Wysing Arts Centre

Animation from Big Draw Workshop

sarah — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:23:06 +0000

Anne Mie and I ran an animation workshop on Saturday 26 October and I had a drop in session on 30 October as part of the Big Draw, here are all the resulting films.

We took N55’s Walking House as inspiration and created futuristic environments for it to inhabit.

Thanks to all that took part. If you attended the workshop and want to feedback please email Wysing

Axis Open Frequency

Katherine — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:12:25 +0000

Katherine Hymers’ new Axis Open Frequency profile is now online.

Axis is an online resource for contemporary art, with a directory of artists and curators, living and working in the UK. Axis Open Frequency presents selected artists each month on their website. Artists are nominated from across the UK by a panel of curatorial advisors to present a broad based view of contemporary practice.

Donna Lynas, Director at Wysing Arts Centre, has nominated Hymers for Open Frequency this month, and has written a text about one of my works, Untitled (Morning Light) 2007, which was shown at Wysing’s re-launch show in January this year. Donna’s text can be viewed online, alongside a selection of images from works made over the past two years, including images from two works currently in progress. To view Hymers’ profile, please visit: http://www.axisweb.org/openfrequency/katherinehymers

There are also a number of other Wysing artists who have artist member profiles on Axis, which can be found using the search facility on the Axis home page.

Walking House takes the World by Storm

wysing — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:39:20 +0000

N55 ’s Walking House took the world by storm last week as it descended on Cambridge - took a gentle stroll around our site - decided its legs were not up to the new location and had many many public press and artists clamber around inside it ! While the Walking House is currently not walking due to technical problems we are showing a video of the house in action in our Gallery space and we have an updated handbook - The Manual for Walking House available in our Reception. Visitors can also climb inside and experience what it might feel like to live and travel inside this prototype walking house, with its wood burning stove and waste water recycling system.

http://www.n55.dk/MANUALS/WALKINGHOUSE/walkinghouse.html

We were also featured in Frieze Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail as well as ABC News USA - Good Morning America and also live on Anglia TV News (ITV), live on Radio 2 with Chris Evans and on BBC Look East News - we even got as far as India and China in the news reporting and the You Tube video was swamped with viewers and N55’s own website crashed after 250,000 visitors.

Links : Enjoy your own Google searches for how far N55’s House walked through the world’s press:

Daily Telegraph Science Link : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3235261/Walking-house-can-escape-floods-or-unruly-neighbours.html

Guardian Society Environment Blog : http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicallivingblogFRIEZE Magazine Blog : http://www.frieze.com/blog/entry/moving_houses/Walking House on BBC look East TV : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7686919.stm or http://www.bbc.co.uk/lookeast/latest_stories/ daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1079419/Pictured-The-worlds-WALKING-house-designed-beat-floods.html?ITO=1490China Daily : http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-10/22/content_7130345.htm

BBC reviews The Walking House

wysing — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:00:15 +0000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7686919.stm

See the Walking House as it walks to Cambridge !

wysing — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:20:53 +0000

Watch the Walking House taking its first steps !

Wysing Inside Out

Abbas Hashemi — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:51:02 +0000

Inside Out launched

wysing — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:38:36 +0000

Inside Out launched and was a fabulous evening despite losing some of our guests to the night and the many pieces around the site as they ambled around with a few torches and saw pieces like a knitting performance piece by Helen Judge near the pond field or got engrossed in a deep discussion in the farmhouse or sat and enjoyed the outlook from Amphis - the new communal structure that rose like a phoenix across the Summer.

Amphis out & about - BBC ….

wysing — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:29:07 +0000

As we race to the close of Amphis and the end of the residency by Kobberling & Kaltwasser we have been covered by local and Regional press from our last call for volunteers last which went out on both Q103, Star 107 and BBC Radio Cambrideshire - thank you for those volunteers who came down and helped last week.

BBC Cambridgeshire website has also done a feature on Amphis - see the links below :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/places/features/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/content/articles/2008/08/22/wysing_amphis_feature.shtml

Also over the Bank Holiday BBC Look East put out a piece about the Residency project and our volunteers and the huge communal space nearing completion on the Wysing site.

We also featured in the Guardian Guide Sat 23 Aug as well as the Cambridge Evening News so hopefully people have been able to track the project through our blog and the publicity and also through our Flickr images.

Thank you again to the volunteers and the many other helpers who have been involved, as well as the people and businesses who donated materials which have actually made up AMPHIS.

Come and see the results for yourself if you are passing …

Amphis Family Workshop

sarah — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:34:54 +0000

we held a second family workshop for the AMPHIS project on Saturday 16 August, check out two of the animations made by children on the day.

Amphis is getting ready

Abbas Hashemi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:12:46 +0000