1,442,666 steps between Frankfurt and Dartington

Monday, 01 September 2008

A global exchange of work highlights Dartington's reputation as an international player in the field of multimedia and performance art.

"1,442,666 STEPS"

BETWEEN FRANKFURT AND DARTINGTON

'1, 442,666 Steps' is an exhibition of Time-Based Art Practices taking place at the Dartington campus from 4 to 6 September 2008. It takes its title from the factual distance counted in footsteps between the Atelier Rafi Gallery in Frankfurt, Germany and the Shippon Studios of the Dartington Campus, University College Falmouth. The title suggests not only the fictive ‘performative' act of walking, and of distance between these two places, but also of steps taken and distances crossed within this artistic exchange, both culturally and politically.

The exhibition builds on a unique international exchange between artists currently based in South West England and artists living and working in Frankfurt and the Rhein-Main Area of Germany. In July 2008, MA students and staff from the Dartington Campus travelled to Germany and exhibited their work over three days at Atelier Rafi Gallery Space in Frankfurt. In exchange, on the 4, 5 and 6 September, six German artists will exhibit under the same title at the Dartington campus in Devon: Sofia Greff, Karin Hoerler, Vollrad Kutscher, Ahmad Rafi, Roza Rueb and Angelika Schroeder.

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This artistic endeavour highlights the College's reputation as an international centre for contemporary artistic exchange, dialogue and exhibition: there will be three days of substantial, provocative and exciting work; including installation, video, performance, drawing, and text works along with video screenings, live events and the opportunity to hear artists discuss their work.

The concept for the exhibition (the fourth event in the series ‘Taste of Place' presentations at Atelier Rafi) has been realized by Ahmad Rafi, Artist and Curator of Atelier Rafi Gallery in Frankfurt, Germany; and co-organised by current MA Visual Performance student and artist, Sofia Greff, and artist and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Dartington, Gillian Wylde.

Gillian Wylde described the project as "the most exciting opportunity for emerging artists to extend their practice, stimulated by the journey and by two different cultural contexts".

In April 2008, University College Falmouth merged with Dartington College of Arts to create a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing.

The merger will pave the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall in 2012 creating a Higher Education institution unique to the South West.

University College Falmouth is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.

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For further information about this media release, please contact either Gillian Wylde: g.wylde@dartington.ac.uk

or Julia Burdett, Communications Manager, Dartington Campus, University College Falmouth.

Telephone: 00 44 (0)1803 861610; or email: j.burdett@dartington.ac.uk

For further information about MA courses at University College Falmouth, Dartington Campus, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/performancema; email admissions@dartington.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01803 862224.

For further information about University College Falmouth, please contact Jilly Easterby, Head of Public Affairs, Telephone: 00 44 (0)1326 213792; or email: jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk

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