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 …
discussing with Richard Keenan from PopUp Dorset about the benefits of showing in unusual spaces like a church, which brings a new audience to see your art show and can really help boost your audience figures, VS the difficulties of showing artwork in these spaces – what you can and can’t do to the building, of having to work around the spaces furniture.
Especially if you do it with no funding, so your budget for materials to decorate the space and for trades people to construct a better, a more suitable space is severely lacking.
More at; http://creativedialog.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/creative-conversations-no9-richardkeenan-popupdorset/
Creative Conversations No9 has just gone live, this episode features Richard Keenan from PopUp Dorset.
PopUp Dorset staged an exhibition at St George’s Church, Reforne, Portland. This was a group show featuring 48 artists living in Dorset, covering different themes and using different materials. The Church was very difficult space to hang, as it has all the furniture of a church and there was a lot of things Richard and Katie couldn’t change about the architecture and church furniture, they had to work around it. It was great to meet Richard over the summer of 2012 and it’s great to see them trying to part on shows like this.
Hear on the show about how and why Richard decided to put o this show and become a gallery manager.
& about setting up a commercial gallery, of building up a mailing list. We talk about funding and costs of putting on a show like this.
To find out more and hear this show go to; http://creativedialog.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/cre…
Creative Conversations 8 sees me talking to photographer Jim Cooke. I caught Jim during a fascinating exhibition called Riparian he had at the Drill Hall on Portland during the summer of 2012. Jim kindly agreed to give me an hour of his time for one of my recorded conversation.
Jim talks about the exhibition – Riparian. This word was one of his father’s favourite words, it means alluding to the riverbank. Jim is fascinated by these areas between land and water. The work is essentially made of three strands; one an observational, topology one; secondly it is looking at the plants along the River Thames; thirdly it’s through looking at this part of the land through a microscope, photographing microscopically the plants, blood, engine oil, food, etc. What connects all the works is that they derive from the riverbank.
We proceed to talk about his connection to the Island and with Paul and Hannah at the Portland Quarry Sculpture Trust. Also discussing the fantastic space that is the Drill Hall and what a wonderful opportunity it is for artists to show work in this space; though it can be quite daunting as it is a large space to fill. We hear how supportive Paul and Hannah have been, and how beneficial this long term collaboration is.
Ending up with one of my favourite topics – of ways of attracting audiences to see contemporary art. That the Drill Hall has brought in a wide and varied audience, one that Jim wouldn’t see in one of his shows in London or New York.
To hear the conversation go to
http://creativedialog.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/creative-conversations-no8-photographer-jim-cooke/
