11th Oct 2018
Hi conch sorry for the stupidly late reply, I attempted to do this ages ago and got sidetracked. I’ve made the first attempt into a picture, I hope you like.
I make sculpture, drawings, music, I use a lot of found materials, sourced on the streets of Dublin or online. Currently I’m attempting to blend both. I like second hand objects the most.
At the moment I’m making sonic sculptures using found audio files, and in the process of making some unusable bongs + medical stretchers.
At the time I had collected a number of vile and offensive postcards/ religious pamphlets/ and second-hand bedroom posters, which I really wanted to get rid of, so I had to make the work about that. Thematically I was inspired by ‘The Trophy Rooms’ internal space, reminded me of a horror movie cabin.
At the time I was watching a lot of Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmare USA, the editing style inspired the videos content and storyline. As a group we would sit together every week and show the progress of each video, which helped mould it also.
Yes I’d build a small house I could live in.
Alex de Roeck is an artist living in Dublin. You can find them at alexderoeck.com and at GUM.