Artist Projects
8th/9th August
Gemma Kempthorne
Boscastle: Dance with music and art
In this event Gemma Kempthorne will conduct a series of performances in unexpected locations around the village of Boscastle. Members of the public are invited to see Boscastle in a new light, exploring the geology, history and culture of the place through live performance, dance and music. This event is an opportunity to listen and watch tales unfold through movement and song, learn some Cornish dance steps and soak up the atmosphere.
15th/16th August
Wanderer (Kim Pilgrim & Jane Atkinson)
St Agnes Beacon: Performative installation
Wanderer is a collaborative artist duo, creating new artistic languagesaround the subjects of environment, heritage and movement within and understanding of the landscape.The public are invited to use pop-up tents to create a camp for one day only, exploring ideas of boundaries, land ownership and usage of St Agnes Beacon and the surrounding landscape.
22nd/23rd August
Janet McEwan
Godrevy Headland, near Gwithian.: Landscape intervention
Janet McEwan’s practice predominantly examines where we position ourselves within the ‘natural’ world, through considering the cultural filters which colour our stance. She has been researching aspects of Godrevy Headland, including Godrevy Lighthouse; an iconic local monument loaded with meaning to many people: a place also out of bounds… but one we can project escape fantasies onto from the crowded mainland.
29th/30th August
Anne-Marie Culhane
Rough Tor, Bodmin Moor Nr Camelford: Field sensing
Anne Marie Culhane is an environmental artist & performer. ‘Field Sensing’ is a participatory event, in which members of the public are invited to take part in a walk based on the practice of Field Sensing which gives an intensified mobile sensory mapping of locality by slowing down the body’s movements. This is followed by an open discussion with the artist and Peter Herring, an expert on the historic landscapes and evolution of Bodmin Moor.
19th/20th September
Jennie Savage
Zennor: Installation/event
Through investigations into the site and the people who inhabit it, Jennie Savage will create a text installation, exploring the multiplicity of perspectives of the landscape in and around Zennor. Text snippets will appear in the landscape mapping out a route. On Sunday the 20th September, Jennie Savage will invite the public to take part in a discussion/ event/ game in Zennor on the meaning of the word “Heritage”.
26th/27th September
Continental Breakfast
Cape Cornwall: Performative installation
Continental Breakfast is a collective of five visual artists working across three continents whose individual practices cover sculpture, writing, drawing, painting and photography as well as video, performance and collaborative work. Continental Breakfast will be creating a performative installation in response to the location and context of Cape Cornwall. Continental Breakfast will be based in Cape Cornwall for the duration of the project at the Brison’s Veor residency cottage. |
Project Group:
Project Manager/co-curation
Veronica Vickery
Co-curator
Ruth Gooding
PR
Jane Atkinson
It development & design
Jem McKay
Graphic Design
Alex Parsons
Technical support
Tim Timms
NT liason
Paul Bonnington
Jon Brookes |
This project is funded by FEAST: Making great art happen across Cornwall, the NT and the AONB
FEAST is an artistic journey that Cornwall will be taking over the next two year. Our aim is that at the end of the journey arts and creativity activity will have touched so many people in Cornwall that there is a momentum for change and arts and creativity are seen as part of the fabric of healthy and vibrant communities. This would help secure the long-term investment we need as the creative sector.
We do need artists in Cornwall to be fellow travelers on this FEAST journey so that together we transform the cultural landscape in Cornwall. As the pioneers we particularly need you to be on message and build the profile of FEAST, so that it is a name everyone recognises and respects. Practically, we need the public to understand that FEAST can make a whole range of new creative activities happen because there is additional investment for the arts in Cornwall. The impact of these needs to be visible.
We know that we can commission a FEAST programme that energizes and inspires and takes the arts into Cornish communities in new and unexpected ways. What we need help with is getting the message out about the volume and wealth of this activity. We need each project to generate its own PR but also PR for the whole FEAST programme and where possible other projects within it. Put simply, we need the whole to be more than the sum of its parts. It is only by promoting together that we show the real value of the arts to Cornwall and make the case for continued investment.
click on logo to take you to FEAST website |
