grey area

Occupant #4: Andy Lacey

(o) occupant
January - March 2012

occupant #4 Andy Lacey

'Andy's arse and its constituant parts'

New work by Andy Lacey from his time at Grey Area. Andy's practice is interested in what it means to infesct new space with internal patterns of speech.

Grey Area presents 'occupant', a series of week long artist residencies within the gallery which will each culminate in the making of new work and a public event. Andy is a Brighton boy and currently associate artist at LUX moving image.

The residencies will take place across several weeks in January-March 2012, providing selected artists/groups with the opportunity to occupy the gallery from Monday-Sunday of that same week. Grey Area will provide each occupant with the staples of space, tools, a timescale, and a set of keys.

The parameters for what might constitute an outcome for the occupant residencies are flexible and permeable. As much a process of the studio as of the gallery. Participants are invited to consider how their project may or may not be constituted as an object, subject, event, or non-event.

As each residency will have different times and degrees of public engagement, additional information on residency events will follow with little warning as the week of an occupant takes shape. Grey Area was originally founded as a dual studio/gallery, and so occupant marks a return of sorts – to concurrent processes of making and display. To occupy is to seize - a week, a residency, an exhibition. Or all 3.

http://www.greyareagallery.org/index.php?%2Fcurrent%2Fo-occupant-2%2F

All photography by (c) Daniel Yanez-Gonzalez

www.danielyanezgonzalez.com

AURAL DETRITUS presents a concert of sound-art with: JASON KAHN PHIL JULIAN/DANIEL JONES PAUL KHIMASIA MORGAN

Saturday 4th February from 7pm @ Grey Area Gallery, Basement, 31 Queens Road, Brighton

Jason Kahn was born in New York in 1960 and grew up in Los Angeles. He moved to Europe in 1990, first living in Berlin until 1999 then moving to Switzerland. He is currently based in Zürich.
Kahn came of musical age in the late 1970's, playing drums in punk bands and later making many records for the Los Angeles-based SST label. He turned more to improvised music in the late 1980's, culminating with his move to Berlin where he spent many years playing as a drummer and percussionist in different projects of improvised music, as well as being a member of American composer Arnold Dreyblatt's group “The Orchestra of Excited Strings.”
In Berlin Kahn began working with electronics and composing. He started releasing solo CD's in 1998 on his Cut imprint, which ran from 1997 until 2007. Kahn also began exhibiting sound installations in 2001 and has since shown numerous works in museums, galleries, art spaces and public sites around the world.
Kahn collaborates regularly with many musicians, both in improvised settings and in the context of graphical scores which Kahn composes for specific groupings of players.
This will be his first tour of the UK.
http://jasonkahn.net/

“There is no more protean improvisor in experimental music today than Jason Kahn.”
--The Wire

Occupant #2 Residency

(o) occupant #2
January - February 2012

Grey Area presents 'occupant', a series of week long artist residencies within the gallery which will each culminate in the making of new work and a public event.

The residencies will take place across several weeks in January-February 2012, providing selected artists/groups with the opportunity to occupy the gallery from Monday-Sunday of that same week. Grey Area will provide each occupant with the staples of space, tools, a timescale, and a set of keys.

The parameters for what might constitute an outcome for the occupant residencies are flexible and permeable. As much a process of the studio as of the gallery. Participants are invited to consider how their project may or may not be constituted as an object, subject, event, or non-event.

As each residency will have different times and degrees of public engagement, additional information on residency events will follow with little warning as the week of an occupant takes shape. Grey Area was originally founded as a dual studio/gallery, and so occupant marks a return of sorts – to concurrent processes of making and display. To occupy is to seize - a week, a residency, an exhibition. Or all 3.

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occupant Andy Lacey
23rd - 29th January 2012