As series 2 of my Creative Conversations draws to a close on soundArt radioFM I have started planning series 3!
I hope you have had a chance to listen to these shows. As I feel they are starting to be a valuable archive of the changing art world in Dorset. Personally it was really rewarding for me to go back and listen to conversations I’d had during the summer of 2012. It was also interesting hearing the different experiences people had of this Olympic period.
For this new series I’m looking to travel outside Dorset. I wish to explore a number of issues I have been grappling with in my practice and also as an art viewer. Specifically in the next series I’d like to hear about;
+ installations, especially in regard to sonic interventions. Also to discuss performance related work.
+ uses of digital technology in regard to gaining a wider audience for the work and in possible use of installations.
+ most importantly to discuss staging contemporary art events in a rural context. Of ways to attract audiences to out of the way places. This is an ongoing key question that was touched on in series 2 by some of the people I spoke to.
A few people I’ve approached so far have agreed going on record. These are;
+ Martin Franklin at Bracknell Arts Centre – to discuss their experiments in live streaming & use of internet/new technology as a way to connect with an audience.
+ Helen Sloan, Director of SCAN
+ Dr Felicity Ford – to discuss her work at Oxford Brookes University and methods / strategies for recording everyday life in sound.
I’m planning on doing 10 episodes in this series and if you know of anyone who you feel I should be talking to and who’d be up to going on record please pass this onto them. I am particular keen on speaking to John Hansard Gallery (a contact is currently following this up for me) and spacex in Exeter. If any of you have any contacts here I’d welcome the introduction.
currently chasing up contacts and leads to aid my investigative conversations around showing contemporary art in rural locations.
Places that don’t have an established gallery space, and thus an established audience. Though these can be exciting and challenging places to exhibit work, they have a huge host of issues to overcome.
So I’m seeking out people who have attempted to do this and see what they have learnt and what they’d do differently next time. And people, and gallery spaces, that are exploring the potential that new technology gives us, in particularly the use of live streaming to gain access to a global audience and thus boost your rural audience figures.
With arts council funding needing value for money, which i suppose means high audience figures, is this streaming of content, of the live broadcasting of the artworks, the way to go for art in out of the way places?
Following on from my conversation with Martin Franklin, the Manager at South Hill Park Digital Media. IS this use that he is making at South Hill Park Digital Media with new technology to engage a new audience to contemprary art.
They have a transmedia project ongoing. It is happening now and well worth checking out. You can start by Liking the page on Facebook and connect with the characters to join in.
https://www.facebook.com/dareyouwatch?directed_tar…
Its getting me to re-enter the world of Facebook, which I’d sort of stopped using.
It was fantsatic to receive a a-n bursary. This award has spurred me onto travel outside my locality into the wider world of the art community in which I aim to record some more creative conversations.
I started off with a visit to Bracknell to visit digital media centre at South Hill Park. There I had a lovely time with Martin Franklin and found out more about their Arts Council funded research project using live web streaming.
Then I travelled up to Stafford University to see my work at the NoiseFloor festival. This was a great opportunity to hear (& see) my work on some top both equipment. I also had some interesting conversations with lecturers from the fields of electro-acoustic.
more on these visits to come …
