The Traveller Walking Walking Walking Through
The Traveller Walking Walking Walking Through is a kind of sound-poem that takes a balladic or song-like form, and was written in response to a visit to Bath. Download it to your phone or mp3 player and listen as you undertake the walks. You can pick up an accompanying map from Kindling Coffee Co. or the Arnolfini. This recording contains one instance of language that some listeners may find offensive.
We would be grateful if you could take a few moments to tell us a bit about yourself. Thank you!
Clare Gasson, The traveller walking walking walking through...
15.30hrs
Saturday 21 August 2010
Kindling Coffee
9a Claverton Buildings
Bath, United Kingdom, BA2 4LD
Media Art Bath (MAB) is delighted to present Clare Gasson's new work, The traveller walking walking walking through... read live by the artist. The traveller walking walking walking through... was commissioned by Media Art Bath and first performed live at the Arnolfini as part of Media Art Bath's A theatre to address mini festival in June.
The traveller - walking walking walking through... is a ballad written in response to a visit to Bath - to walking and experiencing the City, and thinking about the rhythm of walking and of waulking songs (the work songs of women waulking the cloth, and like miners' or seafaring songs, the rhythm of the songs - designed to assist the process of labour).
[Image: Clare Gasson, The traveller walking walking walking through... performance documentation from Media Art Bath, A theatre to address, June 2010]
A theatre to address continues...
Thanks to all the artists and our collaborators at the Arnolfini for the fantastic event - A theatre to address: a festival of textual form - concrete, material, scripted and performed. We were really excited to see the programme unfold with live performances ranging from Pil and Galia Kollectiv's Critical Mass - a worship at the Church of the Atom involving organist, Adi Gelbart, choir and high priest - to the more intimate (yet very scary) performances such as Annabel Frearson's Frankenstein2. Frankenstein2 is an ongoing project in which Frearson is rewriting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein using only words from the original, and few who were there will forget the actor's incantation of the word "misery" (brings a shiver to our spines even thinking about it).
Finally an important reminder that Clare Gasson's new work, The Traveller Walking Walking Walking Through can be experienced by downloading the map and podcast through our website (see the link above), purchasing the limited edition cassette from the Arnolfini bookshop and coming to Bath to do the walk!! Don't miss it.
[Image: Annabel Frearson, Frankenstein2: performance from Media Art Bath, A theatre to address, 2010. Photography: Sam Nightingale.]
A theatre to address
A festival of textual form
concrete, material, scripted, performed
Friday 4 and Saturday 5 June, Arnolfini
Clare Gasson, Maryam Jafri, Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Sovay Berriman, Phil Coy, Annabel Frearson, Beatrice Gibson, Julika Gittner, Sue Tompkins, The Otolith Group
A Media Art Bath project in collaboration with Arnolfini
A theatre to address is a festival of performances, talks and readings exploring the many forms of tex.
Highlights of the programme ON FRIDAY include new work by London-based artist, Clare Gasson, and Copenhagen / New York based artist, Maryam Jafri. And we're super excited that Pil and Galia Kollectiv will present Critical Mass: a Sermon for the Church of the Atom with live music by Gelbart.
Highlights of SATURDAY'S programme include Bristol-based artist, Sovay Berriman who will present a new collaboration-in-progress. Also a screening of Turner Prize nominees The Otolith Group's film, Otolith III.
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In-Dialogue with Lindsay Seers
THE MAB FILM EXERCISE - presented by Paul O'Neill
18.30hrs Thursday 27 May
FREE but booking recommended (0117 917 2300)
We are very excited to welcome both Lindsay Seers and curator, Paul O'Neill to THE MAB FILM EXERCISE! Known for ghostly meta-fictions of self- and object-machines, Lindsay Seers' work explores a curious relationship between time, memory, place and objects in which the usual order and operation of things has become curiously disturbed. Curator, Paul O'Neill will introduce a selection of films by Seers, and talk with the artist about the significance of the time-image, duration and meta-fiction in her work, and the importance of the curator-artist relationship. Lindsay Seers recently won the Jarman Award (2009) and is well respected for her work, which has recently been shown in the Tate Triennial and at Matt's Gallery, London (both 2009).
