Mutability / Beaten Earth
Kate Paxman presents a large-scale projected animation and series of performances developed during a residency at the newly reopened 800-year-old Torre Abbey. As part of the artist-led Smooth Space initiative, Paxman has spent the last 12 months reflecting on the changing nature of Torbay’s medieval monastery that has functioned as a museum and art gallery since 1930.
21 July – 10 September 2015, Torre Abbey, The King’s Drive, Torquay, Torbay, Cornwall.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/mutability-and-beaten-earth
Heavy Rock | Plymouth Sound
Artist Keith Harrison has installed hydrophone sound technology into a 100-tonne, Ministry of Defence-managed concrete wave breaker. Capturing sounds from the sea, these will be relayed back to land for an exhibition at KARST. A live public event on Saturday 18 July will see this public artwork dropped and positioned on the breakwater, alongside the performance of a new composition by Will Gregory (Goldfrapp), performed by HM Royal Marine Band.
22 July – 22 August 2015, KARST, Plymouth.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/heavy-rock-i-plymouth-sound
Our Corporate Headquarters
Artist Martin Lau curates this show in the pop-up Welshore Community Hub for OPEN Ealing. Using using humour and subversion, artists Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Jeannie Driver, Martin Lau, Jon Purnell and Marc Renshaw present video, photographic and sculptural works that explore the day-to-day experiences of life within a corporation.
23 July – 26 July 2015, Welshore Community Hub, West Ealing, London W13
www.a-n.co.uk/events/our-corporate-headquarters
TOPOS discussion event 2: Quality & Alchemy
Volkhard Müller has convened this discussion event and showing of work in progress that explores how artists relate to the material world, political and environmental issues and how this affects their understanding of the materials and spaces that they use. Sally Watkins, Sean Borodale, Alex Murdin, Ben Huggins and Raj Patel mull over these themes in a conversation chaired by Josie Sutcliffe.
Thursday 23 July 2015, 6pm, TOPOS, Exeter.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/topos-discussion-event-2-quality-alchemy
Muster and hush
A Parade for Peckham research project continues its series of idiosyncratic performance events with a live-action role play (LARP) workshop that explores collective silence and non-verbal communication. Simon Pettitt and Adam James lead two activities, including storytelling through frozen moments in a LARP workshop devised by the Norwegian Fantasiforbundet’s Larporatory.
26 July 2015, Sioban Davies Dance Studios, 85 St Georges Road, London SE1.
www.a-n.co.uk/events/muster-and-hush
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