- Venue
- Emma Mason Gallery
- Date
- Thursday, April 21, 2022
06:00 PM - Address
- 21 Lushington Lane, Eastbourne BN21 4LJ
- Location
- South East England
- Organiser
- Blue Monkey Network
This month’s talk & discussion is led by Fenya Sharkey. With more than 30 years as a social arts practitioner, Fenya will share three stories:
- A journey with painting leading to dialogue and relational aesthetics.
- A move from curating exhibitions, to the realm of happenings and events, and back again; bumping into Joseph Beuys and friends around each corner.
- Meeting Compass Community Arts and discovering that the desire for inclusion and diversity might be a healthy societal attempt to talk about two sides of a same coin called trauma.
The origins of this talk began with an idea to extend an invitation to members of The Blue Monkey Network and form a subsidiary group that could become a Social Arts Network for artists local to Eastbourne. As time has gone on, Fenya would prefer to be more specific and suggest that instead, her contribution to the proposed “Social Arts Network” would be to invite interested members to participate in a social experiment to form what Joseph Beuys called, “a total work of art”.
All will be revealed and explained on the night.
As space is limited, please email [email protected] to let us know if you would like to attend. Free for BMN members. Non-members £5 [in advance please, no card facilities on site].
BMN is not for profit and all funds go towards paying our speakers and organisers.
Blue Monkey Network is run by artists for artists, in partnership with Towner Eastbourne, and is entirely funded by membership subscriptions and donations. Many thanks to all our supporters.
Image Credit:
Richard Demarco (left) with Joseph Beuys in the early 1970s: From the Demarco European Art Foundation
