A Floating Studio, Bob & Roberta Smith

A Floating Studio
Bob & Roberta Smith

Performance: Sat 5th May, 11am, West Pier, Brighton Beach

Exhibition: 5th May – 27th May 2007
Wed – Sun, 1 - 5pm
Private View: Sat 5th May, 7-9pm

The artist will re-enact JMW Turner’s heroism by tying himself to the mast of his Floating Studio. Whilst on the handcrafted raft he will perform epic readings of the stories painted upon its boards. The Floating Studio will be launched on Brighton Beach on Sat 5th May, the same day as the launch of the Brighton Fringe Festival 2007. The piece will then be transported to the Grey Area Gallery and exhibited with a film of the performance.
Free admission.

An interview with Bob & Roberta Smith will also feature in the 2nd edition of Vacuum


http://www.bobandrobertasmith.co.uk/
http://www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk/

Bob at the Leytonstone Centre for Contemporary Art, Photograph for Vacuum Art Paper

Pre- studio launch, 10.30am, Brighton Beach, Sat 5th May 2007

A Floating Studio PV, Sat 5th May, 7-9 pm

Tearfully Installation, 14th - 21st April 2007

Tearfully Artist Talk

Tearfully They Talk
Sat 21st April, 6 - 7.30pm

Haroon Mirza, Patrick Galway, Iain Rayner

‘We are men who feel all the things that men have felt through the ages.
Our vernacular is in flux, therefore meaning has become unstable within the objects we make. We do not fear this.’

M. Parfait

Phantasmagoria Spoken Word

Tearfully, Friday 13th, PV

TEARFULLY

TEARFULLY

14/4/07 – 29/4/07Thurs – Sun, 1-5pm
PV Fri 13th April 2007, 7-9pm

Featuring:
Patrick Galway Haroon Mirza Iain Rayner

‘We are men who feel all the things that men have felt through the ages.
Our vernacular is in flux, therefore meaning has become unstable within the objects we make. We do not fear this.’

M. Parfait

The sound based objects, paintings and paper constructions in Tearfully offer variations on romantic themes presented in the light of our current cultural state. Examples of these variations include romantic love, the romance of technology and ‘progress’, and the tragic, yet alluring, romance of failed idealism.

The chosen works and their varying media intersect through this shared thematic interest. Visual pieces are viewed under the perceptual influence of the noise/sound created by other works. The supplementary nature of the audio pieces explores new avenues in previously autonomous, static works. All three sets of work offer ways, through sense perception, of connecting with people, concepts and feelings. However, a realisation of the dangers in overt idealism has led to the creation of a non-linear dialogue between the, at first sight disparate artworks.

The audio work Radio DJ presents two radios that appear to be tuned into separate channels creating a somewhat conflicting soundscape. At particular points in the fabricated broadcasts both audio transmissions become synchronised through tempo producing a new musical composition, harmonising the sonic space and making the shift from noise to sound, which can be rationalised by the perceptual shift from hearing to listening. This action is the cornerstone of the dialogue constructed within the exhibition. Not just a dialogue between artists but between objects and people.

Lovely Lovely Artist Talk, Sat 31st March, 6pm

Grey Area invited 4 early-career artists based in Brighton to contribute to a show of Lovely Loveliness, and on Sat 31st of March 2007 at 6pm they spoke.
They spoke of painting, process, and materials. They spoke of travelling, artists, and a dripping tap that was the best birthday ever.
They spoke well. Thankyou to all who attended, the speakers and the listeners.

Lovely Lovely is the logical extension of Lovely Views, Lovely Painting, and Lovely Sentiments. It is planted here as a signpost. It points to a superlative lying beyond repetitious hyperbole and tautological loops. It upholds Grayson Perry’s statement that we should be more willing to say ‘‘Wow! That is really lovely’’.


‘A portion of the loveliness, which once he made more lovely.’
Percy Shelley, Adonais, 1821