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MA Show 2008
Introduction
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ART EVENT FEATURING WORK BY POSTGRADUATE ARTISTS AT uNIVERSITY cOLLEGE Falmouth's DARTINGTON campus.
A TWO-DAY FESTIVAL OF CREATIVE FERVENT, SET IN THE BEAUTIFUL DEVON COUNTRYSIDE, PROMOTING DIALOGUE AND CONTAMINATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT ART FIELDS, IN A FIELD.
ARTIST-LED AND CURATORIALLY INNOVATIVE, THE SHOW WILL BE A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE THE WORK OF 17 ARTISTS WORKING IN DIVERSE MEDIA - PERFORMANCE VIDEO DANCE DRAWING OBJECT MUSIC TEXT - IN THE SPACES AND LANDSCAPE OF THE COLLEGE'S stunning campus. THERE WILL BE PLENTIFUL FOOD AND DRINK IN OUR SPECIALLY CONSTRUCTED BAR, AN ARTISTS BOOKFAIR, CURATED WALKS, CHIT CHAT AND SCONES.
For directions to our Dartington campus please see Google maps or 'Travelling to UCF: Dartington campus'.
- This event is associted with the Arts and Ecology MA Show 'Divergence: n50.26 w03.4' in Bristol.
Artists:
Bram Thomas Arnold
Arts and Ecology
Bram Thomas Arnold is an interdisciplinary artist who started with walking and kept going. His source material is always found on foot and then digested; Bram works across site specific performance, installation and intervention seeking ways to interpret the individual nature of experience by reinterpreting, misrepresenting and destabilizing his own perceptions of the world. His translations of experience seek out subtle poetic gestures to enable the dreaming of a more Romantic disposition and considered approach to perception and existence.
Rebecca Beinart
Art and Ecology
Rebecca likes bicycles.
She travels by bike, foot and train. She makes journeys to find out about places. Rebecca wonders what she might discover whilst wandering. She stumbles upon nomadic truths and brazen lies. She is adapting herself and her equipment to transform the encounters she has along the way.
Rebecca likes conversations.
She makes art that pays attention to what the beetle, great-grandmother, or child has to say. She likes making things with people. She listens to stories, and tells them. She is pleased to discover how little she knows. What she finds out is often surprising.
Rebecca likes tea.
She asks her tea where it's been. She likes plants. Smelling them, growing them, eating them. Her artwork investigates how our desires can be answered by what we find around us. She believes that a subtle action can create unexpected ripples.
Rebecca likes small acts of rebellion.
Emma Bennett
Performance Writing
I am an artist working across artforms, making use of performance, video, object and writing. Much of my work explores the activation of narrative through the orchestration of small pieces - be it chunks of language, pieces of toy animal, fragments of footage or small pieces of wood. My current research seeks to reconcile something like a slapstick impulse - a fascination with rhythm, timing, collision, resistance, and structural logic - with a concern for the formal linguistic figures of repetition, imagery and metaphor. Or, I am interested in the way that we can become emotionally involved in the way a chair delicately teeters, as if pausing for breath, before clattering to the floor. My work unfolds as a series of tentative completions -interconnected yet discrete ‘pieces' made in response to a context or brief.
Holly Bodmer
Devised Theatre
Currently I am preoccupied with the notion of falling as a practice of place (in place, from place, out of place, onto place, off place) and as a gesture of self-identity, both lost (slipping between worlds, losing grip) and found (feeling pain, everybody looks at you). I devise solo performances that incorporate personal and not so personal associations and wobble between sincerity and superficiality, the vertical and horizontal. I am interested in the particular bodily appropriations of place and the pedestrian activities (the agitations, hiccups, interruptions, delays and in-between moments) that occur there. I work at piecing and reworking these moments for an audience, in a space, under a title, or as part of something else. My performances often work as a bringing together of different sections and subtitles, diverging and reconnecting to the enquiry.
