BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1443@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20161112 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20161204 DTSTAMP:20161103T203243Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/small-view-half-real-pt2-exhibit ion-ben-davies/ SUMMARY:A Small View: A Small View: Half-Real pt2\, an exhibition by Ben Da vies DESCRIPTION:ben davies\, An exhibition by Ben Davies \n 12th November – 3 rd December 2016 | Open Event: 11th November 6-8pm \n\nHalf-Real pt2 \n\nH alf-Real is a project begins and ends with the act of walking. Walking is an activity we undertake daily without much thought. Whether it be between home\, work or the shops\, walking is something we normally think of as a means to an end\, merely a way of getting from one location to another. A nd so we can become over familiarised and lose sight of the sights and sou nds we perceive on our everyday journeys. Our minds lack the capacity to c reate a full overview of the world\, and so we take smaller aspects of our environment and stitch together a coherent conception of reality. As a re sult\, common\, everyday objects\, sounds and scenes can become overlooked while we make our way from a to b. In contemplation of this\, Ben Davies has taken photographs of these scenes and objects and stitched together a virtual world through which a player can move with no predefined destinati on\, and in which objects have been deprived of function. You are left onl y to look and reflect.\n\nDavies describes his work as an art-game\, as do many of the artists that he references. At first glance\, his work may no t appear to be the type of videogame that most people are familiar with\, lacking common game elements like goals\, direct objectives or a competiti ve element. But his work does share many other characteristics\, however: it is made in a game engine\, it is interactive\, spatial\, and as computa tional media\, it cannot be run on anything other than a computational dev ice. The work also aims to generate meaning via the player’s interaction with game mechanics and dynamics. Certain associations made with videogam es are relevant in the context of his concern with attention and perceptio n. Videogames are ‘what if’ scenarios that typically share many aspect s with our contemporary lives under a capitalist system\; they orientate t owards the completion of goals\, in competitive\, frantic worlds that are geared towards fast-paced action. Davies's work aims to subvert these clic hés by creating an art-game in which your only goal is to slow down and l ook.\n\nThroughout Half-Real you will find drawings that have been scribbl ed onto the side of buildings\, on roads and varies other objects. Moreove r\, the landscape itself has been expressively sculpted by being extruded and moulded into the ground you walk on. Paintings and drawings have then been pasted onto these forms. This is a way of representing what writer an d historian Rebecca Solnit means when she says that ‘the rhythm of walki ng creates a kind of rhythm of thinking\, and the passage through a landsc ape stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts.’ The doodles an d colour express the feelings or emotions that one might shift between whi le aimlessly wandering\, and while your mind is not occupied with any one thing in particular ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2016/11/ASV_HALF-REAL-hi-1.jpg LOCATION:A Small View\, Gostins Arcade\, 32-36 Hanover Street\, Liverpool\, L1 4LN\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.402798;-2.984645 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Gostins Arcade\, 32-36 Hano ver Street\, Liverpool\, L1 4LN\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIU S=100;X-TITLE=A Small View:geo:53.402798,-2.984645 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20161030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR