footprints. <img width="5898" height="3932" width_o="5898" height_o="3932" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be6c7130f6fa5cbf083bbba116ed7b9a2d21f71799404fe144daa204d2f7dd45/Handyfootage_projector_installation_art_Leanne_Bock_2.jpg" data-mid="129406107" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be6c7130f6fa5cbf083bbba116ed7b9a2d21f71799404fe144daa204d2f7dd45/Handyfootage_projector_installation_art_Leanne_Bock_2.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="2018" width_o="3024" height_o="2018" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60662c33d0fc784d8d18298719e68c4935dfbeaca7d30a2234ba750c55e7813e/Handyfootage_projector_installation_art_Leanne_Bock_4.jpg" data-mid="129406109" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60662c33d0fc784d8d18298719e68c4935dfbeaca7d30a2234ba750c55e7813e/Handyfootage_projector_installation_art_Leanne_Bock_4.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="2022" width_o="3024" height_o="2022" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba744ee0e9781286e92e49995c7262ac90dfabffb8986e94ce7d52e93c5797b5/Handyfootage_projector_installation_art_Leanne_Bock_3.jpg" data-mid="129406108" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba744ee0e9781286e92e49995c7262ac90dfabffb8986e94ce7d52e93c5797b5/Handyfootage_projector_installation_art_Leanne_Bock_3.jpg" /> https://leannebock.com/Hand-Held Sat, 08 Jan 2022 01:47:51 +0000 Leanne Bock // Visual Artist https://leannebock.com/Hand-Held Hand-HeldEcological Imprints and Consumer CultureMini-projector, hand-built ceramics, plastic kettle, and looping global video footage 2021 <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba83c0cd9878d8da597ad6c69aa3e0d4aea12bf5c55188f0637f794772c51b15/Leanne_Bock_HandHeld_video_art_3.jpg" data-mid="129405075" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba83c0cd9878d8da597ad6c69aa3e0d4aea12bf5c55188f0637f794772c51b15/Leanne_Bock_HandHeld_video_art_3.jpg" /> Mini projector video installation with suspended hand-built ceramics (stoneware and porous earthenware) and a plastic kettle. Combining the slow, tactile practice of handbuilding ceramics with projected memory of place (my own videos from home and places I have travelled to and felt a strange connection to), Hand-Held contemplates the intangible sensory accumulation we absorb and store, forming connection to place through embodied cellular memory, the interdependence and interconnection of living systems, and the knowing unconscious. These connections are fragmented, misplaced or completely disconnected by the grind of everyday life, social conditioning and consumer culture (which superficially immitates and puppets real connection), resulting in dreamlike, suspended realities – like politics resembling a bizarre staged theatre production, or social conventions morphing into absurd performativity contents – shifting the focus away from what is needed to ground and nurture a living being.<img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1768cbdf8e8767c6e470e038e9f6565b3f0507525408f0525056b88ae08f3de4/Leanne_Bock_HandHeld_video_art_4.jpg" data-mid="129405076" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1768cbdf8e8767c6e470e038e9f6565b3f0507525408f0525056b88ae08f3de4/Leanne_Bock_HandHeld_video_art_4.jpg" /> During this phase, the writers and artists of influence include Gloria Anzaldúa, Tyson Yunkaporta, Paul Callaghan and ideas centred on ecocultural identity, embodied cognition, neurophenomenology and embodied sensemaking. The full essay on Hand-Held and bodily connection to place can be read here.