updated website – Rob Olins & Douglas Benford intriguing soundwork http://bit.ly/wgNdtA
I’ve just updated my website to tell you a little more about Ex Lab, which is getting really exciting, and a new work by Rob Olins and Douglas Benford, on show at the August Gallery until 3rd March. On 25th February you can hear them discuss the project and find out more about the work as it is developed for a show in the Mission Gallery, Swansea, this autumn.
“Mirror House” is an exploration of acoustics, and our perception of it relative to vision. It is a
soundscape collaboration between Rob Olins and composer Douglas Benford.
Benford’s composition is made from sounds recorded from the city of Vancouver, Canada.
Vancouver is filled with the same urban sounds of any major city – traffic and construction
noises, snatched conversations. But it is surrounded by forests and coastal waters with less of
a border between urbanism and nature and more of a diffusion of one into another, and as a
result, the sounds of the shore, droning seaplanes, and bird calls can also be heard.
Olins uses an acoustic reflector to focus the Vancouver score such that it will be inaudible
outside of one focal point. As one steps into the focal point, the background noise of central
London is displaced by the sound of Vancouver.
@exlab2012 coming along nicely- some exciting ideas developing temp blog http://exlabproject.wordpress.com/
We’re moving forward with Ex Lab. Last week we had a fascinating day of discourse and exchange. Artists and scientists shared knowledge and research findings, facilitated by Creative Coast, Sian Ede and myself.
Conversations were truly intriguing and the room was buzzing by the end of the day. I’m trying to keep this updated as well as the Ex Lab blog, which will soon be redesigned and is a temporary measure for now. Do read it – it shares the journey as we go along, working towards the Maritime Mix in 2012.
Joel & Betty cycle to Nepal – give generously to Siddhartha school – they need it! http://bit.ly/AeNwsw
My son and his girlfriend have, self-funded, cycled over 5000 kilometres, and motorcycled over 3000 more, and eventually, after 6 months on the road, hit the smog of Kathmandu where they set out for – at the Siddhartha Foundation School!
The raison d’etre of the trip was to fundraise for the school – please help if you can – a little bit goes a long way. Click here to donate.
Joel & Betty think money for the children would be magical too!
new year wisdom from @thinkinpractice – collaboration & solitude @ExLab2012
Thank you Mark Robinson for saying so eloquently a very important thing: I highly recommend Thinking Practice – Mark Robinson is a very intriguing thinker:
“It is now a truism that we are stronger together, and like most truisms, it is actually true-ish. Collaboration is one of the ways forward to a more resilient sector, and was one of the defining themes of the year. (Literally, in the case of many conferences.) Peer learning networks such as re.volution will help people collaborate on development as well as projects. On-line collaboration is also obviously going to continue to grow. But we should not forget that most artforms require some form of solitude at some stage, and at least some of those 10,000 hours of practice must be spent on your own, including your organisational own.”
not one to waste a good photo, seasonal card shows #Tromso cable car, happy christmas
on my way to @tromso to see @hollynoir any gd art there?
Excited to go so far north! Any recommendations of places to go, people to meet, experiences not to be missed? Answers on a postcard please!
@exlab2012 have Mat Chivers hosting event at Sq & Compass see http://exlabproject.wordpress.com/
Hope you can make it! (sadly I can’t as I’m in Norway)
Aeolus in final stages of tour @luke Jerram in Salford – futuristic context
Great video of Aeolus in Salford – to add to the collection documenting the tour this year. You will also find the Lyme Park, Disley film and the Eden Project film there. Compare and contrast and you will get a real sense of how the context impacts on how the work is seen and experienced. Fascinating! (and of course intentional!)
#exlab2012 commissioned artists & science partners engage -fascinating ideas in room BigPic project in Dorset – exciting!
Ex Lab – art, science and the coast – today artists and scientists began work together to investigate the unique coastal landscape of the Jurassic coast.
Ex Lab (Exploratory Laboratory), an exciting venture from visual arts collective Big Picture, has won a major award from Arts Council England to commission a series of new artworks responding to England’s first natural World Heritage site, a 95 mile section of stunning Dorset and East Devon coastline known as the Jurassic Coast.
Artists Simon Callery, Mat Chivers, Zachary Eastwood-Bloom, Simon Ryder and creative studio Proboscis, have been selected from over 200 submissions to collaborate with scientists on the creation of a series of temporary site responsive artworks. Following an extensive research period, the works will be presented at various locations across Dorset, all set against the inspirational backdrop of the Olympic and Paralympic sailing events, taking place in Weymouth and Portland 2012.
Interpreting landscape has long been a primary focus for many artists, who increasingly work with specialists from other disciplines to explore what landscape means to us today. Historically, artists have acted as scientific observers, using painting and drawing to document landscape processes – long before the advent of photography – and have always contributed to our understanding of how landscape is formed. The Jurassic Coast is a rich resource for our selected artists to respond to.
tweets like buses, all come at once -@national trust great video http://bit.ly/v2rrfs
Why is it when you’ve just been inspired to write about one artwork that interests you (Aeolus) another big bunch comes along all at once – in this National Trust video about their involvement with contemporary art at a range of locations!
Tom Freshwater is doing a great job with NT and I look forward to working with NT in Dorset on the Ex Lab project.
