History
The
involvement of the Transvoyeur artists and events, to
the core group or collaboratve, are immensely diverse.
Please select below from the Archives to research the
history of activities:
2007
- Year (4): Independent
Research and Redefinition (National and International)
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to view the history months of events:
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June
2007
Transvoyeur:
Gender, Space, Art and Architecture (Pilot Scheme), Liverpool
and New York Exchange Programme 2007.
Week (2): Awareness
and Expression of Space.
30 June 2007.
The
international artists on the programme Davia Gauryte and
Kofi Fosu between Liverpool (UK) and New York (US) present
their second week of exchange.
They
introduce their practices and philosophies and how the
concept of gender politics in the constructs of space
and architecture inform and shape their art.
They
creatively deliberate the concept of space within gender
construct in terms of their own experience. Further to
the dialogue, Gauryte and Fosu produce a peice of art
to communicate this subject.
This
programme runs for ten weeks. The outcome of the first
weeks discourse can be viewed at:
http://www.transvoyeur.com/transvoyeur_gender_wk002.htm
Further
information on the artists is available at:
Davia
Gauryte:
http://www.transvoyeur.com/transvoyeur_gender_artist_davia_gaurytre.htm
Kofi
Fosu:
http://www.transvoyeur.com/transvoyeur_gender_artist_kofi_fosu.htm
Artists:
Liverpool and New York (Select for artists).
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Gaynor
Evelyn Sweeney
- UK Projects Co-ordinator, Transvoyeur.
- Programme Curator for Gender, Space, Art and Architecture.
E-mail: transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk.
Website: www.transvoyeur.com.
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Mothman
Uncovered at Peter Blake Tate Opening ... Or is he!!!?
Written by Tony Knox.
Photographs by Tony Knox.
25 June 2007.
While at the Peter Blake Tate opening strange things where
afoot. There have been many sightings of the Mothman reported
throughout Britain and internationally. Some of the most
recent at No. 10 Downing Street and the Battersea Power
Station in London. However, I thought I had captured him
at the Tate in Liverpool (England), but as the mask was
revealed it turned out to be Harry Hill!!? Is Harry Hill
the infamous Mothman or is this a charade and the real
creature still otu there to be discovered???
For
more information on my researach of this enigma go to
www.mothman.org.uk.
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Transvoyeur:
Gender, Space, Art and Architecture (Pilot Scheme), Liverpool
and New York Exchange Programme 2007.
Week (1): Introduction of Artists.
25 June 2007.
The
international artists on the programme Davia Gauryte and
Kofi Fosu between Liverpool (UK) and New York (US) present
their first weeks exchange.
They
introduce their practices and philosophies and how the
concept of gender politics in the constructs of space
and architecture inform and shape their art.
This
programme runs for ten weeks. The outcome of the first
weeks discourse can be viewed at:
http://www.transvoyeur.com/transvoyeur_gender_wk001.htm
Further
information on the artists is available at:
Davia
Gauryte:
http://www.transvoyeur.com/transvoyeur_gender_artist_davia_gaurytre.htm
Kofi
Fosu:
http://www.transvoyeur.com/transvoyeur_gender_artist_kofi_fosu.htm
Artists:
Liverpool and New York (Select for artists).
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Gaynor
Evelyn Sweeney
- UK Projects Co-ordinator, Transvoyeur.
- Programme Curator for Gender, Space, Art and Architecture.
E-mail: transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk.
Website: www.transvoyeur.com.
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Review
... Work in Progress Exhibition at South Bohemia Gallery,
Liverpool, England.
South Bohemia Art Gallery, 196 Smithdown Road Liverpool,
L15 5JT, England.
Written by June Rose Hobson.
21 June 2007.
The
MA by Creative Practice Interim Show had a busy turn-out.
