Response
October 20, 2010
RESPONSE
video – installation – performance
This coming Friday (22nd October) 6.30 to 10 p.m.
Performances will be continuous throughout the evening.
Admission Free – bring your friends, warm clothing and a torch.
Continues on Saturday and Sunday 10 to 5 pm
Only via admission to the fort (£3.50)
Includes periodic performances.
At Landguard Fort, Felixstowe
VIDEO WORKS: Carol Gant; Tamar Nissim (Israel)
INSTALLATIONS: Mel Donohoe; Helen Lydia Green; Emma Johnson;
Michael Lumb; Linda Theophilus
PERFORMANCES: Ervin Babic (Bosnia & Herzegovina); Nenad Bogdanovic (Serbia);
Pasko Burdelez (Croatia); Mel Donohoe; Jane Dudman (Carlisle);
Dawn Rose; Helen Lydia Green; Paul Grimmer (Newcastle);
Dominik Jałowiński (Poland); Beni Kori (Israel, – b.Turkey); Michael Lumb;
Tamar Nissim (Israel); Iza Tarasewicz (Poland); Helena Walsh (Ireland).
AND ‘guest student’ Elena Italia (Italy – Norwich School of Art)
SATURDAY includes Student Platform: Emmi Edwards (UCS)
SUNDAY includes guest performance artist Di Clay and
Where not stated, artists are from the region.
NATURE OF THE WORKS
All works will be made specifically for this event. Other than the title ‘Response’ the curators prefer not to set a theme but to give the artists complete freedom although the nature of the work that the artists produce indicates coherence. However, the artists have been encouraged to explore the building (in some cases this will be through web images) and make work that considers and is empathetic to the building as well as demonstrating an awareness of the proximity to the shoreline and container port.
In particular, a number of the artists come from troubled countries. This is born out in the work of Israeli Tamar Nissim who says: –
“My work is political and personal.
I use my body and my personal memories as my pallet of colours.
I live in Tel Aviv a modern city but I speak in the language of the bible.
I feel that I live a normal life and raise my children in a quiet neighbourhood but I’m a woman in a military culture, I am in the middle of endless conflict.
All the conflicts and duality that I experience are becoming part of my work.”
For those from countries that were part of Yugoslavia, only they can know the pain of the memories of those horrendous years of war.
It seems particularly fitting or on the contrary, maybe ironic, that they should be making art in a military Fort.
Curated by Helen Lydia Green & Michael Lumb for GRIP.
asylum open studios
May 7, 2010
Pictures From an Exhibition
November 16, 2009
The Map as Art
Christopher Henry Gallery, New York
November 5, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Exhibition Opening 5th November
November 3, 2009
Map as Art
October 28, 2009
The Map as Art
October 22, 2009
“Dislocation”
will be featuring in the forthcoming exhibition
The Map as Art
Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, christopherhenrygallery.com
Start date: 05-Nov-2009
End date: 10-Jan-2010
Exhibition at The Christopher Henry Gallery, New York to accompany the launch of curator and author
Katharine Harmon’s new book;
THE MAP AS ART: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography (Princeton Architectural Press)
Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth Street NY, NY 10013. T 212.244.6004
POINTS OF REFERENCE
October 6, 2009
Landguard Fort, Felixstowe
4th April – 4th May 2009
This exhibition looks at the creative aspects of recycling, deconstructing and re-building found reference materials (books, maps, etc) into artworks.
Emma uses objects, images, and text to explore recurring themes such as the fragmented nature of memory, time and history. Found objects are reconstructed into artworks which often have a defined structural or ‘architectural’ form relating to the space they inhabit, but also standing as a tangible and symbolic presence of the information contained within (books, maps, letters, etc).
The exhibition brings together a series of installations and sculptures dealing with issues of deconstruction and transformation and the ambiguity of communication, and will also include an ongoing series of work dealing with maps, their imagery and concepts. A series of maps and atlases have been painstakingly ‘dissected’ by the artist, revealing a radically altered visual and physical structure.
Against the Grain
A floor-based installation made out of large quantities of folded paperback books. Deals with issues of deconstruction and transformation, the recycling of materials, and the ambiguity of text – as well as the obsessive repetitive actions used in the making of the work.
Dislocation: Landguard, 2009
Images from the residency at Landguard Fort, April 2009.
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