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Ambulation
dal 13/8/2010 al 9/10/2010
Tue-Satu 10am-8.30pm, Sun 4pm-8.30

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Hannah Prothero



 
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13/8/2010

Ambulation

Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth

A group show


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Artists: ad:HOC, Bridgette Ashton, Tim Brennan, Simon Persighetti and Tony Whitehead, Phil Smith and Polly Macpherson, Architecture Centre Devon and Cornwall
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Ambulation brings together specially commissioned and past works by artists and architects who use walking as an artistic practice. These artists all use the idea to explore walking as a practice, from looking at the historical contexts of the city, to the symbolic potentials that are held within an everyday object, and the idea that walking should be an aimless affair. 
 
Included in the exhibition is the Itinerant Toolkit that was set up in 2008, as a resource and commissioning tool to examine the ideas that surround journeying as an artistic practice.

It aims to accrue information for the resource and pose questions to help understand journeying as an artistic practice. 
 
For this its second iteration it has posed the question ‘what is a tool’ and invited UK artist Tim Brennan and Architecture cooperative ad:HOC to respond. In Wand Tim Brennan invites members of the public to participate with him in investigating the ideas of what a tool is, with the aim they might consider the activity of walking or as a means of focusing an area of contemplation. While ad:HOC will present their research and proposals for a new mobile home for the Itinerant Toolkit.

Bridgette Ashton has been commissioned to produce a new walking map for the city of Plymouth. The map encourages the participant to go wandering and meandering around the city. It highlights a large number of incidental (but nonetheless interesting) elements which may be unimportant from a historical, architectural or tourist point of view but when presented together, make up a network that will prompt a desire to look into the significance of the particular place or thing. 



The works in Ambulation aim to investigate our everyday through the act of walking. Walking and sound artist Simon Persighetti and Tony Whitehead have devised TRACKS, a walk through Plymouth to trace the sounds of the 1950s, 60s and 70s as they may have been experienced in different venues and sites around the city. Using found and archive sounds via analogue recordings and devices these sonic drifters invite the public to experience the tracks of those years down the grooves and backstreets of Plymouth City.

Phil Smith in collaboration with designer Polly Macpherson have created meanings-things. Inspired by props, there are a series of objects to be taken from gallery to create a walk around the historic site Royal William Yard, former 1700s victualing yard. This is part of the work Twalk that was first performed for the Plymouth’s Hidden City Festival in 2009. This work looks to distil the dramatic-geographical significances of the Royal William Yard.

Phil Smith, and Simon Persighetti are also part of the collective Wrights & Sites who are a group of artist- researchers with a special relationship to site, city/landscape and walking including Stephen Hodge, & Cathy Turner.

The exhibition also includes traces, ephemera and documentation of previous works by the artists and included in the resource is an online tool by The Architecture Centre of Devon and Cornwall that explores Plymouth’s distinctive 20th Century planning, design, art and Architecture. Funded by the Heritage Lottery this online map www.20thcenturycity.org.uk is a new tool that for the first time examines the importance of the modernist architecture and post war planning of Plymouth City Centre.

For Ambulation the Architecture Centre Devon and Cornwall has invited Jeremy Gould, Professor and Head of Architecture at Plymouth University to create a unique tour utilising the map.

Ambulation has been produced by Mark A James as part of the PVAC associate scheme. Mark is a young independent curator based in the South West of England.

Press enquiries: contact Hannah Prothero, Marketing & Communications Manager, Plymouth Arts Centre, phone: 01752 276990, email: hannah@plymouthartscentre.org

Opening 14 August 2010

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