Pow-wow the movie In 2009 Sheffield Contemporary Arts Forum commissioned a video work from the original assemblage Pow-wow, for inclusion in the 2009 Sheffield Pavilion project at the 11th Istanbul Biennial.
(click to play movie - please wait for it to load) (for more info about the Powwow project click here) This can be seen at the following events: The Sheffield PavilionScreening Programme / DVD Edition Presenting work by Sheffield-based artists Screened and distributed at the 11th Istanbul Biennial 2009 Screenings: 10th – 13th September 12 – 6pm Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum (SCAF) presents The Sheffield Pavilion 2009, a screening programme and limited edition DVD of specially commissioned and existing video works by eleven Sheffield-based artists. The Sheffield Pavilion 2009 will be screened and distributed during the opening days of the 11th Istanbul Biennial at Buyuk Londra Hotel (www.londrahotel.net), presenting the work of Sheffield-based artists and promoting the contemporary art activity taking place in Sheffield, UK in an international context. It features an essay by artist / curator Ian White and is designed by renowned Sheffield-based design firm The Designers Republic. Following the launch and screening, The Sheffield Pavilion 2009 will tour to UK and international venues. This is the second Sheffield Pavilion, the first having taken the form of a book presenting new work by ten Sheffield-based artists, which was launched at the Venice Biennale and distributed at Documenta and Munster during the ‘grand tour’ of coinciding art events in 2007. The construct of the ‘Pavilion’ (a temporary structure used for leisure, entertainment or exhibition) has again been used to structure the project and the artists’ contributions. A nomadic pavilion is easy to pack up and move on to further seek its audience and it can respond to the migratory movements of the art world with equal levels of critique and complicity. Artists: Richard Bartle, Chloë Brown, Katie Davies, Hondartza Fraga, Steve Hawley, Esther Johnson, Tony Kemplen, Haroon Mirza, Paul Morrison, No Fixed Abode and Third Angel. The works span from considerations of the possible future of a quarry for a notional property development (No Fixed Abode) to the peculiar phenomena of the English model village (Steve Hawley); from the contradictory status of music in the Islamic faith (Haroon Mirza) to the elaborate citizenship ceremonies instigated by British civic institutions (Katie Davies). They include a presentation of overlaid images of each world leader during George W Bush’s tenure in the White House (where the dictatorships have static, clear images and heads of democratic states are overlaid like palimpsest) (Richard Bartle), an exploration of the architecture of a car park in relation to Coleridge’s stately pleasure dome in Kubla Khan (Tony Kemplen) and a unique portrait of Sheffield’s (in)famous Park Hill estate, created during an eclipse period between clearance and reinvention (Esther Johnson). Other works feature flawed footage of Saturn reedited (Hondartza Fraga), a description of the world from space if all you could see of it were the series of images carried on the Voyager satellites (Third Angel), an alien landscape of eternal midnight sunshine on the edge of the arctic circle (Chloë Brown) and a re-presentation of landscape through modified fragments of atmospheric imagery (Paul Morrison). For further details or to request a copy of The Sheffield Pavilion 2009 by post email contact@artsheffield.org. The Sheffield Pavilion 2009 was selected and produced by Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum – a not-for-profit company working to further the presence and awareness of contemporary art in Sheffield through joint programming, audience development and profile raising activities. The forum also runs the Art Sheffield festivals. The directors of the company are representatives of Bloc, Museums Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, Site Gallery, S1 Projects, Yorkshire ArtSpace Society and independent artists and practitioners. Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum is now working on its next city-wide contemporary art event, Art Sheffield 10, which will take place next year from 6 March – 1 May 2010, and on which we have been working with curators Annie Fletcher and Frederique Bergholtz. Information about Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum and its activities can be found at www.artsheffield.org ContactKaty Woods Pan-demonium September 3rd - October 10th, 2009 AC Institute [Direct Chapel] Gallery Hours: Things extra and other (details and excesses coming from elsewhere) insert themselves into the accepted framework, the imposed order. The surface of this order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
Pan-demonium resonates with the current global political, ecological and economic situation—one in which the hegemonic forces of order have been overwhelmed by a dynamic of chaos and disorder, turning the world 'upside-down'. Maybe Pan-demonium offers a metaphor for a critique of global capitalism and its 'devils'—its pan-demons—in all their guises (pan-demics included?). Or perhaps it conjures up collective creative forces for political challenge and the re-inscription of Pan in contemporary mythology? AC Guest Curator, Bricolagekitchen, invited visual, sonic and written responses to some of these ideas and questions. Bricolage has various histories and contexts—from Claude Levi-Strauss on anthropology to Steven Connor on postmodern culture. John Cage’s explorations of indeterminacy and the polarities of randomness/order have an obvious relevance here. Michel Serres’ ideas on noise, clamour and cacophony and Michel de Certeau’s leaky ‘sieve order’ also lurk behind the concept of the project. Serres writes about ‘fuzzy logic’, but ‘mess’ is increasingly being cited as a new paradigm in research methodology and is being transposed to other disciplines and creative practices. Through an exploration of the multiple meanings, interpretations and understandings of Pan-demonium, this exhibition hopes to open up political as well as its aesthetic potentialities. It brings together an assembled cacophony of over 50 contemporary artistic responses and global voices gleaned via the web in a panorama of sound, text, visual and moving imagery, celebrating the affective power of disorder and noise. Pan-demonium explores the ideas of randomness and mess through the adoption of bricolage in a makeshift bricologue of interactive presentation and responses. So, what does Pan-demonium mean to you?
About Guest Curator Bricolagekitchen: This project has been supported by Loughborough University School of Art and Design. |
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