juneau/projects/
The Black Moss
28 April – 22 July 2007 Preview Friday 4 May 7pm
Atrium & Room 1
The artists will be present
This exhibition presents the first large-scale installation of work by juneau/projects/, the collaborative practice of artists Philip Duckworth and Ben Sadler, both currently living and working in Birmingham. In their work they incorporate video, sound and performance through which they explore our paradoxical relationship with the electronic items that increasingly surround us and the locations in which we find them. While our desires for the latest technological advances and must-have gadgets escalate, our expectations of an efficient, time-saving future are often simultaneously dashed.
This exhibition has toured to several Galleries across the UK including IKON, Birmingham, FACT, Liverpool and Wysling Art Centre, Cambridge. At each venue the work changes in response to the exhibition space and the general locality. At the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, in our Atrium space on the ground floor juneau/projects/ will present a reworking of their entertaining and thought provoking installation Beneath the floorboards of the forest, empty space (2006). In this installation visitors are invited to play a low tech, text-only ‘computer game’ presented on a series of interactive work stations. Through the text game, we are invited to navigate through various landscapes. Along the way, we are asked to choose the direction and make a series of other decisions - the choices made will lead to a varied range of outcomes.
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In Room 1, we will also be showing I’m going to antler you (2006), a recent IKON commission created in collaboration with five young people from a local Birmingham school. The work centres on a ‘face-off’ between two imagined rock bands. The installation shows large-scale photographs of the make believe bands and their equipment. This installation also includes costumes designed and music performed by the participants, and is presented alongside drum kits, electric guitars and amps painted with idyllic pastoral scenes.
A selection of early works will also be on display at the gallery these often involve the use and abuse of consumer objects, such as mobile phones, CD walkmans, computers, televisions and tape machines.
A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition with texts by Nigel Prince and Ceri Hand (£12.95).
Exhibition organised by Ikon Gallery. The exhibition is supported by Arts Council England – National Touring Programme and The Henry Moore Foundation. The presentation at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, is supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Plants and logs supplied by Parks Department, City & County of Swansea
Events Programme
Friday 4 May, 9pm Live Performance
juneau/projects/ will give a live performance at the Monkey Bar, 12 Castle Street, Swansea.
Friday 18 May, 1pm
In Conversation
juneau/projects/ will be ‘in conversation’ with Nigel Prince, Curator (Gallery), Ikon Gallery.
Friday 25 May, 1pm
Talk
Ceri Hand, Director of Metal, Liverpool, will give her response to juneau/projects/ and also talk about juneau’s past projects at Grizedale Arts, a commissioning and residency agency for contemporary art based in the Lake District National Park.
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Contemporary Collections
New Work from the Crafts Council Collection
Originated by Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in collaboration with the Crafts Council
12 April – 24 June 2007
As part of its series of contemporary craft shows, the Gallery plans to include overviews of public and private collections. To launch this initiative, we have arranged loans of exceptional quality drawn from the Crafts Council Collection. This particular event, which focuses on the Council's recent acquisitions, represents a national resource with a unique wealth of expression. The Collection includes exceptional examples of contemporary British work across a broad range of disciplines. The show includes contemporary furniture, ceramics, jewellery and textiles by internationally acclaimed makers.
The exhibition comprises work by Alison Britton, Nicholas Rena, Martin Smith, Rupert Spira and Julian Stair, along with younger artists who also work in clay: Simon Carroll and Chun Liao. Distinguished innovative furniture is represented by two well known names: Michael Anastassiades and El ultimo grito, while jewellery by Elizabeth Callinicos and Naomi Filmer contain some wonderful surprises. The show quietly concludes with 'Slowly Seeping', a contemplative tapestry by Shelly Goldsmith.
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The Crafts Council in London first started to acquire craftwork in the early 1970s from the exhibitions that it staged in its gallery in Waterloo Place. Many of these shows toured the UK and also abroad with The British Council. At this time, the British government started subsidising the crafts by forming the Crafts Advisory Committee (now the Crafts Council) with professional exhibitions, good catalogues and an important magazine ‘Crafts’, as a vehicle for publicity and promotion, which previous crafts people lacked.
Thirty-seven years on, the Crafts Council continues to acquire innovative contemporary British craft. The Collection numbers approximately one thousand five hundred objects and forms a national record of craft that can be seen in its lively touring exhibitions, active loans schemes and collaborative projects with UK museums and galleries.
Information on the work of the Crafts Council is available on line at www.craftscouncil.org.uk
The exhibition is curated by Ralph Turner.
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GALERIAZERO www.galeriazero.com
Canvis Nous 1, 08003 Barcelona, Spain. Phone / fax: +34 933103933
e-mail: bcn@galeriazero.com
1) For our upcoming collective show in SHANGHAI ( important art gallery)
we can admit a few artists more.
