*CLAIRE HOPE
www.tank.tv
15th - 31st January 2009*

Originally from North Yorkshire, Claire Hope is now based in London;
graduating with an MA Fine Art from Chelsea
College of Art in 2004. Claire has produced a number of solo installations
and shown widely in group exhibitions; recently
screening video work internationally as part of the touring transmediale.07
video selection and presenting a solo exhibition
at Way East Project Space, London in May 2008. Claire was also a 2007/8 LUX
Associate Artist.
Claire's video and performance projects are choreographed to emphasise the
personal, subjective sphere of human life.
Her work often responds unconventionally to particular environments or
social contexts; disrupting and subverting our
associations with them by combining narratives ranging from the surreal,
strange and unsettling to the humorous, playful
and emotive. Video work has drawn from existing, improvised and written
speech with non-linear narratives often mapped
to the filmed space. Recently Claire has developed original scripts for
video projects conceived as highly orchestrated
linear journeys.

Claire is interested in social, political and economic systems and how these
may represent human beliefs, motivations and
actions. She links the private sphere of perception to the public realm of
interaction and its formal or informal contexts in
work often set in individual locations. The way power and desire are
experienced or expressed through such relationships
is a central theme, also how this relates to the urge to present and the
expectations of viewers.
In her work Claire combines information from different – often segregated or
professionalized - areas of knowledge. She
creates fictional relationships which hope to exist across these apparently
disparate contexts - blurring the boundaries of a
perceived reality and fiction and deliberately implicating the maker and
viewer in this choreography.
'In all honesty there's nothing I'd like more' of 2005 combines a shifting
monologue of official pronouncements, emotive
reactions, personal statements and musical performance in a choreographed
journey around an unconventional
landscaped public space. In 'Your task will fail to be realised (I'll do
what I can)' 2005, a performative journey around a
lavish corporate waiting area portrays an anarchic and illogical array of
characterisations amid an ambiguous relationship
with the cameraman.

In 'Virgin Soil' of 2007 a subjective arrangement of video and still footage
of the built environment (later used in 2008)
is combined with a non-narrative soundtrack. 'Shredder Heaven' 2008,
combines an apparently passionate private
performance with a repetitive administrative task.
'Complex Financial Instruments' of 2008 joins still and video imagery of the
built environment in different states of
development, to recorded and live private decision-making around a future
building of ambitious landmark proportions.
Exhibited at as an event-based installation the discussion became
increasingly absurd amid growing references to shared
mythic belief systems.

Works of interest; by Adam Chodzko and Stuart Croft, have been selected for
their differing approaches to narrative
representation, especially within a relationship to our environment, social
or institutional forms of individual or collective
action and to subverting familiar forms of depiction.  Very special thanks
to Adam and Stuart for showing their work.

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