Archive - 2014
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.
WHERE WERE WE?
Friday 27th June 2014
MEANTIME marked the closure of the Oxford Passage building with WHERE WERE WE?, a discussion to contextualise MEANTIME within a conversation around cultural renewal, and an exhibition of works-on-paper by many of the 122 artists that have developed and produced new work at the project-space since 2007. Photos from the event here.
"A culture that is merely preserved is no culture at all." (Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism)
MEANTIME @ SITE FESTIVAL, Stroud
Helen Carmel Benigson
31 May 2014
Travelling to Africa via a Machine Called a Sunbed explores notions of a corrupted archive, travel, geography and the cyber-body and is based on the work and house/museum of the South African artist Irma Stern (1894 – 1966) following a residency at the Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town in 2013. Previous versions of the work have been performed live at Performa 13, New York in November 2013 and at The Showroom, London in February 2014 as part of the LUX Associate Artist Program.
LIVE EVENT: CHRIS CUNDY
THE CLOWN GIFT
Thursday 1st May 2014
Chris Cundy bass clarinet, Hannah Marshall cello, Mat Martin guitar, Dominic Lash double bass, Stuart Wilding percussion.
This Mayday, we were treated to the premier of Chris Cundy's new project, The Clown Gift. The Clown Gift is made up of fragments of compositions, tunes, and improvisations. The pieces reflect an eccentricity and a shifting between changing states of tranquility, playful disturbance, and spontaneity. Most of the pieces were written over the past year or so while Chris spent time in Canada, and they reflect his recent experiences as a circus musician.
RESIDENCY: MATT DAVIES
My Tape Archive
17th - 27th April 2014
Matt Davies’s work is primary engaged with the act of listening and the exploration of found sound. During his residency, Matt developed his research project ‘My Tape Archive’ documenting an expanding collection of ¼” reel to reel audio tapes found at various carboots, junk shops, flea markets and on eBay. The residency focussed on a particular batch of tapes that contain some fascinating content originally recorded within the Gloucestershire area. This tape was listened to in a playback performance and the content discussed during the concluding event. Photos here.
Research for Absolute Pitch and Composition for a Low Tide with Gloucester Cathedral choristers (photo Milo Newman)
RESIDENCY: LOUisa fairclough
6th - 17th April 2014
Using ground, tidal water, voice and light as material, Louisa Fairclough’s work takes the form of film loops, field recordings and drawings. During this residency Louisa will be working on Absolute Pitch, a choral film-sculpture and performance commissiones by Whitstable Biennale and ICIA University of Bath. Drawing on her deceased sister’s sketchbooks as scores, Absolute Pitch will be the third in a trilogy of film-sculptures all of which have voice at their core and work together chorally. For this body of work Louisa is working closely with composer Richard Glover, Gloucester Cathedral choristers, the Centre for & Society, and ICIA University of Bath.
RESIDENCY: BEING MEANTIME
3rd - 30th March 2014
Fine Art MA students from the University of Gloucestershire used MEANTIME's building and environs as the stimulus for developing individual work in a group setting. Experiments included guerrilla planting, casts of road surfaces, GPS drawings and pinhole photography. Visit the group's blog for further information. Photos from the residency here.
The MA group were Anna Curtin, Anthea Millier, Caroline Green, Catherine Jones, Chris Budden, Elaine Fisher, Linda Davies, and Lynda Whitehouse.
LIVE PROJECT: HAND IN GLOVE
ORPHEUS
1st - 28th February 2014
Throughout February, Hand In Glove, Cheltenham's avant-garde performance company, explored various connotations and interpretations of the Orpheus myth, introducing us to representations in wider cultural references such as the films of Tarkovsky and the audio works of Felix Kubin and Peter Blegvad & Andy Partridge.
The final, work-in-progress performance-presentation took us deep into a notional Underworld of phantasmagoric apparitions and unearthly sounds; collaging fragments of thought and imagery with replayed conversation and collective commotion.
Photos from the performance event here.
micro-kino: THAMES FILM, and shorts (1977 - 2002) by WILLIAM RABAN
Thursday 16th January 2014
A screening of Thames Barrier, Fergus Walking, A13, MM and the acclaimed Thames Film, filmed from a boat drifting downstream and narrated by John Hurt, incorporating archive film and photographs, and the works of Brueghel the Elder and T.S.Eliot.