Contact Trish Bould trishbould@drawingplace.co.uk
www.drawingplace.co.uk
MAP PLOT PLUNDER POSSESSION
Theatre Royal Winchester 31 October 6-midnight.
Tickets £10 from Theatre Royal box office 01962 840440
http://www.theatre-royal-winchester.co.uk
‘A very special one off opportunity, a celebration of local talent’
In 2009, Ten Days at the Laundry was a major artistic event, bringing together hundreds of local creatives into a colossal showcase of creative Winchester. Now in 2011, Ten Days Across the City will draw on the heritage of the Laundry project to once again display, promote, and develop the quality and variety of the creative practice being undertaken in the city.
Map Plot Plunder Possession at the Theatre Royal is the centrepiece of the festival: a unique happening, designed specifically for the Theatre Royal building, it brings together a huge range of local talent, with the aim of mapping local creative achievement.
The show will take its visitors on a multi-sensory voyage through the Theatre Royal, from the public areas that audiences see regularly, to a once‑in‑a‑lifetime chance to explore the secret spaces backstage and stand on the stage itself. On the way visitors will encounter experimental dance, film, sound and light installations, music, live writing, and a couple of Halloween surprises, woven into an orchestra of sounds, words, lines, connections, and conversations. And visitors themselves can become part of the conversation, changing installations and dances by their presence, interacting directly with writers to influence the work they produce on the night.
Drawing Spaces, The Hyde Writers, The Yard studio, Andrew Carnie, Stephen Cooper, Simon Morley, Sebastiane Hegarty, Kate Baker, Belinda Mitchell, Suna Imre, David Gausden, Alice Kettle, Fiona Candy, Nicola Harlow, Russell Moreton, Melanie Evans, Julia Hall, Public Attraction, ShadyJane, ACE, and the Winchester Community Choir are writers, drawers, visual artists, sound artists, architects, theatre companies, dancers, musicians, composers, and singers who have worked locally in Winchester, regionally, and internationally.
Creative Director Trish Bould said: "This is a fantastic opportunity to develop work for such an inspiring building. This event is going to be an archeology of local creative talent: alongside artists who exhibit regularly and internationally, I'm very pleased that it is giving several young artists and local creative groups their first chance to put work into such an exciting place. The event is a celebration of the present and the future of creative Winchester.”
All those involved are volunteers for whom participation is enabling opportunities and aspirations. Any profits for the event will be donated to the local charity Hello Martha and Cancer Research.
Further information:
Ten Days is a not-for-profit organization set up between Trish Bould
of Drawing Place and Chris Carter of Yard Studios in Winchester.
Our aims – celebrating creative achievement in Winchester and fostering local talent through the development of inclusive exhibitions and events and their promotion nationally and internationally. Projects bring together creative practitioners from a range of disciplines and from different parts of the city
This year's project, 10 Days Across The City, is a festival of creative activities taking place in Winchester between 28th October and 6th November, mapping a creative identity for present day Winchester.
Trish Bould is an artist and curator with a passion for supporting local artists. She has devised and orchestrated the '10 day in the City' project to create new opportunities for exhibitions and events within the city of Winchester. The project represents a broad range of collaborative exchanges and interweaving of ideas between the many creative groups and people in Winchester.
