Events
Divergence: n50.26 w03.41
8:00am to 6:00pm, 1 October 2008 to 5 October 2008 - Every day
- Arnolfini Bookshop, 16 Narrow Quay - Star and Dove Contemporary Artspace 75-78 St. Lukes Rd, Totterdam, Bristol - The Cube Microplex Cinema, 4 Princess Row, Bristol - Eastside Roots community garden, Stapleton Rd, Easton
Introduction
MA Arts and Ecology. Bristol. October 1st - 5th 2008.
Featuring performance, social sculpture, works on paper, audio, film and installation at the Star and Dove Contemporary Artspace, the Cube Microplex, and various other locations across Bristol.
Displaying the work of an exciting generation of artists, the show is a dynamic mix of works exploring individual relationships to place. Through a broad array of interactions, interventions and experiments the artists explore narratives, journeys and communication whilst using a host of methods to archive their experiences and expose them to new audiences.
With a focus on ecology and place, this pioneering MA programme encourages students to investigate new territories through in-depth exploration. Using methodologies and philosophies not usually associated with the arts, the artists have utilized art as research throughout this course.
For directions to show venues please see Google maps.
Exhibition and Events Schedule
Wednesday 1 - Sunday 5 October
- 'Bristol: If You'd like to....", Arnolfini Bookshop, 16 Narrow Quay, Wed 10am - 6pm, Thur - Sun 10am - 8pm. Tel: 0117 917 2304
Thursday 2 - Sunday 5 October
- Exhibition at The Star and Dove Contemporary Artspace 75-78 St. Lukes Rd, Totterdam, Bristol, Tel: 0117 300 3712
Wednesday 1st October
- 7 - 9 pm Exhibition Opening (exhibition runs through Sunday 5th October), The Star and Dove Contemporary Artspace
Thursday 2nd October
- 2 - 6 pm 'Bristol:If You'd Like To....' performative stroll with interactive sound sculpture, leaving from the Arnolfini to walk along the docks.
- 7 - 10 pm, Presentations, live performance and Films, The Cube Microplex Cinema, 4 Princess Row, Bristol, Tel: 0117 907 4190
Saturday 5th October
- 2 - 5 pm, Grand Foraged Tea Event, Eastside Roots community garden, Stapleton Rd, Easton
For more information visit the show website.
- This event is associted with University College Falmouth's Dartington campus MA show 'MASHOW'.
Artists:
Bram Thomas Arnold
For Divergence: n50.26 w3.41 Bram Thomas Arnold has produced 2 large scale drawing works that use manipulated photocopies to lead the viewer through an intricate web of processes; those actions, occurrences and real histories that exist within Bram's work. Playing with ideas of cartography and circuit boards, symbols and semiotics Bram alludes to both the happened, the happening and the still to happen, the real and the fake, dreams, realities and potentialities. And although the work suggests an elaborate system of understanding he leaves the formulation of any explanation or 'key' to the individual viewer.
Rebecca Beinart
Rebecca Beinart will be touring Bristol with the Tea Potential Mobile Experiment throughout August and September. The adapted bicycle will seek out essential ingredients for a tea party: water; fuel; plants to brew up; and company. For Divergence: n50.26 - w3.41 Rebecca will present the findings of the experiment at the Cube Cinema, revealing the Tea Potential of the city. There will also be a Grand Foraged Tea event at Eastside Roots community garden.
Eleanor Wynne Davis
Olrhain: Trace and Retrieve....
An exploration in sound of invisible lines, transitory swallows, buried pipelines, crossing paths, migration and movement; of a journey that began a decade ago in the mountains of Wales. This journey continues today, crossing disciplines and continents.
For Divergence: n50.26 w3.41 Eleanor Wynne Davis will present her findings as compositional foray: a live performance with violin/viola, looping, found sound and poetry.
Eleanor is an artist and musician with a broad range of experience both nationally and internationally in community based projects. She gained a BSc in Ecology and then went on to complete her MSc Rural Resource Management, University of Wales Bangor.
