PROGRAMME
COMMISSIONED ARTISTS
Andy Abbott
Significant Pursuits
Participatory Installation
Friday 25 April & Saturday 26 April
Location: Friday 6.30pm-9pm Hull College, Horncastle Building, Freetown Way, Hull, HU1 3DG
Location: Saturday 1pm-7pm Albemarle Music Centre, 60 Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LN
Andy presented an audience-led event based on the playing of a specially designed board game. The game acts as a catalyst to celebrate and learn more about the hobbies, pastimes, self-organised and collective activity of those taking part. For Andy these seemingly superficial activities take on a whole new importance in terms of people’s identity and sense of ownership in the absence of the family-based or local industries once common to Northern cities. This installation invites you to respond to the question ‘What do you do in your ‘spare’ time?’ and provides a stimulating environment in which to discuss it with others.
Biography
Andy is a Leeds-based artist and a graduate from both the University of Leeds and Leeds College of Art and Design, where he now lectures in Fine Art. He is a founding member of the artist collective Black Dogs whose practice developed from process-oriented objects through to live events and publications. In Summer 2006 Andy completed a residency in art for social change at Michaelangelo Pistolleto’s Cittadellarte Foundation in Biella, Italy. He has exhibited and presented his individual and collaborative work across the UK and Europe.
www.black-dogs.org
James Brown & Rose Butler
Untitled
Participatory Installation
Saturday 26 April & Sunday 27 April
Location: Saturday 3pm-7pm Albemarle Music Centre, 60 Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LN
Location: Sunday 12 noon-4pm Hull College, Horncastle Building, Freetown Way, Hull, HU1 3DG
Pre-recorded video footage of the natural world was seen on screens, using custom-built algorithmic software the images oscillate backwards and forwards in time, audience members take on a participatory role interacting with and impacting on the playback of this video-based installation.
Biographies
James Brown’s work organises miscellaneous technologies to fabricate arbitrary or anomalous phenomena through a series of works that address the fragmentation of narrative structure; often referencing plot devices from fiction, specifically horror and science fiction genre and explicitly in relation to narratives in which an ambivalence of technology is demonstrated.
Rose Butler’s work encompasses video, photography, animation, interactive media, and multi-screen display. Her work examines a sense of location both temporally and spatially through our interaction with the moving image. She was recently short listed in collaboration with Kypros Kyprianou for the Jerwood Prize for Moving Image. In 2004 she received an award at the Becks Futures Student Prize for Digital Video and has exhibited multi-screen work at the Centre for Contemporary Art; Glasgow and the Institute of Contemporary Art; London.
Sohail Khan
White Man’s Ghost to Available Light
Performance
Saturday 26 April & Sunday 27 April
Location: Saturday part1:4.30pm; part 2-3: 5.30pm-7pm Albemarle Music Centre, 60 Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LN
Location: Sunday part1:1.00pm; part 2-3: 2pm-3pm Hull College, Horncastle Building, Freetown Way, Hull, HU1 3DG
A performance in two parts that explored a transition from the outside world by a strange figure initially seen in the urban landscape of Hull - to an inner world of a theatre where the multiple possibilities of performance were unmasked and played out between performer and audience.
Biography
Sohail Khan has been engaged in making Art since 1983 when he became involved in community theatre in Yorkshire. He graduated in Theatre from Dartington in 1993 and studied at the High School of Arts in Utrecht and the Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. Since 1994 he has worked as a freelance professional and artist in most areas of performance, including street theatre, artistic direction writing and devising. Inter-cultural issues around the nature of performance are core elements to his practice. Further areas of interest include the roles, responsibility and perceptions of the audience and what they experience as being real or unreal in a performance and what stories they find within it.
Sarah Spanton
Performance & Installation
Red Beast
Friday 25 April & Sunday 27 April
Location: Friday Installation from 6.30pm; performances:7.30pm and 8.30pm Hull College, Horncastle Building, Freetown Way, Hull, HU1 3DG
Location: Sunday Installation from 12 noon; performances:1.30pm and 3pm Hull College, Horncastle Building, Freetown Way, Hull, HU1 3DG
Sarah presented a continuous stream of evocative, multi-layered images, which have captured a red-haired woman’s movements and a performance where you saw her up close and live. Although in some ways beautiful there is a disturbing undercurrent, a shadow of the animal about her. At times ironic, this subtly shifting installation and performance questions contemporary attitudes towards women, hair and self-image.
