Monday 27 June 2011

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice: "Rhôd in Welsh means specifically a waterwheel; it also describes the wheel of the heavens and the wheel of fortune that promises onl..."

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice: "Pavilion 4AA 5XB Padiglione a/at Pane Vino e San Daniele Campo dell'Angelo Raffaele, Dorsoduro, 1722 Venezia 30th May - 6th June 1..."

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice: "good cop bad cop Richard Higlett Ann Jordan Kathryn Campbell Dodd Penny Jones Jason Pinder Jacob Whitaker Kim Fie..."

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice: "Michael Cousin l Cousin is a moving image artist based in Wales, UK. He is currently a recipient of a Creative Wales Ambassador Award. He ..."

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice: "Michael Cousin 116 Paget Street, Grangetown, Cardiff. Wales. UK. CF11 7LA T:+44 (0) 29 20258747 M:+44 (0) 7852133772 http://www.michaelcous..."

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice: "Restorante Pane Vino e San Daniele Tel +39 041 5237456 www.panevinoesandaniele.net"

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice

Pavilion SA44 5XB Padiglione: Rhodio_Hats off for Venice: "These are links to the blogs for the previous two shows at Rhôd and the videos on Culture Colony / Y Wladfa Newydd Rhôd 2009 www.culture..."

Sunday 26 June 2011

Rhodio_Hats off for Venice


Rhodio
Rhôd in Welsh means specifically a waterwheel; it also describes the wheel of the heavens and the wheel of fortune that promises only change. It is the name of an annual exhibition held at Drefelin SA44 5XB in a sixteenth century water mill and its grounds. By extension the word Rhodio means to travel and this show is in the orbit of SA44. It carries the ethos of Rhôd beyond the borders of Wales widening the dialogue between the rural and the urban, the periphery and the centre. Rhôd is a rural laboratory for the development of new strains of contemporary art practice, the recoding of the DNA of landscape theory and the deconstruction of the Sublime and the Romantic.

The rural setting and ethos of site specific work shown in Pavilion SA44 5XB invites the viewer to see this show in the context of current trends in food production and the slow food movement that informs the menu in the restaurant itself. We see ourselves exhibiting in an international farmers market.

Artists with their roots in rural communities and city born artists, both with a real engagement in contemporary life, continue to create new ways of engaging in the dynamic relationship between the city and the country.

Rhôd is run by an artist group with access to an unique open air contemporary art space in a rural setting. Its aims are to:
  • create a dialogue between artists whose practice is based in rural West Wales and artists based in urban settings.
  • specialize in installation art 
  • engage with the local community 
  • encourage performance and time-based media. 
  • encourage artists to respond directly to the site: its environs, history, communities, its cultural and linguistic heritage
  • attract national [UK] and international participation through a programme of symposiums, residencies and exchanges 

Monday 2 May 2011

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Pavilion 4AA 5XB Padiglione a/at Pane Vino e San Daniele
Campo dell'Angelo Raffaele, Dorsoduro, 1722 Venezia
30th May  -  6th June     
11.00 - 20.30

Michael Cousin                                            Ann Jordan
Kathryn Campbell Dodd                             Mike Murray
good cop bad cop                                      Jason Pinder
Kim Fielding                                                David Shepherd
Richard Higlett                                            Elizabeth Waterhouse
Penny Jones                                               Jacob Whittaker
curated by                                                                           presented by
Roger Lougher                                            Mari Beynon Owen

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    Mike Cousin




    Mari Beynon Owen


    good cop bad cop



    Richard Higlett



    Ann Jordan




    Kathryn Campbell Dodd



    Penny Jones




    Jason Pinder


    Jacob Whitaker




    Kim Fielding




    MIke Murray




    Dave Shepherd, Elizabeth Waterhouse, Mike Murray



    Roger Lougher









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    Michael CousinCousin is a moving image artist based in Wales, UK. He is currently a recipient of a Creative Wales Ambassador Award. He is the Founder and curator of Outcasting an online moving image gallery and is currently Freelance Curator at g39 in Cardiff. His work is entirely 'found' which is probably a nicer word than stolen.

