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.
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.
