Whats happening at this contexture thing?

The contexture living room.

The contexture living room is the best place in the world. It is situated next to the contexture gallery and offers a wide range of good things and situations:

-the permanent bookshop from Brighton.
-the contexture library, featuring the best books of Dartington library.
-the contexture shop, with student's work on display and for sale.
-brunch and afternoon tea discussions with invited artists and curators.

The contexture living room is a hand build and unique space to relax, meet and enjoy the Dartington Festival: You are cordially invited to come along!

The contexture brunch: meet, eat, speak.
every day at 11am in the contexture living room.
Contexture invites everyone at 11 am from Friday to Sunday for brunch and discussion about art and life.

Friday 19th June - The Aesthetics of Text

Guest Speakers: John Hall - http://www.johnhallpoet.org.uk/biography.htm

Ellen Bell - http://www.campdengallery.co.uk/displayartists.php?rid=97&tid=1.

John and Ellen will be discussing text from a visual perspective, examining the effect that aesthetics has on what we read. This discussion will be linked into the work displayed at contexture as well as there own work.

Saturday 20th June - Durational Performance - Action Repetition Catharsis

Guest speakers: Mark Greenwood, Rona Lee, Soozy Roberts and Jieun Lee

A consideration of performance in relation to the curvature of time, the temporal experience, the unfolding action and the components of action, repetition and catharsis.

The discussion will focus on invited artists practice and works from 'Contexture' to navigate through this discourse and understand our actions further.

Sunday 21st june - Desperate dissemination

why do artists try to establish a dialogue? and with whom?
All artists are alike.
They dream of doing something that's more social, more collaborative, and more real than art.
Dan Graham
Artist's attempts to response to a given context or engage with other people than themselves in their art practice has been labelled as dialogic, relational, site specific or socially engaged. The discussion will try to look beyond these terms by focusing on the invited artist's work and asking questions of artist's authorship and the process of editing, social ambitions and mutual exploitations, intentions and honesty within the making of work, privileged and public forms and what art is and does outside the art world.

A reader for this discussion will be available at the contexture library, featuring related texts and works by the invited artists Anya Lewin, Justin McKeown and Maddy Pethick.

The contexture afternoon tea.
Contexture invites everyone at 3 pm on Sunday for a cup of tea and a talk about Dartington's history and future with
Mary Bartlett and John Sanford.

The contexture critical afternoon tea.
Contexture invites everyone at 3 pm from Friday to Saturday to join Rosalie and invited critics for a cup of tea and a
discussion about the work shown at the contexture galleries.

Friday 19th 3pm
invited critic: Brian Wiltsire and someone from the Totnes Art Society (tbc)

Saturday 20th 3pm
invited critic: Stephen Cornford.

LYDIA EYLAND - BA FINE ART WITH COMMUNITY PRACTICES

"As Far As I Can Tell"

An Exhibition of Contemporary Art and Photography in Association with Langage Ice Cream Farm and residents of Lee Mill

Lydia Eyland is a community artist and photographer who works in conjunction with people and places local to her home in south Devon. Her latest exhibition “As Far As I Can Tell” explores the private narratives linked with site and the framing of a place through historical and contemporary photography. Offering a glimpse into domestic spaces and memory within the village of Lee Mill and surrounding area, Lydia combines a number of approaches to work making including photographic facilitation, object making and sound recording to create a multi-layered collaborative work that celebrates the juxtaposition of contemporary art and village life.

Bean - BA Fine Art: Visual Performance

I make make make.
Action Performance Live Art Live Installation Video Text Film

Layering Reworking Cycling - Overlapped Overlaid Coloured-in Cut-out

Desire lies in organic territory, my dis/placement within it and challenging boundaries through physical action; testing and tying body and mind through duration.

Exploring the relationships between object, material, body, time, quantity and fact. Mapping connections, traces and bad science; crude, ugly and beautiful.


Working out the work during the work.


cjbeanie@googlemail.com
www.bean-live.com
www.beasterproductions.blogspot.com

Jack Hadley - BA Writing

Jack's recent projects have been research based, exploring the political and social history of the bicycle. The projects include a series of recordings, an essay, a book containing a series of maps and number of works on canvas. These projects culminated in an exhibition in The Bicycle Gallery at Coventry Transport Museum.


These photographs show a series of new works that have been created with Contexture in mind. These pieces are concerned with the meaning of words and the extent to which their meaning is determined by their context. Alongside this is an interest in maps, marks and inscriptions as affirmation of human presence.