For more information, please click here.
(Image: Lindsay Seers, Untitled: 2009, film still. Courtesy of Matt's Gallery, London)
The Awkward Scene
Andrea Büttner, Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, Laura Horelli
Curated by Richard Birkett
18.30hrs Wednesday 7 April
Arnolfini, FREE
Media Art Bath is pleased to welcome Richard Birkett, curator at the ICA London to THE MAB FILM EXERCISE. Richard's programme, The Awkward Scene considers the methodologies and artifacts of moving image production in relation to the social experience of emotional connection and disconnection. The works screened depict the awkwardness inherent in the presence of the personal in the public realm; in differing ways they locate this sentiment as an active vector within the production of art and the social relations enacted through it. More.
Image : Laura Horelli, Haukka-Pala (A-Bit-To-Bite), 2009 Courtesy YLE, Finland/ Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Placement and Practice
THE MAB FILM EXERCISE - Placement and practice
David Hall and John Latham
Curated by Elisa Kay
18.30hrs THURSDAY 25 MARCH
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA FREE but booking recommended (0117 917 2300)
For the first of a new season of THE MAB FILM EXERCISE, Media Art Bath is delighted that Elisa Kay will present some film and video made by members of the Artist Placement Group. We are very pleased to welcome Elisa to THE MAB FILM EXERCISE, and excited to be screening John Latham's Erth (1971) in the original 16mm. This will be screened alongside a "staging" of David Hall's TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces) (1971). Elisa Kay is the curator at Flat Time House, John Latham's former residence in Camberwell, South London.
Imploded Action Dissonant Affects
A seminar on dissonance and affect with Amanda Beech, Mikko Canini, Bridget Crone, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Marie-Anne McQuay.
Saturday 20 March, 16.00-18.00hrs
Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol
(Tickets - £4/£2)
ABSTRACTS ARE NOW ON THE WEBSITE - click here.
Imploded action dissonant affects is an afternoon seminar addressing the relation or non-relation between space, image and sound, as well as our expectations for art's effective and affective potential. Central to the discussion is the question of what would happen if we were to radically rethink the relationship between image and meaning that is central to the way that we communicate about art, ideas... politics. How would we communicate, organize ourselves, be in common? Please email press [at] mediaartbath.org.uk for further information. A collaboration between Spike Island and Media Art Bath. Image: Amanda Beech, Sanity Assassin (2010) Installation view Spike Island. Photo: Stuart Bunce.
Involuntary Reception
Marie-Anne McQuay presents...
Involuntary Reception
Kristin Lucas, Branda Miller, Craig Mulholland, Charlie Tweed
18.30hrs THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
FREE but booking recommended (0117 917 2300)
For the third MAB Film Exercise, Media Art Bath is pleased to announce that Marie-Anne McQuay (Curator at Spike Island) will present a series of video transmissions from Utopia's shadow world: the contemporary technocratic Dystopia.
Dystopia is the utopia you must be careful not to wish for (Michael S. Roth)
The work in Involuntary Reception highlights a variety of dystopias in which bureaucratic, scientific, economic and environmental systems mesh together, asking to whom have we surrendered control and in whose name?
For further information on Marie-Anne McQuay's programme and the previous MAB FILM EXERCISE programmes, please click here.
Image: Charlie Tweed, Navstevnici, 2009: video still
The Impossible Document
Mike Sperlinger presents...
The Impossible Document
David Lamelas, David Thorne & Julia Meltzer
18.30hrs WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY
ARNOLFINI, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
FREE but booking recommended (0117 917 2300)
Media Art Bath is delighted to invite Mike Sperlinger, Assistant Director of LUX, London to present the second programme of The MAB Film Exercise. Mike's programme, The Impossible Document, will include rarely seen works by David Lamelas, David Thorne & Julia Meltzer.
The Impossible Document asks, what are the limits of documentary? And what lies beyond them when a filmmaker tries to record the invisible, the forgotten or the impossible?
By inviting curators to present a programme of artists' film, The MAB Film Exercise seeks to address both the diverse potential for artists' film as a form and a sense of the current urgency, social or political timeliness in the work (of both curator and artist). The MAB Film Exercise is a place for discussing art and the ideas it generates, please join us! Click here for more info on Mike's programme.
