Base Notes and Place Holders brings together ideas from international artists in a space where sculpture and sound come together, to explore the politics and possibilities of presentation.
The project invites us to rethink spaces where sculpture, structure, and sound come together. Base Notes and Place Holders are counter positions that resist classification and encourage associative leaps. They offer different ways to question traditional hierarchies and blur the lines between subject and object, or spectator and participant.
With both an exhibition and a series of live sound events, this project brings together speculative propositions by international artists. The project asks us to speculate on two elemental intentions: ‘elevation’ and ‘support’, while considering a form of entanglement between sculpture, structure and sound. The featured artists offer playful presentational approaches which question the fundamental value, uniqueness, power and agency of art, in order to give shape to new creative formulations.
Developed in collaboration between TC McCormack and Tommy Støckel, Base Notes & Place Holders is a long-term curatorial research project providing a platform for interdisciplinary engagement and dialogue.
TC McCormack
TC works in the field of interdisciplinary art and curatorial practice, his artistic methods interrogate the constituents of sculptural space, image making (moving & fixed) and text. Central to his curation is an interest in more agile and commutable forms of address. Based in London, McCormack is the director of the exhibition space: EUCA Annex, he is a Researcher and Senior Lecturer, in Fine Art, at Sheffield Hallam University. TC has exhibited at Forum Exposition Bonlieu (France), Viborg Kunsthal (Denmark) Kunstraum (Linz) Nationalmuseum (Berlin), ICA (London) Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin) Centre pour L’image Contemporaine (Geneva) Platform (Istanbul) FACT (Liverpool) Kunstnernes Hus (Olso) and European Capital of Culture (Cork).
Tommy Støckel
Tommy Støckel’s projects draw inspiration from everyday objects, spaces and situations as well as from found digital material. These are meticulously reworked and transformed into artworks in a wide range of media, including site-specific installations, sculptures, photographs, typefaces, emojis and various digital formats.Støckel was born in Copenhagen and is based in Berlin. He has had solo exhibitions at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main; Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen and Arnolfini, Bristol. His work has also been shown in The Atlantic Project, Plymouth; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; CAPC, Bordeaux; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm and the Gwangju Biennale.
Programmed by Sheffield Hallam University, and featuring work by TC McCormack & Tommy Støckel. Part of a series of commissions for No Bounds Festival entitled Entanglement, Commons and Cultural Mycelium from curator and producer Amy Carter Gordon & associate producer Lauren McConnell.
Image credit: Milk Roc (2019) by Jonathan Trayte.
Artists
Renata Casiano Alvarez (Mexico/Italy), Maiken Bent (Denmark), Sunah Choi (Berlin), Antonia Low (Berlin), TC McCormack (UK), Outgoing (Brett Gui Xin & Del Hardin Hoyle) (NYC), Kirsty Russell (Scotland/UK), Amba Sayal-Bennett (UK), Tommy Støckel (Berlin), Eva Taulois (France), Jonathan Trayte (UK), Claudia Wieser (Berlin), Keith Wilson (NYC/UK).