Gina Czarnecki
Spintex, Gina Czarnecki & Ulf Langheinrich
Films
Biography
Gina Czarnecki makes films, installations, public art works and sculpture. Her work, influenced by the arena of biomedical science, explores notions of belief and thresholds of perception. Czarnecki is interested in developments in the 'life' sciences and changes in culture, society and language.
Over the last three decades Czarnecki has worked in collaboration with biotechnologists, computer programmers, dancers and sound artists. She specializes in advanced technologies and elaborately orchestrates sounds, visuals and physical materials. Through sampling, generating and re-processing images and sound, Czarnecki transforms gallery spaces to create unique, immersive experiences.
Gina Czarnecki's work has been exhibited internationally at major museums and festivals including the Natural History Museum, London,
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne and Ars Electronica, Linz.
From 2008-11, Gina was artist in residence at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in collaboration with Imperial College London, to research and create a new work, Wasted. Wasted is a series of sculptures that explore the use of human tissue in art, the life-giving potential of 'discarded' body parts and their relationship to myths and history. The works draw attention to timely concerns such as stem cell research and issues surrounding the process of informed consent.
Filmography
The Wasted Works: Palaces, Trophies of Empire 2 and Canape, 2011
Quarantine, 2010
The Garston Works, 2010
Pixie Dust, 2009
Precious, 2009
Spintex (collaboration with Ulf langheinrich), 2008
Devolution (collaboration with Louis Phillippe Demerr), 2006
Spine, 2006
Nascent, 2005
Contagion, 2005
Silvers alter Large scale interactive installation, 2002
Recombinant, 2002
Silvers Alter, 2001
Infected, 2000
Versifier, 1998