Biography
Sarah Spanton is a cross-disciplinary artist, based in Leeds. Her work embraces performance, video, photography, dance, sculpture and text, presented in a range of contexts; live art, site-specific dance installation, performative photography and performance to camera video work. Solo projects address themes of identity, subjectivity, gender, sexuality and the body. Intimate and often humorous, this work explores emotions, inner worlds and states of mind, frequently driven by autobiographical starting points. She was recently long-listed for the Northern Art Prize.
www.axisweb.org/artist/sarahspanton
LIVE CONNECTIONS ARTISTS
Jo Ashbridge
Full Time Indecisive
Performance
Saturday 26 April
Location: part 1:2-2.30pm; part 2 3-3.30pm Albemarle Music Centre, Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LN
A performance in two parts that looked at the pain-staking act of indecision and other issues common in the life of the unsure. Relationships between movement, music, the audience and the performer will reflect aspects of the performer’s life.
Biography
Jo Ashbridge studied Dance and Physical Theatre at Salford and Liverpool John Moores Universities. In 2006 she began experimenting with film, leading to an interest using technology in dance. In 2007 she created 'Duck Billed,' incorporating film and live action inspired by a sound-score of recorded conversations. She later created a Dance Theatre piece 'Head Room,' and films 'Kaleidoscope' and 'Under My Skin', stimulated by the subconscious, a theme often used by the artist.
www.myspace.com/joashbridgedance
Claire Blundell-Jones
Individually Wrapped Human
Performance
Saturday 26 April
Location: The work traveled from the start at the Albemarle Foyer. It traveled slowly towards Hull city centre. Albemarle Music Centre, 60 Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LN
At the outset, the audience wraped the artist in a more sustainable form of cling-film in Albermarle Music Centre. Fully clothed, but equipped with knee pads, she said her farewells and commence a shuffle through the streets of Hull. This intervention is motivated by the problem of climate change and to raise questions about consumer society.
Biography
Claire Blundell Jones’ practice includes performance, video, installations and participatory public art. She creates work mainly in the public realm, developed directly out of the relationships built between the audience and herself. Blundell Jones moved to Leeds in 2004 after graduating from Wimbledon School of Art with a Fine Art BA. She has exhibited and performed in London, Hastings, Leeds, Sheffield, Loughborough, Tate Liverpool, Finland’s ‘ANTI-Festival’ and is soon to complete a residency in Luxembourg.
Hannah Bolland
Blueprint of the Mind
Performance
Saturday 26 April
Location: Albemarle Music Centre, Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LN.
The artist was able to reach a state where automatic drawing could take place. The audience was witness to the physical and mental durational journey she went through to detach herself through immersion in the process.
Biography
Hannah Bolland studied BA(Hons) Printmaking with Sculpture at University of Wolverhampton, then MA Printmaking in Bradford, followed by a year’s Artist In Residence. Utilising play she works impulsively, immersing myself in process such as filming, drawing, performing or installation building. Employing stream of consciousness techniques I become detached, centred entirely on the activity itself.
Recent collaborations with Edward Mortimer Magical Realm of Light & SUPER FAST CHICKENS allowed escape through Carnival and play, creating portals to imagined realities using windows and projection.
www.myspace.com/hannahbolland
Tidal Flow Networking Event
Friday 25 April
5pm – 6.30pm
Location: Hull College, Horncastle Building, Freetown Way, Hull, HU1 3DG
The event brought artists from across the region together to meet, chat, see work and find out about potential opportunities for the development of their future work.
Presentations from a diverse range of Hull-based contemporary art projects;
The Boathouse (informal arts venue),
54 degrees North (contemporary visual art exhibition)
Hull Film
Seeds and Bridges (concert series)
In Place (sonic architecture project)
Slack Video (experimental short film screening project)
Red Gallery (artist-led contemporary art gallery)
TeggLegg – (experimental electronic artists/live events)
And an opportunity to find out a bit more about Hull Time Based Art and New Work Yorkshire
Tidal Flow Chatshow
Saturday 26 April 3.30pm – 4.30pm
Location: Saturday - Albemarle Music Centre, 60 Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LN
A friendly discussion event where the audience and artists found out more about the work in Time & Tidal Flow.
Online Blog
The link is: http://timetidalflow.blogspot.com/
Please feel free to email your thoughts and pictures of the events if you have them!
Additional Information
This programme is supported by New Work Yorkshire, Hull Time Based Art, Arts Council England, Yorkshire and Hull City Council.