A first for the Wirksworth Festival. With Artists entries from all over the world
Saturday 18th September
Immerse yourself in a whole day of contemporary art which continues into the evening with ground breaking digital collaborations and music.
During the day take a guided tour around the Key Venues, windows and sites with accompanying artist talks. Join Festival Curator David Gilbert exploring the selected and curated shows in depth. An outstanding opportunity for the curious student and art lover.
On the day, French artist Flore Gardner wraps St Mary’s Church in a mile of French knitting as part of her re:place commission.
Stay on to watch the Festival’s first Artists’ Film & Video Salon. Entries from all over the world include work from: Beatrice Baumgartner, Lia Chavez, The Centre of Attention, Candida Elton, Tony Hill, Shona Illingworth, Carlos Lopez, Marianna and Daniel, Caitlin Masley, Huw Morgan, Simona Pantieri/Mary Ingoldby, Kate Rowles, Darshana Vora.
Town Hall at 6.30pm, tickets £5.
Electronica with Tullis Rennie An evening of live electronic and improvised music, with specially commissioned films and visual projections. Includes The Electronic Exchange and a collaborative project realised remotely from Manchester & Barcelona written and recorded entirely via the web. A melting pot of shared influences: dark and eerie urban soundscapes meet soulful and uplifting vocal melodies. Also cottrell/findlay/hunter who create free improvisations influenced by contemporary classical, rock and jazz. Cello meets baritone saxophone meets guitar meets laptop meets a lot of effects pedals…
Town Hall at 8.45pm, tickets £7.
Special combination ticket price: Electronica with Tullis Rennie & Artists’ Film & Video Salon for £10.
‘To liberate the unconscious might be to let go of the ego, or the notion of authorship. I always come back to the word “conduit,” because I feel like an open channel when I’m making art. I often imagine my body as a funnel through which the world is poured.’ – Janine Antoni
Yesterday while shooting in the city, I beheld this gorgeous nebula amongst several astonishing little shards of light prisms in the sky. This is the only one which was visible through my camera. Just a reminder that rainbows can appear on perfectly clear, sunny days. Yes, life is that good!
Saw Tommy Emmanuel perform this evening and (mindblowing virtuosity aside) it was so moving and sacred. He quoted these lyrics by Jerry Reed. FEEL IT:
“Today Is Mine
When the sun came up this morning I took the time to watch it rise.
As its beauty struck the darkness from the skies.
I thought how small and unimportant all my troubles seem to be, and how lucky another day belongs to me.
And as the sleepy world around me woke up to greet the day, and all its silent beauty seemed to say: So what, my friend, if all your dreams you haven’t realized.
Look around, you got a whole new day to try.
Today is mine, today is mine, to do with what I will.
Today is mine.
My own special cup to fill.
To die a little that I might learn to live.
And take from life that I might learn to give.
Today is mine.
With all men I curse the present that seems void of peace of mind, and race my thoughts beyond tomorrow and vision there more peace of mind.
But when I view the day around me I can see the fool I’ve been.
For today is the only garden we can tend.
Today is mine, today is mine, to do with what I will.
Today is mine.
My own special cup to fill.
To die a little that I might learn to live.
And take from life that I might learn to give.
Today is mine.”
Savannah College of Art and Design Atlanta (SCAD) Presents “Entwined” by William T. Hillman and Lia Chavez
ATLANTA, Ga.—The SCAD exhibitions department presents “Entwined,” an exhibition showcasing the recent collaboration between artists William T. Hillman and Lia Chavez. “Entwined” presents large-scale photographs depicting choreographed, overlapping bodies that emerge and dissolve in stark silhouettes. Both corporal and cerebral, the imagery evokes the connections between the physical and the psychological. Also entwined is the unique combination of traditional and digital photographic processes used in this innovative body of work.
In a recent catalogue for the Hillman + Chavez collaboration, renowned writer and curator Gary Sangster wrote, “The work of William T. Hillman and Lia Chavez – a first time partnership in creative photography from two artists, one located in New York and the other in London – can be described as the embodiment of a complex hybrid system of contemporary expressive pictorialism.”
The exhibition will be on display at the Trois Gallery at SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St., Jan. 29-Feb. 28. A reception for the artists will be held on Feb. 4, 6 p.m. Opening remarks will be offered by Lia Chavez. The event and exhibition are free and open to the public.
William T. Hillman lives in New York City. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. Recent shows include the Fashion District Arts Festival, New York City, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, and The Prague Contemporary Art Festival. A graduate of Princeton University, Hillman holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University and also has studied at The Art Students League of New York and the Lacoste School of the Arts in France.
Lia Chavez lives in London. Recent shows include Detournement Venise collateral exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennale of Visual Arts; The Prague Contemporary Art Festival; “Personally Political – Contemporary Sensation”, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin; “Nightcomers”, 10th International Istanbul Biennial. She studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London and also at University of Oxford and in Florence, Italy.
SCAD: The University for Creative Careers
The Savannah College of Art and Design is the most comprehensive art and design university in the world, offering more degree programs and specializations than any other art and design university. SCAD is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution conferring bachelor’s and master’s degrees in distinctive locations and online to prepare talented students for professional careers. SCAD offers students a choice of degree programs in 46 majors and more than 50 minors at locations in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia; in Lacoste, France; online through SCAD eLearning; and in Hong Kong beginning Fall 2010.
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There will be a presentation of Videoholica Special Selection at OCT (Contemporary Art Terminal)/ He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (China), 15 November 2009, conference hall, 16.30h. Following this, Videoholica Festival Special Selection is presented at V.I.P.
Art Gallery of Students cultural center during In-Difference festival in Belgrade (Serbia), 9 December 2009, 19.00h.
ARTISTS:
Sergio Cruz (Portugal), Lia Chavez (USA/UK), Guido Salvini (Italy), Esther Johnson (UK), Andrea Kustić (Hrvatska), Marius Leneweit/Ricio Rodriguez (Španija), Finda Ozgunaydin (Nemačka), Christin Bolewski, (Nemačka), Roland Wegerer (Austrija), Martin Kohout (Nemačka), Lemeh42 (Italija), Christian Nikolay (Kanada), Ava Lacnhe (Nemačka), Justin Randolph Thompson (Italija),
Stuart Pound (UK), Boris Eldagsen (Nemačka), Robin Whenary (UK), Nadine Kiese (Nemačka), Gordon Culshaw (UK), Kristina Bozurska (Makedonija), Charles A. Gick (USA), Inger Alfnes (Holandija).
Calling all shoe obsessives (you know who you are!) I contributed a pair of studio shoes to a very fun and wonderful project featuring artists’ shoes and curated by Veerle Swenters and Pierre Bogaerts, which opened in Belgium on the 9th of November! Here’s a video clip of this exciting project:
