a networked practice

What a day!

This morning I arived at Southam’s Cardall Collection to install my show to discover that the window the work was made for had been smashed over night, not a big hole but a hole never the less! Luckily I had had extra copies of the work printed so had to quite quickly re-cut the work to fit the opposite window and install in that one whilst the broken window was being replaced!

Despite the drama, I’m pleased with the show, seems as its public facing, I really hope people engage with it and seems as its asking for dialogue I hope some develops! Please do use the #SouthamsCardallCollection tag to ask any questions you may have about the work!

Publications will be being distributed ASAP, if you’d like one but aren’t going to be in Warwickshire between today and the 16th July then please do join my mailing list by emailing your name, address and email address to [email protected] and I’ll get one in the post for you!

Anyway to the right are Photo’s of the show, I’m going to go back and get some ‘offical’ documentation when I’m not quite so snowed under! This will all be appearing on the ‘work’ page of www.ryanhughesprojects.net ASAP!

After installing this show I headed over to Althorpe Studios and Gallery to start building walls for Identity Politics and the Warwickshire Open Studios events, we got much further than I was expecting with this which has made the next weeks workload slightly less huge!

Very tired now and have a shift at Leamington Spa Art Galler and Museum all day tomorrow so am going to go and get some shut eye!

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This week I visited the BIAD, School of Art Degree Show, I was really impressed! The production levels, contexts worked within, content and general presentation of some (if not MOST) of the work was outstanding! Much better than last year (and I’m alowd to say that, I was in last years show!)… There are several perople I am trying to find ways to work with if the opportunity presents itself! Jack Branscomb was a particular highlight and I have started writing a review of his work which I might upload to interface when its done, if an alternative use for it doesn’t arise! A quote from this text I’m working on is:

‘his pieces, when gathered in the gallery, create a non-place, the literal definition of utopia. They are simultaneously architectural, natural, mountainous, rural, urban and always abstracted. They are without doubt a place but it is one which cannot be visited, only remembered or dreamt of, much like the village he grew up in during my teenage years.’

Of cause I’m already working with MSFAC on Identity Politics @ Althorpe Studios and Gallery, but there work, both collectively and individually was equally excellent!

Now I’ve mentioned ID Politics I might as well mention that work on the show is going very well! Install begins properly on saturday and everybodys work is nearly finished/updated/checked for electronic saftey! PR’s have gone out to local press as well as national and international arts press… Saturday the 23rd looks set to be great! I hope you can make it!

Also starting later this week is the install of Exploring local History through Digital Thinking at Southam’s Cardall Collection; again PR has been sent out a quote from this I was quite pleased with was:

‘the idea of engaging with the recent history of technological culture as well as the local history of Southam as a town is something I find very interesting, it makes the work relevant to an audience whom may never have heard of Southam, who knows it may spark some tourism!’.

! I’ll post photos at the weekend when install should be finished!

Today I installed Marking the Internet and the Physical at Temporanea in Kenilworth, Warwickshire for ASHES2DUST.

Attached to this post (over there >>>) are some photos from the install, theres some other great things going up which I didn’t photograph but Charlie Levine did when she visited a few thursdays ago, she blogged about them (over there >>>) http://curatorcharlie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/brink-kenilworth.html

I hope some of you can make it to the opening party which is going to have band’s and DJ’s and booze and all other good things! All info for it is (over there >>>) http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/443403012355352/

Talking to Tim who runs the space I was taken by how I really like the effect that showing this work in diffrent spaces has upon its visuals! Its never been shown under such low strip lighting before which is really hightening the visual effects that the work has upon the space, loads of reflections!

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I have just sent out the first instalment of my mailing list! It read as follows:

Welcome to the first instalment of the Ryan Hughes Projects Mailing List! I’ve got a few things going on over the next few months and hope that I get to see you at one (or more) of them!

Present – 16^th June:

I’m showing work @ Liverpool Art Now PT.2 which is a group show @ Mello Mello Cafe and is part of Liverpool Art Month.