    Kathryn Campbell Dodd is interested in the projection of identity from people to their possessions and their spaces: the idea of the 'ghost' . Campbell Dodd tries to find and express the essential poetry of this

    relationship. She uses fabric and threads to wrap and cover domestic objects, drawing attention to their personal and cultural significance. In the process, they become useless; obsolete as functional objects and begin to exist as symbols of themselves.


    Kim Fielding is...'Dark Red & Sticky'
    His work invites us into a dark and dreamlike world. A world inhabited by writhing figures strapped in endless cycles of constrained movement as if in purgatory.Such images are redolent of nightmare, horror, states of madness or intoxication confronting us with the filth of living, of being human, hence revealing that vast pre-amble ...the human condition ...in all its recesses.... his still imagery retaining a Baconesque melange


    good cop bad cop

    "Chwarter Call -

    An evesdropping on one side of a conversation between an unknown other from elsewhere, and his inaudible partner, about the here and now.

    As part of good cop bad cop’s ‘Croeso I Gymry/u Fwyaf!’ project, Chwarter Call appropriates the welsh notion of ‘Y filltir sgwar’ and relocates it to an alien culture, as the Flaneur attempts to interpret his technologically bounded environment to the best of his limited abilities, in limited time.

    Working with the complex relationships between the artist, art and the environments of its production and presentation, Chwarter Call provides an intimate encounter with process-based performance."

    Croeso I Gymry/u Fwyaf!' is a Chapter commission supported by Stiwdio Safle and Culture Colony.

    Richard Higlett's practice centers around actions and projects that could be considered acts of folly. A fragmentation of a process involving gestures that appear absurd. He also makes works that he describes as 'non- visual' in that they do not demand to be seen and are physically elusive in the gallery. 

    For Rhodio he has responded to a picture in the restaurant, a simple image of the Grand Canal. He has recreated an alternative view of the scene as if a frogman was observing and drawing the scene from under the water, while highlighting the folly of the Biennale in that as more artists exhibit, the more Venice sinks into the lagoon.

    Higlett's other current projects include: the Wally French Archive, where he makes works as a fictional outsider artist; collaborative film works with the writer Leona Jones and the creation of 'The Mobile Sonic', a car converted into a platform for sound art.

    Higlett has exhibited widely internationally and also works as a curator and is the co-founder of Mermaid and Monster an artist-led project representing contemporary artists.


    Penny Jones works in different media and approaches. She responds to situations in the here and now, often taking on impossible tasks. She is particularly interested in the degradation of the environment and in challenging the ridiculousness of patriarchal society. Living in rural Wales, she is acutely aware of its inaccessibility. Her practice involves the notion of the journey. Penny spends time walking and using public transport, frequently carrying large objects with her. Her practice draws you into the artist’s world and focuses you on the struggle at hand.

    The works express her striving and succeeding, whatever that may mean.


    Ann Jordan is based in Swansea, Wales. She is currently exploring site-specific art with a performative element. Her work references historical and contemporary culture. The chosen materials are integral to the development of each work and the ideas behind it. She deconstructs and then reconstructs the many resulting textures and layered ideas to create a relationship between the domestic, private space and the public siting of the object / performance. In this way she generates a dialogue, which engenders a cultural aesthetic and becomes a vehicle for social encounter.


    Mike Murray The triptych assemblage includes the following:
    dock leaves (= a soother from the sting of a nettle) + newspaper (= publication of current events)
    + formica (= composite laminate) + study of the workings of the eye (= the first point of contact of the visual perception of the world; the bridge between the world and the self, the transitional point) + Twine (= a binding agent).
    Equals - a personal analysis of the way I view the world in order to self improve, a difficult thing to do in a pressurised capitalist society (unless you're in the higher realms).

    Jason Pinder's sculptural interventions and process-driven installations are concerned, primarily, with the physical act of doing and of making.

    Visually blunt and straightforward, Pinder works are clothed in an appearance of ‘it-is-what-it-is-ness’. Often requiring substantial amounts of base physical exertion, from sanding to stacking, the poetry in these pieces arises from the essential pointlessness of the labour that goes into them.

