The Screen
Sean Olsenthe [...] space
06 August - 23 August 2013
Sean Olsen’s work is focused on personal interactions within society and altering experiences; the difficulties or ease of social interactions, the boundaries that people put up and the unwritten rules people follow. With his work he intends to make people interact with the world and each other, sometimes this is purely enjoyable and sometimes it can single people out and leave them exposed to their discomforts in a vulnerable situation.
Olsen creates memorable experiences and breaks people out of the passive viewer state into a more active state experiencing their vulnerability or their creativity, or sometimes just to make a hidden event impossible to ignore. He works with interactivity in various ways, whether the work is controlled by the person or a group or is just aware of their existence and responds to it. He recycles materials and allows errors to create the aesthetic through rebuilding around accidents and mistakes to form complex and intriguing ad hoc designs allowing it to change and surprise, leaving the process visible in the finished work.
About Sean Olsen
Olsen obtained a First Degree Honours in Fine Art from CSAD (Cardiff School of Art and Design). In the future, he intends to explore static sculpture with interactivity through interactive sound machines. He plans to explore using new ways to communicate with the work and new ways of recording output from the work.
Sean Olsen has won the Sculpture Prize, alongside Jonathan Anderson, at Welsh Artist of the Year 2013 for his work ‘Paint-Bot V-2’. The exhibition runs from 10 June until 6 August at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff.