* If you are interested, please send us your URL or some images + curriculum to bcn@galeriazero.com
2) We are selecting visual artists for our upcoming show in Cork street / LONDON - (Inauguration 3rd September 2007 )
If you are a professional artist producing innovative art of high quality.
* media: painting, photography, sculpture
We will be pleased to consider your work for an eventual participation in this prestigious event. Please, apply sending your URL or some images + curriculum to bcn@galeriazero.com
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May Programme
Dylan Thomas Centre
Somerset Place
Swansea SA1 1RR
01792 463980
dylanthomas.lit@swansea.gov.uk
www.dylanthomas.com
Friday 11 May
Wise & Foolish Dreamers
The launch of a special exhibition and festival marking Wales’ part in the world-changing events of the Spanish Civil War 70 years ago. This project is a Wales Centre for International Affairs event, with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Friday 11 May 11am
Schools Launch of Wise & Foolish Dreamers project, with pupils and teachers from the three schools involved in the creation of the Publication, Video and Exhibition coming together at the Dylan Thomas Centre.
FREE ENTRY – OPEN TO ALL
Friday 11 May 7pm
The Exhibition, Video, Publication and Festival will be officially launched by Professor Hywel Francis MP - the main authority on Wales’ role in the Spanish Civil War and the author of Miners Against Fascism: Wales and the Spanish Civil War (1984, reprinted 2004) . Professor Francis will give a short opening talk, and there will also be other short presentations.
FREE ENTRY wine & canapés
The Exhibition and Video will remain in the Dylan Thomas Centre until 29 May when it will begin its tour throughout Wales, supported by an innovative programme of educational workshops. For more information or to book a visit to your area / school / centre, contact Phil Cope on 01656 870180
Saturday 12 May
Wise & Foolish Dreamers
Saturday 12 May 4.00pm
FILM – For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
A big-screen chance to see the classic Oscar-winning, Hollywood version of Ernest Hemingway’s towering novel, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Despite the depoliticised text which removed all references to Franco, this is still a moving and heroic tale of men (and women) at War.
Full Price £4-00 Concessions £2-80 Swansea PTL £1-60
Saturday 12 May 7.00pm
Gypsy Ballads
The hauntingly beautiful poetry of the tragic Federico Garcia Lorca, translated (‘the best Lorca translations I’ve seen’ Allen Ginsberg) and performed by Swansea poet, lecturer and translator Malcolm Parr , with original music composed and performed by Swansea musician Peter Williams on piano,
with Myfyr Isaac on Spanish guitar and Dave Cottle on keyboard.
Full Price £4-00 Concessions £2-80 Swansea PTL £1-60
Saturday 12 May 9.00pm
FILM – Pan’s Labyrynth (2006)
A magical, surreal journey as a young girl retreats from the horrors of the war into a secret kingdom where she finds she is the long-lost princess. A dazzling tour-de-force that has at its heart the resistance of facism – what the director Guillermo del Torro calls ‘the death of the soul’
Full Price £4-00 Concessions £2-80 Swansea PTL £1-60
Sunday 13 May 3pm – 6pm with intervals
TV FILM – The Colliers’ Crusade This is probably a once –in-a-lifetime chance to see a piece of TV history that is difficult and costly to access! A five-part series of half-hour programmes made by the BBC in 1980, introduced by the legendary Rene Cutforth and directed by the great Welsh filmmaker and poet John Ormond, where Welsh members of the international brigade, including Tom Jones, Jack Roberts, Morien Morgan, Alan Menai Williams and many others recall their part in the War. This is great television as it used to be! With thanks to BBC TV.
FREE ENTRY
Sunday May 13 7.30pm
Chimes of Freedom - An anthology of Poetry, Prose & Music
A brigade of local writers, poets and performers present a wide selection of fantastic writing on the War, from Orwell to Hemingway, Laurie Lee to W H Auden, Louis Macneice to Paul Eluard, with varied musical interludes allied to the theme by one of Swansea’s best musicians Andy Jones, now forging a solo career after years as part of the legendary Boys from the Hill, purveyors of their own brand of unique, resolutely political ‘urban folk’. If you would like to take part and read a poem please contact David Woolley at the Dylan Thomas Centre.
Full Price £4-00 Concessions £2-80 Swansea PTL £1-60
Tuesday 15 May 7pm
Booklaunch – Castles in the Sand by Tony Layton
Tony Layton is a local playwright for both theatre and TV, with awards from the BBC and Drama Association of Wales. His play are performed regularly all over th UK and the continent. In his first novel, he tells the story through the eyes of a 12 year old boy of a family during World War Two. Loosely autobiographical, it is a story of warmth, humour and trauma, of how the human spirit can overcome lost innocence.
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