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Jockel Liess
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Jockel Liess was born in Germany in 1978. He moved to the UK in 1996 to study Fine Art at Byam School of Art, and Sound Arts and Design at the LCP. In his recent practice, he developed a strong interest in visual and musical minimalism within his mainly abstract work, exploiting ideas of microtonality, structural composition, synesthesia and interconnected sound/image relation.
Jockel Liess lives and works in London, as an independent sound and video artist. He regularly exhibits his work, nationally and internationally in a gallery environment, producing large-scale audiovisual installations, as well as screening his work in festivals and community events. He is since 2006 a close associate of the multimedia curators Submit2gravity, and since 2003 has been involved in organizing an ongoing cultural exchange program between UK and Thailand with Nine to the power of Nine.
Jockel Liess creates complex sound and video installations, that in its form and structure derive form and building on artistic traditions related to visual and musical minimalism.
In his mainly abstract work, the synaesthetic relation between sound and image forms an often interconnecting entity. Contained in this entity, chaos, chance and indeterminacy as accoutring naturally in every day life, as well as the use of these attribute within a tightly controlled theoretical concept, form the basis of visual and acoustic movement and change. The mathematical relations of frequencies in the practice of microtonality and ideas of 20th century structural composition are hereby providing a framework for the implementation of his artistic projects.
As a fundamental principle, the time-based installations employ the notion of a constant audio/visual environment. The foundation of each individual piece is thereby not determined by a specific beginning or end, but rather by a non-durational underlying thought or emotion. Existing as a prolonged constant, this thought or emotion is isolated and detached form any natural surrounding, and stands purely on its own.
Sculptural characteristics of the often site-specific work are composed to enhance the detached experience of the work, by creating an immersive atmosphere that invites the viewer to physically submerse, and erode the boundaries between the audience and the installation.
Website www.jockelliess.org
