BE GLAD FOR THE SONG HAS NO END

BOULDER STAGE - sculptural stage built by Andy Holden. 10pm Martin Creed and His Band The Turner Prize winner’s post-punk/minimalist/conceptual music. Full headline set.


9pm Long Meg Full stage show by the performance group that grew from the ashes of Jack too Jack. Kieron William Livingstone, Johnny Langer, Antoinette Fernandez, Tommy Barton, Edwin Burdis, Matt Williams, Steven Claydon (Add N to X). Recent performances include Tate Modern and Vilma Gold.


8pm Bob and Roberta Smith’s Apathy Band Live music ensemble revolving around narrative monologues and short stories by Bob and Roberta Smith. With Victor Mount and George Baker.www.myspace.com/theapathyband


7pm Juneau Projects Live performance with new home-made instruments.www.juneauprojects.co.uk


6pm Grubby Mitts Andy Holden's 'Art Ensemble of Mid-Bedfordshire' combining live projections with electronics, objects, woodwind, drums, percussion, keys and multiple voices.


5pm Junior Aspirin Records Present: Socrates That Practices Music (live) Top and tailed by Junior Aspirin Records 'History of the World' DJ sets – Junior Aspirin record label have been running for nearly ten years and release many great art-music cross-over projects.


4pm Sue Tompkins Spoken word, solo voice performance including the piece 'Cola Wars' (2004). Sue played in the influential indie-rock band Life Without Buildings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3slxcDpB90


3pm The Errorists Lyrics influenced by art theory combined with cello, harp and dramatic melodies, led by Hillary Koob-Sassen.


2pm Die Kunst Three piece comic post-punk long-term art-rock group with Richard Hylton (drums and vocals) David Mackintosh (bass and vocals) and Martin Vincent (guitar and vocals).


AMPHIS STAGE – artist built structure made from reclaimed timber


10.30pm Mark Leckey (DJ Set)


9.30pm Kaffe Matthews Electronics - with surround sound including speakers under the floor of the artist-built structure.


7.30pm Rude Pravo Glasgow based band with the artists Luke Fowler


6.30pm Owl Project Live set performed on their home-made i-logs. Owl Projects combine the art of wood-turning with the production of unusual electronic music. Live camera on stage to show how they use sawing wood to make sounds. www.owlproject.com/images


5.30pm Joanna Robertson Quiet and beautiful songs from the painter/musician (ex Blood and Feathers). http://www.myspace.com/jorobertsonblood39n39feathers


4.30pm Bohman Brothers with Richard Thomas Improvised set with various curious objects and voice from the influential London improvisers.


3.30pm Ricky Leach Part Andy Kauffman stand-up, part Matmos-esque sound processing, new 'character' ruminates on the forthcoming environmental apocalypse in the style of Scott Walker.


2.30pm Closed Circuits JUST ADDED exclusive first live show by Closed Circuits following the debut album last year.


1.30pm Babygrand Various sound-sources (music boxes etc) and improvised sounds by Norwich based artist Holly Rumble.


12.30pm Saydance Live version of Franziska Lantz’s weekly broadcast for Resonance FM, samples and borrowed sounds


Cinema/Gallery Space (Times TBC)


The program of films is a survey of works by artists that use music or sound as the subject of the video. he films will be intercut with live performances which use Wysing's gallery space and soundtracks by artists to selected films.


Aleksander Kolkowski Special theatrical show with music created from wax cylinders, gramophone horns and other specially devised sound-sources. www.videosurf.com/video/horatio-oratorio-71753418 David Blandy Live soundtrack to Blandy’s film Crossroads, set around the crossroads where Robert Johnson reputedly sold his soul. Performed in character. Nico Vascellari: A 'set' of 4 of his films and documentations of performances (running time 26mins) Death Blood War, 2006 (shot at Slayer concert), Untitled Song, 2004 (drum video), Nico & The Vascellaris, 2005, Lago Morto, 2009. Sam Bellinfante: Screening of the film Taos (currently part of the show Cage Mix at The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art). In the film Bellinfante travels to New Mexico to investigate a humming noise in the landscape. Followed by a live performance of Stimmung - a work for a large group of singers and radios. Local singers will be recruited to re-stage this piece. Johnny Parry & Chamber Orchestra Full show to accompany a set of film collaborations with Andy Holden that stretches back seven years. With string quartet, brass, woodwind and opera singers, all the films have click tracks and the performers have earpieces to allow complete synchronization. The films included piece shot around battle reenactments, zoology museums, Disney landscapes, greenhouses, and the Californian desert.  Rob Bidder Ex Tea and Toast Band - mixture of live narration of his animations, songs, drawings and short films presented by Rob. Aimed at children and adults.


Film Screenings: Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard File Under Sacred Music The film of their re-staging at the ICA of infamous Cramps Concert. Archie Bronson Outfit: A selection of their recent home-made animated videos from the new album Coconut. Mark Dean A selection of films. Mark taught many of the artists performing (Junior Aspirin, Grubby Mitts, Juneau Projects). Mark will also DJ his selection of artist music records between bands on the main stage. Paul Rooney A new piece called Lost High Street (12mins) from the video-maker/musician. Paul Rooney even did a John Peel session with his music project Rooney. Luke Fowler Pilgrimage from Scattered Points, a film about the Scratch Orchestra, a British experimental music group from the 1960s involving Cornelius Cardew. Fowler is also performing with his band Rude Pravo. Jim Shaw LA-based artist, part of the original line up of Destroy all Monsters, showing documentation of a recent performance involving instruments made out of body parts, chosen by the artists for the festival. Video Reel – films by Matt Stokes, Ed Atkins, Benedict Drew.


