calendario eventi  :: 

X

3/11/2011

Performance Transition

The Exchange, Penzance

This project will explore live art and performance’s relationship with photography and documentation.

CAZ, the Penzance-based, artist-led initiative presents a live art archive featuring works produced in the region since 1996. Projects featured have been co-produced and/or hosted by Newlyn Art Gallery in partnership with Art Surgery and ArtDept.
Alongside this archive will be a display of performance for camera. Manuel Vason’s collaborations have produced some of the most iconic images of live art, bridging photography and performance. There will also be a series of images created by St Just-based artists, Zierle & Carter, while on a residency at The Banff Centre, Canada.

At the centre of this exhibition will be a performance space for a live art version of Transition, our regular opportunity for artists to test new ideas in the gallery while visitors look on. After five performance weeks, documentation of the activity will be displayed for the remainder of the exhibition.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

VESTANDPAGE (Germany & Italy)
Tuesday 8th - Saturday 12th November
VestAndPage’s durational performance Without Tuition or Restraint will last 5 days and 4 nights. The artists examine spatial, mental and emotional cages, starting from the idea that contemporaneity has jailed our minds.
To view or download a PDF of a transcript of an interview with VestAndPage click here
www.vest-and-page.de

REBECCA WEEKS AND IAN WHITFORD (Cornwall)
Tuesday 15th - Saturday 19th November
Weeks and Whitford will use surrealist automatic writing/drawing/performance techniques to generate a series of phrases and movements, to identify props, and to provide a score to be refined and developed into an experimental performance. www.weeksandwhitford.co.uk/

FLORENCE PEAKE (London)
Tuesday 22nd - Saturday 26th November
Peake will use the gallery as a continual shifting landscape of shapes and objects. A constant constructing and deconstructing of objects into large sculpture forms and into assembled compositions around the gallery. The public are encouraged to take part in the moving/arranging of the objects/shapes in the space. www.florencepeake.com

KEN TURNER (Cornwall)
Tuesday 29th - Saturday 3rd December
Artists and audience alike are invited to take part in ‘Three in One Studio’, with drawing, photography and performance. Results will be displayed and discussed. Sessions are in Crunch, Bursts, Masks, Freeze and Three Together.

MANUEL VASON WITH ZIERLE & CARTER (London/Cornwall)
Tuesday 6th - Saturday 10th December
Vason will use Transition to develop the idea of a ‘double image’ through a site-specific collaborative process with Zierle & Carter, working in various sites around Penzance and throughout Cornwall. The outcomes of each day will be on display in the gallery the following day. There will be opportunities throughout the week in the afternoon to talk to the artists.

Manuel Vason’s collaborations with UK and international artists have become some of the most iconic images representing Live Art, bridging photography and performance to create a hybrid artform. The images presented as part of this exhibition are collaborations with artists, who have previously presented work in Penzance. This specific selection of images also marks the development in Vason’s practice over the past decade in terms of methodologies of creative process, from using 8 x10 Polaroid in instantly responsive collaborations to more extensively dialogue and exchange based modes of collaboration and from that to creating work with other practitioners through leading group workshops and taking on residencies.

Collaborations presented:
Alexandra Zierle & Paul Carter www.zierlecarterliveart.com throughtheheartperformances.tumblr.com/
Alastair MacLennan www.vads.ac.uk/collections/maclennan
Florence Peake www.florencepeake.com
Helena Goldwater www.helenagoldwater.co.uk
Kira O'Reilly www.kiraoreilly.com/blog

Manuel Vason www.ManuelVason.com www.ArtCollaboration.co.uk

EVENTS

Talk: The Exchange, Friday 4th November, 6.30pm (Gallery Members only). Andy Whall of Art Surgery will give an introduction to live art in the region.
Free, donations welcome.

Symposium: The Exchange, Saturday 14th Jan, 2-5pm. Speakers, presentations and discussion on live art’s relationship with documentation and photography.
Free, booking essential, donations welcomethrough a process of invitation and chance, rather

Image: Alastair MacLennan and Manuel Vason Collaboration #1, Belfast 2006

For more information on the show, to request images or artist interviews
please contact
Kathy Hill, Marketing Officer, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange Tel:
01736 363715 email: Kathy.hill@newlynartgallery.co.uk
Blair Todd, Exhibitions Curator, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange Tel:
01736 363715 email: blair.todd@newlynartgallery.co.uk

The Exchange
Princes Street, Penzance, TR18 2NL
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm
Closed 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th Dec 2011 and 2nd Jan 2012
Free entrance

stampa

permanent link