I had chance to speak to curators Jo Derbyshire and Natalie
Bennett before the opening. The Gallery itself was transformed,
instead of being the usual café bar setting, the
tables were all removed and it looked more like a traditional
gallery setting. Bennett was showing her pre show nerves
whilst hanging the work, Derbyshire was complaining that
the gallery needed painting; I interpreted that as nerves
too. However, by 3pm the show seemed to be coming together
nicely.
The
title ‘was aimed to present a show in an incomplete
state’ and give the viewer ‘an idea of what
work the MA student is involved in’. I was glad
to have the opportunity to view the work before we opened
the door for the private viewing. When it did open the
venue soon became packed out, and within the first hour
of the door opening three offers were made to buy work
from the MA students – Gauryte’s, Bennett’s
and Derbyshire’s.
Daiva
Gauryte was born in Lithuania and moved to the UK to study.
Her work consists of graphite pencil and pen drawings.
Recently she had work purchased by the View Two Gallery,
during a Charity Auction co-ordinated by Transvoyeur –
the Liverpool and New York based art collective.
Bennett’s
work is influenced by ‘outsider art’ and has
a raw feeling to it, as are elements of Derbyshire’s.
However, there is evidence of the city influence, the
Urban, and the spectacle of Performance in the latter’s
work. It is interesting that both curators have similar
influences and they instigated the interim exhibition
for their MA class. Both artist also sold work at the
same auction as Gauryte, so perhaps these are local faces
to watch on the art scene.
I
was interested to witness the enthusiasm with which both
Bennett and Derbyshire spoke of their plans to ‘turn
around’ the South Bohemia Art Gallery, and to this
end have been asked by Peter Worthington, Director of
the Gallery, alongside Laura Baxter - another Hope University
student and Michelle Campbell, to curate the space. As
Derbyshire explained “ Peter [Worthington] has always
run the gallery as a Salon style place, I never thought
this really worked well so we are going to divide the
café and the middle room into two exhibiting areas”.
As Bennett explained “the front will be the main
rotating exhibiting area” the middle room will continue
to run as a salon.
Laura
Baxter’s work is interesting, as a Drama Graduate,
her influences are clearly visible. Baxter has created
a scale model of a series of rooms. Her motivations are
things hidden, things not said, and things not admitted
to. Each room portraying a different scene of what goes
on behind closed doors, her main piece is a black box
with a keyhole and relates to domestic violence, which
society accepts as silently going on behind closed doors.
On meeting Derbyshire, Baxter has become more involved
in Performance and Visual Art, after performing with her
during Liverpool Biennial Independents in 2006. Elements
of her art and drama are combined here to give the insight
in to this.
Moving
on the two film makers and media graduates in the group,
Amanda Jones and Emma Gilmour, who work collaboratively,
have produced images, and given a written insight into
their current work. This is interesting, but would have
been a better presentation if larger images had been used.
This would perhaps have portrayed their work in a different,
clearer light. In comparison, Sarah Lawton’s work
generated via computer and from a live link up to Lawton
who was at the time on an Iron Symposium in Salem, New
York USA, was more powerful. Although there were some
technical hitches with the link to start with, it nevertheless
was an innovative and interesting entry.
Maria
Bennett’s textile work in black and white relies
on memories and secrets. Written prose on the textile
sculptures gives a dreamy reference to memory and the
past. Sarah Cox shows different coloured dyes in her work
and has used an index of colours made from the many different
dyes, which is aesthetically pleasing, and stands out
in contrast to the black and white of Gauryte’s,
and Maria Bennett’s work.
Dave
Woods work is heavily influenced by Rothko, and his piece,
on Perspex and is an interesting idea. It works as an
example of colours floating. This may have been better
with a bolder choice of colour. Andy smalls exhibits were
again, interesting, and have a lot of merit, and the images
presented were very good, and of a high standard, if a
little on the small side. Interestingly, there was no
reference to his sculpture work.
The curators did have a difficult space to work with,
and have presented the exhibition well, whether it remains
that way in the café environment is another story.