Elsewhere around Wysing's site:


Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether’s Reverse Karaoke Yurt Play along to the lead vocalist of Sonic Youth. Originally commissioned for the exhibition Her Noise.  Mark Essen's Record Exchange. A stall for artists and the public to bring their old records and barter and haggle with Mark to swap them with one from his collection. Charlesworth, Lewandowski and Mann - Pirate radio sound-system in the wooded area of the arts centre grounds. Speakers made in the form of standing stones. An Endless Supply - The Birmingham based publication collaborate with Andy Holden on a special booklet of related material (stills/graphic scores/texts) which also doubles up as a festival program. They also have a stall of photocopiers to reproduce out of print related texts. Aleksander Kolkowski CD-Recycled 45rpm. Aleksander uses his vintage record cutter to 'overwrite' existing data and cut grooves on CDs/DVDs so they can be played on a turntable. Bring unwanted CDs/DVDs and a sound file and receive a recycled disc in return. Richard Thomas(ResonanceFM 104.4). Richard curates one minute sounds for cinema - various artists - to be played between films and performances in the cinema / gallery.  UBUWeb sound-system Live random stream from the archive in the cafe area.  Artist Record Stall. Buy various discs and assorted merchandise from the artists involved. The Wire Sound System Rob Young and Anne Hilde-Nesset will be DJing on the main stage, Rob's set will be themed around his new book Electric Eden, a history of British folk music, and Anne's will focus on sound poetry.


12pm to 12am SATURDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2010

 

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Current

THE COSMOS

12 - 27 May 2012

 

 

Brought together for a six-week residency under the metaphor The Cosmos, and taking the past, origins and knowledge as starting points, artists Salvatore Arancio, Flora Parrott, Nilsson Pflugfelder and Stuart Whipps present a range of new work in the gallery and across Wysing’s site.

 

Each artist has developed a distinct body of work in response to this residency and through conversations with a range of local experts and enthusiasts in a programme of public events and informal meetings aimed at exploring the huge concepts that constitute our understanding of The Cosmos. These new works explore, in some way, the manner in which we structure knowledge in science, spiritualism and in human culture more generally. This period of research has generated the beginnings of many projects and the works shown here are the first iteration of larger bodies of work that the artists will continue to develop.

 

Salvatore Arancio has developed a series of works playing the visualisation of science and the merging of fact and myth in knowledge. Drawing on his interest in historic illustrations of geological discoveries he is exhibiting a large screen-print of minute grains of a piece of granite, alongside a series of small collage works. A series of new works in clay, undergoing a period of drying before being fired, are shown in our ceramics studio, where they have been made.  Our recycled structure Amphis, 2008, is the location for the screening of a video made entirely from clips from the series The Cosmos by Carl Sagan with a new soundtrack by Arancio. The film encompasses imagery picturing theories from physics, the human body and built environments through history and has the visionary, almost psychedelic, low-fi appearance of a 1980s vision of the future.

 

The sculptural works developed by Flora Parrott during this residency and presented in the gallery, attempt to think through abstract concepts using manipulated organic materials including coal, silk and oyster shells. Four compositions of images and objects act as frameworks to understand four particular concepts: deep time and compression, singularity and expansion and interconnectedness and the primordial mound. Through research into the use of Mandalas, ancient tools for spiritual focus, Parrott has been exploring the physical and psychological filters that people instinctively put in place that allow us to define the limits of conscious thought and prevent constant contemplation of enormous, paralysing ideas. The works presented here could act as frameworks that interrupt or disrupts these filters to allow fluid thought.

 

The work of Nilsson Pflugfelder (Magnus Nilsson and Ralf Pflugfelder) is situated on the intersection of critical spatial design, architecture, art and discourse. As a response to The Cosmos they have proposed a large, gleaming outdoor structure to be situated in the grounds of Wysing. This galvanised steel triangle will act as a contemporary folly-like space with no obvious function and no obvious entrance. Although the sculpture will have a minimal, futuristic feel, its typology, proportions and atmosphere reference ancient structures. The lack of discernible purpose for this strangely rarefied space may give it the feeling of a site of pilgrimage. Within the gallery is sited a black object which will become the central element of the structure, once complete.

 

Stuart Whipps often takes overlooked narratives from recent history as the starting point for making films and images. During The Cosmos he has been researching Edward James, an eccentric character who used his personal wealth, power and influence to solidify and materialise his unconventional beliefs. Whipps will present a series of images taken in Las Pozas; James’ surrealist concrete garden (built from 1949 – 1984) set in the rainforest in Mexico. The images, projected medium format slides, show the casts used to make the concrete sculptures, the sculpture and its surrounding forest.

 

 

This year artist Patrick Coyle is documenting our residency programme through performance and writing. At 6.30pm on 12 May, Coyle will present a performative tour interpreting the works of the four residency artists. Documentation of this will be available in Wysing’s reception alongside a reading area and further information on all the artists.

 

The exhibition continues until 27 May and is open daily, 12-5pm.

The Cosmos is funded by Arts Council England and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

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