Previous works have been both studio based and site-specific, devised using various materials: spoken text, projected film clips, repeated gestures, found props, small puppets, personal belongings, small enthusiasms and song lyrics. They feature contrasting moments of performing and non-performing and work to reveal a sense of self-identity from the performer to the audience.
Katy Connor
Contemporary Art Practice and Dissemination
Creative reflection on the moving image and its overwhelming presence in contemporary society currently informs my practice. Appropriating the tools of ‘film-making', I explore new forms of visual narrative and unusual environments for experiencing the work.
Fascinated by this illusive moving form, that can only ever be glimpsed as it floods behind glass or projects across surfaces, I am interested in the capacity of a moving image to visualise patterns of thought and sensation - especially those at the edge of articulation, on the periphery of vision, behind closed eyes.
Stephen Cornford
Visual Performance
I am a sculptor working with music, sound and noise. I use mechanisation to question the assumed identities of instruments, the role of the musician and the industrial production of music.
I borrow strategies from bricolage, process music, kinetic sculpture and the extended technique of free improvisation. I exploit both acoustic phenomena and the electromagnetic relationship between pickup and speaker. I adulterate music by adapting machines.
Lucy Cran
Visual Performance
I am an artist working with performance, video, sound and painting. My work looks at the meanings and processes of communication, with current works looking at notions of expression and sentiment, and how they relate to music genre, and group identities. I am interested in questioning the roles and limits of language and asking: how do we translate experience and what terms are we using?
Rowena Davis
Visual Performance
I am working towards the realisation of the reality of the human condition; an observation, of the transient nature of human life.
Studying the unobserved moments of human emotion, the brief pause of inner reflection, the moment of unselfconscious - even unconscious - consideration, and through this understand the fleeting nature of the human journey.
Each drawing is a frozen moment of time, but a moment distilled; as one second passes and one line is drawn, that line is only true for that second. The next is another moment; a moment divorced from the last record as firmly as past is from future.
Rebecca Egeling
Arts and Ecology
Text under image: Nature - Me - Other - Difference - Entities meet, Confluence
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".
A herd of sheep is a continuous readjustment.
Performance explores transition.
Sofia Greff
Visual Performance
Out of curiosity and fascination about how the apparition of things can change, depending on their relation, I am picturing the contradictions, irritations and astonishments caused by this.
Using all my body parts as instruments together with given materials like space, time, objects, and diverse techniques, etc., my work is to be seen in direct relation to my physical and emotional being. Working situational, my privacy, my fears, my hopes, my embarrassments are finding in each site a new space, new words, new images and a new understanding.
Jane Hodgson
Arts & Ecology
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
Christina Jensen
Choreography
I am a dance artist. I see the world in terms of choreography, bodies moving and being moved, pausing and stuttering, pushing it, pulling you down, sliding across the floor and slow dancing to a smooth beat.
I question how performance can be generated (for example through tasks) and practice generating space and ownership of material with dancers in live performance. I work between the studio and my bedroom floor. I enjoy collaboration with other performers and artists, my process is ultimately a social one. We count together: "5-6-7-8." I am playing with the notion of how we dance together and why we dance alone.
My MA research has lead me from the night club to the wonderful world of social dance, and how that might be integrated into a contemporary dance arts practice. Currently I am considering audience composition and participation within performance- this is new ground for me choreographically.
I am a member of the Explorer Collective, as a dancer I have performed with various choreographers and I have also produced work in Europe and Hong Kong for dance festivals as well as gallery, squat and club contexts. My practice moves between and dabbles in and out of the black box and non-black box venues.
Caroline Keane
Art and Ecology
In my bookworks, I combine poetry, photography and paintings, following the tradition of the Stonecarrier. Through the books, it is possible to welcome others to this ancient practice. I use intention and the physical act of stone placement during the course of my journeys, in order to link with different energy fields. My investigations span ideas from Quantum Physics, Shamanism, and Ecology.
limited edition of 100 copies available.