Images: David Lamelas, A Study of Relationships Between Inner and Outer Space (1969)
GREETINGS COMRADES, THE IMAGE!
Greetings comrades, the image has now changed its status
Amanda Beech, Harun Farocki, Beatrice Gibson, Maryam Jafri, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Cerith Wyn Evans
Thursday 3 December, 18.30hrs
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol
FREE but booking advised - call Arnolfini box office on 0117 917 2300
JOIN US FOR DISCUSSION AND A DRINK, PRESENTED AS PART OF THE MAB FILM EXERCISE: EXERCISING IDEAS IN AND AROUND ARTISTS' FILM A PROGRAMME OF MONTHLY SCREENINGS AND DISCUSSION.
What is the status of the image today? Where does the image start and stop? Characterised by the speed of its dissemination, the image might be understood as the transmission of digital information, as a fleeting visual impression, as affective experience, as an important factor in the gaining of knowledge, expanded, compressed, archival, educative, celebratory and informal... It might be all or none of these. Contingent. Staged. A restitution. A refusal.
THE MAB FILM EXERCISE
First event: Thursday 3 December, 18.30hrs
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol
Free but booking advised
(Go to Current for more information on each individual programme)
Media Art Bath presents a new monthly screening of artists' film in which invited curators will present and discuss a programme (or single piece) of moving image work. The MAB Film Exercise seeks to address both the diverse potential for artists' film as a form and a sense of the current urgency, social or political timeliness in the work (of both curator and artist).
The MAB Film Exercise is produced and presented by Media Art Bath - championing contemporary art and ideas through the development of bold new work. Forthcoming guests include: Adelaide Bannerman (Independent Curator, London), Richard Birkett (Curator, Institute Contemporary Arts, London), Elisa Kay (Curator, Flat Time House, London), Marie-Anne McQuay (Curator, Spike Island, Bristol), Paul O'Neill (Research Fellow, Situations, Bristol) and Mike Sperlinger (Assistant Director, LUX, London).
Image: Amanda Beech, Statecraft, 2008: film still..jpg)
Staging Sound 2.0 - TAKE PART!
At the end of August, Media Art Bath and Dorkbot Bristol invited makers, tinkerers and performers of all things electronic/acoustic that make music/sound/noise to come along to the STAGING SOUND 2.0 Sound Hack and participate in a citywide Guerilla Busking infiltration. If it was made in your bedroom or on your kitchen table then the /HOMEMADE/ Dorkbot Bristol Sound Hack was a chance to come along, show what you’ve got, share tips and ideas with Dorkbot Bristol and other makers, demo your idea or just get inspired! Image: Dorkbot Bristol
Greetings comrades, the image...
Ocular Lab, 31 Pearson St., West Brunswick (Australia)
2, 8, 9 August 15.00hrs
(Gallery open 13-17.00hrs Saturday 8 and Sunday 9)
A programmes of artists’ film and video, including works by Amanda Beech, Harun Farocki, Bea Gibson, Melanie Gilligan, Maryam Jafri, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Cerith Wyn Evans and a reading by Justin Clemens from his new book, Villain. Selected works will also be exhibited in the gallery alongside Nik Pantazis' Neon Lights.
What is the status of the image today? Where does the image start and stop? Characterised by the speed of its dissemination, the image might be understood as the transmission of digital information, as a fleeting visual impression, as affective experience, as an important factor in the gaining of knowledge, expanded, compressed, archival, educative, celebratory and informal… It might be all or none of these. Contingent. Staged. A restitution. A refusal.
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Portable Radio Podcast - NOW ONLINE
May 26, Portable Radio (Russell Martin and Sarah Thelwall) visits Bath to collaborate with Media Art Bath and talk to local artists, writers, curators, critics and members of the public about how the local art scene operates. Guests include: Bridget Crone (Media Art Bath), Elena Hill (contemporaryartprogramming), Arran Hodgson (Fringe Arts Bath), Lucy Sames (Media Art Bath) and Sarah Simmonds (Avebury World Heritage Site Officer).
LISTEN ONLINE Further info on Portable Radio
