Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich
dal 4/10/2012 al 12/1/2013
Segnalato da
4/10/2012
Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
The Encampment of Eternal Hope. The installation is a post-apocalyptic Garden of Eden, survival camp, field laboratory and evolving community, creating a communal space that evolves during the course of the exhibition.
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead presents a new exhibition by Zoë
Walker & Neil Bromwich The Encampment of Eternal Hope. The collaborative duo are
renowned for their large-scale participatory events and exhibitions that invite audiences to
imagine better worlds.
For BALTIC, Walker & Bromwich will premiere The Encampment of Eternal Hope. The
installation is a post-apocalyptic Garden of Eden, survival camp, field laboratory and
evolving community, creating a communal space that evolves during the course of the
exhibition. Part-tent part-garden, The Encampment of Eternal Hope is made up of natural
and synthetic structures and inflatables arranged as an environment to seek out positive
strategies for future living at a time of global uncertainty.
The exhibition is a participatory experiment which will involve the audience in a programme
of events and bring together experts in the fields of ecology, economics and the arts to
explore ideas for future survival. Speakers include physicist David Korowicz from The
Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, Dr. Geraldine Wright from the
Honeybee Lab, Newcastle University, Transition Towns and Heaton Herbalists,
Newcastle.
Other events include survival exercise classes, around the ‘campfire’ discussions and
soapbox opportunities, rehearsals for the dance of Eternal Hope, apocalyptic choir recitals
and off-site visits including a field trip with a professional forager and a visit to Bill Quay
Community Farm.
The events culminate in a two day festival The Festival of the Apocalypse Friday 21 –
Saturday 22 December, which takes its starting point from the apocalyptic predictions for
21 December - the end date of the Mayan Calendar. The programme includes a talk and
performance on 21 December by Mayan Priestess - Giovanna Miralles, a performance by
John Kenny celebrating the new dawn with a selection of archaeological musical
instruments from the Carnyx to the Conch and a Choir of Apocalypse performance. Full
details of the programme will be announced shortly.
ZOË WALKER & NEIL BROMWICH
Zoë Walker born 1968, Scotland, Neil Bromwich born 1966, Northampton.
Recent solo exhibitions: ALL Art Lending Library with Market Gallery, Glasgow International
Festival of Contemporary Visual Arts GI 2012; Panacea Casebook, Tate Britain; Conch
Sound Studio, Touring Scottish Highlands; Dancing Borders, Berwick Ramparts, Berwick
upon Tweed, Northumberland, 2010; Panacea Casebook, Modern Art Oxford, John Hansard
Gallery, Southampton, CCA Glasgow 2009; On the Threshold of a Dream, Turner
Contemporary, Margate, Visionary Journey Whitstable Biennale, Folkestone Triennial 2008.
Recent group exhibitions: Camouflage, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki;
The Palm Tree is on Fire!, Kuvataideakatemian Galleria, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts,
Helsinki; Local Positioning Systems, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2011; Public
Interactions: Dialogues on Art and Public Space, Australian National University, Canberra;
The Voice of Peace Revisited, Musrara Mix Festival Jerusalem; Searching For a Change of
Consciousness: Dancing Borders, Smile for London, Artists’ Films on the London
Underground, Outer Worlds, in association with the Contemporary Art Society, Deloitte,
Luxembourg; Stagings, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2010; Running Time – Scottish
Video Art 1960 to Now, Dean Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Edinburgh, Praxis, Biennale 2, Thessaloniki Greece, Invisible Adversaries NGCA
Sunderland, One Day Sculpture, New Zealand, 2009; Nothing to Declare Zeppelin Museum
Friedrichshafen, Germany 2008.
Image: Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich, Encampment of Eternal Hope.
For further information, interview requests and images please contact:
Chloë Barker, Media Relations Executive T: 0191 440 4915 E: chloeb@balticmill.com
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
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