London Fieldworks
dal 13/3/2007 al 28/4/2007
Segnalato da
13/3/2007
London Fieldworks
Beaconsfield, London
An ambitious new exhibition project. Working with the legacy and personal myth of Walt Disney, the commission embraces the latest developments in animatronics, primal hibernation patterns and the practice of cryonics in its exploration of fantasy and death.
Hibernator: Prince of the Petrified Forest
London Fieldworks
a Beaconsfield commission
15 March 29 April 2007
Thursday Sunday 12-6pm
Preview 14 March, 6-9pm
Hibernator is a new site specific work by London Fieldworks commissioned by
Beaconsfield London.
Hibernator takes as its starting point the myth of Walt Disney
cryogenically frozen at the point of death and incarcerated until technology
can bring him back to life. The artists propose his re-animation to star in
their film; ŒHibernator: Prince of the Petrified Forest¹ inspired by the
first eco novel, ŒBambi¹ by Felix Salten.
An animation studio will be set up within the Upper space at Beaconsfield
and, for the duration of the seven-week exhibition, the artists will be
engaged in the making of an animated film. The film will begin with the
re-birth of Disney in the form of a chimera emerging from hibernation; a
monstrous hybrid of himself and his iconic characters, Bambi and Thumper. It
will follow his negotiation of an increasingly unfamiliar landscape, far
from the idyllic forests of his imagination.
The animatronic chimera - constructed in collaboration with robotics and
prosthetics specialists and set against a pre-scripted narrative and
soundtrack - is the central element and subject of both installation and
film. Activated by an environmental cue - solar energy - the re-awakening of
the chimera is conceptually linked to natural animal hibernation patterns.
The live artwork allows the viewer to witness the solar powered actions of
the animatronic as well as the artists engaged in the live film making
process. The experience is completed by viewing the film as it unfolds
during the exhibition period. As it is created, each episode will be
screened in the vast Arch space that is annexed to the main venue.
Hibernator: Prince of The Petrified Forest is funded by Arts Council
England, Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Humanities Research Council and London
South Bank University.
Closing event Sunday 29 April at 2pm: Full screening followed by panel discussion with collaborators Steve Beard, Paul and Laura Carey, Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson and Matthew Walker.
Preview 14 March, 6-9pm
For further information, please contact Rachel Fleming-Mulford on 020 7582
6465 or at rachel@beaconsfield.ltd.uk
http://www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk/
http://www.londonfieldworks.com
Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, Vauxhall, London