Anna Keleher
Art and Ecology
Anna Keleher (B.A (Hons) Fine Art, University of Brighton)
Anna interviews fungi, speaks in tongues and collaborates with Claire Long (New Mexico). Through her fluent physical anthropology she creates places of sanctuary, personalising and mythologizing (Jago.K 2008) past, present and potential worlds.
Her post graduate year has seen Anna experimenting with ancient foods, exploring the storage potentials of the moorland bog and churning butter using the motion of her gait.
She has co-orchestrated 'Dartmoor : Approaching an Exchange' - a pilgrimage that potentises elements of our lives, cultures and times. It is a project that creates community from distinct times and places. In June/July 2009 it will be travelling to the University of New Mexico and an archaeological site near Albuquerque, before moving on elsewhere ......
www.axisweb.org/artist/annakeleher
Ellen Kilsgaard
Choreography
I am interested in how the performer, through bodily consciousness, can create a space within her/him self for ‘otherness' to take on momentum, and I am interested in what happens when the performer enters relations to their environment, other performers and the spectators from this inclusive bodily space. What happens when we meet, when we engage with what is different than ‘I'? What kind of attention to movement does an embodied encounter possibly propose? What happens if I consider ‘the music' of an encounter?
I am engaging in collaborations with different artists and their different disciplines, musicians, singers, visual artists and other performance artists to explore intensities in a field of encounters, both as visual, musical and textual expressions.
Eilis Kirby
Arts and Ecology
EAK Enterprises is a cluster of independent and hugely diverse, but fundamentally linked, projects and concerns. Their 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, disrupting fixed lines of thought and promoting the unknown are their ultimate aims. The project was conceived in 1966 and instigated in 1967 when Éilis Kirby was recruited as the first, and only, public representative. However, Éilis was involved in other activities and, thus, not truly focussed on the job until the early nineties when she realised her true calling and assumed her current position.
Doireann Larkin
Arts and Cultural Management
Cases of Curiosity
The objects that clutter up our pockets, our bags, our mantelpieces, the spaces under our beds all hold stories about our lives. A group of contemporary artists from a wide range of disciplines will take pieces of art and pieces of clutter and create a kind of self-portrait in a cabinet of curiosities. We can peer into these cabinets and learn about the artists from the things they choose to represent themselves in their own miniature museums.
Contributing artists:
- Emma Bennett
- Nathan Chenery
- Katy Connor
- Stephen Cornford
- Lucy Cran
- Roz Cran
- Eve Houston
- Nathan Walker
Bill Leslie
Visual Performance
Bill Leslie is a visual artist whose work engages with the texture and materiality of video and performance: speed, surface, sound, colour and spacefullness. Employing practices and imagery from popular culture, visual art, film and video his practice generates associative relations, narratives and images through re-making, re-working, repeating, re-doing, re-acting.
Claire Long
Art and Ecology
Claire's current work explores different forms of ‘Narritory', an invented word she uses to describe ‘the navigation of new territory (physical or metaphorical) through story or narrative'. This new emphasis continues her on-going investigation of interdependence and relationships formed and voiced between people, places, animals and things; the way that people are and become connected to each other, land, territory, other creatures, home, belongings and experiences. Through playful experimentation, action research, an evolving participatory arts practice, radio broadcasts, sound installation, photography and daily-thought drawings, Claire is exploring stories as portals into other worlds, places, and people, paradigms, times past, the future and herself.
