EXHIBITION: Void Spaces
Forced Entertainment
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Event
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EXHIBITION: Void Spaces
Forced Entertainment
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Description
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The exhibition Void Spaces is a major development in the work of photographer Hugo Glendinning, writer and artist Tim Etchells and performance ensemble Forced Entertainment. The exhibition, commissioned by Site Gallery, features the first public presentation of Hotel Binary – a new digital installation and interactive environment alongside expanded and new versions of award-winning earlier works in digital, video and photographic media.
In Hotel Binary the faces of a man and a woman are the interface to a love story, played out in the intense and intimate space of a hotel bedroom. For the viewer the protagonists’ faces become maps or interactive landscapes, as clicking on links embedded in the faces leads the viewer to scenes from an imaginary past. Voyeuristic access to these private moments alternates with time spent on the receiving end of the protagonist’s gaze.
Complementing this new work will be the video installation 'Filthy Words & Phrases' , photographs and text from 'The Rules of the Game', and interactive CD-ROMs 'Nightwalks', Frozen Palaces' and 'Spin' in which the viewer can explore narrative clues and embedded links that lead to other sources and locations.
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Date
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28 March - 6 May 2000
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Format
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An exhibition held at Site Gallery from 28 March to 6 May 2000 featuring work by Hugo Glendinning / Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment.
including:
- Hotel Binary (2000) - 4-channel video installation / Commissioned by Site Gallery (Sheffield).
- Filthy Words & Phrases (2000) - video installation.
- The Rules of the Game (2000) - photographs + text.
- Frozen Palaces (1997) - CD-Rom / Published on artintact 5, ZKM – Institute for Visual Media (Karlsruhe, Germany).
- Nightwalks (1998) - CD-Rom / A Yorkshire Commission by Photo 98 as part of the UK Year of Photography and the Digital Image.
- Spin (2000) - CD Rom.
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Forced Entertainment
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Type
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gallery exhibition / interactive installation / projection / photography
Void Spaces Symposium
Hotel Binary