SwanQuake: House - 2007 Computer installation with sound

V22 are pleased to present SwanQuake:House

For the exhibition Gibson and Martelli take over the V22 basement to create a site - responsive work. Through re-purposing media tools and combining them with re-modeled household objects, House simulates and reconfigures representations of an east-end underworld.

The artists manipulate the space between the actual and the imaginary providing a counterpoint via the human form. Their practice is concerned with recreating environments and systems where coding joins hands with choreographies of the body. The result taps into a sensorial flux where the real and virtual co-exist, giving infinite possibilities to place.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication SwanQuake: the user manual: 'The essays contained in the user manual provide a cultural, historical and technological context for SwanQuake. Igloo’s work is an excellent example of the adaptation of game systems to fine art… the essays serve as an informative and very well referenced entry point for current debates around “game art”.' -Rob Myers for Furtherfield Reviews 25/03/08

Based in London, the artists work together and often as igloo with international artists, including John McCormick and Adam Nash. They have exhibited widely both in Britain and abroad. Their recent solo shows include Summerbranch - ArtSway, Hampshire, Summerbranch & New Forest - Space4 Peterborough Museum and Winterspace - E:vent Teesdale St, London. In 2007 they were selected with five other artists to represent New Forest Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale.

They have participated in group shows at Electra Building Gallery - Vancouver, Around the Coyote - Chicago, ZeroOne - San Jose, California, Park Tower - Tokyo, The Royal Opera House - London and Sara Meltzer Gallery - New York. They have toured work to Centre Arte Moderne - Lisbon, Maria am Ostbahnhof - Berlin and the Grimaldi Forum Monte Carlo.