    Since graduating in Fine Art from Cardiff School of Art & Design in 2008, Pinder has exhibited across England and Wales. He is a founding member of the British Racing Green collective, a UK-wide organization comprising artists, writers, photgraphers and designers, dedicated to facilitating collaborative projects and events.


    David Shepherd's installations are part of a continuum of works that have spanned the last twenty years or so. They take on different aspects and appearances as they inhabit random and specific locations for short and long periods of time.

    They are by their nature, temporary and raw and are likely to change configuration as they weather, shift, deteriorate and undergo repair or refurbishment. New elements may be introduced to the work as time and opportunity afford. For any duration that materials and objects remain in a location they carry some memory of a previous assemblage.

    Part of the “ job specific ” nature of the build process is to maintain an element of labour and anxiety within the body of the work.

    Elizabeth Waterhouse's work ranges from site-specific installation and collaborative projects to fastidiously biro-drawn tangles of birds. It centres mainly on the curious and the playful – drawing and tempting the viewer in with subtle hints that there may be more to see if they look a little further.

    Currently studying for a Masters in Arts and Health at Glamorgan University, Elizabeth hopes to engage her art practice with community-based projects working closely with adults with learning disabilities to not only make art more accessible to them but a sustainable part of their environment.

    Jacob Whittaker's work explores themes of nostalgia and memory using found objects and consumer equipment. Performances embrace the restrictions and idiosyncrasies of broken machines and degraded media, and explore ‘failure’ as a compositional device, challenging ideas of aesthetic value.
    Repetition is fundamental, as are notions of process, duration and the creation of generative and evolving systems. Within installations and performances, and via the use of new media, web casting, and social networking as methods of distribution and exhibition, the work facilitates interactivity and participation both locally and globally, offering up experiences of the creative act as a collective event.

    Mike Murray, David Shepherd, Elizabeth Waterhouse: The rusted and brittle remains of a reclaimed oil drum incinerator are now embedded in the mud bank of Cardiff Bay Marina; originally installed in 1994 on a piece of wasteland called ‘Cogan’s spur’ by David Shepherd. The abandoned work was rediscovered in October 2010 when the artist, accompanied by artists Mike Murray and Elizabeth Waterhouse revisited the site as on-going research for a future publication.

    After the unexpected discovery was made 17 years on, the decision was made collaboratively to attempt an excavation of the remains in an archaeological dig. The artwork will be re-presented as a future exhibit.

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    Michael Cousin
    116 Paget Street, Grangetown, Cardiff. Wales. UK. CF11 7LA
    T:+44 (0) 29 20258747 M:+44 (0) 7852133772

    Kathryn Campbell Dodd

    Kim Fielding
    tactileBOSCH Studios, Andrews Rd, Cardiff CF14 2JP in the UK
    T: +44 [0]7951 256255 / +44 [0]2920 384959
    kim@tactilebosch.org
    www.fingerbuffet.co.uk 

    Richard Higlett

    Penny Jones
    6 King Street, Trefdraeth, Sir Benfro, Wales. UK. SA42 0PY
    T: +44 07789 622420

    Ann Jordan
    T: +44 (0) 7743699861

    Roger Lougher
    T: +44 (0) 7790914118

    Richard Huw Morgan
    T:+44 (0) 7947387446

    Mike Murray
    T:+44 (0) 7985670627

    Mari Beynon Owen
    T:+44 (0) 7855370642

    Jason Pinder

    David Shepherd
    25 Oakfield Street, Roath, Cardiff, UK. CF24 3RD
    T +44 [0] 29 2025 7784
    M 07989060027


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    Restorante
    Pane Vino e San Daniele

    Tel +39 041 5237456


    Friday 25 March 2011

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    These are links to the blogs for the previous two shows at Rhôd and the videos on Culture Colony / Y Wladfa Newydd


    Rhôd 2011  
    http://therhod.wordpress.com


    Rhôd 2011 is open from 11th June - 18th June (preview Saturday 11th June 2.00p;m)