Overall
a very good interim show, and a good turn out for the
opening. This is a testament to the effort put in by the
group. They had a bigger turnout than most end of year
shows, and I suspect that this is a good indication for
all of the artists involved in the exhibition, of how
their end of year show in 2008 might turn out.
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Announcement
of International Artists for Gender,
Space, Art and Architecture (Pilot Scheme), Daiva
Gauryte and Kofi Fosu.
Liverpool and New York Exchange Programme 2007.
Programme Curator, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
21 June 2007.
The
two international artists selected for the 'Gender,
Space, Art and Architecture (Pilot Scheme)' are Daiva
Gauryte and Kofi Fosu.
Gauryte
is originally from Lithuania and currently studying her
postgraduate at Liverpool Hope University. She is a visual
artist and explores the cultural dialogue of time, space
and architecture in abstract expression. Fosu is a writer
and artist renowned for his critiques on the role of artist
and muse to delineate gender, ethnic and sexual politics
in post modern society.
The
two artists over the next ten weeks will exchange dialogue
and shared artistic insight on an online collaborative
and curatorial resarch project of art and the urban environment.
The themes are set around gender, space, art and architecture
and commences 25 June 2007.
The
programme is conceived and curated by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
and explores the issues of gender in the concept of art
and architecture. To analyse the theoretical and multi-disciplinary
approaches of gender in relation to particular architectural
sites, ideas and projects of how space is defined by gender
practices, power and vision, masculinity and femininity
and different parameters of spatiality, including cyberspace,
as well as the physical world of various architecture
and the human body.
The
exchange and dialogue will be via emailed and these communications
published onto www.transvoyeur.com
and associate web platforms.
The
final stage of this project will be to exhibit the outcomes
of this in a gallery context.
Artists:
Liverpool and New York (Select for artists).
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Gaynor
Evelyn Sweeney
- UK Projects Co-ordinator, Transvoyeur.
- Programme Curator for Gender, Space, Art and Architecture.
E-mail: transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk.
Website: www.transvoyeur.com.
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New
Website for Transvoyeur
21
June 2007
Transvoyeur
comes under a new website:
www.transvoyeur.com
Update
your records for Transvoyeur ...
E-mail:
transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk.
Website: www.transvoyeur.com.
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Transvoyeur
Recommendations ...
'Dollman's Not for ... Youth Club', The Liffey, Renshaw
Street, Liverpool, England, 19th June 2007.
An independent Production and Concept by Gary Sollars.
Tuesday 19th June
2007.
7.00 pm - 11.00 pm (ish).
The Liffey, Renshaw
Street, Liverpool, England.
Admission Free.
For
more information email Gary Sollars at dollmandisco@hotmail.com.
www.garysollars.co.uk
Supported by the
Liverpool Culture Company.
Graphic
Design by Sean Kenny at seankennygraphics@hotmail.co.uk.
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Transvoyeur
Artist Rob Davies in Exhibition 'Variations’ with
Paul Romero.
18 June 2007.
'VARIATIONS'
Work
by Robert D. Davies and Paul Romano.
Saturday
30th June 2007.
4.00 pm - 9.30 pm.
3rd Floor Studio, Jerome Buildings, 61 Victoria Street,
Liverpool.
(opposite Millenium House).
Exhibition viewing after this date available on request
only. Contact 07899 753 509 for further information.
Paul
Romano
Robert
D. Davies
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Transvoyeur
Celebrate the Fifth 20/08 Day
Complimentary
Limited Edition Artist Postcard Collection
To
celebrate the Fifth 20/08 Day, Transvoyeur are offering
free to the first 25 email submissions a collection of
limited edition postcards that depict contemporary art.
To
receive this limited edition postcard series please email
Transvoyeur with your name and postal details on Monday
20 August 2007 between 9.00 am and 4.00 pm. We will then
despatch out a complimentary set to you:
e:
transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk
w: www.transvoyeur.com
Transvoyeur
is an international exchange group in contemporary arts
and culture.