9^th June – 23^rd June:

Ashes2Dust is a group show @ TEMPORANEA Contemporary Art Gallery in Kenilworth in which I’m showing an installation.

23^rd June:

Identity Politics is a night of time-based and performance art which I am hosting and presenting a participatory project in @ Althorpe Studio’s and Gallery, Leamington Spa. The night will also feature work by Tara Beth Roleston, Lisa Waldron, MSFAC and Birmingham International Transient Camp.

26^th June – 18^th July:

Exploring Local History through Digital Thinking is a solo show and publication launch/distribution event @ Southam’s Cardall Collection and various locations around Warwickshire. This is happening parasitically to Warwickshire Open Studio’s. (If you have supplied a postal address then a copy of this publication will be on its way to you!)

11^th July:

I’m going to be in residence for 1 day @ Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum where I will be presenting a day long digital performance as part of the Fourth Plinth Project. Later in the year a publication documenting this series of residencies will be released.

3^rd August – 5^th August:

I will be showing a new participatory work titled A-(Discussion)-Board as a part of Junction Festival of Contemporary Art, Wolverhampton.

3^rd August – 5^th August:

I’m presenting a piece of video work at Saltburn Arts Fair. I highly recommend taking in the fair, the performances and the symposium!

10^th August – 12^th August:

I’m presenting a participatory project at Supernormal Festival which has evolved from my time in residence at The Lombard Method earlier this year and subsequent presentations at Drift Station and with Papergirl Birmingham. Weekend tickets are available at the very reasonable price of £65.00; this festival is a must!

The links to all these shows, galleries and organisations are:

http://thebohemiaspace.tumblr.com/

http://www.wix.com/brinkevents/home

http://localgiving.com/charity/althorpestudios

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southam’s_Cardall_Collection

http://warwickshireopenstudios.org/

http://fourthplinthworcester.com/

http://junctionwolverhampton.org/

http://www.saltburnartsfair.co.uk/

http://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk/

http://www.thelombardmethod.org/

http://www.driftstation.org/

http://papergirlbirmingham.tumblr.com/

http://www.isea2012.org/

So I thought I’d take this opportunity to elaborate on these projects a little bit!

Firstly the work at Ashes2Dust and Mello Mello Cafe are Marking the Internet and the Physical. This work has been exhibited several times and each time I enjoy seeing it re-contextualised! Really looking forward to installing with Tim on Tuesday!

Identity Politics is a part of my long-term work db8 idntty, in this project I am adopting curatorial practices as a research methodology and am presenting work by friends at Althorpe Studio’s and Gallery. Artists presenting work include Tara Beth Roleston, Lisa Waldron, MSFAC and Birmingham International Transient Camp, I strongly recommend googling them all! The work I’m presenting at the evening is Network of Artist Led Activity in which members of the audience become avatars and read from a script… fancy becoming an avatar for Drift Station or of Jo Masding of The Lombard Method? This is also the work I am presenting at Supernormal Festival but the script will have grown to include the communications about Identity Politics. At the festival there will be daytime and evening performances each day!

I’m going to be presenting Digital 4th Plinth during my residency at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum. I’m really excited about this and think that contextually the performance fits with the program really well!

I also can’t wait to see A-(Discussion)-Board finally being used at Junction Festival of Contemporary Art; I’m going to give it a final coat of blackboard paint in a moment and then bubble wrap it up!

The video I’m showing at Saltburn Arts Fair is spacetimearchitecture which I’ve embedded at the bottom of this blog post as a memory jogger! I’ve not decided what happens to this privately stored digital copy once/if the DVD version sells so it might be worth watching it now!

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spacetimearchitecture

On friday I’m sending out the first installment of my mailing list and will also make a large blog post for those not signed up!

There are a lot of exciting things about to happen! If you would like an emailed newsletter and/or occassional posted items then please do email me your name, address and email to [email protected]

The image is an update to an existing piece of work which is about to be performed for the first time. More info friday!