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COPY // ? DOUBLE - Bloc Billboards

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For the forthcoming BLOC Billboards, COPY expands from the printed form to incorporate elements of live action or event, presenting new works by Nathan Walker and Victoria Gray of O U I Performance.

COPY / / ? DOUBLE portrays the lens of a small glass sphere, held between thumb and index finger, through which we see a scaled down version of an obscure scene. A second image reveals a closer view yet further distorts perspective, it’s dense ambiguity serving only to expose another layer of permutations.

Intended as suspensions of gravity, time and belief, the images are inscribed with cinematic subtitled texts that attempt to console an interpretation of the image. As attention reverberates between image and text, text and image, we perform a dual; a conversation chimes between what is inside and outside of the frame.

COPY / / ? DOUBLE includes a live event which will take place May 2012, details coming soon.

The work is a dialogue between O U I Performance and Krzystof Kie?lowski’s La Double Vie de Veronique.

Exhibition:

Michael Day - Sequences

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Private view
Friday 9th March 7-9pm

9th - 24th March

For his first solo show in Sheffield, Michael Day will be exhibiting new works created during a recent guest artist residency at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Trondheim, Norway.

His recent work has been concerned with the interruptive potential of technology: how digital media constantly demand attention, and how the interruptions they produce might subdivide or punctuate our experience of the world. This, combined with an interest in how time plays out in the experience of viewing art, has led to the production of works where the duration of the viewing experience is regulated by small technological interventions, such as timed lighting systems or gradual changes to largely static moving image works.

Michael Day is an artist whose work explores the relationship between art, time and technology. His practice positions itself between new media art and fine art, opening a conversation between the similar but often divergent approaches of these two related areas of art activity.

Michael Day is a contemporary artist based in Sheffield, UK.
His practice is interdisciplinary and uses a wide range of media and technologies, including digital media, sound, installation, electronics and photography. Often, his practice positions itself between new media art and fine art, opening a conversation between the similar but often divergent approaches of these two related areas of art activity. His work is characterised by a visual economy and sense of displaced distance from the viewer, often highlighting moments of transit, stasis, solitude in space, and the passage of time.

Previously based in Cardiff, South Wales, he has exhibited and screened work in venues across the UK and in Europe, Mexico and the USA. He has collaborated with performance artist and NESTA fellow Eddie Ladd on a number of occasions, most recently on the touring show Cof Y Corff, commissioned and premiered at the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has participated in other collaborative projects with sound artist Neil Webb (UK) and most recently with artist Ipek Yeginsu (Turkey).

His curatorial practice began with his participation in the Sheffield-based HAG (Host Artist’s Group), co-developing and producing HAG exhibitions and screening programmes for four years until February 2008. During this time, he worked on HAG projects including Host 4: Cinema, a screening and DVD of short video works, Host 6: Beauty, a print project for the Sheffield Pavilion 2007, premiered at the Venice Biennale and Documenta XII, and Host 8: Observatory for the Art Sheffield 08: Yes / No / Other Options* citywide event. He currently collaborates on curatorial projects with the artist and writer Lesley Guy.

Links:

www.michaelday.org.uk

http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=13198

Discourse:

Click Here to read our latest Discourse: Sibyllic Blemishes by Jamie Crewe. Written to accompany Assembly#11: Last Requests at Bloc Projects

Bloc Projects Membership and Associate membership:

Membership

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We have made some changes to our membership. There are now two ways to contribute to Bloc Projects, either by being a Member or an Associate member.

Membership.

This level of membership is open for committed volunteers and those who work regularly for Bloc Projects. This means invigilating, working on the bar, helping to install and take down exhibitions and other technical or administrative work. This level of support is vital to the sustainability our organization. There is a nominal fee of £1.

The benefits to membership include:

· Opportunities to submit to the members show.

· Discounts on Gallery and equipment hire.

· Training and career advice.

· Opportunities to contribute to the running of Bloc Projects.

· Opportunities to contribute in curatorial meetings.

· Social and networking events including trips to other cities.

Associate Membership.

Associate membership is open to everyone and costs £15 per year. You don’t have to be a volunteer or studio holder.

The benefits of associate membership include:

· The knowledge that you are supporting an excellent organization.

· A link on our website.