“Rose Butler & Kypros Kyprianou’s ‘One Lime Street’ is a six-screen formalized meditation on the architecture of the Lloyds of London building and its exoskeleton lifts. People enter and leave one of six lifts and embark on interacting journeys, each journey, filmed from inside the lift has had the background buildings and horizon digitally locked in position. The result makes the lifts travel past the screens, an unexpected relationship between the camera, the vertical journey and the background perspectives result: a slippage between figure and ground. Through presentation of the cubic space in which the passengers enter and leave, we are reminded of the other spaces that are viewed through the rectangular screen; television, Internet, photography, cinema and the possibilities of manipulation within these media.” - Grace Davies

Rose Butler’s work encompasses video, photography, animation, interactive media, and multi-screen display. Her work examines our experience of space, place and location through our encounter with photography and moving image. Current audio work Ocarina is being circulated by Host Artists Group and her most recent digital short Trap is on show at The Apollo - www.liveattheapollo.org. 

In 2008 One Lime Street was short-listed for the Jerwood Prize for Moving Image, and in 2004 she received an award at the Becks Futures Student Prize for Digital Video which was exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London. 

Kypros Kyprianou is an artist. Further information from www.electronicsunset.org

Interval's Curatorial Approach: Trade City

For TradeCity Interval presents three works that each introduce through their conceptual approach an alternative view on cities of trade; located in the three cities of Manchester, London and Beijing, the works reference Italo Calvino’s Trading Cities chapters in the book Invisible Cities. Interval is interested in the merging of identities of such global metropolises’ and how local nuances can be extracted and revealed through artistic practice.
 
The work of Daniel Staincliffe, the result of a recent residency in Beijing, collects and re-presents fragments of the city’s customs and traditions through relevant forms of display. Butler and Kyprianou’s One Lime Street, located in the iconic glass lifts of the Lloyds Building at the heart of London’s financial district, engages the viewer in a multi-layered dialogue with individuals as they move vertically through through the building. Phil Constable’s work builds layers of captured cityscapes, adapting and augmenting them in the form of hand printed graffiti on the walls of buildings. For TradeCity Constable has developed a performative method of working that will see the out-of--reach areas within the exhibition space publicly transformed into a new skyline.