Rebecca Egeling
Nature - Me - Other - Difference - Entities meet - Confluence is the documentation of the "Outdoor Performance" that happened on Dartmoor in November 2007. Questioning the reproducibility and the re-presentation of a live event, the editing combines still images and film material in order to produce a second Original. Rebecca Egeling is a skilful dancer who works with environmental themes as a starting point for a physical and theoretical exploration. Rebecca's contextually and theoretically engaged performance formats produce ideas that dream.
Jane Hodgson
An Antipodean Expedition
(Antipodes are two locations, exactly opposite one another across the globe, as if one drove a stake through the middle of the earth). The idea that where one stands here, on this earth, has an opposite, insists one contemplates time, space and place. I am curious to look at similarities... and differences - while one antipode is sleeping the other working. While one is in winter the other summer. While one is today, the other yesterday.
At the MA show in Dartington, and The Star and Dove in Bristol I will be showing some of my investigations in to the staple food of my chosen antipodes: Namibia and Hawaii. Work will include an installation and video.
Jane has a BA (Hons), Fine Art, 2005 and will graduate from the MA Arts & Ecology at Dartington in 2008. She lives and works in Devon.
www.Janehodgson.co.uk
07973 709902
jane@janehodgson.co.uk
Anna Keleher and Claire Long
Approaching an Exchange: Dartmoor is a short film by Claire Long and Anna Keleher, documenting a series of group visits to an archaeological site on Dartmoor. This participatory project approaches an intercultural, intertemporal "exchange" with the original inhabitants of a Bronze Age settlement in Dartmoor National Park. The work addresses and presses against boundaries of time and preconceptions of past peoples through the metaphor of exchange. The film brings the site-based work to a broader audience. Claire Long (New Mexico) and Anna Keleher (Devon) have been collaborating since October, 2007.
Cara Keane
Caroline Keane Cara's latest book describes her personal story and stone carrying history and how her experiences have taken her across the world. By relating image and rhythm in the form of narrative prose, poetry, photographs and watercolours Cara explores the potential of this powerful shamanic consciousness tool and attempts through artistic medium to share her journeys. Cara trained with Ehama Institute in California in Earth Wisdom and Ceremony and learned the tradition of Stonecarrier from Zimbabwe and the United States. This practice relates to the power of intention inherent within these ancient practices of indigenous people and spans ideas from Quantum physics, Shamanism and Ecology. Her current community involvement is with children in West Devon and the Eden project.
Eilis Kirby
EAK Enterprises is a cluster of independent, diverse, yet fundamentally linked, projects and concerns. It's activities range from publishing and public engagement events to postcard production and archiving; from the poetic to the pragmatic; from the imaginative to the instructive; and from the intangible to the informational. Stimulating the brain and disrupting fixed lines of thought are their ultimate aims. The project was conceived in 1966 and instigated in 1967 when Eilis Kirby was recruited as the first, and only, public representative. However, Eilis was involved in other activities and not truly focused on the job until the early nineties when assumed her current position.
Claire Long and Anna Keleher
Bristol: If you'd like to...is an audio installation to be enjoyed by people of all ages. It's strong adaptive potentials allow it to survive diverse habitats and climates. Anna Keleher and Claire Long have playfully devised an invitation that allows empathetic leaps into parallel universes, glimpses into imagined worlds. Based on the familiar phone options format this fun, participatory piece is set to flex, stretch, and re-jig patterns of thought and culture into new and surprising constellations for the 21st Century. Anna and Claire's collaboration explores archaeology of place, sound and culture.
Richenda Macgregor
Wunderkammer
During the summer of 2008, Richenda worked with various collaborators, researching their personal response to place and the environment they found themselves in. The work generated, explored and documented the relationship between Artist, Collaborator, Tools, Environment and Materials. Archived and catalogued, a trace of the interaction now forms part of an exhibition. The audience is invited to research and conduct their own investigation through the use of an artists filing system and display cabinets. Richenda is a skilled Maker specialising in ceramics and glass, and has substantial experience within the Applied Arts, Exhibiting and Teaching, Facilitating groups and Community Art.
Contact : - Arnolfini Bookshop: 0117 917 2304 - Star and Dove Contemporary Artspace: 0117 300 3712 - The Cube Microplex Cinema: 0117 907 4190
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