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Plumbum 54 Bell Street will host a revealing, seductive interactive light installation by the emerging Glasgow-based artist Conal McStravick.McStravick’s first publicly exhibited work since graduation from GSA in 2005, the piece is an ambitious combination of infra-red triggered theatrical lights illuminating the site in response to the movement of the public outside, and a decorative window panel mimicking the appearance of stained glass. As the lights shift to bathe the space in colour, the full depth and architectural dimension of the space is revealed. In this multi-layered interactive light-work, the viewer is reminded that
the job of leading glass panels for churches was originally given to plumbers.
The installation, through overtly acknowledging this in relation to the
re-evaluation of the interior space, reveals the physicality of light as
an affective, defining architectural element. Dan Monks in collaboration with Clodagh Lavelle 12/02/06 - 15/02/06 Developed specifically for 54 Bell Street, this new work will develop Monks’ primary concern with the occupation of space by the body by using the tools of translation, communication, and performance. Occupying 54 Bell Street for a pre-defined period each day, Monks will employ a prescribed range of objects in a series of interactions with the space. His movements will be guided by diagrams drawn by the Belfast-based artist Clodagh Lavelle, who in turn has responded to a description of 54 Bell Street and its physical context. Monks broadens the notional context of the work through his focus on mapping and negotiation, body and other, as Lavelle will incorporate the significance of the context (area, site, date and time) of the work’s final performance; and, self reflexively, her knowledge of Monks. This challenging new work, with its series of relationships,
anxieties and manipulated interfaces, will question the power-roles which
exist between bodies in space, and assert the importance of the ‘creative body’ as
both subject and medium. As Monks claims:
15/02/06 - 19/02/06 episode 21-23 (the cat did it)
Unpredictable and immediate, Collins’ newest work will involve a collaborator in the development of performance fragments questioning the complex and open relationships between transgression, seduction, and indulgence. These fragments will be developed over three days in which the artists will occupy the site and document their actions. An edited version of this documentary footage will then be re-played on a plasma screen in the site’s window-space, asking how immediate and perhaps instinctive activity is transformed through the process of documentation and presentation. This challenging process, asking fundamental questions of perception and reality, will be realised in a work that explores Collins’ most primary concerns - in his own words: “The ways in which we permit ourselves to transgress our morals and ethics in the fulfilment of our desires.”
19/02/06 - 05/03/06 Frame Story
In her first international solo project, American painter Kasper will paint the window of 54 Bell Street, leaving peepholes in the surface through which the public will view a domestic tableau. Peering into the interior of the space, the viewer is presented by a theatrical series of propositions. A domestic scene reveals itself to be a miniature, sitting atop a real-sized table among real-sized objects. These ‘props’ are themselves contained within an interior - a room that is a fabrication constructed within the empty shop-venue. Windows within this theatrical second space may reveal glimpses a third beyond it, mirroring Kasper’s interest in the recalled, the imagined, and the fantastic. With questions of voyeurism, multiplicity, gender-specificity and craft, Kasper’s practice is one of layered readings and undisclosed inhabitation. Her new installation for 54 Bell Street will use the structure of the tableau to reveal a very particular world.
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