© 2011 Daniel Staincliffe
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Detail from Discarded strips of cassette tape found in and around Fei Jia Cun, Beijing, 2009.
an urban ecology of chance
Residency project, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, April 2009
This residency project saw me develop a new body of work through an exploration of the architecture, inhabitants and ecology of what may become one of the most culturally significant metropolises in the decades to come.
This project is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. And the Confucius Institute at The University of Manchester.
Fauna Automata
Mechanical sculptures and photographic prints, 2005-ongoing
Fauna Automata is an ongoing project where machines allow wild animals to trigger their own photographs
Wooden mechanical structures enable the often elusive creatures with whom we share our urban and suburban space to be documented and revealed.
Trace and Intent
Artist’s text and single-channel video, 2009.
Trace and Intent is a two-part artwork that explores the concept of the desire line.
Trace is a video piece, made over the period of one year, that documents the gradual growth of grass over a disused desire line.
Intent is an artist’s text that contextualises the desire line through research into infrastructure, urban planning and human nature.
Re-spliced
Web-based art project, Launched September 2009
Discarded media is salvaged, re-spliced and re-presented.
Chinese pop songs and techno music are some of the examples of content that is audible beneath the warped crackles of an analogue media eroded by the elements.
Augmented Reality Thinking (A.R.T.)
Interactive installation with Rob Dunne
Commissioned by the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester for Creativity, Innovation and Collaboration residential. 3rd-5th March 2009.
A.R.T. is an installation that facilitates an exploration of individual and collective creativity using real and virtual objects.
PAL Functions
Video Installation, The VAULT Gallery, Lancaster, 2nd-18th Oct 2008
Produced for the opening of The VAULT Gallery, this site specific installation appropriates readymade imagery and references details of the gallery space.
Splash
Interactive video installation, Holden Gallery, 2008
A fluid form is presented through a fixed number of pixels.
Splash is an interactive video installation that allows the viewer to make ripples on the surface of a projected puddle.
Qing Wen (Excuse Me)
Installation using photographic prints and audio, Holden Gallery, 2008
I made this work to document my experience of Shanghai on the 30th of March 2008.
I cycled across the city to ask passers-by to take photographs at eight of the intersecting lines on the grid that overlays my tourist map.
I recorded the conversations I had with strangers in broken Chinese. In the gallery the conversations are played through speakers concealed behind each image.
Baited Tracks
Video installation, MMU’s Link Gallery, 2007
This work consists of a series of prints made by luring squirrels to sheets of paper. The paper records their footprints and other scuff marks.
In the gallery, documentary video footage of the event is projected onto the sheets, so we see a ghostly digital squirrel retracing its steps as though it were a memory being replayed.
Games Series
Computer games, 2007
This series of works are simple computer games made using a piece of shareware called GameMaker that allow the viewer to control birds and other animals.
Simulations of everyday animal life can be played out by the viewer, enabling them to play as a pigeon chasing pieces of bread, or swim as a mallard down a canal.
Purveyors
A curatorial project at Rogue Project Space, Manchester, August 20-28 2010
Purveyors is an exhibition of new work by three emergent Manchester-based artists, linked not thematically, but by a sensitivity to the structures in which they and their work operate.
Purveyors featured work by Rob Dunne, Bryn Lloyd-Evans and Daniel Staincliffe.
Untitled
Found hand-written note, 2010
First exhibited at People’s Art 2010, Touchstones, Rochdale.
Encounters with grey squirrels
Digital video and hamster cage, 2010
A re-working of Encounters with wild birds of Beijing, produced for solo show Blind Men Feel Elephants: Works in video on the natural world, at Prussian Projekte, Nottingham.
Fauna Automata: British Wild Boar
Residency project in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK, 2011
Fauna Automata: British Wild Boar aims to increase public awareness of the presence of wild boar in the UK, whilst re-evaluating the species as culturally relevant.
The project will be realised through a residency in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, during July 2011, where a series of works including video work; works on paper; and wooden mechanical sculpture, will explore a once-native British species, that has been absent from our landscape for over 300 years.
