'Objectivity Tropes...' is a three-channel video projection. The video shows the continual re-arrangement of objects on red, blue and yellow surfaces. Letters appear across the three videos sometimes spelling, but often deconstructing words and language.

The objects in the Artemis collection are part of a museological system of 'handling' and this is referenced in the work through the presence of the artists own hands. Objects are arranged and re-arranged, a hand moves between the screens, entering the frame to move the objects. Words here are also treated as handling objects, letters appear near the objects suggesting a semiotic signification through language based signifiers. The words are deconstructed, re-organised, disorganised, the archive becomes anarchive. 'Objectivity Tropes...' attempts to understand the poetics of things (words and objects), systems of order are employed with anarchic principles and the curation of meaning.

Objectivity Tropes / Objectivist Poetry / Presto Objectivity
Three-channel video projection, HD transfered to DVD, 16:9 Ratio, Colour, 12 mins.
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Syntax
Duratrans in lightbox (60 cm x 40 cm)

Arrangement on Blue
Duratrans in lightbox (40 cm x 30 cm)

Hunter Gatherer: a group exhibition of new work made by artists in response to Artemis, an artefact and art loan repository and service for Education Leeds. Artemis contains thousands of objects indexed through categories such as world cultures, natural history, science and social history. Artists: Amelia Crouch / Lubaina Himid and Susan Walsh / Dinu Li / Rhiannon Silver / Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson / Lisa Stansbie / Nathan Walker.
From 28th April - 6th August 2011 at PSL [Project Space Leeds].

Press / Reviews

Hunter Gatherer Review by Lara Eggleton (2011) Published on A-N Interface

The Guardian Online 'This weeks new exhibitions' inc. Hunter Gatherer, Leeds. (May 2011) by Robert Clark