Part of this residency, called theCommons, aims to be a collaborative space. This is the current list of collaborators with more to come, an exciting time!
Michael Hobson January 13th, 14th, 27th Sound work inspired by the notion of sound as a haptic response.
Michael is a singer and guitarist currently based East Midlands. Solo musician, vocals, guitar 1973 to 1974, Band – Oakenshield, lead singer, rhythm guitar, percussion, frontman 1974 to 1975. Band – Peep o’ Day lead singer, rhythm guitar, frontman, songwriter 1975 to 1977. Duo – lead singer, guitar, songwriter 1977 to 2000, Solo musician 2000 to present day.
Peter Barnard January 30th at 6.30pm Skype discussion. www. peterbarnard.net
Peter Barnard’s practice as an artist involves a broad range of different disciplines ranging from video work, sculpture to site-specific sound installations. Through this body of work Barnard explores how the use of sound affects the way certain objects and spaces speak to the viewer on both a psychological and ontological level through hearing. Using subtle modulation with digital tools, elements that are found within auditory phenomena are purposefully isolated and expanded – calling into question the functionality of sound as an aesthetic experience as well as instigating a more intense listening process on the audience’s part. This correlates with elements of minimalism found within Barnard’s sculptural works that also references architectural archetypes which respond directly to the viewer’s presence within a space. Peter Barnard also adopts a highly experimental approach to creating video works as they reflect his interest in the soundtrack acting as parallel text to the narrative of the moving image.
Chen Yizhong February 4th 5pm – 7pm Skype discussion. Chenyizhong.weebly.com
hen Yizhong (born 1986, Chongqing, China) is a visual artist who works and lives in Chongqing. In 2012, he received his MFA degree from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. During his MFA studies, he was an exchange student of Prof. Michael Brynntrup’s Filmklasse in Hochshcule für Bildende Künste (HBK) Braunschweig, Germany. Chen works across different media, including painting, photography, video and installation. He uses his personal experience to explore the present and history, time and space, and uses his works to address various issues between individual and public. Currently, he is working on a series of interventional photography work. In the global background and extreme, rapid development circumstance of China, he builds a flattened space which compresses reality and illusion to question the meaning of change.
Louise Garland, Monday February 3rd, daytime. Spatial intervention inspired by our mutual love of found knots.
Garland engages with the philosophical belief in the continuum of life. It examines the nature of our existence, linking the personal (especially from a female context)with the metaphysical, with references to the collective notions of archaic symbolism. Garland incorporates found materials and objects into her pieces.there is a an alliance between the familiar and the unfamiliar as the deconstructed materials reinvent themselves, whilst forming a seductive quality to the surfaces. the works are rigorously composed through the use of measurement, geometry and mathematical calculations often found in nature. Garland presents us with thought provoking and sometimes witty configurations of both our existence and greater consciousness.
