- Venue
- Spit & Sawdust
- Starts
- Saturday, March 4, 2017
- Ends
- Sunday, March 12, 2017
- Address
- Rhymney River Bridge Rd Cardiff CF23 9AF
- Location
- Wales
- Organiser
- The Kim Fielding Award
Collaborating with actor Peter Hugo Daly (Gangs of New York, Cassandra’s Dream) and Berlin- based musician Tim Eve (W/ndows, Night Angles) The Solar Pessimist combines a performed spoken-word monologue with a cyclical, rhythmic soundscape produced specifically for the unique site of the skatepark in Spit and Sawdust, Cardiff.
…so the sun’s a conscious being…pretentious orb…and he gave fish legs and they walked out of the ocean…give or take…..and we are the by-product of this God’s slow death…and we are looking the other way! Staring into space…and this…‘conscious being’…for millions of years…has been screaming at us because we don’t seem to understand, that he is…on fire!…
…WELL HERE’S THE RUB… YOU’RE LOOKING AT HIM. HE IS I… SO TO SPEAK… AND SEEN AS YOU ASK…YES, THE OLD BELIEVERS WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG… I AM THE CENTRE OF THINGS AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN. PICTURE ANY IMAGE… ON ANY SURFACE, IN ANY CONTEXT OVER TIME, WHERE I… THE SUN… AM DEPICTED WITH A FACE. ARE YOU PICTURING IT? NOW CONSIDER IT… ‘CORRECT’
Shifting between speculative ‘pub chat’ and philosophical diatribe. Although drawn towards more ‘lofty’ areas of thought he becomes… distracted, his thoughts distorted through the joint lenses of conspiracy theory, new-agism and that of the self-righteous contemporary consumer.
Within the sprawling, meandering thought-process are propositions about what the best thing is to be doing at the end of the world, how zero-gravity pornography will affect us all and… if the sun is a conscious being… what happens when he starts talking back?
With over 150 applications fought over by the Board of Trustees, John Lawrence was selected as the winner of the second Kim Fielding Award, following the inaugural award going to Uliana Apatina. The Kim Fielding Award has been made possible through the many generous contributors to a crowdfunding campaign. The award was set up following the untimely death of the dynamic Welsh artist and curator Kim Fielding, to continue his legacy in the promotion of experimental contemporary arts practice and the nurturing of creative communities. The KFA is managed by a group of aforementioned Trustees, as well as a core group of members who all contribute to the unique legacy of the award.
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