Claire Hope, artist
claire hope
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'Boy Nature'

Video, 2009

Images of the base structures of corporate architectural developments are arranged to the rhythm of a romantic song; appearing both contrasted and underscored by their playful arrangement to the mystical and seductive fable.


'Realising a One Track Mind' (Series titles 'Containing much Matter on realising a Mind of singular orientation; a highly Personal affair')

Video produced for 'The Politics in the Room - In Eight Chapters', LUX Associate Artists Project, 2009
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Short spoken vignettes depicting two women and a man in a traditional English pub, are prefaced by intertitles framing the action as a futuristic narrative of genetic modification. The video connects a suspect linearity and autocratic authorship to signs of a potentially open emotional engagement - ultimately linking a complex discursive subjectivity to a cruel, romantic ending.


'Complex Financial Instruments (Part One)'

Video, 2008
- See Performance page for full details of this project.
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Footage of a progressive conversion of old farm buildings is inter-cut with images of corporate new builds, archaeological and degraded sites and natural states of the land. The soundtrack depicts a private business meeting debating the realisation of a fantasy landmark building project. The visual material – shifting between stills and self-consciously edited video - becomes problematically intertwined with the themes of the soundtrack as they extend into absurdity – seeking to raise questions about power, systems of belief and contemporary subjectivity.


'Shredder Heaven'

Video, 2008

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Combining an apparently passionate private performance with a repetitive administrative task the routines of identity protection are subverted amid a playful domestic act.


'Virgin Soil'

Video, 2007

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An video depicting the variable continuum of states existing in the built environment, between the natural and degraded, constructed and protected. A rhythmic arrangement of apparently disparate spatial contexts seeks to reference the subjective choices underpinning the organisation of public and private property.


'Your task will fail to be realised (I'll do what I can)'

Video, 2005

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In a performative journey around a corporate entrance space, the artist’s non-linear shifts in role subvert the expectations of the environment by descending into an apparently illogical and anarchic array of characterisations. An ambiguous and self-conscious relationship between the artist and the cameraman serves to define an increasingly choreographed reaction to the corporate context. Credits - With special thanks to Tim Judge for his camera work and performance.


'In all honesty there's nothing I'd like more'

Video, 2005

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An exploration of the problematic social potential of a landscaped public space. The video depicts a journey around designated paths synchronised with a performed soundtrack of shifting roles. The performer creates powerful, pathetic and often absurd characterisations which refer to the uncertainty of an environment caught between function and folly.


'If only I must, if only you were, if only of course'

Video, 2004


The piece represents brief actions and speech delivered across three contexts, which emphasise shifting roles, relationships and messages ranging from the bureaucratic and mundane to the personal and desiring.