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Hour
Tim Wainwright and Chris Letcher
Date: Saturday 9th January 2010
Time: 10.00-22.00
Hour is a collaboration between the visual artist Tim Wainwright and composer Chris Letcher. It started out as a one-hour film that explored the process of contemplation using abstract imagery and a composed surround-sound soundtrack and premiered at this years City of London Festival. Contemplation in this instance is defined as a way of knowing that complements the rational, the irrational and the sensory. It is a knowing through silence, a looking inward, a witnessing of the contents of our consciousness, and so forth, without any essential imposition of a religious doctrine.
For the installation at The Nunnery, the film will show for 12 hours and develop ideas that have emerged from the original piece. It will consider the relationship between the body and the mind, between the conscious and unconscious, and ultimately between the visual and the sonic. The image track and the sound track will exist as separate hour-long loops, of slightly different lengths. Consequently, every sequence of images over the 12-hour period will combine with a new sequence of sound. Like the relationship between the mind and the body, the sonic will at times appear to be working in sympathy with the visual, while at other times, this relationship will seem to be conflicted.
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About Now MMX
William Raban
Preview: Friday 22nd January 6.30-9.00
Forum with William Raban: Saturday 23rd January at 2.00pm
Exhibition runs to 31st January, Saturday and Sunday’s 1.00-5.00pm
Viewing by appointment at other times.
Contact: 07958 672 385.
William Raban has been making a new film ‘ABOUT NOW MMX’ as part of his artist in residency at the Balfron Tower. The film constructs a cinematic map to reveal connections between the various architectural, transport and social networks that constitute the city of London.
The exhibition opening on 22nd January includes film rushes, photographic collages and notes from the project as well as drawings and film produced as part of the residency’s community outreach programme.
William is the second artist to have a Bow Arts Trust residency in Flat 123 Balfron Tower. Residencies are for 3 months culminating in an event or exhibition.
The residency is made possible through the partnership between the Bow Arts Trust and Polar HARCA.
Location:
123 Balfron Tower, St Leonard’s Road. London E14 0QT. [21st Floor]
Exhibition dates:
PV: Friday 22nd January
Saturday and Sunday 23/24 January 1.00-5.00 Forum-Saturday 23rd from 2.00-3.00pm
Saturday and Sunday 30/31 January 1.00-5.00
Exhibition runs to 31 January - viewing by appointment at other times - phone: 07958 672385.
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Chopsticks Optional
John Walter and Corinne Felgate
Private View and Performance Thursday 14th January 2010- 6.00-9.00pm
Chopsticks Optional’ is an exhibition about boundaries, about collaboration and crossovers between two very different practices. It is also the pseudonym for the collective work of Corinne Felgate and John Walter.
In investigating their personal and professional friendship, Felgate and Walter have pooled their skills and ideas to produce a multitude of new works. These include artist’s books, costumes, paintings, performances, photographs and sculptures. After establishing a collaborative language, they expanded their practice further, working photographer Ollie Harrop and then with 8 performers from The London Contemporary Dance School.
In another contextthe body of work they have produced might be considered a fashion collection with corresponding catwalk show. Hawever, in the context of the Nunnery each piece becomes a performance and a non-replicable ‘one-off’, treading the line between art and fashion. ‘Chopsticks Optional’, therefore, considers both the boundaries of the individual artists’ practices and those of art itself.
The two artists devised the project as a potential antidote to the prevailing trends within the London art scene; they are discombobulated by the repetitive references to Modernism and the Haiku-like conceptualism which abounds; instead they offer a heady maximalism; visually luxurious, loaded with art historical references but also charged with humour and wit.
http://chopsticksoptional.blogspot.com/
THURSDAY JANUARY 14 TH - PRIVATE VIEW AND PERFORMANCE- 6-9PM
(by invitation)
SATURDAY JANUARY 16TH - COCKTAIL AFTERNOON 1-5 PM
see the exhibition and view documentation of the opening night accompanied by a beverage
SUNDAY JANUARY 17TH - MOVIE MARATHON 12-8PM
The artists select and screen films that have influenced the show
SATURDAY JANUARY 23RD - ARTIST’S TALK & CRAFTERNOON 1-5 PM
Felgate and Walter discuss their individual and collective practice and lead a making session.
SUNDAY JANUARY 24TH - CLOSING FEAST 1-5PM
Join the artists along with their collaborators for a celebratory closing feast.
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Already Dead
BALFRON TOWER PROJECT SPACE
123 Balfron Tower E14
Private View:
Friday 5th February 6 -9 pm
Robert Crosse presents his first major solo exhibition with the generous support of Bow Arts Trust.
Exhibition continues in Balfron Tower 6th-14th February
Already Dead is an ontological study that challenges our perceptions of independence and control. How de we relate to those around us and how do our perceptions and expectations inform our decisions of others.
Robert’s work utilises the subjective view of the camera to encourage the viewer to question what they are looking at. This is achieved by concealing or revealing part of the information, highlighting specific aspects that emphasise a particular point of view. Through the use of both photography and videos he explores his surroundings drawing on his own experiences and observations.
Open Saturday and Sunday 12:00 – 16:00 pm
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i swore i sore
Preview: Thursday 25th February 6.30-9.00pm
Continues: Friday26th -Sunday 28th February 10-6pm
Preview: Thursday 4th March 6.30-9.00
Continues: Friday 5th March-Sunday 7th March 10-6pm
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception
Aldous Huxley
i swore i sore is a group exhibition of new work by artists from the MA at Wimbledon College of Art. In different ways and across disciplines, the exhibition reveals a shared approach to practice characterised by experimentation, risk-taking and open enquiry.
i swore i sore comprises two separate but related exhibitions across two weeks. It takes place at an exciting stage part-way through the MA programme, and reflects a collective desire to constantly question, reevaluate and refine artistic practice.
