sophiebullock

'Overturn' is a simple video work filming a spinning mirror in the forest. This piece illustrates my ongoing interest with film and dream, and being inside and outside simultaneously. In a broad sense, I am interested in how people can be in one space physically and another space psychologically, essentially existing in two worlds at once This piece was shown in installation at Vivid Projects, Birmingham.   Materials: Projector, DVD, Speakers, Table, Lamp, Soil

Sophie Bullock and Anna Horton make up One Five West. Our work mixes digital technology with physical objects and actions in the form of interactive installations. We are influenced by the development of readily available, and universally accessible technology. We utilise lo-tech digital tools and analogue processes to encourage audiences to activate the work. One Five West are currently working on installations that invite audiences to adapt their responsive environments through movement, sound and touch. -- This work was exhibited at Fierce Festival, 2014, Birmingham. The work was a collection of interactive sculptures. Materials included: Projectors, LED lights, spy cameras, Ototo, Fruit, Pens and speakers

"Eastside Projects presents A Demonstration of Possibilities , an exhibition by Sophie Bullock, Freya Dooley and Sebastian Jefford in Flatfile, a plan-chest sited permanently within the gallery. A Demonstration of Possibilities is a framework that is open to movement and alteration. In it Flatfile is converted into a growing and interactive toolbox where works appear as instructional or functional but for potentially unknowable or absurd uses. For A Demonstration of Possibilities Sophie, Freya and Sebastian will present a collaboratively-developed whole work made of video, text and sculptural components, in which they respectively specialise."

'Spatial Tilt’ was originally appropriated from Herbert Bayer’s ‘Plan for an Exhibition Design’. It plans to present the viewer with an empirical theory of vision, by activating areas of space other than the conventional wall planes.  It also draws upon Walter Benjamin’s writings on our experience of architecture, which he believes is predominantly absorbed in a state of distraction; as if our movement is directed by an invisible backdrop.  With this is mind, the semi-transparent qualities of the one-way mirror illuminate areas of its exterior from the interior, and vice versa.

Artwork at Grand Union as part of New Art West Midlands. 'Mutual Dissolution' explores the correspondence of the singular cinematic experience of the spectator on screen which, in turn, mirrors that of the viewer, and the collective cinematic experience of which cinema is commonly experienced. Scenes of 'non-spaces' or empty spaces explore themes of the spectator’s bodily dissolution when experiencing cinema, through the visual representation of isolation in terms of deserted space and solitary figures. The only clear faces the spectator shall see will be that of their own and the surrounding audience: showing the unison of the singular and collective cinematic experience.

‘Mirror. Screen. Dream’ exists through a year of conceptually led experiments to explore cinema’s hypnotic qualities, the spectators relationship to cinema, Brechtian theories of breaking the fourth wall as a means of bringing conscious awareness to the cinematic situation, and ‘perceptual transference’, in where the spectators conscious brain activity switches over to the subconscious when watching films. I’ve worked primarily with utilising found, archive and second-hand material, which I’ve found is appropriate to explore cinema’s limits and place in art, and to create my own interpretations with the ready-made through montage.