- Venue
- MC3 Project Space
- Starts
- Friday, July 8, 2022
- Ends
- Sunday, July 10, 2022
- Address
- Old Barn Studios, Milton Street, East Sussex, BN26 5RJ
- Location
- South East England
- Organiser
- MC3 Projects
The site-responsive event will take place at the stunning Old Barn Studios, situated between Lewes and Eastbourne. The exhibition and sculpture trail spans the studio space buildings and the expansive rural grounds encouraging new forms of artistic engagement outside of the UK’s major cities.
Bringing together a collection of noteworthy artists working across sculpture, performance and film, the event hopes to combine spectacle with community, and critical thinking with open discourse. The sculptural works, most made in response to the location, will take up residence for the weekend in the beautiful grounds, bringing intrigue and unexpected encounters to rural spaces. Film work will also be screened, creating new connections between natural landscapes and technical forms of production.
Thematically, in the words of curators Jaime Marie Davis and Sarah Pager, the collection of works explores the notion of “our co-dependent living arrangement with gravity”. Entitled ZERO GRAVITY: A LANDING, the sculptural works on show resist grounding forces through their very making and various installation systems, becoming a conspiratorial assembly. They probe at the boundaries’ nature leads us to assume, allowing artwork to challenge what is known and accepted. The film work, often thought as free of materiality, asks what pull gravity might have within our imagination. As these interactions coalesce, they manifest tethered formulations and structures within which we exist.
The overall event is subversively titled THE OCCASIONNALE, drawing on the legacy of global visual arts festivals, while also implying something intrinsically different. The event will bring a relaxed and casual tone of genuine enjoyment, rural revelry, and collectivity. THE OCCASIONNALE invites art lovers to step outside the M25 and find a distinctive, exemplary, and ground-breaking selection of artworks across film and sculpture, while enjoying the overall festivities in a beautiful setting. The spectacular site is shrouded in art historical significance – it holds a noteworthy connection to The Bloomsbury Group. Their stunning murals in Berwick church are a mere 20-minute walk away. The MC3 Project space is currently developing an ongoing programme with THE OCCASIONNALE as its unmissable pillar event.
Visitor Information
Old Barn Studios, Milton Street, East Sussex, BN26 5RJ
Nearest stations: Berwick (30 min walk or bus), Polegate (via 10 min taxi from station) or Seaford (via bus)
Event Day: Talks, Workshops & BBQ | Saturday 9 July | 2 – 8pm
Opening Hours
Friday 8 July, 12pm – Late
Saturday 9 July, 12pm – Late
Sunday 10 July, 12pm – 4pm
Workshops – Including
Saturday, 9 July, 3pm
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A sculpture making workshop and multi-dimensional exploration of materials led by artist Sarah Pager.
