News & Events September 2011
Ceramics Student awarded WIRAD/AHRC Studentship Sarah Younan has been awarded the WIRAD/AHRC Applied Arts & Crafts Research Preparation Studentship. Sarah, who will commence the MA in Ceramics at UWIC in October 2011, intends to use the award to further her research into the projection of film onto ceramic surfaces. "The surface treatment of forms has always been an integral part of ceramics, as conceptually important as form, function, spatial values and narrative. It is perhaps the most diverse field of ceramic practise and has undergone many developments over time from smoke-firing to screen printing and transfers. I see electronic media as an enrichment to this already vast field".
The studentship is one of 5 awards made to WIRAD by the AHRC via the Capacity Building Route BGP (Block Grant Partnership) scheme. The four remaining studentships will be given in the areas of Applied Arts & Crafts (PhD), and Film, Digital & Media Production, Communications, Graphics & Photography, and Fine Art (MA) between 2011 and 2013. Further information, including the timetable of awards, is available here.
Team Sports: Outdoor Sports
Team Sports (Matthew Lovett, Ian Watson and Jimmy Ottley) continue their Outdoor Sports series with two more performances, one at Supernormal Festival and and one at Swn Festival, Cardiff. Outdoor Sports is an improvised sound performance that explores the connections between musicians and their surroundings. Using the physical environment as a musical score, the group respond to sounds, visual stimuli, and other environmental occurrences to create music that's made up of and engages with all aspects of the sound continuum. Previous performances can be heard here.
A video of the groups performance at The Nihilists (July 2011) will also be presented during a screening at Screening of Performance Art in the Natural Environment (SPANE) 2011, Fado Performance Art Centre, Toronto in August.
Darning the Land
Philippa Lawrence (DIGIT) has recently completed 'Darning the Land: Seam', a temporary site-responsive work developed through a main commission awarded by re:place. The work, which will be exhibited in September 2011, references the industrial history of the area and draws on the linage of civic planting common to many UK towns, where public gardens ‘were for the exercise and release of the working man'. In research for the project, Philippa "examined how industrialisation dominated the landscape, how geography determined work and how work and working conditions shaped community and created hierarchies within". The work continues Lawrence's exploration of using textiles to reference humankind's impact on the environment. Making patterns with 700 individual native grasses, the project seeks to ‘mend' the land which has been worked, shaped and changed through the mining for coal and clay. A double running stitch of 59 flowerbeds extends across a section of the park. Planted in September 2011, the work will be fully realised when the plants have reached maturity in about 12-18 months.
Paul Granjon: Oriel Factory17th September - 16th November 2011
Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales 
For this major solo exhibition Paul Granjon (CFAR) presents new robotic installations and drawings alongside devices created by Grajon and volunteers working on the Gallery's ‘factory' floor. Using electronic waste - discarded printers, VCRs, speakers, toys, computer circuit boards - as raw material, yesterday's technology has been deconstructed and re-configured as new prototypes and artificial intelligence. An accompanying film will document the process. Through his latest robots, automata and musical instruments, Granjon continues to explore the possibilities offered by home-manufacturing equipment and the high-tech devices of tomorrow's world and "the co-evolution of humans and machines". Between October 2011 and January 2012, Granjon will also exhibit and perform ‘Sexed Robots', ‘Smartbot', ‘Heartbeat Machine' and ‘Lo-Tech Songs + Servo Drive' in the Mondes inventés, Mondes habités ("Invented Worlds, Inhabited Worlds") exhibition, MUDAM Luxemburg. Other performances planed for 2011 include ‘Love and the Machine' at UM Festival, Portugal on 5th November, and ‘Black Box Ni' at the Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter on 22nd November.
Other Spaces, Art and Sport6pm 8 November 2011
Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol
Dr Jo Longhurst will give a lecture as part of the Art and Sport series at the University of Bristol in November 2011. The lecture ‘Other Spaces: An artist's perspective on elite gymnastics' will discuss Dr Longhurst's experience as visiting artist at Heathrow Gymnastics Club and the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and present ‘Other Spaces', a new body of photographic and sculptural work which explores the physical and emotional experiences of elite gymnasts. She will also question ideas of human perfectibility through the ‘hot housing' of young gymnasts, intrigued by how the most successful often become representatives of ideologies and nations. Entry is free, all are welcome and no booking is required. For further information, contact (0117) 928 8515.
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