Exhibition

The Wings

1 Sep 2009 – 14 Sep 2009

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Free

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Vyner Street Gallery

London, United Kingdom

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  • buses: 55,26,48
  • Bethnal Green/ central line
  • Cambridge Heath
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The Wings

About

For ‘The Wings', Lisa Stansbie has created in the gallery space a fictional bar described in her earlier narrative film Apprehension (2007). Somewhere between an installation, a stage set and an elaborate frame within which to view the original film, it marks a significant departure in Stansbie's work into a larger-scale manipulation of space and materials. Like all her recent work it has evolved through a strategy that uses the internet as a chaotic information source to generate a continuing series of connections and associations in an ever-expanding digital archive. This is used as the basis for her production of new films and object-based works that create coherent and intriguing narratives from the random threads of connection between isolated fragments of information on the web. In the case of Apprehension, the starting point is the pedigree of a racehorse, woven into a complex narrative that takes place in the bar that is rendered visible and material here. Lisa Stansbie has undertaken residencies and shown across Europe and in the USA. Her films have been shown in The Athens Video Art Festival 2007, Siberia International Film in London, The Olympolis Project in Pieria, Greece, Art Tech Media Festivals in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife and Cordoba, Spain, and she was also selected as part of Purescreen 2008 at The Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. In October 2007 ‘The Zeppelin Bend' exhibition at Alsager Arts Centre, U.K explored the relationship between Stansbie's digital archive and her film-based practice. Her films were recently screened at The Window, University of Auckland Gallery, as an online exhibition titled ‘Hackamore' curated by Anna Parlane, and selected for Outcasting: Season 7 (an online film screening) and The Text Festival, Bury U.K. Stansbie leads the Contemporary Arts BA course at the University of Huddersfield and is currently completing a PhD at Leeds Metropolitan University. She is also the co-founder and co-editor (with Derek Horton) of the magazine project Soanyway (www.soanyway.org.uk).

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