Since leaving Winchester School of Art in October last year she has begun to focus on her own practice and the development of Drawing Place. Trish creates and orchestrates participatory projects and events in the public realm through engagement with practice. Her most recent collaborative projects include the 'Back to Free School' a residency in Kilquhanity Galloway for 12 people and the curation of 'Site-Readings' an inter-disciplinary project at Mottisfont Abbey
Map Plot Plunder Possession THEATRE ROYAL
The event has been made possible through the contributions of Simon Morley, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, Design Engine, Bulthaup Winchester, Bang & Olufsen, Roundhere, the Yard Studio’s, The Railway Inn, the Hyde Tavern, Winchester City Council BID
Includes a series of works local creative groups including the community choir, Hyde writers, artists from the yard studios, and by professional artists who live and have worked locally including:
Simon Morley, Moon Palace, film projection onto the external wall of Theatre Royal
The film features the full moon changing in colour and represents the different phases and names of the lunar 'seas' . Moon Palace has evolved since the first version, shown in Seoul in 2008 and at the Laundry in Winchester in 2009. In its second incarnation, also shown in Seoul in 2010 and earlier this year, Simon added the names of real Lunar Seas followed by ones that he has invented. Simon has created a special adaption of the film for Theatre Royal Winchester
Simon is an artist, writer and lecturer. Currently, teaching at Sungshin Women's University in Seoul, South Korea and a Visiting Fellow at Winchester School of Art,. His current and forthcoming exhibitions are 'Korea Land of the Dawn, and Other Paintings' at Art Link Gallery, Seoul 16 -30 September, and a two-person show with Maria Chevska, 'Guest from the Future' at Galerie8, London, 27 October - 12 December 2011. He is the author of 'Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art' (2003) and the editor of 'The Sublime: Documents in Contemporary Art' (2010) . website is www.simonmorley.com . Contact morleysimon@hotmail.com
David Gausden, Interior overview As an architect David has an interest in the architecture and interior spaces within the Theatre Royal and how visitor’s perceptions of space can be altered and manipulated through interventions and light. He has been working closely with the curatorial team and artists experimenting with how preconceptions of interior space can be challenged. David is collaborating with Steve Sanderson and Trish Bould on film works within the interior theatre spaces.
David is based in Winchester with Design Engine Architects. Recent local projects include the Performing Arts Studios and the interiors to the Student Centre at the University of Winchester. He has recently completed a new reception space for the London School of Economics and is currently working on a new secondary school in Guernsey due for completion in 2012. Whilst working in London for Pentagram and Apicella Associates David developed an interest in interiors and exhibition design. Notable projects included “Investigate” an interactive learning environment at the Natural History Museum London. Contact davidgausden@designengine.co.uk www.designengine.co.uk
Steve Sanderson, Steve is an artist and lecturer based at Winchester School of Art. His interests lie in the field of surveillance and viral filmmaking and is currently researching the ambivalence of photography as an instrument or medium used by government and as a critique of government. www.thresholdstudios.co.uk
Melanie Evans, Film, exploring the fleeting, intangible experience of the sublime http://melanie-evans.tumblr.com/page/2
Melanie is a recent graduate of Textile Art, Winchester School of Art currently Projects Co-ordinator at Salisbury Arts Centre
Contact faye.melanie@yahoo.com
Fiona Candy Footage (working title),: the first showing of a new a film by Fiona Candy about feet, shoes and personal transformation. She will walk a line from The Laundry through myth and legend, to explore the nature of identity... www.a-brand.co.uk Contact fionacandy@btinternet.com
Nicola Harlow, Artist as Archaeologist and Russell Moreton, Speculative Process Russell and Nicola both took part in the recent Back to Free school residency earlier this year (facilitated by Drawing Place) and will be showing art works made at the residency as part of the exhibition in the theatre foyer.
Nicola and Russell are based at the yard studios Wharf Hill, Winchester. Their work engages with site specific processes and making.
Nicola graduated from Winchester School of Art in 2008 and is just about to start an MA in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art. She has worked alongside the archaeological investigations at Magdalen Hill, and took part in the Re- Imagining Treasures of Hyde Abbey show part of the Hyde 900 festival.
Russell works in a range of materials and processes including large mobile pinhole cameras, cyanotype liquid both as a printing and drawing media, and unfired clay. He graduated from UCA Canterbury having studying an MA in Spatial Practices after studying Visual Art at WSA. His work has been shown in Winchester at St Johns House and at The Whole Two Yards and Hyde 900 exhibitions in the Discovery Centre.
Sebastiane Hegarty. Fragments from the soundscape: for theatre auditorium and speakers. A cycle of three soundscapes for the Theatre Royal, accompanied by a sonic river flowing through the theater’s public address system. The soundscapes are formed from three sources: a year of sound recordings made in Winnall Moors Reserve, Winchester and one day in Winchester Cathedral. These external and internal landscapes are divided by a sonic interval, composed of sounds taken from the suspended lighting/screen systems of the theatre stage.
