Month: July 2007

26-28 JULY 2007
For Turnstile – Single Use, Interval presents a series of 3 single day exhibitions, an innovative format developed around the idea that most people only visit an exhibition once. With the context of ‘Single Use’, each day sees different artists responding to themes of Successful Failure, Outside of Parallel and Portable Rest.

Successful Failure sees artist Marisa Olson’s performance of The One That Got Away, the fictional reenactment of an American Idol audition, alongside Katherine Behar’s (de)bugging Loop (de)Loop, a performance of the repeated logical errors of computer viruses. These are contrasted by Ruth Pringle’s Forever Free, an installation of portable record players playing pre-defined sound loops. Curated by Karen Gaskill and Michelle Kasprzak.

Outside of Parallel presents a series of screen-based work referencing strangeness. Rose Butler’s Box utilises prints from a 1920’s box camera, creating an animation including all the mis-prints and imperfections. Brass Art present Interpostition, a looped projection in which the shadow forms of the artists inhabit a terminal link at Manchester Airport. Works also include Rebecca Lennon’s Looking for Something, Jenna Collins and Jane Brake’s Flighty, and a new work by Joe Duffy and Eimer Birkbeck, Coin Operation. Curated by Karen Gaskill.

Portable Rest considers how artworks can represent rest, relaxation and passiveness. Neil Grant presents his new work Sitting Here, a changing panorama of ten Mancunian scenes taken from the cities public benches. Neil Webb’s audio-visual installation Heaven up Here, captures the quiet of the skies above the clouds as a means of delivery from the noise of the earth. Raven present Diorama, a manipulated Möbius loop of footage of a barge journey. Curated by Karen Gaskill and Steve Swindells.

lnterval is an independent artist-led organisation established in 2005, offering collaborative exhibition opportunities to both emergent and established practitioners using technology as a key component of their practice. Interval is co-directed by Karen Gaskill and Gary Peploe.

For further information contact Karen Gaskill on +44 (0)7980 924422 or email karen @ interval.org.uk, or go to www.interval.org.uk for more information.

Dates: 26 July to 28 July
Venue: The Holden Gallery
Address: Grosvenor Street, Manchester. M15 6BR
Telephone: +44 (0)7980 924422
Website: www.interval.org.uk
Opening Times: 26/27 July 5-8pm, 28 July 2-5pm
Admission: Free

Top left: Nina Levitt. Top right: Kelly Richardson. Bottom: Nelly-Eve Rajotte.

I have recently curated Otherworldly, a short programme of videos for the public screen in Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia. The programme screens daily from now until 3 August 2007. Featuring the work of Nina Levitt (CA), Nelly-Ève Rajotte (CA), and Kelly Richardson (UK), Otherworldly takes viewers on a journey through spaces that are at once familiar and alien. Nelly-Ève Rajotte’s piece, Valo, explores a mysterious interior which is reminiscent of a sterile control room. In Comrade Valentina, Nina Levitt considers not only the bravery but also the charisma of the first woman in space. Kelly Richardson’s Exiles of the Shattered Star is a contemplative piece in which we witness the beauty that results from destruction. The screen itself is in a sweeping public square which rises above street level and offers views of the Yarra River and the city, and is surrounded by futuristic buildings clad in a fractal façade of zinc, glass and sandstone.