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KH JERON 9-5 31st July - 15th August 2008
Karl-Heinz Jeron arrived from Berlin for a two-week residency at
MEANTIME.
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THE FLOOD ARCHIVE 19th - 20th July 2008 Fiona Kam Meadley was in residence at Meantime during the weekend of 19th and 20th July 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 for a folk archive, recording alternative viewpoints outside of the media representation, the Flood Archive to be displayed at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum next year. |
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STRANGER SONGS ACOUSTIC FUNDRAISERS 18th July & 23rd August 2008 Featuring inspired sets from:
GREAT PARK (from Brighton)
MATT EATON (DRIFT COLLECTIVE/ACTRESS HANDS) |
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BENEDICT PHILLIPS Following Footsteps
7th - 13th July 2008 |
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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. |
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ADAM BURTON 16th February - 1st March 2008 Adam set up a basic letterpress printing workshop, and asked 'Does the concern for others stem from concern for the self?'. The question served as a starting point for talking, thinking and arguing about the state of humanity, and visitors composed and printed posters expressing their thoughts. Or otherwise. |
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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'.
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KRISTY CAMPBELL 1st - 8th December 2007
Resident artist Kristy Campbell transformed the upper space with the construction of FORMATIVE EDIFICE (1ST DRAFT), an installation of architectural models using found materials and boundary tape, which drew on the fabric of the building and its history. |
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VISIONS 1st December 2007
First of the Visions regular multi-media events at MEANTIME curated by Robert Perry, presenting music, poetry, film + video. |
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SOUL DISTURBANCE 2
Jean-Marie Kados unleashed his inner Breton in an evening of anarchic songs, soundscape, poetry and improvisation. |
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THE MEANTIME M.O. 12th - 17th November 2007 A week-long multiple occupancy of artists approaching drawing as a ‘map of mental process’, with a wall drawing by Onya McCausland (Gloucester Cathedral artist-in-residence) - Corner - Erased Drawing, in which graphite is systematically erased from one surface and restored to another in a cycle of exchange, and, informed by the building's previous incarnation as a printer's workshop, one part of the drawing peels away from the other like a printed text; a cleaning/drawing installation from CLEAN - Tea on the towel , with hand made tea towels canvases to the public in order for them to create their own piece of art, or do their own bit of cleaning; and drenched, intense pastel panels by Oliver Marsden. With live performances by Dominic Thomas - Drawing Out, or They can teach you how to drag a tea bag round on the end of a piece of string, but what do they know about the Quality of Line? (pictured); Colin Glen - Drawing on Memory, an exercise in remembering previous thoughts about the space before having seen it, and how, in anticipation, one already occupies the space before getting there; and Rupert Howe, reinterpreting Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing for the present situation. |
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CHAPTER 24 PRESENTS…
Chapter 24 co-ordinated an evening of internationally acclaimed musicians to play acoustic sets at MEANTIME, including Thee Stranded Horse, Nancy Elizabeth, and Z+. |
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NATASHA HOUSEAGO 5th - 9th November 2007
Natasha Houseago developed, constructed and presented the drawing project SCRATCHING THE SURFACE during a week-long residency at MEANTIME. The project coincided with the arrival of the Jerwood Drawing Prize in Cheltenham. |
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THE WERNER ALARM 2nd November 2007
Israeli garage band, The Werner Alarm, played MEANTIME on their European tour. |
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WOJCIECH KOSMA Wojciech Kosma, who had performed during MEANTIME LIVE!, proposed a project to stage a waterfall cascading from the upper floor of the MEANTIME building, recreating a sight he saw as a child in Poland. After a weekend’s doubtful experimentation the public event delivered a waterfall, an experience which was at once uncanny and extraordinarily beautiful. |
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ROWAN O’NEILL 4th - 9th November 2007
Rowan arrived at MEANTIME out of the blue – walking back to Wales from London. She stayed a while and presented a performance of CERDDED ADRE – The Long Walk Home, a document of her time in the city and its impact on ideas of identity and home... |
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JAKE LEVER
22nd - 23rd September 2007
CENTRE + CIRCUMFERENCE - An installation of prints by Jake Lever. |
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ZERO GRAVITY 3 MEANTIME LIVE! 16th September 2007 The final event of the weekend of live and performative events concluded with both a frenetic jam and a curious noise, with Brickwerk's homemade electronic sound machines. Co-ordinated by record label elbandito. |
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A LIST OF THINGS WORTH DOING MEANTIME LIVE! 15th September 2007 Peering into and around the space between live art and filmed actions ‘a list of things worth doing’ presented an evening of screenings, performance and discussion of the work of 10 artists including Paula Davy, Oogoo Maia, Jessica Rost, Sarah B and Martin Wooster, Wojciech Kosma, Katrina Horne, Dominic Thomas, Cynthia Whelan, a.group, and Amy Freeman. The programme is available here. |
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INTOLERANCE MEANTIME LIVE!
Oogoo Maia transformed MEANTIME into a velvet-draped cinema for a live performance of his new composition – a soundtrack to D.W. Griffith’s 1916 cinematic masterwork Intolerance. |
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GAVIN McCLAFFERTY
Gavin McClafferty occupied the upper space for the construction of HORIZONTAL COLUMN – an attempt to create a spanning structure of interlocking doors, representing social models in various states of cohesion and collapse. The project was reviewed in a-n. |
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HELEN HARDAKER 6th - 10th August 2007
MEANTIME’s first resident artist, Helen Hardaker occupied the lower space, using it as work-space for the development and realisation of notebook ideas, creating an immersive installation in multiple series’ of drawings and film-works produced during the week. |
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ZERO GRAVITY 2 30th June 2007
MEANTIME played host to a number of the area’s key musicians, including Chris Cundy and Longstone, participating in an evening’s improvisation and collaboration, co-ordinated by the Xposed Club’s Stuart Wilding. |
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OPEN DISCUSSION 28th June 2007
A group discussion on the text of Hakim Bey’s T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone (1985). |
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OFF MESSAGE 27th May 2007
On a soaking wet Sunday at the end of May artist Lorna Trupec took the inquisitive on a ‘walking tour of legendary moments in Cheltenham’s neglected cultural history’. Funded by ALIAS, artists’ advisory service. |
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ARTISTS’ OPEN DAY 5th May 2007 MEANTIME kicked off with an Open Day to introduce the building, discuss the aims of the project and invite artists' proposals. In the evening MEANTIME launched the first ZERO GRAVITY, with jazz-funk dj Martin Wooster, which happened to coincide with Cheltenham Jazz Festival. |

























