EXHIBITION
Our next destination was harbour side gallery The Arnolfini in Bristol, which demonstrated works from artists exhibiting both visual and audio displays, such as London based creator Sophy Rickett's "To The River" and technological fanatic Shipa Gupta's "Someone Else." Rickett's space involves the audience to an experience of the Serven Bore, a natural phenomenon along the River Severn in Wales, UK combining three screens of footage cutting from person to person in the crowd with snippets of conversation amoung the group. The main focus of the evening set installation was to capture the crescendoing emotion and anticipation of the forthcoming event from the public visually with the River being unseen however heard. The work seeks to unveil the relationship of people with the natural world amongst politics and the environment, through theatrical and cinematic elements, in order to create a space where the spectator feels lost and absorbed in a situation, which they can not quite figure and understand.
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Upstairs in the gallery was the revolutionary works of Shilpa Gupta who demonstrated a variety of mediums including sculpture, sound, video and photography over the space of three rooms, conveying themes of desire, religion, conflict, militarism, security, culture, technology, borders and censorship. The first room displays one hundred mental imitated book covers on a shelf based on authors who have used a pseudonym or are anonymous, each consisting of varied quotes from the writers reasoning why they have not revealed their true identity.
The second room hold the piece titled "Singing Cloud" in which a cluster if four thousand microphones are suspended from the ceiling, emitting sounds abstracted from psychological tests, resulting in a haunting yet harmonious crackle of dialogue. Also in this room is a 1.5m flap board which is suspended as well from the high ceiling, which only contain twenty nine characters or letters and numbers. The associative pattern occurs for a couple of seconds before changing slightly using content and form of the previous line, concentrating on where religion, politics and ethics collide.
The final room exemplifies the use of photography where an extra pair of hands covers the eyes, ears and mouth of a child gestures as if holding a fire arm, which addresses military aggression and democracy. On the opposing wall is arguable the most powerful piece of the exhibition, which has been translated into hundreds of languages, "There Is No Border Here." This piece illustrated the use of fine yellow tape applied through text in the shape of a flag, inscribed with the title enhancing the meaning and purpose behind such art. The piece begins and ends with the same sentence, "I tired very hard to cut the sky in half" which related to a text familiar among politics and address how militarism, religion and culture divide causing drastic measure of community and territory.
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