Claire has collaborated with Anna Keleher since October, 2007. Their collaborative practice arose from shared interests in archaeology, Dartmoor, walking and sound collection and has evolved through continued exploration of place and site-specific works. Selections from ‘Daily Nested Thoughts'
http://www.clairelongarts.com/
Joan Perkins
Visual Performance
Joan Perkins is making simple arrangements with found objects recorded by video using a little digital compact camera. Objects include scarves, curtains, plants, old books, crockery, ornaments, figurines, bells, pearls, rings, whistles. The work is located in and around home in Devon and sometimes a little further afield. Much of the work is made alone and sometimes performed for an audience. Videos are being developed into single screen diptychs and triptychs in addition to compiling video stills for book-works and prints. Joan Perkins is artist Maddy Pethick who is continuing to work under this name for a bit, following Whippit 3, a recent MA student show when artists, on the spur of the moment, each chose an alias from a found list of names.
www.maddy-pethick.blogspot.com
image: showing rare water plant silk scarves then ringing a bell
Clelia Rinaldi
Visual Performance
Clelia Rinaldi grew up in Brazil, where she steadily worked for many years as performer and musician. Before moving to England in 1997, she had a very intense phase performing in public spaces, developing a work based on improvisation.
Her interest in image - video, photography, painting and drawing - was always present. Clelia has also been a professional art model since adolescence, giving her a unique vision and feeling about time, consciousness and being.
Her work addresses questions of identity, conflict and the relationship between viewer and object. It has strong engagement with the use of the body, and restless enquiry into the dialogue between different visual languages in performance.
Prana Simon
Art and Ecology
A long time ago, at Dartington College, there was a graffiti statement, white on stone and brick, authored and executed by a student's hand that read:
THIS PLACE IS IMPOSSIBLE
It stood for years and some former students and staff still remember it.
I thought: I might resurrect this polemic and try to reveal its layers, with audio and visual archives direct from the participants.
My sampling of the college population was self-selected. Those who wanted to be known against the backround of historic works came forward. Comprehensive? No.
But perhaps a comprehension of what and who was Dartington can still be gained. The how will always be a mystery.
Do come, look, and listen.
MA Platform Show, The Garden Room
Nathan Walker
Visual Performance
Nathan Walker is a homotextual artist who works with live actions, photography and text. Committed to the personal, the uncomfortable and the intimate, his work explores love and memory. Using repetition and endurance, moving and being moved, hard tasks and painful images he explores the relationship between nostalgia and trauma, the remembered and the recurring. His work arranges images, found objects, text and book-works to continue an investigation into visual language, the ephemeral and performing autobiography. Nathan's practice employs a methodology of care (taking care, grief, trouble).
His current interest is focused on antiquated photographic technology, dead technology and dead film stock. The demise of Polaroid / Instant photography / Slide film and Slide projectors. Medium Format Photographs, light leaks, holgaroids, Flags, four letter words and skinheads.
www.nathan-walker.co.uk
www.sighbirdrift.blogspot.com
www.flagmagazine.blogspot.com
Eleanor Wynne Davis
Arts and Ecology
Eleanor is an artist with a broad range of experience both natonally and internationally in community based projects.
She is currently interested in the dynamics of power located in relationship between sound and image. And is about to embark on a tour in North America and Europe as violinist/violist for internationally acclaimed American singer songwriter Michael Bassett.
Recent works:
- Composer performer: ‘The Cock Ridge' film with artist Deborah Jones; Bristol 2008
- Composer performer: ‘Humiliation & Humility' with choreographer/dancer
- Sound installation: ‘Caged' CCANW 2008
- Composer performer: "You Simply were not There" with wordsmith Bram Thomas Arnold CCANW 2008
- Cinematography conceptual-developer: ‘Explaining Power to a Pipeline' with Bram Thomas Arnold; Climate of Change, ACS studios, London, 2007
- Lead violinist with various ensembles
Development work:
- Project Co-ordinator: with G.U.S., India; Proyecto de Ambiental de Tenerife in Cuba; Urban Rural-Link Youth Environmental Projects (South Bristol)
- Project Worker with AZAFADY (Madagascar): international development and environmental and social justice charity.
- Presently Operations Manager with Moor Trees an ecological charity promoting restoration of native woodlands.
Education:
- MSc with Distinction: Rural Resource Management
- BSc (Hons) Environmental Science
From: 25 September 2008
To: 28 September 2008
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