forthcoming events 2013
Read more and interrogate MEANTIME projects at http://meantimespace.wordpress.com/
MEANTIME is open for hot drinks and conversation on the first Friday of every month 10am-12noon, all welcome.
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MAY
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RESIDENCY: KATE OGLEY
(6th May - 2nd June)
‘A Daydream of Elsewhere’ (Bachelard)
Kate Ogley is increasingly drawn to explore the nature of song as an elusive record of memory, dreams, longing and identity. Working with local communities she intends to register, through the encounter of song, the diverse range of nationalities that make up the population of Cheltenham.
Kate will consider how memories of lives lived elsewhere are overlaid and interwoven into the experience of the town’s particular architecture, and how the buildings themselves may house and give shape to these imaginings. Kate intends to create a trail of sound interventions within the town that reflect on many facets of the migrant experience in Cheltenham.
Open Studio: Saturday 11th May, 11am-4pm. An introduction to the project.
Final event: Thursday 30th May, 7-9pm. Includes discussion with respondent Gavin McClafferty.
Exhibition open: Friday 31st May and Saturday 1st June, 11am-4pm.
Kate Ogley is an artist living in Penzance working with film, sound and installation. She has been involved in variety of art-led initiatives in Cornwall and completed her M.A at Falmouth University. She was recently selected for the Cologne Experimental Documentary Film Festival and her short films have been screened in Italy, Germany and India.
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OFF-SITE EVENT: ART FLEA
Brunel Goods Shed (Stroud train station)
Saturday 18th May, 10am-4pm.
MEANTIME is taking part, with John Walter, in Art Flea, "part flea-market, part conceptual art experiment, and part car-boot sale, featuring a variety of artist-run stalls alongside live performance, film screenings and fabulous food". John Walter, who last graced our presence during his unforgettable residency at MEANTIME in September 2011, is presenting the latest in a series of Maximalist projects, the John McCririck Memorial Bar – a hybrid of painting, hospitality and performance.
Part of SITE Festival; Brunel Goods Shed is at GL5 3AP.
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JUNE
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RESIDENCY: KATHRYN ASHILL
(3rd - 30th June)
For Future Reference
For Future Reference is an ongoing project which aims to collect and archive predictions made about Kathryn Ashill’s future through visits to fortune tellers, psychics and clairvoyants. MEANTIME will be the venue where alternative futures are tested, played out and presented through performance, sound, video, writing and drawing.
One possible reading would be to view the work as a form of futurology, where instead of using a systematic and pattern-based understanding of past and present to determine the likelihood of future events, Kathryn will be aggregating and analysing the chance determinations of psychics, and thus is given an opportunity to engage with the creation of possible and preferable futures.
INTRODUCTORY PRESENTATION: TUESDAY 4th JUNE, 7.30-9pm
CONCLUDING EVENT: FRIDAY 28th JUNE, 7-9pm
EXHIBITION OPEN: SATURDAY 29th JUNE, 11am-4pm
Kathryn Ashill is a Cardiff-based artist whose current practice is a combination of drawing, installation and performance. Live work is often created in the public realm and may be re-presented or reinterpreted through visual documentation of the performed action. Where earlier work often relied on audience participation and physical contact, current work is more durational and has a greater emphasis on the particular narratives of a given site or personal history.
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JULY
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RESIDENCY: TO BE ANNOUNCED
An artist will be selected from this year's The Open West competition for a residency at MEANTIME. Details to follow.
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THE WEEK OF SMALL MIRACLES II
29th July - 2nd August
Stuart Wilding and co. put on another series of highly stimulating events over five nights at MEANTIME. More details to follow.
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AUGUST
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MEANTIME takes a break...
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SEPTEMBER
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The new season's programme will be announced in due course.
