Archive - 2008
MEANTIME occasionally publishes small print-runs of books and text arising out of projects which can be read online or purchased during events or by email/post. Available books here.
RESIDENCY: GLYNN GRIFFITHS
Earth Seed No5
13th - 21st December 2008
Glynn Griffiths returned the upper space at MEANTIME into use as a hay-loft, echoing a previous incarnation as a feed-storage barn for the dray horses of the brewery, formerly opposite the building. More photos here.
RESIDENCY: TERESA CARNEIRO
Failed Screw
17th - 30th November 2008
Teresa's drawing practice engages with the politics of space and place, aesthetics, and labour, via a universe of 'tiny things'. At MEANTIME, Teresa enlisted artists and art students to collaborate on a large-scale drawing from an image of a small, value-less, discarded screw. More photos here.
Participants: Agnes Wolkowicz, Beth Firman, Chris Thomas, Claire Leach, Cherry Smith, Cynthia Whelan, James Pilsworth, Judith Barker, Michelle Ohlson, Oscar Gaynor, Patrick Bull, Rachel Pearcey, Ralph Naden, Samantha Francis, Sarah Byng, Sarah Frydenlund, Sarah B, Tom Gowen, Teresa Carneiro.
MT SCREEN: Jacques Rancière - 'The Emancipated Spectator' (2004)
Wednesday 26th November 2008, 8pm
Leading from discussions around the drawing table during Teresa Carneiro's residency, Jacques Rancière delivered his text 'The Emancipated Spectator', in which he analyses received notions of spectatorship, arguing that that looking, listening or observing is never passive.
RESIDENCY: DAVID BEHAR-PERAHIA
26th September - 18th October 2008
David Behar-Perahia arrived from Israel for a three-week residency. His multi-stranded project (including light installation, live performance and below-ground film/audio projection) drew on his experience of conflict in Israel and the pervasive influence of the printed word, alluding to its influence in perpetuating resentment and revenge, and repelling the idea of reconciliation or forgiveness. More photos here.
MT SCREEN: JEAN LUC GODARD'S "HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA"
Saturday 4th October 2008
A day-long screening of this 8-part journey through ‘the story of cinema and the century in which it flourished', with discussion lead by Martin Wooster. An introductory text can be seen here.
TOUR OF RECONSTRUCTION #3
Tuesday 30th September 2008
Meantimers visited this year's Reconstruction #3 at Sudeley Castle with a tour of the work from Lorna Trupec.
RESIDENCY: BEN GARROD
POST-EFFICIENT ANTICLIMACTICISM, MY 9/11, & other stories
1st - 12th September 2008
Ostensibly, Ben's labour intensive wall-piece (taking something like 150 hours to complete) served to reproduce the invite he'd put together on MS Paint some months before. In the event the work was an optical marvel, neatly inverting the usual considerations of time, effort and effect. More photos here.
RESIDENCY: KH JERON
9-5
31st July - 15th August 2008
Karl-Heinz arrived from Berlin for a two-week residency at MEANTIME.
Following his 'Will Work for Food' project, KH conceived 9-5, a robotic vehicle that works for the minimum wage, making visual the immaterial labour of a working day in an office. The robot was installed in a marketing company's offices, and spent its time transmitting wireless data traffic to a sharp point which scratched a painted surface - in this case the colours of the company's livery: "It's all about service", Karl Heinz stressed. More photos here. Further information at http://9-5.jeron.org/ Many thanks to Tangible Response, Cheltenham.
THE FLOOD ARCHIVE
19th - 20th July 2008
Fiona Kam Meadley was in residence at Meantime to compile and map a collection of images and video of Cheltenham taken during last summer’s floods and their aftermath from public submissions. Intended as a folk archive, recording alternative viewpoints outside of media representations, the Flood Archive was displayed at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum in May 2009.
LIVE MUSIC: STRANGER SONGS ACOUSTIC FUNDRAISERS
18th July & 23rd August 2008
Featuring inspired sets from: GREAT PARK (Brighton), FIONA CRAWFORD (Edinburgh via USA), MEN DIAMLER (Wales via Cheltenham); and MATT EATON (Drift Collective/Actress Hands), KRISTIN McCLEMENT (Woodland Recordings), FRANZ REICHELT (drone/noise project from Men Diamler).
Residency: Benedict phillips
Following Footsteps
7th - 13th July 2008
Benedict Phillips returned to Cheltenham, the town of his birth, to develop Following Footsteps, a live research project concerning the legacy of his family history. Specifically this was an opportunity to revisit the spaces once inhabited by his grandfather, Laurence A. Hislam (1909-1966, pacifist, political activist and artisan), using news clippings, family stories and local research, and an attempt to locate those who would have known (or known of) his grandfather. More photos here. And a link to more project info on Benedict's site here.
RESIDENCY: HELEN HARDAKER
Love Poems
23rd - 27th June 2008
Seeing through a departure from the work realised during last summer's residency at Meantime, Helen left the dog behind (though he's been visiting) and focused on flight. Although the power struggles and latent tensions of family life are still in evidence (see the curled fingers), the subjects are solitary figures. And seagulls. More photos here. SB Writing for HH here.
COLLIDING SUBJECTIVES: The Events of Mai
1st - 17th May 2008
A series of events investigating the legacy of May 1968 in art, film, politics and thought with film screenings and discussions of Lyndsey Anderson's If... (pictured), Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, Guy Debord's La Société du Spectacle, Chris Marker's Le Fond de l'Air est Rouge, and the documentary Derrida. Artists' projects included a détournement of abandoned objects by artist-in-residence Xavier Gunther, an audio-installation by Gavin McClafferty relating to the Anti-Criminal Justice Bill demonstrations of 1994, a downloadable audio/walking tour by KH Jeron imagining Cheltenham as Paris '68, images from Paris '86 from Sebastian Craig, a live enactment of Fluxus scores by Dominic Thomas (photos here), and an audio/visual appraisal of the Viennese Actionist movement by Rupert Howe. The events concluded with a Symposium and a presentation by Allan Siegel, co-founder of the Newsreel collective, examining the events of '68 on a global scale. A commissioned text by Martin Wooster interrogating the legacy of '68, 'May '68: the impossible space of contradiction', is available here, and as a publication from MEANTIME. Symposium funded by ALIAS.
RESIDENCY: ADAM BURTON
16th February - 1st March 2008
Adam Burton set up a letterpress printing workshop, and posted the question 'Does the concern for the welfare of others stem from concern for the self?' on the outside of the building. The question, intended to provoke discussion, served as a starting point for talking, thinking and arguing about the state of humanity, inviting visitors to compose and print posters in response. More photos here.
A letterpress printed book from this project is available from MEANTIME and good bookshops.
LIVE MUSIC: MEN DIAMLER
31st January 2008
Men Diamler's performance celebrated the release of albums 'Sea Shanties For The Far Inland' and 'Lon Chaney Vs. Dandelion Batman'.