Hannah Perry | Keeping Time @ bubblebyte.org

Keeping Time

21/04/2012 - 30/05/2012

          

         

Private view

20/04/2012

7 pm - 11 pm BST (2 - 6pm EDT / 11am – 3pm PDT)

                   

bubblebyte.org is pleased to present Keeping Time, a solo exhibition by UK artist Hannah Perry.

Working across a variety of medium, including moving image, photography, collage and sculpture, Perry’s practice is mainly developed by mixing found VHS footage, YouTube videos and photos from the artist’s own, personal archive. This often transpires into a constellation of images taken from teenage pop icons and the Internet, reproducing a quick snapshot of the visual language of young, contemporary culture. Blossoming characters, often depicted in the moment of building their identity, quickly disappear on to the next image, creating a fast, polysensorial narration.

Keeping Time, the artist’s first solo show at bubblebyte.org, revolves around the topics of rhythmic time and its hypnotic power, transporting us into an acid dancy world populated by music and film references such as Steve Reich or David Cronenberg.

Untitled is an animated hyper-work leading to a series of different artworks and elements. Starting as a random composition of personal objects leaning on the floor, the user is invited to interact with Hannah’s world and be transported into new settings; artistic, musical or simply connected to the artist’s creative process. Old works and personal influences blend with tools used by the artist in her work, and constitute a conceptual cut and paste, interdependent to one another.

The works Extract 1 and Extract 2, from the work Wonderful While It Lasts, recently presented at the Zabludowicz Collection, are a vibrant concentration of quick images portraying youth culture. Music videos and TV programmes are collaged with family members’ interviews, fleetly developing through a sort of synthetic motion accompanied by a strongly immersive soundtrack.

Deeply influenced by music sampling from dance music to hip hop, the outcome of Perry’s work is a fresh, visual, rhythmic assemblage representative of an actual momentum.   

   

The private view attendees will receive a downloadable artifact exclusively created by the artist.

Hannah Perry

Born 1984, North West of England

lives and works in London

Hannah Perry holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London and she is currently studying an MFA at the Royal Academy of Art, London.

Perry creates a miscellaneous world of internet images, house beats and young popular culture, cutting and pasting what surrounds her, friends, family and random web findings. Her work has been shown locally and internationally, and recently included in exhibitions at The Zabludowicz Collection, London, Hotel Palenque, Cell Project Space, London, 2012, Les Televisions, French Riviera 1988, 2011. Her work will be part of the exhibition Things That Have Interested Me, Waterside Contemporary, London, in June and at South London Gallery as part of PAMI Festival in September 2012.

     

info: info@bubblebyte.org

Pascual Sisto | FILL_IN_THE_BLANKS | Seventeen Gallery

PASCUAL SISTO

FILL_IN_THE_BLANKS

SEVENTEEN Gallery

Thursday 29th Mar - Saturday 5th May 2012

Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini
PV Thursday 29th March 6pm

Pascual Sisto's practice often refers to chaotic systems, order, time and evanescence; his work reproduces the transient order of things by manifesting its multiple variables.
In FILL_IN_THE_BLANKS, his first show at Seventeen, the LA based artist presents his recent exploration of forms of representation through the use of mathematical structures, patterns, and digital interventions, while repurposing the imagery and modus operandi from the realm of theoretical physics.
The new body of work introduces a tension between constraint and infinity, matter and ephemerality, reality and fiction, featuring a melancholic sense of humor. New 3D animations and sculptures are presented in unison, functioning as hypnotic elements and forces of attraction in the creation of non-spaces.
By containing and restricting forms through additive and reductive gestures, Sisto's practice reconfigures the idea of endless possibilities. The video elements in the exhibition constitute a passage between Sisto's previous and current production and represent ethereal realities conversely focusing on the versatility of time, stressing it while defining it through either interruption, synchronicity, or pulsation and perpetually transfixed into a liminal space.

This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of the Center for Cultural Innovation ARC Grant.

Pascual Sisto was born in 1975 in Barcelona, Spain, and lives and works in Los Angeles.

VENICE BIENNIAL | PADIGLIONE INTERNET | BYOB VENEZIA

Animated Gif by Travess Smalley
Padiglione Internet presents: BYOB Venezia

Island Of San Servolo, Accademia Di Belle Arti Di Venezia,
Thursday June 2nd 2011, 7pm -12am
How to get there (pdf)

Curators
Margherita Balzerani, Gloria Maria Cappelletti, Caroline Corbetta, Silvia Ferri De Lazara, Marina Fokidis, Elena Giulia Rossi, Valentina Tanni, Mara Sartore, Yvonne Force Villareal, Doreen Reemen, Jan Aman, Manuel Frara, David Quiles Guilló, Miltos Manetas, Lev Manovich, Angelo Plessas, Rafaël Rozendaal, Domenico Quaranta, Francesco Urbano and Francesco Ragazzi.

