Tuesday 9 August 2011

Event Programme



FRIDAY 19TH AUGUST
SATURDAY 19TH AUGUST
SUNDAY 21ST AUGUST
10.00
Thought Sweets
Katie Comley
10.00-17.00

Interactions taking place in Falmouth town centre
Thought Sweets
Katie Comley
10.00-17.00

Interactions taking place in Falmouth town centre

11.00

12.00
Katie Comley
Discussion groups
 12.00-13.00
13.00

14.00
Discussion groups
 14.00-15.00
15.00

16.00
Discussion groups
16.00-17.00
17.00

18.00
LAUNCH AND PRIVATE VIEW
18.00

From Our Depths
Charlotte Jackman
18.00-22.00

Home
Felicity Hipgrave
14.00-19.00
Unwash
Shireen Darabi
18.00-22.00
19.00
20.00

21.00

22.00

23.00



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H A N D S  O N:
Negotiating New Social Realms
Falmouth Wharves, North Parade, Falmouth
19th, 20th, 21st August
Admission free

HANDS ON: Negotiating New Social Realms is a Live Art event exploring the principles of participation and audience engagement. Selected artists investigate and push the boundaries of socially engaged practice, bringing diverse approaches, strategies and discourses into Live Art performance from different backgrounds. The artists draw upon materials that are specific to Cornwall to develop performances that immerse the participant and attempt to close the separation between artist and audience.

A programme of performance events and happenings over three days invites the audience to participate and co-create the performance with the artist. Four local artists have developed site specific performances in response to a curatorial brief comprising a set of instructions.

Charlotte Jackman’s performance event 'From Our Depths' involves a collective untangling of used fishing nets where this alternative social situation encourages the creation of new relations. The participants get caught up in the meditative tasks, involving sizable nets yet micro-actions. Felicity Hipgrave’s installation piece draws upon audience participation to make and develop clay houses that become part of a larger installation exploring the shared notion of home, and how we respond to the idea culturally as a community.

Katie Comley’s initial ‘street interactions’ taking place around Falmouth are triggered by the giving of ‘Thought-Sweets’ displayed on a portable vending trolley, constructed from reclaimed objects. Comley’s secondary form of her practice is the facilitation of a discussion forum held at the fish factory where these perceptions can be shared, discussed and exchanged further through group dialogue. Shireen Darabi in her participatory performance event ‘Unwash’ invites the audience to interact with local materials, experiencing a journey of cleansing through un-washing, and to work together in a quest to re-establish a balanced relationship to place.

Hands On is curated by University College Falmouth, MA Curatorial Practice student Lauren Bishop.