25.05.08

Born from an initial desire to display art in a more atypical setting, and move away from the established conventions within art presentation, startrunning is pleased to present its opening exhibition. All of the works featured have been carefully selected due to their concentration on themes of re-appropriation and a distorting of established ideas, conventions or objects...

Ben Cove

...is a London-based artist who has continued to explore his interest in the pantograph as a drawing instrument to produce a new series of studies for startrunning. His chosen tool has existed for centuries and can be used to copy, reduce or enlarge an original. Cove's interest in pantographic drawing stems from its function as an imprecise way of reproduction. When tracing, the second image produced is a record of Cove's movements and consequently his errors.

Chris Clarke

...is a Canadian artist and writer whose work explores issues of authorship and appropriation, through text, installation, sculpture and performance. In the recital Untitled (2008), a litany of 'Untitled' artworks is re-arranged, re-read, out of chronological order. Resembling an art historical lecture, the piece encourages a subjective response in the audience, where the imagined object is determined by the barest amount of criteria: (un)title, artist, date, materials.
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Mark Fell

...is an artist, musician and curator based in Sheffield, whose diverse practice is demonstrated at startrunning. With Syncresis 1.2, a non-linear video installation, Fell demonstrates his own developed way of treating duration sound and image in unison. Enabling a clip to be manipulated in real time whilst the original pitch relationships of the sounds captured will remain intact. This enables him to focus on the smallest of detail in everyday activity and engage with it in an intimate way. It is these subtle inner moments that cross over to his slow and intense AV Performance work Attack on Silence. Here a new formal aesthetic exercise blends long bands of colour and synthetic sound that gradually change with synchronised synthesis.

Mike Ferguson

...is a Manchester based artist, who, for a number of years, has been exploring through his work the passing of time, but also the connection between space, matter and time. He combines everyday objects and mechanical interventions to create simple sculptures that, through their seemingly effortless combination emphasise their loaded histories. Blackboard questions the object itself and the roles and relationships between humans and machines.

Staalplaat Soundsystem

...'s initiator and founder of Staalplaat Music Label, Geert-Jan Hobijn, has travelled from Berlin to perform a unique unplugged 'mono erosive surround sound installation'. Yokomono is inspired by the experience of driving in a car close to the Funktrum (Radio & TV Tower) in Berlin, passing quickly in and out of different radio signals. Whilst exploring the architectural dimensions of the space using customised fm transmitters, he will orchestrate ten hard to handle toy car record players called 'vinyl killers'. The sound will come through the array of radios and old school ghetto blasters around the space resulting in an unpredictable yet adventurous performance.