Coastal Currents 2009 » Artists’ Projects

American Ground:Independent Day

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CANCELLED- APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED!

A day for the celebration of Independent Thought, Independent Art and Independent Retail.

Independent Day aims to celebrate the unique location, history and spirit of the America Grounds area of Hastings.

Taking its inspiration from the events of the 1840’s when this area of Hastings audaciously declared itself in support of the American Revolution and thus stated it’s Independence from the rest of the United Kingdom.

Contact Simon Hedges / John Knowles via the F-ish Creative Trust Gallery, 45 Robertson Street, Hastings, TN34 1HL.

The day will feature: live arts from Open Submissions entries, spoken word, talks, street market, films, exhibitions and music. For a full programme of events please visit www.americaground.co.uk

Annabel Tilley- The Durbar Hall Drawing Residency

coastadmin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:33:26 +0000

Tilley has been selected as the Durbar Hall artist-in-residence at Hastings Museum and will be working there for ten days during Coastal Currents.

During the residency, Tilley will be making a series of drawings exploring the architecture of the Durbar Hall, which was designed by the English architect, Sir Caspar Purdon and created in 1885/6 by two Punjabi craftsmen Muhammad Baksh and Muhammad Juma, and as a result can be said to be the ultimate hybrid creation of ‘east meets west’ during this high colonial era. Tilley will also be creating a cabinet of curiosities based on the artefacts collected by the Brassey family during their round-the- world travels on their yacht The Sunbeam in the 1870s.

Robert Sample – Stations of the Cross/station 1

coastadmin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:31:09 +0000

TUESDAY 29 SEPT, 8-9pm … ONE NIGHT ONLY…
Sample works as a painter and sculptor respectively. For Coastal Currents, he is creating a large scale kinetic installation with elements of viewer participation. The project centres on a number of innovative devices, based on traps used by nomadic tribes, which the artists and audience will activate to intentionally destroy an object. A cross-over between installation and ‘happening’. Sample’s work demonstrates a childlike enthusiasm for discovery and experimentation while playfully exploring the properties and possibilities of everyday materials.

Christopher Owen – Senta

coastadmin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:29:57 +0000

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Using fragments of Richard Wagner’s opera ‘The Flying Dutchman’, Senta is a sound work referencing Winifred Wagner who was born in Hastings.

Winifred Wagner was married at an early age to Wagner’s son Siegfried. This was in order to produce an heir and to dispel rumours of Siegfried’s homosexuality. Winifred was a close friend and rumoured lover of Hitler, themes explored in AN Wilson’s novel ‘Winnie and Wolf’. On Siegfried’s death, Winifred took control of the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth and turned it into a platform for Nazi propaganda.

Zara Morris – Radio Weekend

coastadmin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:27:48 +0000

Morris creates an interactive, participatory work for 19/20 September. Radio Weekend is a temporary radio station, designed to uncover the goings-on over one weekend of Coastal Currents 2009. Morris will interview locals and visitors, include reviews and reports on the festival and local events. The radio show will be available to download as podcasts from www.coastalcurrents.org.uk

Listen to the first podcast below:

or download the first podcast here.

Listen to the second podcast below:

or download the second podcast here.

email zara.morris@gmail.com

Mat MacDonnell/Phil Smith – The Good, the Bad and the Telly

coastadmin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:25:57 +0000

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Multi-screen video disaster waiting to ‘mishappen’ in a shopfront near you soon.

The artists are using a shop window installation of salvaged TV sets to promote the 5th Hastings Film Challenge. The TVs turn on/off at random, the films interspersed with images from new experimental looped works, as if an unseen viewer was channel hopping. The artists hope that passers-by will be intrigued, recognise a location or person and maybe even watch a whole film. Within the loop will be information on the forthcoming Film Challenge.

Sharon Haward – An Experiment in Town Planning

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Haward’s installation is informed by the perception of architecture and the way in which the built environment mediates and projects meaning. Through light, mirrors and fabricated structures, Haward creates the sense of a night-time cityscape; a silent stage upon which many dramas are enacted. The viewer’s presence and interaction will bring a sense of reality to this transitory work.

Chris Ballingall – Super-galactic highway

coastadmin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:21:24 +0000

This large scale wall based work uses a commonplace material – tape – to create a dynamic interplay of line, colour and space. Ballingall’s work aims to be purely aesthetic while establishing a visual interaction with the viewer.

Esther Appleyard – Hidden Hastings

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Appleyard’s work is concerned with difference; the spaces in-between; the flaws within structures and is informed by her interest in genetic screening. Appleyard’s project for Coastal Currents combines elements of sculptural installation and projection which explore the duality of invisible/visible combined with references to our hidden genetic code. The artist is also interested in the physical space she occupies and this installation will be the exact width of her wheelchair.

Oya Allen – Losing Civilisation Archive

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Utilising the medium of the archive and the museum as a mode of display for framing personal experience, Losing Civilisation Archive presents an ‘archaeology of loss’ consisting of a video, book-works, etched prints, digital images and cabinets filled with objects and text.