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The Cruelest Day to be shown as part of WELD, will be a performance centred on an installation in the gallery of my family’s Christmas tree. It will allude to worlds beyond the gallery, to narratives that may or may not have happened. Through the gentle humour of the bizarre tree the work is likely to be uncanny, perhaps even unsettling. Much of my work invokes memory. It is as much about absence, what we don’t know as about what we do. The audience is left to fill in the gaps in the story…
WELD
A weekend of performance, film & installation hosted by CAZ (artist-led space) in the basement of the Exchange, Penzance.
Artists:
Sara Aziz
Ilker Cineral
Paul Farmer
Ann Haycock
Kirsty Smith
Veronica Vickery
Opening event:
Friday 24th February 2012, 7pm - 9pm
free drinks - come and join us.
CAZ autonomous zone project
Springs Farm portfolio
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'It was then that' 2011 (right)
Oil on canvas, triptych (overall 3m x1.2m)
An ongoing project arising from an investigation of derelict homes in West Cornwall. A series of paintings, an 'estate agency' www.boshomes.co.uk, writing & photographic research...
25/5
25/5 is a piece of work installed in the stream above River Cove, part of Encounters a series of installations by four artists in and around the landscape at Treveal Farm Zennor, courtesy of the National Trust.
Encounters used the immediate surroundings to look at wider contextual issues of preservation and conservation, tourism and the construction and/or appropriation of cultural identity.
This Weekend...?
This Weekend...? A series of six site-specific installations/events across Cornwall during the Summer of 2009.
BOSarts commisioned artists to undertake a period of research leading to a 'Weekend' - something fleeting, transcient and playful. Artists were asked to respond to researching these sites from the multiple view points of people who use them exploring the imbalances often experienced between residents, tourists, landowners and institutions.
Photo: from 'There Was' Continental Breakfast at Cape Cornwall 26th/27th Sept
Context: nostalgia, poetics or politics?
Seminar, Zennor, Sept 2009
This seminar brought together artists and people from across a range of disciplines to look at what could be said to be an increasingly contested territory: the rural. The seminar explored an approach to practice that sites itself amidst the complexities of context, that concerns itself with questions beyond the specificity of place: change, complexity, systems and power relations.
Photo: Chris Freemantle giving talk entitled 'Soil v2.0'
You can read his paper here.
'Contextually sited practice in rural areas'
Essay Jan 09: click here to read
The article proposes that practice in a rural area is diverse and inter-texual, and cannot be adequately defined in terms of its rurality or by a juxtaposition with the urban:
'So what is happening in the far flung cliff tops and hills of this land? There is no one thing that could be said to embody practice in a rural area – the processes and outcomes are as diverse as practice in any city. However they do seem to have critical processes, artist strategies in common that are often a response to the challenges of working in peripheral locations… '
This article was commissioned by artcornwall.org
The Bosigran Project - BOS08
A year-long commissioned residency with the National Trust in West Cornwall based at Bosigran Farm Zennor. The residency led to a collaboration with three other regional artists Rebecca Weeks, Ian Whitford & Andy Whall and a three week programme of site-specific & artist-led events, performances, installations and an associated educational programme. It was the fore-runner of BOSarts.
The artist as cultural agent: DIY (people, places and spaces)
Seminar at Treveal, Bosigran & Zennor, Sept 08 (part of the The Bosigran Project).
click here for a-n article
The 3-day seminar asked questions relating to how artists approach creating contexts for making work, both in terms of places and spaces, but also developing relationships across a range of dialogues and partnerships. Speakersincluded Jenny Savage, Jane Atkinson and Marcus Coates (artists), Paul Bonnington (archaeologist, National Trust) and Dr Caitlin DeSilvey (cultural geographer, University of Exeter).
Photo: Jon Brookes (West Penwith Property Manager NT) chairs the session in a rather unusual setting... in the barn at Bosigran Farm, with Caitlin DeSilvey. Caitlin talked with us about her project curating discarded material remains in a Montana homestead.