Cliffhanger
Still from 'Street Life', 2006
Anastasia Diavasti
'Street Life'. video, 10min looped, silent. 2006
A view into people's non-time, or suspended time on route from A to B, between work and play, encounter to encounter. Diavasti imbues a dream like quality to what seems to be the ordinary and comments on notions of inside/outside, private/public space and the transparency that separates them.
'Monkey Nuts'. clay, 5000 cast monkey-nuts, lights, string. 2006
Shizuka Maruta
'Monkey Nuts'. clay, 5000 cast monkey-nuts, lights, string. 2006
Monkey nuts are the quirky everyday, they are universal; a foodstuff. Yet they are redolent with the personal, evoking memories and a sense of permanency. They are precious and banal at the same time. The act of casting 5000 monkey nuts, one by one, mirrors this duality, and comments on the obsessive nature of human reproduction.
Still from 'Receptors/ Transmittors', 2006
Kate Keara Pelen
'Kingdom'. video installation, sound. 2006
Kate Keara Pelen's work explores the potent language of christian iconography, refracted through a persistent agnosticism or suspended disbelief. Pelen's work draws no simple conclusions, remaining elusive, unresolved, the viewer ungratified.
From the series 'Captive', 2004
Joanna Salter
'Untitled'. wire, material, lights, DVD camera, projector. 2006
Salter's work confronts notions of what constitutes photography, as she repeatedly disrupts our perception of the static image. This new work takes doorways and entrances as its theme, those contraptions that we take for granted, but opening them represents the threshold to new life experiences and realms, from birth to death.
'Birdcage', 2006
Lucy Steggals
'Birdcage'. metal wire, found ornaments, performer, soundscape, projections. 2006
Three bird cages, two for birds, one for humans. The birdcage is a suspended prison. Steggals has devised a game combining sound, installation and performance, inviting the audience to participate by smashing ornaments, preening and whistling.
'Erasmus Spikker', 2006
Rachel Weschke
'Erasmus Spikker'. glass, chloroprene 'cloud buster' balloon. 2006
In 'Erasmus Spikker' Weschke is exploring a character from Hoffmann's nineteenth century cautionary tales who gives his 'reflection away'. A giant helium filled balloon floats with opaque glass mirrors suspended from it, playing on the suspenseful potential of the glass shattering and potentially bursting the balloon (the metaphoric bubble).