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27/7/2012

Road Show

Different venues, London

The nine days of a one-off celebration of art, music, science, literature and acrobatics, with specially commissioned works by three artists: Graeme Miller, Katie Paterson and Tomas Libertiny.


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This Summer London's cultural heartland will host nine days of a one-off celebration of art, music, science, literature and acrobatics on Exhibition Road.

ROAD SHOW will bring a wealth of creativity to the capital inspired by the prestigious institutions that flank the diamond-paved concourse, from the awe-inspiring laboratories of the Science Museum to the enlightening collection at the V&A. New commissions, live events, scientific experiments and discussions will all converge to populate a 'landscape of wonder' commissioned by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Everything from a pop-up ballroom to a one man alien band will appear on customised trailers that materialise in various locations throughout the day, hosting performers specially selected to delight or surprise.

ROAD SHOW will provide a place for Londoners and visitors alike to unwind and recharge during London 2012 with games from the vintage collection at the V&A or readings from ROAD STORIES, a compendium of specially commissioned short stories by well-known authors.

The Olympic and Paralympic Games are among the world’s highest profile youth festivals and as such, the ROAD SHOW programme is showcasing emerging artists, scientists, thinkers and musicians.

Created by leading arts producer Di Robson of DREAM, ROAD SHOW has been commissioned by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and is being delivered in partnership with the Exhibition Road Cultural Group and Westminster City Council.

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Three artists have been commissioned to create a new work for Exhibition ROAD SHOW.

Graeme Miller: ON AIR

Artist, composer and theatre maker Graeme Miller will create a continuous commentary on the everyday life of Exhibition Road for nine days in July and August. On the rooftops above Exhibition Road, Miller will set up a temporary radio station and invite broadcasters from the worlds of sport and the arts to commentate on passing action. They will narrate the constant flow of activity visible from their eyrie, from passers-by below them to clouds over the North Downs, to planes landing at Heathrow. The audio commentary will be made available to passers by via a low frequency FM broadcast on bespoke in ear radios on the street itself. The observed may paradoxically become observer all at the same time.

Emerging from the bold and influential stage work of Impact Theatre Co-operative in the 1980s, Miller now embraces a wide range of media. With the idea of being ʻa composer of many things that may include musicʼ, he has made theatre, dance, installations and interventions, always reflecting a sense of landscape and place. He regularly makes site-specific works, recently having produced 'Track' for Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and his ongoing project Linked; a semi-permanent sound installation based on the voices, memories and testimonies of people who used to live where the M11 Link road now runs for three miles along East London.

ON AIR makes new art out of the nature of commentary itself, Miller describes it “as an arena where the skills and rhythms of activity are matched by the dexterity and eloquence of description. At its finest, it brings unplanned poetry to the ears of many and music to the masses.” Throughout each of the nine days broadcasters from a diverse range of fields will come together to eavesdrop and recount events from their surroundings. Miller’s work “celebrates the word in broadcasting and will create in the moment a moving evocation of the constantly changing layers of London life.”

Commentators:
Emma Bernard, Michael Sherin, Jonathan Stone, Sinéad Rushe, Melanie Clifford
Sports Hour Curator: Claire Grove


Katie Paterson: CAMPO DEL CIELO, FIELD OF THE SKY

For ROAD SHOW, Glasgow-born artist Katie Paterson has been commissioned by the Royal Borough to create CAMPO DEL CIELO, FIELD OF THE SKY.

Guided by experts at the University College London as well as a plethora of amateur 'meteorite hunters', Paterson has "taken a meteorite that has been travelling through space and time for 4.5 billion years, cast it, melted it, then recast it back into a new version of itself". The new 'space and time altered meteorite' will then be positioned on Exhibition Road where people will be encouraged to gather round and touch.

Erica Burton of Modern Art Oxford describes Paterson’s work as “engaging with the landscape, as a physical entity and as an idea. Drawing on our experience of the natural world, she creates an expanded sense of reality beyond the purely visible.” Paterson has previously collaborated with leading scientists and scientific institutions including the W.M. Keck Observatory and Caltech. Having transposed Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata into morse code, then bounced it off the Moon as a radio wave, laser-etched a map of all 27,000 known dead stars and created a record player which rotates in synchronisation with the earth, she is no stranger to out-of-this-world projects that have a solid grounding here on Earth. "Exploring the common place and the cosmic" (Sarah Martin, Turner Contemporary), this commission will give everyone the chance to reach for the stars.