Sebastiane Hegarty is an artist, writer and lecturer. His creative practice is interdisciplinary and time-based in nature, including sound, installation, photography, performance, drawing and text.
He is currently collaborating with Hampshire Wildlife Trust on the Winnall Moors sound walk, the development of which can be seen and heard at the project blog: winnallmoorssoundwalk.wordpress.com/.
Other recent sound work has included: Twenty Minutes (BBC Radio 3, 2011); Soundscapes of the South (BBC Radio Solent, 2011) and Resistance #4, which features on the Framework Seasonal CD (Framework: Resonance FM, London, 2011).
Website: www.sebastianehegarty.com
Andrew Carnie, Crazy Diamond Mine, 2004 - 2011, is a four-projector slide dissolve work lasting approximately 25 minutes. A projected line traces out a drawn image onto two intersecting perpendicular screens. The images are projected around this screen following a circle clockwise motion, one projector taking over slowly from the previous projector, the image from the fading projector lingers as the next image becomes brighter. The images take the viewer on a time-based journey through a series of linear spaces, quite wild in their appearance, a journey down a tunnel into new and unknown places.
Andrew Carnie’s work is very varied though often involves a meaningful interaction with scientists in different fields as an early stage in the development of his work. His work can be viewed at www.andrwcarnie.co.uk <http://www.andrwcarnie.co.uk> or followed on his blog http://andrewcarnieexhibtionsandstuff.blogspot.com/
Contact andrewcarnie@btinternet.com
ShadyJane’s Sailing On - Where but the ladies’ toilets would you expect to find the half-drowned Ophelia and Virginia Woolf taking an interest in the stories of passers-by? Just back from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where they picked up a Total Theatre Award for Emerging Company, Point Associate Artists ShadyJane will be presenting glimpses of ‘Sailing On’.
ShadyJane is an award winning, all female performance collective walking between story and experience. They specialise in interacting with their audiences and transforming spaces to tell the stories of women from history, literature and the phone book. ‘If it is originality and inventiveness you seek, then Sailing On is the show for you’ (ThreeWeeks)
Contact Charlotte Cassey charlotte@shadyjane.co.uk
Stephen Cooper, Installation I am a scientist
The ideas in the painting I am a Scientist are concerned with the connections and crossovers between the worlds of art and science. Imagery from astronomy (worm holes and black holes) and biology collide, becoming fused within an interpretative landscape space. The installation of the painting in the context of the theatre environment, specifically on the stage, inevitably affects, changes and extends the painting’s original ideas, thereby inviting further speculation as to their meaning and interpretation.
Stephen Cooper is an artist who shows nationally and internationally, and whose practice is positioned between architecture, painting and sculpture. He is also head of painting at Winchester School of Art. Recent exhibitions include intervention into the Far Eastern Collections, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2007 Off at a Tangent: an installation in response to The Floating World, an exhibition of Japanese prints, Southampton City Art Gallery
2010. www.stephencooper.info
Contact S.A.Cooper@soton.ac.uk
Alice Kettle Incubus, a framed embroidery, along with flagons of thread, poster and documentary photographs from the Kaunas Biennial Textile ’11, Lithuania, where Alice will be showing her work Alice Kytler. The piece springs from a personal link to a story about a medieval Witch called Alice Kyteler (Alice Kettle), and celebrates the magic of thread. This work will be shown in the theatre bar.
Alice Kettle is a textile/fibre artist based in Winchester. She trained as a painter and has work represented in many international collections. Her work is noted for its use of a craft medium on very large scales. Winchester residents and visitors are likely already to be familiar with her huge, ground-breaking work ‘Looking Forwards to the Past’ (16.5m x 3m), which is permanently on display in the Winchester Discovery Centre.
