forthcoming events
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May
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RESIDENCY: Suze Adams
1st-27th May
Corpus: the main body, section or substance of something
In her position as an artist, Suze Adams explores the interface between people and place examining connections between an experience of landscape and the forces (human and non-human) that shape the environments we encounter. Her research crystallises in the form of still and moving imagery, sound, text and performance and often incorporates objects in order to allude to other times, other places and other people.
Focusing on temporality and the curious co-incidence of presence and absence in the experiential landscape, Suze’s work oscillates between the actual and the remembered, the past and the present. Personal preoccupations include: the space between interior and exterior landscapes; notions of ‘home’ and inhabitation; and embodiment/multi-sensory experience. In her work, Suze traces a delicate line between the physical and psychological, documentation and poetry, fact and fiction.
For the past five years, projects have largely focused on locations in Gloucestershire and the Hebridean Isle of Mull – Gloucestershire being her regular domicile and Mull her migrant base. At Meantime, Suze will be engaging with the large collection of photographs, films, writings, objects and archival material she has gathered whilst exploring her ancestral connections on Mull. She will be examining how these artefacts (and the many memories they embody) might come together to reflect something of the island. A loose process that might be considered an installation in flux ... an evolving work that she hopes will prompt questions, invite comment and encourage discussion.
Suze Adams is an independent research artist. She is an Associate Lecturer in Visual Culture at UWE Bristol, an active member of PLaCE Research Centre and founder member of Space Place Practice.
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EVENTS:
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Monday 30 April, 7.30pm: Introductory presentation and screening of Women Without Men directed by Sherin Neshat.
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Sunday 13 May, 1.30pm: Method & Methodology – a walk led by Suze Adams
Brackenbury Ditches is the name given to an Iron Age Hill Fort above Wotton-under-Edge. The camp is located in woodland above the town and is a place Suze has examined on a regular basis over the past five years, documenting seasonal change and, over time, becoming intimately acquainted with the site - this is a location to which she is regularly drawn, a location she continues to explore.
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Thursday 24th May: Discussion and viewing event, 7.30pm
An opportunity to view the evoloving project followed by Suze Adams in conversation with Victoria Walters from PLaCE Research Centre, UWE, Bristol, and Sarah B, Project Co-Ordinator, Meantime - opening out into Q & A.
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Saturday 26 May, 10.30 – 3.30pm: Corpus: Open invitation to view the work.
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Centred for the Cotswolds, in association with MEANTIME, presents an off-site project: ‘England’s Most Complete Regency Town and Its Calorific Power’*
Free Guided Walk
Friday 18th May 2012, 4.30-6.30pm
Meeting point: Tourist Information Centre - 77 Promenade, Cheltenham, GL50 1PJ at 4.30pm / Skittles at the Adam and Eve, Townsend Street, Cheltenham at 7.30pm
Light snacks will be provided at the Adam and Eve
‘Today its period charms and elegant architecture attract a well-heeled class of resident, and the leafy crescents, beautifully proportioned terraces, wrought-iron balconies and expansive parks are kept in top-notch condition.’
(Cheltenham, Lonely Planet, 2009)
‘...a resort of the lame and lazy, the gourmandising and guzzling, the bilious and nervous. Cheltenham is a nasty, ill- looking place, half clown and half cockney’
(Rural Ride by William Cobbett, 1821)
Cheltenham is caught between preserving the spectacle of its ‘respectable’ past and aspiring to a future of redevelopment. Taking the grand facades of ‘England’s Most Complete Regency Town’ as a starting point, this tour will take you on a discursive journey into the past, present and future of the town that never reaches completion. This is backstage to the theatre of Regency England, and the tour will show the historical buildings as theatre props around which new developments have been built.
See here for more information or email centredforcotswolds@hotmail.com
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MEANTIME OFFSITE @ SITE FESTIVAL, STROUD
26th and 27th May, 11am - 5pm
Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud, GL5 3AP (through the car-park at Stroud railway station)
A Preliminary Consultation for Tactile Love Propaganda
Kate Lepper will be preparing studies for her MEANTIME residency in June with a weekend satellite project at SITE Festival to consider:
What is the relationship between object-based art practice and social responsibility? Is there political meaning in an artist’s will to proliferate well-being via aesthetic objects alone? What can the desire to generate visual nourishment via aesthetic propositions offer ‘real’ world strategies to visualise and realise alternatives?
http://www.sitefestival.org.uk/
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MEANTIME + MEZZ + SITE: Advice sessions for artists working with the moving image, Tuesday 29th May
In association with Mezz and SITE Festival, MEANTIME Projects is providing opportunities for South West-based artists working with the moving image (no longer in full-time education) to meet Benjamin Cook, Director of LUX, for one-to-one advice sessions on Tuesday 29th May. See here for further information and application process - deadline extended to Tuesday 15th May.
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FILM SCREENING: Zelig (Woody Allen/1983/79mn)
Thursday 31st May, 8pm
Free admission.
Zelig is Woody Allen’s classic 1983 “mockumentary” exploring the life of the titular human chameleon.
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June
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RESIDENCY: Kate Lepper - Tactile Love Propaganda
4th - 30th June
The spectrum that extends from an individual's state of mind and experience, to political 'real' world organisation and structure is difficult to articulate. As is the relationship between an artist's individual aesthetic experience in the studio and ethical decisions made in daily life.
Kate Lepper's practice seeks to make connections across this strata by playfully exploring an expanded 'usefulness' of the art object whilst simultaneously embracing absurdity within the aesthetic realm. Ultimately driven by an enthusiasm to generate and propagate public well-being through a particularly tactile sensibility, Lepper's work raises questions about mutuality between artist, work and viewer, and the efficacy of those relationships.
'Tactile Love Propaganda' is a manifestation of Lepper's ongoing project 'Visual Nutrition', an investigation into the negotiated territory between aesthetic desire and political ideal. Visual Nutrition is an artistic mobilisation of holistic healthcare principles, vegan ethics and an idiosyncratic analysis of the political economy of material, in an attempt to rationalise the necessary negotiation of artistic and ethical preference.
From an interest in the romantic tradition of wilderness as stand in for human imagination, instruments of psychic communication as well as the historical and contemporary legacy of psychedelic political activism, 'Tactile Love Propaganda' attempts to play with the relationship between individual state-of-mind experience, art object and the will to influence an individual's political worldview.
In residency at MEANTIME, Lepper will be exploring interactive objects and working on a text to formally articulate her explorations, with the following questions in mind:
Can an object be loving toward viewers?
If so, can that 'loving' be extrapolated as a political gesture?
Can you influence the political worldview of viewers via sensual tactility?
What is the relationship between imaginative space and political activism?
At what point does the offer of Visual Nutrition become an unethical imposition of values and an unwieldy imposition on aesthetic freedoms? And how can the efficacy of its political ambitions be measured?
Kate Lepper currently divides her time between London, UK and Wellington NZ. Kate graduated with a MFA (Distinction) from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2011. Her recent projects include a performance with Nastja Ronkko at Guest Projects, London, and as well as an upcoming residency this autumn in Quebec, Canada, Kate's practice will feature in an upcoming issue of the Humanities Journal of the Australian National University on 'The World and World-making in Art' in 2013.
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July
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RESIDENCY: Emma Critchley
2nd - 29th July
Details to be announced
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August
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RESIDENCY: Jonathan Kelham
30th July - 26th August
Details to be announced
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