CREDITS
Haunch of Venison
The European Scanning Centre Ltd
Insight NDT
Giorgia Polizzi and Michael Hodgson


Tomáš Libertiny: THE AGREEMENT

Sir Herbert Read’s essay on the philosophy of art, Human Art and Inhuman Nature, proposes that art appears to be the resolution of and the answer to the human need to create; and to surround oneself with artificial or constructed artifacts, rather than those that were naturally occurring. Read’s thesis extended the ideas of Oscar Wilde, who expressed the view that it was nature that required an object, the viewer, in order for its beauty to be realised. On its own, nature’s plurality, fragmentation, was, Wilde believed, monotonous; the viewer’s appreciation of the beauty of the botanical garden is nature organized, constructed, artificial, and achieved by the mediation of the human hand.

What Tomáš Gabzdil Libertíny’s work attempts is to embrace this juxtaposition of natural / artificial in a way that the two axis are not in conflict, but in compliment. THE AGREEMENT explicitly connects the natural and artificial in the creation of an artwork, in this one vessel. The implied meaning of the work’s title is that of a constructed harmony. Libertíny is not interested in a copy – a mimesis of nature – nor in the creation of an artificial object in opposition to nature. THE AGREEMENT is a project where artificial becomes natural.

THE AGREEMENT is more architectural than sculptural work. Libertíny is building and constructing a work of art as a structure out of specific material and according to a concrete plan. The design of honeycomb, like all natural forms, is a strategy, serving to support the bees’ survival not existing to provide a geometry that appeals to the human eye. The function of honeycomb is to create a home, a house which is growing, is changing and is in possession of its own life. The architecture of Libertíny respects the laws of nature, deploying nature’s curves, in the design of a self-supporting home. The shape itself is not a work of sculpture, but an endeavor for quest of stability using human intervention and innovative technologies. In this way THE AGREEMENT is a manifestation of rationalization of form.

A beehive by itself is not beautiful, nor perfect, simply natural. Libertíny’s active engagement in nature is recalibrating, changing, constructing new principles and offering a different plan to the bees – a proposition. And what is the reaction? The signing of an agreement, the acceptance of a challenge… The artist’s construction becomes a natural platform for the work of swarm of bees; for the work of art itself, as a dialogue with nature, the bee’s acceptance is an inevitable creative response to the artist’s intent.

Behind its specifically designed glass, THE AGREEMENT becomes theatre for the audience, a staged architecture where a show is unfolding for a human observer. Libertíny is choosing a partner for his work. His young bees, set to build a home for themselves and for their queen, are determined to be extremely productive to construct the work. As an author, Libertíny is entering into their lives, is helping and creating a space for them; he is, in a way, living with them and is cognizant of their inner relations and to us he is offering an possibility to take a pleasure in their magnificence, what Kant described as the sublime, “the name given to that which is absolutely great.”

Chelsea Physic Garden, Natural History Museum and Imperial College also house hives. The Natural History Museum will host parallel events to coincide with this installation.

Having trained as an industrial engineer in Slovakia, Libertíny was awarded the George Soros Open Society Institute Scholarship in 2001 and studied at the University of Washington in Seattle exploring painting and sculpture. Since receiving his MFA from the Design Academy Eindhoven his work has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and Cincinatti Art Museum, and he recently created pieces for Art Basel and the Venice Biennale.

CREDITS

Special thanks to:

Peter James - Beekeeper, Chelsea Physic Garden
Twickenham and Thames Valley Bee Keepers Association
Rudolf Moravčík - Beekeeper, Bee Keeping Museum, Bratislava

Lenka Dobranská
Kars Rotteveel
Jaap Huigen and Odin Visser
Katarína Dobranská
Maarten Laan
Johan Ista
Zuzana Závodská
Lukáš Jeník
Milan Olejník

This projected has been realised with the financial support of the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam.

The complete programme is on the we site.

If you are print or broadcast media, please contact andrew@arthurleone.com
If you are online / digital media, please contact steph@margaretlondon.com

Different venues - London
ROAD SHOW Times
Sat 28th July: 1030 – 2300
Sun 29th July: 1030 – 2200
Mon 30th July: 1800 – 2200
Tues 31st July: 1800 – 2200
Weds 1st Aug: 1800 – 2200
Thurs 2nd Aug: 1800 – 2200
Fri 3rd Aug: 1800 – 2300
Sat 4th Aug: 1030 – 2300
Sun 5th Aug: 1030 – 2200

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