Kate Baker, Suna Imre and Belinda Mitchell, ‘‘Marking presence’ a performative event by Kate Baker, Architect, Suna Imre, somatic dancer and Belinda Mitchell, spatial/interior designer, who are working in conjunction with 6 Winchester University contact dance students. The performance is sited in the ‘court yard space’, the lift, the stairs and corridors between the atrium and the stage. The work develops a score through using Lawrence and Anna Halprin’s RSV Pcycles, this is an evolving method that draws in the languages of the space and the experience of the dancers to form a score for performance. It will collect, sounds, fragments of conversations, colour, movement, rhythm and pace of the stairs to mark the events taking place within the theatre.
The work builds on a series of projects under the title Sensory Space made at Portsmouth University and in The Laundry 2009. It has more recently been informed by a paper ‘Making a drawing’ written in conjunction with ‘drawing spaces’.
Contact Belinda.Mitchell@port.ac.uk
Hyde writers Flash Writing
The audience will be invited to engage with the creative writing process by inspiring, commissioning and producing their own texts which will become part of the theatre experience. This is an opportunity for people to see their own stories appear within the theatre.
The Hyde Writers are a group of poets, novelists, script and short story writers who meet every first and third Monday in the Hyde Tavern, Winchester. The group acts as a workshop to facilitate the development of an individual writer's works through rigorous yet supportive critical comment. Our members include prize-winning novelists and short story writers, published poets and broadcasters, as well as young writers developing their craft.
www.hyperspaces.co.uk/thehydewriters/
link for the project tweets
Contact Paul Davies paulhdavies@hotmail.com
Winchester Community Choir led by Sarah Morgan will be rehearsing a traditional song called "The Streams of Lovely Nancy". George Gardiner collected this song in Cheriton in the early 1900s and in about 1954 Bob Copper recorded it being sung by Victor 'Turp' Brown, (also of Cheriton). The community choir is very much about singing for fun, so rehearsals have an emphasis on "singing together" and not just "preparing for performance". The aim is always to do justice to the music, but not to get too serious in the process. http://www.winchestercommunitychoir.co.uk
Julia Hall, Greetings from the Balcony In this site-specific dance solo, Julia Hall explores the etiquette of ‘meeting’ in a dance that combines the individuality of authentic movement with the learned behavior, social gestures and rituals of the public space.
Julia Hall has a background in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and contemporary dance, which guides her practice in both the creative and therapeutic disciplines. Her research interests are concerned with the relationship between neurobiology and body sensations and how this is translated into patterns of movement in our everyday lives.
Avant-garde Composers Ensemble (ACE), Copy Rite is a piece by Hossein Hadisi, the director of ACE. The work investigates musical possibilities formed and inspired by the building through the fundamental compositional technique of variation.
Avant-garde Composers Ensemble is a project that focuses on bringing contemporary avant-garde music out of the concert hall. By performing in galleries, art exhibitions and taking part in cultural events, ACE experiences collaborative dialogues between the performer, the audience and space. Members of ACE are composers and composition students from a variety of musical backgrounds. The diversity of instrumentation and members’ musical experience has allowed ACE to become an adventurous ensemble that explores means of interaction between music and different art forms through an improvisatory rhetoric. ACE has performed in many venues including University of Southampton’s Turner Sims Concert Hall, Life Science Building, Winchester’s Ten Days in the Laundry project, Southampton Bargate exhibition, and John Hansard Gallery.
Contact hosseinhadisi@yahoo.com
Public Attraction, Valerie Walker’s Walking Tours is an ongoing intergenerational project that sees the comical tour-guide character Valerie Walker taking audiences on guided tours of towns and cities she knows very little about, in order to share the stories of local children and elderly residents. Each tour promises to be a tour like no other! Where will Valerie take you?
Public Attraction is a theatre company who use physical comedy, improvisation and live music to take people on unique and exciting journeys by getting audiences’ bottoms off of seats and into the playful world outside of the auditorium! The shows are situated within everyday spaces and places and interact with the public in order to entertain, amuse and encourage people to see the world through a new lens. The company is currently an Associate Artist at The Point, Eastleigh. “Armed with charm and a powerful personality, she cajoled the majority of the audience into playing an active role in the show” (Simon Carr – The Echo).
Contact: Nicky Bellenger, hello@publicattraction.co.uk
This event is kindly organised by a supporter of Cancer Research UK and not by Cancer Research UK’
