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STATEMENT For 'First Site' I will forensically analyse the evidence of the everyday found on the streets of 'Regent Quarter'. The texts and data gathered from this bottom-up investigation will be presented engraved on brass plaques that will be installed at the precise locations from which the data was gathered. These locations will be selected through research of archaeological reports that document the site and were produced by the developers before demolition work commenced. The use of brass plaques refers specifically to Pontefects' Copper and Brass Foundry, which was built in the 1860's and is one of the buildings that will be redeveloped.

By reshuffling priorities and drawing attention to the otherwise overlooked an illogical system of 'life cycle analysis' is performed. How will the topography of the city change at a particle level? Can the toxicity of the street corner be redeveloped? Does an exploration of the city through this micro scale enable us to re-imagine its invisible histories? Through my ridiculous scrutiny of the stuff between the surface of the pavement and the soles of our shoes, value judgements are questioned by the intervention of the artist in the order of things.

Through collecting and presenting forensic evidence, my work will attempt to reconstruct and trace events at the site. Undoubtedly this investigation of contingency will not lead to conclusions but instead offer a framework through which to reconsider how the material of the city might expose the events performed and histories lived there.

Previous interventions include 'Letting go of the ashes of litter from London in the Seine and the ashes of litter from Paris in the Thames', exhibiting 'Rubbish collected from bathrooms in Las Vegas Casinos' and travelling to Switzerland to produce a work titled 'A newspaper that was purchased in London on December 31st 2001 was burnt in this hut at 2000m in the Swiss Alps on January 1st 2002'.

BIOGRAPHY Hayley Skipper is based in London, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. She works in sculpture, photography, text, video and installation and also works collaboratively. She has been awarded the 'Salvagnac Residency', for which she was commissioned to produce a site-specific sculpture in the Tarn region of France and she curated 'Everyday 'on the make': Theory and Art Practice Now' which was part of the Student Led Seminar Series at Tate Britain.

EXHIBITIONS Recent group exhibitions include 'Nothing' Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden touring to the Mead Gallery, Warwick, UK, 'Nights In #3' Gasworks Gallery, London, 'Kiosk @' The Kiosk Project, London. Solo exhibitions include 'Title in Transit' Arch 295, London and 'Attic' Upstairs at the Clerk's House, London.

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