Artists
Agnes Bolt, Alterazioni Video, Andreas Angelidakis, Angelo Plessas, Anna Franceschini, Billy Rennekamp, Britta Thie, Claudia Rossini, Cristian Bugatti, Eilis McDonald, Elisa Giardina Papa, Giallo Concialdi, Hayley Silverman, Interno3, Iocose, Jaime Martinez, Jeremy Bailey, KUNSTKAMMER, Les liens invisibles, LG Williams/Estate Of LG Williams, Luca Bolognesi, LuckyPDF, Marc Kremers, Marco Cadioli, Marisa Olson, Marlous Borm, Martin Cole, Matteo Erenbourg , Mike Ruiz, Miltos Manetas, Nazareno Crea, Nikola Tosic, Parker Ito, Pegy Zali, Petros Moris, Priscilla Tea, Rafaël Rozendaal, Rene Abythe, Riley Harmon, Sarah Ciraci, Sarah Hartnett, Theodoros Giannakis, UBERMORGEN.COM, Valery Grancer, Wojciech Kosma, Yuri Pattison, Constant Dullaart, Daniel Swan, Duncan Malashock, Jodi, Panos Tsagaris, Travess Smalley.

Nicolas Provost - Long Live the New Flesh

Nicolas Provost exhibition has just terminated at Hanch of Venison, London.
His work is a mixture of visual glitches and powerful aesthetics.
Love it!

101 ART IDEAS | Rob Pruitt

Rob Pruitt is a New York based artist working with multiple media and techniques.
"Pruitt acts as a conduit, shuffling images from mass culture to high art production. He also subscribes to the empowering and inventive ‘do-it-yourself’ attitude of visual design and art making" writes  Michelle Grabner in an article appeared in Frieze in 2001.

I find this work brilliant and astonishingly contemporary, showing how popular culture is becoming a way of talking and reflecting about who we are and how we approach our reality.
The mix of real and imaginary let the viewer be active part of the artwork which becomes alive and induce to dream and believe in the possibility of our personal conduct.

1. Tell the truth.
2. Tell a lie.
3. Change your name. 
4. Make someone happy!
5. Make someone cry.
6. Fake laugh.
7. Fake an orgasm.
8. Fake your death. 
9. Get plastic surgery.
10. Put make-up on body parts. Ear shadow, belly blush.
11. Put make-up on your face.
12. Make a painting with make-up.
13. Stay in bed.
14. Draw on your bedsheets.
15. Make a baby.
16. Kill yourself.
17. Sell a collector a key to your house.
18. Customize your refrigerator with paint, decals and locate in a place other than your kitchen.
19. Customize storage boxes and display as sculpture.
20. Make a painting on a lampshade.
21. Vandalise your home with spray paint.
22. Graffiti your bathroom.
23. Use a magazine as a sketch book.
24. Spread rumors.
25. Draw something small, scan it, print it out big.
26. Turn your TV upside down.
27. Turn your TV on its side to watch while lying on your side.
28. Watch your TV without sound or listen to TV with the screen covered.
29. Watch a DVD in fast motion, slow motion or reverse.
30. Make a drawing by pressing pause and tracing the image off the TV screen.
31. Spend the day in a costume.
32. Sit on the toilet backwards.
33. Make a sound composition when you pee by alternating the flow between the porcelain and the water.
34. Do an interpretative to environmental sound. Baby crying, vaporetti, pigeon cooing.
35. Wear diapers.
36. Sprinkle glitter.
37. Take drugs.
38. Shoplift.
39. Sneak your own merchandise into stores.
40. Collect stuff.
41. Curate a Netflix or YouTube festival.
42. Make a mix tape.
43. Take audio snapshots with a digital recorder.
44. Arrange flowers in unexpected combinations. Baby's breath & spring onions; buds, blooms and withered blossoms.
45. Make a monochrome meal.
46. Dress in monochrome.
47. Live in a monochrome house.
48. Be a photographer without a camera. Download images from the internet.
49. Buy something expensive and put it on a pedestal. Return it for your money back. Repeat.
50. Make mud. 2 parts dirt, 1 part water. Use as paint or clay.
51. Make a leaf out of paper and tape it to a tree.
52. Make a tree and add it to a forest.
53. Pour a glass of water to look at.
54. Draw yourself into your favorite comic strip.
55. Put everything inside outside.
56. Bring everything outside inside.
57. Fill a desk drawer with gravel and make a secret Zen garden.
58. Make a drawing by holding a marker in a place other than your hand, wherever you can. Toes, mouth, underarm, butt cheeks.
59. Make a drawing by highlighting as you read.
60. Translate from one language to another.
61. Frame a picture with a feather boa.
62. Hang a painting crooked, sideways, or face to the wall.
63. Go on an urban animal safari. Pigeons, rats, squirrels, cockroaches.
64. Paparazzi your pet.
65. Interior decorate your pet's habitat.
66. Make a valuable sculpture by adding a diamond.
67. Put things on pedestals.
68. Take things off pedestals.
69. 2 identical things side by side.
70. 10 identical things in a row.
71. Something cut in half.
72. Put googly eyes on things.
73. Draw faces on styrofoam wig heads, lightbulbs and eggs.
74. Point a treadmill at a painting.
75. Name all of the bricks that make up a wall.
76. Make up drag queen names. Amber Alert, Whitney Biennal.
77. Make up band names.
78. Name your plants.
79. Name household pests. Bugs, mice.
80. Invent a new color and name it. Francois Pinot.
81. Take things apart.
82. Put things back together.
83. Toss loose change into a pile on the floor.
84. Make an aluminum foil death mask.
85. An electric fan wearing a t-shirt becomes an easy figurative sculpture.
86. Make a portrait of someone by printing their phone number poster size.
87. Make a portrait/self-portrait by captioning a mirror.
88. Frame your credit card statement. i.e., the month of your trip to Paris.
89. Stalk someone.
90. Collect autographs. One per canvas or page. Think of as portraits.
91. Make a photo album of all your worldly possessions.
92. Record yourself talking for fifteen minutes, let your consciousness stream.
93. Save and transcribe your voicemail. Publish your emails.
94. Make a collage on an unopened wine bottle for the year of its vintage.
95. Don't clean your house and call it scatter art.
96. Make a scent installation. A pine branch in a mircowave, pour a glass of cologne, fart.
97. Write captions on the glass for the view outside your window.
98. Write lyrics to a classical music composition.
100. Title untitled paintings.
101. Title your life.

