Run to Run installation by Hannah Millest is a reaction against the passive art-gallery audience. Run to Run creates a world where we are encouraged to participate in the vision of the artist. The animated stories are portrayed by stop-motion stick figures on post-it notes. These stick figures are driven by mechanisms that require the participant to exert themselves by skimming, running, pulling, cycling or spinning. It's an
intrinsic process between the work of art and the spectator, and it's a medium to escape even for a moment from the mundanity of life, ad tedium.
My personal favourite installation was the run to run where the animation is linked to a running platform that detects movement. To run is a rejection of death, to run we aim to keep fit so that we don't turn into an idle vegetable, to run a 100m in 9.34 seconds we aim to stretch human feats, to run in a gallery we aim to reject the elite apathetic scene. It's also fun. Hannah uses ordinary tools such as a bicycle, a rope, vinyls and creates interesting uses for them. Hannah's work is simple, straight-forward and fun. So, if you'd like to play, check it out at The Bussey Building tomorrow.