VODA: Gemma Marmalade
Rogers Art Loft Virtual Studio, June 2020
Welcome to Gemma Marmalade’s virtual studio. Her project, VODA (and associated components, events, and information) will live here throughout her residency. The work will continue to be accessible online at this page post-residency.
The telephonic performance VODA provided callers with both recorded prompts and 'hold music’ to enhance the aural experience.
A specially composed piece of music was made and produced by Vojtěch Podolský aka Antonio Zee in collaboration with the artist, Gemma Marmalade. Find more of Antonio Zee’s work at www.youtube.com/user/antoniozeemusic and www.soundcloud.com/antonio-zee
Check out this great article about Gemma’s upcoming work, VODA, in Essential Vegas:
https://essential.vegas/visual-artist-gemma-marmalade-presents-voda/
Artist in Conversation: Gemma Marmalade with Brent Holmes
Upcoming: Artist in Conversation
On June 4th, 7:00 pm PST
Register to be part of the Zoom webinar so you can ask questions of the artists by clicking here.
You can also view on our Facebook page, streaming live.
Event Description: Gemma Marmalade will be in conversation with local multi-disciplinary artist, Brent Holmes. Their conversation will dive into Gemma’s past works and her plans for her residency at Rogers Art Loft.
June 4th interview on FOX5 during which Gemma discusses VODA and her work as the first virtual artist-in-residence at Rogers Art Loft.
VODA
Gemma Marmalade’s project, VODA, provides a channel for any person to connect to and receive humanistically-unifying avowals from American speech acts and their established values. These wisdoms would be carefully extracted from their original contexts, woven into accessible dialogue and delivered in verbal exchange between an operator and a caller. Specifically, for VODA, the language would be taken from prominent speech acts during historical pandemics and bring solace through a digital encounter in the wake of periods of enforced isolation, financial loss, illness, grief, and fear. The connection between both the pandemic and the Presidential election are now inexorably linked. (taken from VODA proposal)
Gemma Marmalade is a British artist and scholar currently undertaking doctoral research titled: In A Manner of Speaking: The Subversive Voice in Performative Art at the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. This near-completed enquiry examines the performing artists’ voice as, potentially, a subversive agent. It is motivated by a process of thinking, making, and showing performance-based art works that utilize voice in a way that deliberately skews meaning and a distorting of the conventional delivery of contexts and information. With an active research profile, Gemma is a Professor in Critical and Theoretical Approaches to Photography at the University of Derby. As an artist, her work specializes in audacious spectacles in photography, video and performance which playfully negotiate the authenticity of hierarchical institutions with social and queer politics. Gemma’s practice is exhibited widely, including Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; The Photographers' Gallery, London; The Apulia Film Commission, Bari; and the State Museum of Gulag, Moscow.