someone to look at

TOBIAS ZEHNTNER
Friend and remarkable artist, Tobias has a minimal aesthetic and a clear eye which helps him to capture daily movements.
His video installations are poetic and always curated in an astonishing way which allows the visitor to feel instant empathy with the work.
Currently studying a BA in Goldsmiths College he has been awarded last year with the prestigious  The Hamad Butt Memorial Prize,  from the Goldsmiths Art Department.

Aquarium (2008)

No input (2010)

This is how he describes his practice:
I am interested in human and mechanical movement in time and space and have a fascination with the act of looking in combination with the moving image. Through a process of observing and framing I am searching for poetry in the everyday, which leads me to minimalist studies of the borderland between the artificial and the real. A contemplative view on mundane and urban environment often reveals my appeal to modernist aesthetics and compositions. Today the moving image is my preferred choice of media, though many years with focus on photography leave as much an impression on my work as my vocational education in architecture. My photographic approach often materialises in static cameras and the waiver of sound, while the profession of the draftsman is mirrored in my interest for architectural and human space when mapping movement within it.

I love and support his work.

someone to look at

Pippa Gatty

Tiangong Rendezvous  
Video installation, Dimensions variable 
Red Mansion Art Prize exhibition Rochelle School London, 2010

Binocular Spectacular 

Video installation , Dimensions variable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Mountain, Sad Mountain 

Collage

Each 340x240mm

 

Using narrative structure from both factual and imaginary material as the foundation to my work, I use literary account, photographic archives and film footage as a point of reference. Drawing parallels between my quest as an artist and what drives me with that of an adventurer and explorer I have been evidencing myself within the archives of this ‘New Age of Discovery’, predominantly through painting and video installation.

Creating a reality based on a layman’s scientific understanding, I use low-tech methods to interpret and recreate phenomena and events. The process, absorption and theatre involved in production, creates a borderland between the imaginary and the real, where the act of pretending and believing is addressed.

someone to look at

ED ATKINS

  /
PRESS MY EYELIDS CLOSED
2010
7’59

Ed Atkins again and again.
Unconscious, his works is characterised by a rare rhythm, sometimes disturbing sometimes surprising in a sort of narrative which allows your mind to be part of it.
He reminds me of some Peter Greenaway techniques updated to our digital age.
He is the artist that most influenced my last month.
Exhibiting at ICA for Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Cabinet Gallery in Old Street while included in the interesting collective video event organised in collaboration with LUX at the eclectic OUTPOST in Norwich, he is able to surprise and be aesthetically perturbing with his geometrical cut-out videos.

JAMES ROPER, abstract painting and classical inspiration

James Roper, 1982, is an artist currently living and working in Manchester.
He is a painter, a graphic designer, a sculptor and an illustrator. His practice is various, geometric and colorful with a Japanese animation influence that distinguish his peculiar and charming style.

 
"My predominant work to date has been the 'Hypermass' series which references the baroque sculpture of Catholic iconography and how it uses techniques of exaggeration of the folds in robes and cloud formations to express 'spiritual energy'. This style ironically manifests as a lustful, extremely physical, materialistic aesthetic which is also apparent in Japanese animation where the images I use to construct each composition are appropriated. Forms such as hair or body structure are highly caricatured in anime resulting in a fantastical version of reality, that is almost 'more real than real'. By isolating out these parts my intention is to intensify these visual triggers so they form a sort of optical hyperactivity. 

For more information: www.jamesroper.com

WILLIAM HUNDLEY

William Hundley
BORN 1976, St. Paul, Minnesota
Lives and works in Austin, Texas
Education
1998
BFA Studio Art, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

WEBSITE: http://www.williamhundley.com
From the series MEXICO:

 

 William's Hundley photos got the power of poetry. 

The aesthetic of his images and the presence/absence constant theme makes them unique.
The movement is given by something undefinable, a human-non human being mid-air with no connections with the external reality while at the same time being integral part of it.