For more info see the i sore i swore facebook page -
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281763429599&ref=mf
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Moments of Repetition
Jill Townsley
Private View 19.03.10 from 6.30pm
Exhibition Continues 20.03.10-0304.10
This exhibition by Jill Townsley, is a culmination of work carried out over the last four years, as part of her research into the role of repetition in the process of art production. Each of the artworks explore ideas of repetitive labour and its significance to the art object. The exhibition consists of sculpture, video, film drawing and installation.
All the works are an accumulation of hundreds of hours of repeated actions. Mind bogglingly tedious and insignificant actions repeated thousand of times. Actions such as: looping wire, scribbling, gluing polystyrene beads or tying 3 spoons together with a rubber band 3,091 times.
Some work exists only in the moment, temporally changing, a culmination of moments, repeating over time. Some works are a result of thousands of unstable repeated units, each precariously balanced on one another to make a whole sculpture. Other works are only offered as a record of process, exploring time in a virtual or parallel timeframe.
The body of work describes the logical application of repetitive process, illogically extended beyond the usual limits, producing work that sometimes in the end destroys itself, while still being generative of new and often surprisingly beautiful moments.
www.jilltownsley.com
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Incidentally
Yvonne Lammerich & Joan Key
Exhibition Dates 09.04.10-09.05.10
Exhibition open Friday -Sunday 1.00-6.00pm
First Thursday Event: Incidentally Concert 6th May 7.00pm
Performance notes:
http://www.bowarts.org/studios/newsletters/64.doc
Angharad Davis (violin) , Anton Lukoszevieze (cello) , Ian Mitchell , David Ryan (clarinets) and Tim Parkinson (melodica & percussion) will perform works by Lawrence Crane, Richard Emsley, Joan key, Tim Parkinson, Markus Trunk.
This concert takes place in the context of an exhibition of paintings by Yvonne Lammerich and Joan Key. Music, or reference to compositional notation, is used as a resource in works by both these artists to suggest the fragile or destabilised presence of ‘incident’.
Some of the works in the concert result from Key’s collaborations/exchanges with Richard Emsley and Anton Lukoszevieze over the last decade, but the selection of the programme generally presents a strand of contemporary British composition that pursues experimentation in notation, instrumentation and approach to performance where visual concepts offer productive metaphors.
Free admission
Exhibition information
Both Joan Key and Yvonne Lammerich present encounters that persist as live and resonant, accentuating viewing as incident. Key’s paintings “link abstract form and graphic notation to explore ways in which the picture can be viewed as an event”. Through installation and painting, Lammerich explores the gaps and discrepancies between the real and the apparent.
Joan Key lives and works in London. Recent group exhibitions include ‘Travelogue’, One in the Other, London (2008); ‘The Walls in Three Places’, White Nave Trust, Charlton Shopping Centre, Dover (2008).
Key also develops performances and compositions that explore parallels between the visual and sound. Recent projects include ‘Performance for Tania Chen’, performed by Tania Chen, Café Oto, London, (2009); ‘On Instructions from MD’, a composition for six performers, commissioned and performed by Apartment House for ‘Sound Waves Festival’, organised by BMIC, Brighton Pavilion Theatre (2008).
Yvonne Lammerich lives and works in Toronto. Current projects include ‘DIYS’, a proposal for a virtual museum (2009). Recent exhibitions include ‘Belief’, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, (solo, 2008); ‘Abitation’, Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta (collaboration with Ian Carr-Harris, 2008).
‘Incidentally’ is curated by Sotiris Kyriacou.
Images:
Joan Key, Cloud, 2008, Oil on canvas
Time Lines, 2009, Oil on canvas
Yvonne Lammerich
Abitation, 2008 (detail), wood, paint
Black, 2008 (detail) , Acrylic on canvas
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DIY Taxidermy - Charlie Tuesday Gates
Private view and performance: Thursday 3rd June, 7 - 9pm
Exhibition continues: Friday 4th - Sunday 6th June, 1 - 5 pm.
Bringing together science, intuition and disturbing curiosity, Charlie Tuesday Gates will be slicing and reviving animals you have grown to know and love, right in front of your very eyes…. But there is far more to see than experimental taxidermy! Bizarre and surreal sculptures drawn from uncanny subconscious ramblings.... internal opposites and peculiar familiarities…. dark humour twists the natural with the artificial as beauty and death collide with nostalgia and borderline insanity. Materials are picked up off the street, dug from the ground, and boiled in microwaves, making provocative, uncomfortable, yet intriguingly extraordinary macabre assemblages. BYO road kill and you could end up taking a bit of the magic back home with you!
Visit Charlie's Blog
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Can You Hear it?
Curated by Franko B
Private View: Friday 25th June, 7-9 pm.
Exhibition continues: 26th June - 25th July, Fri - Sun, 1 - 5pm.
Can You Hear It? is this year’s open exhibition from Bow Arts Trust. Franko B has selected new work from 22 artists to become, what he describes as, “an orchestra of different voices”. The selected works use absence, silence and miniaturisation to tell their stories. The exhibition features a broad range of artistic practice, including performance, painting, video, photography and sculpture by artists based in East London. Can You Hear It? features new work by Ron Athey, Kim Baker, Mick Bateman, G Roland Biermann, Jack Brown, Gordon Cheung, Robert Crosse, Hector de Gregorio, Nicolas Deshayes, Lee Edwards, Kris Emmerson, Dave Farnham, Michele Fletcher, Joe Graham, Steph Hurst, Alastair Levy, Robert Luzar, Kyejung Park, India Ritchie, Benjamin Walker and Alice Woodhouse.
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