Event

Exhibition Opening: Deborah Robinson: Fish – Eye – I

Date:: 22nd April, 2010 18:30:00 — 22nd April, 2010
Price:: FREE, all welcome, please RSVP by email
Venue:: ICIA Art Space 2, University of Bath , Foyer of Lecture Theatre 3WN 2.1, University of Bath , Claverton Down, Bath , BA27AY
Posted by:: CreativeBath
Sector:: Art & Antiques

Contact information:

Email:: ICIAinfo@bath.ac.uk

Event overview:

Artist-in-residence: Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath

You are cordially invited to a Drinks Reception followed by a short Talk
In Conversation: Deborah Robinson & Dr Richard Hooley, Head of Department, Dept of Biology and Biochemistry

Artist Deborah Robinson enters the hidden world of the aquatic laboratory…

The University's Department of Biology and Biochemistry, one of the UK's premier bioscience centres, houses a fish research facility with 500 tanks and 10,000 fish. Here transparent medaka and zebrafish are used as biomedical models for research into human development and disease. Intrigued by the relationship between the scientist-as-observer and the observed living organism, Robinson constructs a 'fish-eye view' with film and sound equipment positioned within the tanks. Catching glimpses of researchers going about their daily work, she takes a fresh look at the 'I' who is the scientist. Robinson captures the strange poetic beauty of this see-through world - from fish, water and tank to the lens of the camera itself.
The opening features a sound work made in collaboration with sound artist David Strang.

ICIA has a commitment to presenting interdisciplinary artist residencies across the University; this is the first to take place within a laboratory. Fish – Eye – I is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, with additional support from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, where Robinson was a guest in August 2009. Previously, Robinson has undertaken a number of science-based residencies, including Egenis at Exeter University (a genome research group), Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and Washington Singer Laboratory.

Robinson has exhibited in the UK, America, Germany, and at ICIA in 2007. She is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Plymouth and an Honorary Research Fellow with Egenis.

On view until 11 June, open Monday-Saturday, 10am-5pm