Southend's bid to become the first UK City of Culture 2013 is gathering pace as the numbers of accepted challengers were announced this week, reduced from a previous 26 to now only 14 regions. National Arts and Culture website Culture24 discusses the bids HERE, and we're thrilled that TAP has been mentioned and pictured...
2) THE SMALL GALLERY: FRAN WILDE - ‘Handed’: Videos from a visit to India
Fran Wilde has a long standing fascination with landscape and constructed spaces and more recently she has been interested in stories that arise when people enter the scene. These six short films represent experiments by Fran in editing footage, photographs and sound that she recorded with a compact digital camera on a trip to India in February 2009. Fran’s interest in India comes from contact with grass-roots development NGOs there.
- ‘STEPS’ was filmed in a rare stepped well in Gujarat where people walk down to the ground water level.
- ‘CAROUSEL’ is a marriage of traffic filmed from an auto taxi in Baroda and the mechanical music of a fairground roundabout at Bushy Park, Surrey.
- ‘NIGHT CALLS’ is edited call-and-response by two singers heard early morning from a Sikh temple in Delhi.
- ‘IN DEO SPERAMUS: IN GOD WE TRUST’ Ganesh, the God of New Beginnings, is prepared by music students at the Madras Music Academy.
- ‘HANDED’ considers the hands-on nature of life in India. People have an everyday dexterity not seen in the UK and hand posture is symbolically significant for Gods and dancers.
- ‘COUCHED’ uses photos taken on an overnight train. The drawing is based on a traditional style of textile art called Kalumkari (pen work), also seen in ‘Handed’.
COEXIST GALLERY @ TAP, North Rd, Southend, www.coexist.org.uk
We are having a Christmas Open Studios and Arts & Crafts fair this Sunday - all welcome, come and join us for a glass of mulled wine and a chance to see the studios and artists at work - we have lots of stalls so a chance to purchase a few gifts too! Admission is FREE (although we are taking donations for HARP).
Those of you who came to our launch show "Come Together" may have noticed Sam Zealey's piece 'Pillar of Potential' appeared on "School of Saatchi" last Monday on BBC2. Those of you who missed it can still view it on BBC iPlayer here.
Thanks so much to all who came and supported the three shows on what was another successful night! We are putting photos of the evening and the works on show online soon - if you took some good photos on the night please do email them to us and we will credit you on the site if they are used. Thanks in particular go to Derek Shaw who manned the bar all evening at short notice, what a star *
28th October 2009 6.30am Versace, Sloane Street, London.
“Medusas’ punishment for being raped by Poseidon was to have her hair turned in to a head of writhing snakes. So petrifying she turned men to stone with a single look. Pregnant by Poseidon, she lived as an outcast of society until Persues came and removed her head.
The installation of Medusa outside the Versace store was to discuss the ownership of Medusa by the fashion house. A relationship between the single Versace mannequin within the store shopfront and Medusa also reflected the acceptance of what is beautiful and the outcasting of what is deemed ugly, by those that consider themselves an authority.
Medusa with her shopping bags turned to stone by the very horror that is herself reflected in the use and ownership of an ancient icon to sell goods.”
Congratulations to Clare www.clarelynn.co.uk on an amazing evening in Hockley Woods tonight. This photograph really doesn't do it justice... (updated) there is a short bit of video footage on IDEA13 also.
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