- Venue
- Bankley Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, February 29, 2008
- Ends
- Sunday, March 9, 2008
- Address
- Bankley Studios & Gallery, Bankley Street, Levenshulme, Manchester, M19 3PP
- Location
- North West England
Bankley Gallery presents a gallery specific exhibition by the Manchester based Owl Projects. Having exhibited in Europe and the USA the Owl Projects (artists Tom O’Grady and Daniel Staincliffe) occupy Bankley Gallery with a site specific video installation, Cascade. The artists describe Cascade as a potential phenomenon: 'Everyday items and wrappers are presented on carefully positioned monitors, creating the illusion that they occupy the same space as the viewer. A sensor is used so that the viewer’s presence in the space triggers a digital cascade of water inside the unlikely urban environment. This deluge then makes its way down the gallery through the monitors, washing away the ephemera. The scenes on the screens relate to the actual environment the viewer is in, and so questions the convention of the TV screen representing distance and disconnection. The monitors are used to frame a possibility. To propose a situation that could happen’.Tom O’Grady and Daniel Staincliffe have exhibited in Manchester under the pseudonym The Owl Projects but Cascade at Bankley Gallery is their first major collaboration.
