Trackers


Trackers, 30 April - 4 July		Bletchley Park Installation Proposal, Neil Hamon

Curated by Charles Danby and Alejandro Ospina, Trackers will feature the work of celebrated artists like Bruce McLean and Stuart Brisley, together with some of the most interesting young artists to emerge in the last few years.

Trackersasks – what happens when aesthetic judgement is replaced by the throw of a dice and a random system is used to hang work?

Nine artists threw dice three times to find three co-ordinates within a vector, used to delineate space within the gallery. This point marks where their work will be placed. The artists must respond to their position and to other works that surround/inhabit/share the space with their own. The artists in the gallery were chosen for their ability to work experimentally and spatially. The random system eradicates hierarchies and the aesthetic decision on where work is placed and pushes the artists involved to rethink their work.

Sir John Soane intended Pitzhanger to be a place where his contemporaries could find the mental space to explore their ideas and the physical space to converse with their peers and others to determine new conclusions about their work. In the House, the work looks towards technology as a key constituent within the context of Soane's ideology. The work here will harbour a psychological edge of the unease that reflects Soane's compulsive nature.

The Georgian structure of the building defines the space within the House. The artists have been allocated a room, in contrast to a point of origin in the gallery. In both cases, the artists have been given complete freedom to interpret and to develop their work in relation to the space. The perceived freedom of space in the gallery, due to the lack of architectural separations, is the inverse flip side to the assumed confinement of the rigid separations of the House.

The show operates on multiple levels, allowing the public to unravel the layers as they travel around the spaces between the gallery and the house. The exhibition exists between the two and is designed to bring the divergent aspects of the building together to propose a new potential for both the building and for the work, extending Sir John Soane's own ideas of radical and complex exhibition spaces using an array of cross-disciplinary work.

Artists involved
Georgina Batty, Stuart Brisley, Geoff Cox, Amy Cunningham, Charles Danby, Alex Graham, Neil Hamon, Alex Hutchins, Francis Ives, Ben Judd, Maria Von Köhler, Goshka Macuga, Bruce McLean, Alejandro Ospina, Errol Perkins, Lyle Perkins, Nathaniel Rackowe, Gideon Rubin, Rob Smith, Adrian Ward,Gary Woodley.