Day-to-Day Data
dal 15/9/2005 al 29/10/2005
Segnalato da
15/9/2005
Day-to-Day Data
Art Space Portsmouth (ex Aspex Gallery), Portsmouth
Day-to-Day Data brings together a group of artists who take a methodical and scientific approach to questioning the world around them, and through the analysis and representation of data they collect, give a truly new and often amusing vision of our own daily existence.
Group show
Curated by Ellie Harrison
Day-to-Day Data brings together a group of artists who take a
methodical and scientific approach to questioning the world around them,
and through the analysis and representation of data they collect, give a
truly new and often amusing vision of our own daily existence.
Much of the work in the show requires interaction from the audience; Lucy Kimbell
will carry out a live survey on the people of Portsmouth, by asking
visitors to the exhibition to respond to a question by removing and keeping
different coloured sweets from the six large Perspex cylinders which form
her physical bar chart. Hannah Brown's Daily Efficiency and Behavioural
Analysis, Self-evaluation Checklists take a more personal approach, testing
if visitors can match up to her vision of a perfect day. Visitors will be
able to monitor their responses to Aspex Gallery's environs by using
Christian Nold's Bio Mapping device. By combining GPS and lie detector
technology the Bio Mapping device simultaneously measures fluctuating
levels of stress and excitement together with geographic position, as you
walk around the streets of Portsmouth. On returning to the gallery,
visitors can upload the data collected onto a computer to create individual
Bio Maps, showing which aspects of the city were particularly stimulating
or stressful. An archive of Bio Maps will be on display throughout the
exhibition.
Specially commissioned works by artists from the SCAN 9PIN
project, which Aspex Gallery collaborated on, are featured in this stage of
the exhibition. Hywel Davies's Basic Set takes one of the sounds (including
humming, counting and clock mechanisms) collected at each of the 9
locations in the SCAN network. Davies presents the sound of running water
from each location together with a basic composition using the concept of
total serialism drawn from the map coordinates of each location in which
the sound was recorded. James Coupe, Hedley Roberts and Rob Saunders
present their blueprint, 9PIN++, for gathering basic data from the
organisations in the SCAN network, and their resultant intelligent system
which builds up a profile of activities across the different SCAN venues.
Other works in the show include Helen Frosi's Life/Lotto; by studying
hidden ciphers from her everyday life, such as the dregs of her coffee,
Frosi will be endeavouring to come up with those lucky winning numbers each
week. Ellie Harrison will carry out a daily data feed to the gallery,
presenting personal data collected the previous day on a constantly
evolving display wall, and Abigail Reynolds will create an installation
made from domestic furniture, generated from her research into the history
of the English word 'table'.
Visitors to the preview (Friday 16 September,
7-9pm) will have the opportunity to be counted by artist Sam Curtis. The
performance will be a continuation of Curtis's attempt to single-handedly
count all the people in the UK, launched at Angel Row Gallery in July 2005.
The gallery exhibition is accompanied by a web-based exhibition featuring
a number of new commissions, including Adele Prince's research into
shopping trolley migration around Portsmouth. The gallery exhibition
features: Abigail Reynolds, Christian Nold, Ellie Harrison, Hannah Brown,
Helen Frosi, Hywel Davies, James Coupe, Hedley Roberts & Rob Saunders and
Lucy Kimbell. The web-based exhibition features: Adele Prince, Jem Finer,
Kevin Carter and Kristoffer Ørum & Anders Bojen. A publication
accompanying the exhibition features five specially commissioned page based
works by: Gabrielle Sharp, Mary Yacoob, Therese Stowell, Tim Taylor and
Tony Kemplen.
Bio
Ellie Harrison was born in London
in 1979 and is currently based in Nottingham. She graduated with a
Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 2003 and with a
BA in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University in 2001. In 2005 Ellie has
exhibited in Piccadilly Circus Underground station as part of the Platform
for Art programme. In 2004 Ellie had a solo show at the Wallner Gallery,
Nottingham and completed a commission for Transition art programme at
Victoria Baths, Manchester. In 2003 she exhibited at the Science Museum,
London as part of the Wellcome Trust's exhibition Treat Yourself.
Image: Adele Prince: trolley study from Trolley Spotting
Preview Friday 16 September, 7-9pm
Aspex Gallery
27 Brougham Road PO5 4PA - Portsmouth
Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 12-6pm & Saturday, 12-4pm
Arrangements can be made for educational and group visitson Mondays.
Admission is Free