- Venue
- OSR Project Space & Dawe’s Twineworks
- Starts
- Saturday, October 15, 2016
- Ends
- Friday, November 4, 2016
- Address
- OSR Project Space , Old School Room, Church Street, West Coker, Somerset, BA22 9BD -- Dawe's Twineworks, 94A High Street, West Coker, Somerset, BA22 9AU
- Location
- South West England
- Organiser
- OSR Project Space & Dawe’s Twineworks
Ropewalkers brings together new work by artists Jo Ball, Andy Parker and Simon Whetham made in response to the architecture, history and materials of Dawe’s Twineworks Museum and social history project.
Simon Whetham is a sound artist that works with sound recording and playback techniques that explore sonic qualities and characteristics of materials and space. He shares his work with the public through performance, lecture presentation, installation and most importantly workshops, with which he facilitates sessions of listening exercises, technical and cultural aspects of sound, recording and playback techniques, and interactive public performances.
During the residency Simon will explore the site and local area to find discreet and hidden sounds that will determine his response to the architecture and artifacts of Dawe’s Twineworks.
Andy Parker works with objects and places that are of interest to him now, in this moment of massive global change. His concern is not to seek comfort in the past, but to put its stories to work in the present. Hidden beneath the abstract layers of belief and bureaucracy that govern life on this planet there is an ancient and real need to grow things, tie things, lift things, transport things.
The outcome of this commission will culminate in a group of new works, each acting as an element in a story connecting the historical activities in West Coker to contemporary concerns and will be produced in collaboration with volunteers at the museum.
Jo Ball is an artist & gardener based in Bristol. During her residency she will be re-visiting the tradition of growing flax to make linen twine through a community growing project entitled Brief patches of blue sky. Flax is a beautiful plant and can be grown as an agricultural crop or ornamental annual. Taking one hundred days from germination to harvest, the delicate sky-blue flowers bloom for one day only, creating brief islands of sky‐blue throughout the village.
