Chris Clarke
Supplement
31 Temple Street, Bethnal Green
London E2 6QQ
12th Sept – 4th Oct 2009

For its fifth exhibition of 2009 Supplement presents work by Chris Clarke.
Clarke’s work explores ideas surrounding film and the production of images. In his work filmic techniques are used to explore specific aesthetic and conceptual aspects of filmmaking. The works seek to aestheticise the production processes of film and in doing this look at the way images are produced and given meaning in the world. This lends an interesting self-referential quality to the work in that they become films about being films, subject and object are intertwined within the pieces.



Reunion (2008) is a Super 8mm film projection of the first 10 seconds of Led Zepplin’s 2007 reunion concert that has been re-filmed from Youtube. In the gallery space the film is played backwards on a projector made in the same year the band formed. This process of translation from digital to Super 8 film is inverted in Amateur (2009), which is shot on film and transferred to a digital projection. The film depicts the upgrade of the hardrive of a Macbook Pro, focusing on enigmatic details of the process and presenting itself as curious fetishisation of technology. The film is played from the removed harddrive.

On or after 24.04.09 (2009) uses a print of a single frame furtively removed from an original 1985 cinema release print of Back to The Future. The print depicting Marty McFly in his moment of realization was sent by post to 10 people including an artist’s proof to the artist, which is exhibited in the show.
The works in the exhibition use specific conceptual strategies to underpin a more complex, elliptic exploration of the terms through which meaning is produced through the conditions of medium.


2009
Super 8mm film transferred to specific hard disk drive
11 minutes 8 seconds, silent.

Installation view from MA Fine Art Show, Chelsea College of Art & Design.






2009
Edition of 10 Digital prints on newsprint
70 x 84 cm

Edition of ten prints depicting a single frame removed from an original 1985 cinema release print of the film Back to The Future.
The prints were folded and posted first class to friends and family on 23.04.09.
An artists proof was sent the same day, and is exhibited framed.


XYZ
CHRIS CLARKE
16 Nov – 7 Dec
bad bad boys club
42 blinshall street
dundee DD1 5DF





12.45% of the music video for Sonic Youth’s 100% downloaded via Bittorrent.
BitTorrent Protocol downloads the file in a random approach. The download is stopped early at 12.45%. On playback Quicktime attempts assembles the random data into a continuous video file.
S1 Artspace
Sheffield
June 2008

Reunion, 2008
Super 8 film loop of the 10 seconds before Led Zeppelin play their first song at their 2007 reunion concert re-filmed from youtube. The film shows a view of the stage from the crowd. Camera flashes illuminate the waving arms of fans and the lights on stage flash in rhythm. Shown on specific 1968 Eumig Projector, manufactured in the year the group formed.

Fulcrum A, 2008
wood, hook, cut cotton vest, Quartz Crystal 150 cm x 110 cm x 20 cm


Portrait of joey820_2000@yahoo.com
Portrait of Anonymous tabber (almost 100% Correct)
Portrait of Wali Noori
2008, Laser prints, 119cm x 84cm each.
Series of 3 A0 prints derived from ASCII guitar tablatures for the song Fade to Black by Metallica, sourced online. Each print features a tablature by a different individual, transcribed by ear and posted to a newsgroup or website. The text of each of these is compressed to form the shape of a circle, the size and pattern within each is determined by the original document. The documents contain the individual interpretation of how to play the song as well as personal comments, email or name of the tabber. It represents their perspective on the world and by extension can become a portrait of the individual.

The New You, 2008
Modified clip-frame, wood, screw, 70 cm x 40 cm.


Installation View, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, June 2008.
2007
DVD
9 minute loop


Installation View, 6 from 4, Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNNH3WXTGZA
“More people would watch this video if you said “tribute to slash” not “Tribute to Saul Hudson” I’m a huge fan of slash but I didn’t find out his real name until just now.”
“tribute is done only when player or artist of some kind is dead and slash is not dead…slash is alive and is the best guitarist of our time”
“one stupid thing is you didnt play november rain solo when it showed him playing it infront of the church. Thats stupid!”
“lol, on november rain starts knocking on heavens door :P”