Liverpool
Culture Company: www.liverpool08.com
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New
Flickr Account Set Up for Transvoyeur Image Database.
17
June 2007.
A
new Flickr account has been set up to hold the images
of Transvoyeur events and artists from the diverse international
projects. This information will be accessible to all artists
in Transvoyeur for their work and participation to affiliate
projects. The images though will be copy right of the
respective artists and Transvoyeur and not for reproduction
without prior consent. The images on Flickr will provide
a database archive of the visual imagery collated.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/transvoyeuruk
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Transvoyeur
New York Artists Depart for Independent Practice and New
Projects.
17
June 2007.
PJ
Cobbs
www.pjcobbsarts.com
PJ
Cobbs, a Journalist and Fine Artist, moves onto an array
of international private and public commissions. She has
worked globally in her Fine Art practice of beautiful
portraits delicately painted onto silks and mixed media,
as well as affiliated to the Fashion industry in her diverse
professional activities from arts to writings.
Raphaele
Shirley
www.raphaeleshirley.com
Raphaele
Shirley leaves Transvoyeur to focus on her independent
practice. She is an accomplished artist in a range of
media from paintings, light installations and interactive
digital media in assosiation with PAM (Perpetual Art Machine).
She currently prepares for new and international projects.
Transvoyeur
wish the two artists from New York well in their future
projects.
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Call
for Digital Video Submissions.
'Laissez-Faire, Creative Destruction, Disruptive Technology'.
Transvoyeur Interntational DV Platform 2007.
12 June 2007.
The
Transvoyeur International DV 2007 is an international
digital video platform and will screen new media in Liverpool
(UK), London (UK), New York (US), Cologne (Germany) and
BBC Big Screen (UK). The title and theme is 'Laissez-Faire,
Creative Destruction, Disruptive Technology'.
Co-curated
by Chris Boyd and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney with associate
technical support by Tony Knox.
A
digital video screening is being prepared to run from
Autumn this year in:
Liverpool
(UK).
London (UK).
New York (US).
Cologne (Germany).
BBC Big Screen (Liverpool, UK).
Venues
to be confirmed and announced with to further to be added.
If
you wish to submit to this programme please email the
following information to Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney (UK Projects
Co-ordinator) at transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk.
-
Name.
- Email.
- Website.
- Professional Statement (no more than 250 words).
- Title and summary description of film concept (no more
than 150 words).
- Photographic still of digital video short (72 dpi jpeg).
From
this preliminary submission you will receive the postal
address to send your work.
The
digital video format for submission:
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2 @ DVD (PAL or NTSC, as work willl transfered to compilation
of both formats).
- Running time maximum five minutes.
- Theme and title: 'Laissez-Faire, Creative Destruction,
Disruptive Technology'.
Cut
off Date: 21 June 2007.
Transvoyeur
Artits - Call for Digital Video Submissions.
'Laissez-Faire, Creative Destruction, Disruptive Technology'.
Transvoyeur International DV Platform 2007.
Part
of the Transvoyeur Programme 2007.
Co-Curators
Chris
Boyd
E-mail: boydism@hotmail.com
Website: www.myspace.com/boydism
Mobile: +44(0)7866963061
Gaynor
Evelyn Sweeney
E-mail: ges1967@hotmail.com
Website: www.gaynorevelynsweeney.co.uk
Mobile: +44(0)7944141519
Associate
Technical Support
Tony Knox
E-mail: tonyknox99@hotmail.com
Website: www.tonyknox.org.uk
Mobile: +44(0)7908575211
Transvoyeur
E-mail: transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk
Website: www.transvoyeur.com
Tel. No.: +44(0)151 726 0247
Mobile: +44(0)7944141519
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Gender,
Space, Art and Architecture (Pilot Scheme).
Liverpool and New York Exchange Programme 2007.
Programme Curator, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
12 June 2007.
Two
artists have been selected to participate in the following
pilot scheme of an online collaborative and curatorial
research project of culture and creativity in the context
of art and urban environment. The first theme set is titled
'Gender, Space, Art and Architecture' and forms the pilot
scheme of specific tailored projects set between artists
through Transvoyeur.