    Links to the Biennale


    http://venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/common


    Tim Davies
    Ludoteca Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, Castello 450
    from June 4 to November 27
    Tim Davies, curated by Tom Rowland, presents new and recent work. This multi-media installation includes three-dimensional pieces, works on paper and performative site-responsive videos. The various media cohere through their common exploration of built structures and socio-political themes.
    Organization:Arts Council of Wales
    www.artswales.org.uk - www.artscouncilofwales.org/artsinwales/venice


    Links to other coincidental events in Venice

    ArtSway New Forest Pavilion. Gayle Chong Kwan, Dave Lewis, Hew Locke, Mike Marshall, Christopher Orr, Sophy RickettCurators: Mark Segal and Peter Bonnell: http://www.artsway.org.uk

    Quaffers Pavilion: Afternoon Tea: Works on Paper

    50 Artists including: Boa Swindler, Chiara Williams, Jarik Jongman, Enzo Marra, Sadie Hennessy, Sardine & Tobleroni, Eva Lis, Siobhan Barr, Kate Davis, Oona Grimes, Susie Hamilton, Liane Lang.
    Curators: Sophie Wilson, Chiara Williams, Debra Wilson: 
    http://www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com

    Burials 

    Polly Morgan: http://www.workshopvenice.com

    100 Billion Suns 

    Katie Patterson: http://www.anothermag.com

    One of a Thousand Ways to Defeat Entropy 

    Alexander Ponomarev, Hans Op de Beeck, Adrian Ghenie, Ryoichi Kurokawa. 
    Curators: Alexander Ponomarev, Nadim Samman: http://www.defeat-entropy.com

    The Knowledge 

    Shih Chieh Huang, Tim Brennan, Mat Chivers, Conrad Shawcross, Chiharu Shiota.
    Curator: James Putnam: 
    http://www.jamesputnam.org.uk

    Soundings 

    Terry Smith, William Furlong (exhibition), Mel Gooding and
    Maria Morganti (readings) and associated events listed below,
    Curators: workinprogress: http://www.workinprogressuk.com
     
    http://www.dlwp.com

    Invasive Alien Species 

    Karen Ay, Vanya Balogh, Tracey Bush, Cedric Christie, Manuel Kaempfer, Helene Kazan, Forge & Cutter, Toni Parpan, Danny Pockets, Liz Sheridan, Steve Smith, Karen Winzer.
    Curator: Liz Sheridan: http://invasivealienspecies.wordpress.com

    Penelope’s Labour - Weaving Words and Images 

    Works from the collection of Fondazione Giorgio Cini with contemporary works by Azra Aksamija, Lara Baladi, Alighiero Boetti, Manuel Franquelo, Carlos Garaicoa, Craigie Horsfield, Grayson Perry, Simon Peers and Nick Godley, Marc Quinn.
    Curators: Adam Lowe and Professor Jerry Brotton:http://www.cini.it


    Real Venice 

    Lynne Cohen, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Antonio Girbés, Nan Goldin, Pierre Gonnord, Dionisio Gonzalez, Candida Höfer, Tiina Itkonen, Mimmo Jodice, Tim Parchikov, Matthias Schaller, Jules Spinatsch, Robert Walker and Hiroshi Watanabe.
    Curator: Elena Foster: http://www.veniceinperil.com


    Venice Agendas - workinprogress in collaboration with Artquest, Audio Arts, De La Warr Pavilion, Q-Art London and AICAUK

    Three mornings of lively discussion and critical debate to accompany the exhibition Soundings.
    Breakfast 09.30–10:00 followed by discussions from 10:00–11.30
    Location: St. George’s Anglican Church Venice, Campo S. Vio.

    Wednesday 1 June: The Artist as Critic Contact: mallthorpeguyton@hotmail.com
    Thursday 2 June: National Assets: peripatetic global cultures Contact: r.d.martin@arts.ac.uk
    Friday 3 June: Hidden Agendas: Global Art Education and the Biennale Aesthetic Contact: director@q-artlondon.com
    Friday 3 June 17:00: Readings by Mel Gooding and Maria MorgantiLocation as above. Contact: helen@experimentalartschool.com