Shhh… You're Invited
… A Silent Disco… In the Library... Next Wednesday…
In just a few days, immerse yourself in a silent disco like no other! Join us on Wednesday, 26th March, from 5–7 PM at the Penryn Campus Library to experience the unique sounds of our campus, reimagined.
Over the past year, members of the SU Birdwatching Society, Life Drawing Society, Anime & Manga Society, Rugby Ladies, and Puppetry have collaborated with artists Georgia Gendall, Naomi Frears, and Liam Jolly to capture the hidden beats and rhythms of campus life. Now, it’s time to listen.
This event is free and open to all, and we’ll be providing the drinks and snacks, so bring a friend and join us for this unique sound experience.
Let us know you’re coming: /e/shha-tender-act-is-coming-to-the-library-tickets-1268505416849?aff=oddtdtcreator
@birdwatchingsu , @falmouth.draws.life , @falexe_anime_society , @csmladiesrugby , @fal.puppetry , @georgiagendall , @liam.jolly , @naomifrears@tenderacts@artsandcultureex@uniexecornwall@thesufalexe@fieldnotesonart@falmouthexeterplus@fxstudentservices@fxplus@fxwellbeing
We’re excited to announce that artists @naomifrears and @liam.jolly have joined @georgiagendall to collaborate on Tender Acts.
Over the last few months the three artists have been exploring Penryn campus and the many networks and connections that exist here. They are now working with student societies including @birdwatchingsu@falexe_anime_society@fal.puppetry@csmladiesrugby and @falmouth.draws.life
Naomi Frears is a visual artist based at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives. Working across film, painting and printmaking, her practice explores forms of everyday choreography as well as the way in which images can plot emotional states. She has exhibited widely including recent solo shows 'The Days of the Future Stand Before Us' at @harbourhouse.art.wellbeing and 'Night After Night' at Kestle Barton, and is also involved in collaborative projects, such as 'Thanks for the Apples' at Falmouth Art Gallery.
Liam Jolly is a multidisciplinary artist whose work delves into implied hierarchies and positions between on and off stage: amateur and professional, original and imitation. He is interested in considering how and when audiences encounter art and the possibilities of altering people’s perceptions and viewpoints in unexpected ways. As the founder and director of the art project space @auctionhouse , he supports local talent while bringing international artists to Redruth. In addition to his artistic practice, he has spent over 20 years in the music industry as a promoter, talent booker, and drummer.
Having been on campus for over 10 months now, we’ve moved onto the next stage of the project - including moving into our new studio space at the @uniofexeteresi ! Recently we’ve been exploring what the campus looks, feels and sounds like and how we navigate around it. This has led to a lot of maps - maps of campus, mind-maps, and finding alternative and creative ways of mapping places and spaces. We’ve been having lots of interesting conversations with students, teaching staff and researchers about their experiences of being here. We’re now working towards a publication to bring our explorations, findings and speculations together…
PETER LIVERSIDGE - PROPOSALS
Peter Liversige is a contemporary British artist whose work centres around writing ‘proposals’ for exhibitions and artworks. He types each proposal on an old manual typewriter; some of them are poetic, some humorous, some of them become artworks and some of them remain as letters on a sheet of paper.
In 2017, Liversidge was commissioned for We The People Are The Work, a visual arts project curated by Simon Morrissey of @foregroundprojects about people, power and protest. Each commissioned artist was invited to create new artworks made both with and for the people of Plymouth.
Liversidge worked on two commissions, one being Sign Paintings for Plymouth. He gathered the thoughts and ideas of local residents and community groups, which were painted onto signs by a team of residents at a placard making station hosted at The Council House. The signs were disseminated across the city by the public through organised protest, culminating in a ritual burning. The work opened up discussions around important topics from Brexit to local issues and ideas around what it means to belong.
In Liversidge’ practice proposals are used in the making of artworks both on an individual scale and for larger collective action. Speaking abouthis work Jupiter Proposals, Liversidge explained the proposals as “an invitation, a guide, a beginning for others. I have no control – nor do I want to have control – over how people interact with the proposals. Their imagined realisation belongs solely to others.”
Credit: Sign Paintings for Plymouth, Peter Liversidge, We The People Are The Work, Plymouth, 2017
STILL MOVING - NO NEW WORLDS
Still / Moving are an artist collective founded by three Devon-based artists. They are particularly recognisable for their large-scale illuminated sculpture and installation made in response to world issues from the climate emergency to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Their work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 2021 they installed ‘NO NEW WORLDS’ at the Govan Graving Docks in Glasgow for the duration of COP26. The work calls out for viewers to think deeply about human impact on our planet; its past, present and possible futures.
The sculpture had initially been installed in Plymouth where it was entitled ‘Speedwell’ to commemorate the legacy of the Mayflower’s companion ship. The work challenged the idea of the ‘New World’, acting as a prompt to think about colonisation, exploitation and the difficult legacy of the Mayflower and Speedwell.
Still / Moving use thought provoking illuminated statements and questions, positioned strategically in the landscape, to inspire thought and action.
credit: @stillmovingcic
MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ - THE METHOD
Marina Abramović is a conceptual and performance artist from Serbia. She is known for her eyebrow-raising interventions, installations and performances that explore physical endurance, mental strength and the relationship between performer and audience.
She developed the Marina Abramović Method to bring together 55 years of her research and experience in performance art. The method was first established as a series of mindfulness exercises that the artist used to prepare herself for long duration performance works. In 2022 she released The Marina Abramović Method: Instruction Cards to Reboot Your Life, a set of instruction cards co-created with arts and fiction writer Katya Tylevich that drew on these exercises.
She designed this selection of prompts with the ’purpose of teaching endurance, concentration, perception, self control, willpower, and confrontation of mental and physical limits.’ They give the user an insight into Abramović’s art practice, working methods and way of thinking about life.
credit: The Marina Abramović Method: Instruction Cards to Reboot Your Life and a Marina Abramović Institute collaboration with @thirddrawerdown which brings The Method into daily life with a new range of art objects
YOKO ONO - INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAINTINGS
Yoko Ono is a multimedia artist, musician and peace activist. She developed her concept of ‘Instructions for Paintings’ early in her career, with ‘Lighting Piece’ being one of her earliest works.
Ono claimed that her ‘Instruction painting makes it possible to explore the invisible, the world beyond the concept of time and space. And then, sometimes later, the instructions themselves will disappear and be properly forgotten.” She invited the viewer to “make the work in your mind, at home, or in the space.”, giving her work a philosophical tone and developing some of the emerging ideas of the conceptual art movement.
Born in Japan, Ono arrived in New York City in 1956. She showed her instruction-based paintings for the first time in her Manhattan studio / events space in 1960. The following year she had her first solo exhibition, where she presented over 15 paintings that were made following her own written instructions. Some of the instructions were installed alongside the works, but Ono shared most of them verbally.
In 1964 she published ‘Grapefruit’ described by Tate as her “foundational book of instruction works… concise texts, somewhere between poem and score [that] aim to unlock the mind”.
credit: Music of the mind, Yoko Ono, Tate Modern, 2024
We’ve been talking to people on campus about our posters and instruction forms. It seems that overall people like them and are intrigued by them, but the question we get asked most often is “but what does it mean?” By way of explaining this a little we thought we’d share with you some other artist’s approaches to prompts, questions and instructions. Our following posts will offer an insight into a variety of artists, their working methods and why artists instruct.
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