Interaction

1st - 8th October 2006 note: no work will be shown on Wednesday 4th October!!
Week long event including a series of performances and site specific art works for exhibition and performance around Aberystwyth town centre including projections onto the old kings hall and several pieces on the sea front of Aberystwyth.

Timetable:

Alice Briggs in the living room (Victorian Shelter )10.00am-4.30pm each day.

Using the Victorian shelter of the promenade, Alice wil be producing contemporary portraits of tourists who have sat at the shelters. The portraits will be reproduced in textiles, by drawing into fabric with material and thread. These portraits will be returned to the shelters in the form of cushions constructing an outdoor living room invoking a trace of recent visitors to the site. Portrait cushions will be placed in the shelter during the week of Interaction.

 

 

Chris Frost will show "The Ghost World" film to played in the bandstand on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening at 6.30-8pm. The Film is 8 minutes long and will be played on a loop. 5th-7th October.

Film graduate Chris Frost will be using the bandstand to create a short film installation. The film's theme follows people's search for meaning in their lives, and the conflict between people who find only bare existentialism.

Laura Harding and White Rope performance group will perform on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evening at 6.30pm 1st-3rd October.

Performance group White Rope, graduates from Newport College will be producing a visual performance inspired by Victoriana along the beach, including peep show booth installations. The performance is based upon some contemporary applique pieces, inspired by Victorian eroticism These appliqued boxes will be concealed (for modesty and titillation), and placed along the promenade. The performance includes a walk from consitution Hill to the pier. The three performers are dressed in costume inspired by the Victorian era using only a wooden chair as a prop.

Ffion Rhys Friday and Saturday evening 8-10pm. A projection from Ceredigion Museum onto the Kings Hall Square.

Artist Ffion Rhys will be projecting a video developed from themes of text messaging from Ceredigion Museum onto the Kings Hall Square in the evenings and will appear on the BBC web cam for Aberystwyth.

Ami Marsden on site at the Victorian Shelter with 'Watching me, Watching You' 10.00am-4.30pm

Ami's work is shown on either end of the Victorian shelter next to the pier. The work consists of several cardboard imitation CCTV cameras which stimulate thought on our Big Brother society.

 

 

 

 

 

Alys Owen on site at the benches in front of Terrace Road 10.00am-4.30pm

Alys has produced a series of orange bench coverings that cover the benches and two bins at  the lower end of the promenade to the left of the bandstand.

Inspiration for her work derives from a subconscious affinity with nature and a sense of the organic. She aims to investigate the internal complexities, rhythms and images found within nature, the human body and its' sexuality. Alys often creates imaginery organic forms and spaces, which infest and grow to take over and play with a space or object. On the one hand this may be slightly unnerving, but the work is playfully seductive and often creates some form of excape.

 

 

 

 

More about the artists:

Alice Briggs is from Aberystwyth and is the Project Co-ordinator and Director of Blaengar. Alice graduated from Dartington College of Arts in Visual Performance in 2001 and has since been working as a practising artist and more recently an artist educator. She completed an MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies at Newcastle Upon Tyne in 2005 and in the last year has worked with the Wales at the Venice Biennale Team, Artes Mundi Prize 2006 as a Gallery Educator and currently works for Cywaith Cymru as a Project Manager on the Artist in Residence Programme. She is about to commence a position as Arts Facilitator for  HAUL Arts in Health Group at Bronglais Hospital. Alice works in a variety of media including slate and textiles to produce installations, sculptures and performances. The image is a cushion portrait which will be part of the installation 'The Living Room'.

Ami Marsden 'Watching me, Watching You'

 

 

 

Laura Harding is Co-Director of Blaengar and is also from Aberystwyth. She graduated from Newport College of Art in Fine Art and New Media in 2005. She works with the performance group White Rope who have exhibited in Cardiff and London in the past year. She works as a buyer and window dresser for the successful retail fashion shop Puss in Boots in Aberystwyth.