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space June and July 2000 June Ruth Carroll (photographer and digital artist) and Sean Barley (sound artist) will look at the alienation of the individual in urban society, the separation and privateness of individuals in public. |
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city's hard lines twist and cut the human form. We are slotted into the
gaps between towering structures of glass and steel. Translucent shadows
hunching into their allocated space.
Windows are glass walls, reflectors of light, but offering darkness, absence, lack of life. The neon figures glow motionless. We crane our necks to see - but nothing is revealed, our only contact the reflections of green cold light, and the shadows sliding between them. Is this them? Anyone? Ruth Carroll’s digital photography plays with the light and form emanating from manufactured structures, superimposed with the human form, exploring the presence or absence of organic life in the urban environment. A photographic narrative exploring the transience of the human form upon interior, underground subway space climbs the walls of the Public Office stairwell. The transport shelters on the City Circle tram route house images which ask what it is that surrounds them, offers a view into the signs of life in the high rise office and apartment buildings in a city centre. The images exist without sense of place or locality, they represent the universal urban aesthetic, the spaces around the world’s cities which we make our own. The exhibition is launched at The Public Office on the 9th of June, 6-8pm. Get there by riding on the City Circle tram route for a viewing of the artwork in the transport shelters. |
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July
All actions have a consequence in the 21st Century City Five inner city tram stops will be linked to the Public Office stairwell with narrative based text, telling the stories of life in the 21st Century City. The stairwell is to be transformed into an inner city domestic environment that is linked by painting, construction, video and text to the tram stop stories. The project is site specific and interactive leaving the viewer with no doubt that all actions have a consequence in the 21st Century City. Friday Nights I wake at 6am to the sound of next doors dog on the other side of the bedroom wall. I know I'll be falling in and out of sleep for the next hour until the dog gives in. Why don't I ever remember on Friday night that it's like this every Saturday morning? I give a hollow greeting to my neighbour as we cross paths later that day. My hazy head fills with the blurred memories of anger, outrage and distorted imaginings of early morning. I wonder how to get hold of a bait formula and promise to fix that dog once and for all. Why don't I ever remember on Friday night that I think like this every Saturday afternoon? It's Friday night, late but not too late, I am hearing footsteps in the back lane as my drift into sleep is put into reverse by a wave of dreaded anticipation. I know that these footsteps will lead to a door that will bang in a few short moments. The dog will start and not stop. Eventually I turn to thinking about the person with the footsteps and the door and know they sleep in silence. Every Friday night is like this. |
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Contact
the Artists Richard Manning Mary-Ann Skehill Clare Hart Visual artists Richard Manning, Mary-Ann Skehill and Clare Hart will create a microcosm of a 21st century city with both its domestic and public space. Postcard Connections Gaby Bila-Günther Throughout June and July Gaby Bila-Günther invited artists and writers across the globe to make connections via postcards and the internet. innerspace??personalspace??cityspace??workspace??outinspace??outofspace??livingspace?? What is your idea of space? What is your space? Where is your space? How do you relate to your spaces? |