James Beckett, Cécile B. Evans, Michael Dean and Seb Patane and maker-in residence Rupert Norfolk will be re-locating to Wysing for seven weeks from 21 September.
The artists will live and work at Wysing’s Cambridgeshire centre, making new work in response to the theme, Convention T, and through input from a series of experts and enthusiasts who will be participating in a lively talks and events programme.
Convention T refers to logician, mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski, who applied logic to sentence structure in order to make the truth visible through language. Tarski created a structure – a meta-language – that could be applied to everyday language in order to generate true statements. These were known as T sentences.
The artists, like those who featured in the successful Spring residencies, will use as Tarski’s thinking as a starting point to explore how systems and structures, both visible and hidden, can be applied to uncover meaning, narrative and paradox.
A public programme of events takes place during the residencies, where invited local experts and specialists give presentations at Wysing to offer new ideas around the theme, including a forthcoming series of talks on logic, historical linguistics and structures in music, a discussion on past understandings of the world through witchcraft a meditation event with a Reiki Master. Family and schools activity will also take place during the residency.
The work developed during Wysing’s 2013 programme will be brought together in an ambitious group exhibition in early 2014. A special closing event for the autumn residencies will be held on Saturday 9 November, 2-6pm.
Donna Lynas, Director of Wysing Arts Centre, said: “We’ve had a busy year at Wysing so far in 2013, with a range of residencies, retreats, events and exhibitions across the year exploring hidden systems and structures in various ways. We’re looking forward to seeing what work emerges from our final residency of 2013 with such a brilliant group of artists and an inspiring range of speakers taking part in our talks and events programme.”
Antonia Byatt, Director, South East, Arts Council England, said: “It is really important that artists have the opportunity and space to explore their creative concepts. Wysing’s residency programme is a really good example of how this can be achieved, both for burgeoning talent and more established artists. We are delighted to be able to support Wysing as they provide a forum for artist development.”
Spring’s residency programme featured Anna Barham, David Osbaldeston, Charlotte Prodger and Florian Roithmayr. Gustav Metzger and Keren Cytter and were both in-residence over the summer with new work by Cytter being premiered at our recent annual art and music festival, Space-Time on 31 August, before being performed at ICA, London.
Wysing Arts Centre’s residency programme is funded by Arts Council England and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Forthcoming events:
Saturday 28 September, Launch Event, 2-7pm
A day of presentations exploring hidden systems and structures with academics from the University of Cambridge: Dr Torsten Meißner, Senior Lecturer in Classics will discuss his specialism in historical linguistics; Prof. Michael Potter from the Faculty of Philosophy will explain semantic theory of truth and logic; Mark Gotham, Director of Music Making, will talk about tonal and metrical structures in music. The day will be interspersed with a selection of artists’ films.
Thursday 3 October, Evening Talk, 6.30-8pm
Join Liz Davies, Curator at St Neots Museum, for a talk on how local people in the past tried to understand the world around them through witchcraft and the magical powers of moles and hares.
Saturday 26 October, Big Draw Workshop, 10am-4pm and Book Launch 4-6pm
Join artist Caroline Wendling for a family drawing workshop on the theme of the harvest feast. Then join artist Giles Round, and Jo and Mark Proud of Bourn’s Manor Farm, for a feast to launch the third edition of the Bourn Cookery Book compiled from local and artist contributions.
Saturday 2 November, Meditation Event, 5-7pm
Reiki Master Joy Magezis will introduce her practice on mindfulness, meditation and art before hosting a guided group meditation session. The session will be followed by a screening of Be Not Content, 2011 by artist Mark Titchner. No previous experience of meditation needed.
Saturday 9 November, Closing Event, 2-6pm
To mark the end of their residencies we are hosting a closing event with James Beckett, Cécile B. Evans, Michael Dean, Seb Patane and Rupert Norfolk.
All events are free but some require booking. Please check on our website.
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For further information, including arranging interviews with artists please contact:
Matthew Gaw, External Relations Manager, Wysing Arts Centre
01954 717108 or 07854643125 [email protected]
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