This
is a ten week programme and scheduled to commence 25 June
2007. Further updates to follow and artists names announced.
Programme Brief
This programme explores the issues of gender in the concept
of art and architecture. To analyse the theoretical and
multi-disciplinary approaches of gender in relation to
particular architectural sites, ideas and projects of
how space is defined by gender practices, power and vision,
masculinity and femininity and different parameters of
spatiality, including cyberspace, as well as the physical
world of various architecture and the human body.
This project will evolve from the selection and introduction
of two artists in different cities and countries, i.e.,
Liverpool and New York.
The
exchange and dialogue will be via emailed and these communications
published onto www.transvoyeur.com
and associate web platforms.
All notes compiled, dialogue exchanged and art produced
is to be scanned and/or photographed for jpeg format to
be presented on the website.
The final stage of this project will be to exhibit the
outcomes of this in a gallery context.
Through the exchange of the selected artists to this programme,
each are to include in the email transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk.
These communications will periodically each week be published
onto www.transvoyeur.com,
along with attachments of images of art researched.
Schedule
for Programme
Week
(1): Introduction of Artists.
Introduction of each other and independent art practice.
Summarise and explain your influences of gender politics
in your independent practice. How does inform and shape
your practice?
How do you capture, represent and communicate the subject
of gender politics in your work?
Select an art image (reproduction, jpeg) of your work,
which relates to gender and space in an architectural
context.
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art and
email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(2): Awareness and Expression of Space.
Write a descriptive analysis of a space specific to your
gender experience. The purpose, function and rationale
of the delineated space and the restrictions imposed and
experienced.
From this analogy of a chosen space, produce a visual
representation in your independent practice, whether painting,
drawing, etc..
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art and
email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, includingtransvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(3): Exchange of Cultural Perception.
Exchange the images produced on the previous research
project of space to gender experience.
Modify the surface of your co-artists work. On completion,
analyse the changes your have made and explain the reasons
for the transformation, considering the aesthetics of
the composition and your conceptual reasons.
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art and
email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(4): Art, Architecture and Gender.
Write a list of issues you believe relate to your own
experiences of gender in architectural and art practice
and theory.
Exchange your lists and find similarity and differences
in the lists? Divide the comparative lists into three
headings of ‘Feminine’, ‘Masculine’
and ‘Communal’. You will realise the subdivision
by those itemised point that are definitively relative
to either gender and the ones equivalent under the ‘Communal’
heading.
i.e., Feminine, Masculine, Communal.
Refer to the lists compiled and as an influence produce
three sketches in independent practice.
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art and
email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(5): Societal Semiotics and Urban Environment.
In the urban space you live, as a resident and an artist,
find locations that relate to the following terms:
- Social Construction of Gender.
- Domestic Architecture and Femininity.
- Gender, Power and Access in Public Space.
- Patronage and Power in the Public Realm.
- Femininity and Semiotics in Architecture.
- Masculinity and Semiotics in Architecture.
- Spaces of Colonialism/Post-colonialism and Gender.
Write a list of each of these places under the above sub-headings.
Produce a series of studies for each architectural site
your select relative to the above list. These should be
spontaneous studies to capture your immediate experience
of the selected spaces.
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art and
email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(6): Identity and Belonging.
Select a space in the city you are based that you are
most comfortable or frequent.
Create a self-portrait of yourself in this space and capture
in the representation the essence of how this place makes
you feel.
Write a short statement for your reasons to the space
chosen and explain the choice of media and mode of expression.
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art and
email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(7): Review of Concept of Spatiality in Cultural
Exchange.
Write an evaluation of what you have learned and realised
from the exchange with the other artist and the outcomes
of the research explored on the subject of gender, architecture
and art.
Analyse the process of exchange of cyberspace of the net
and write how this has influences the creative process.
From your studies and art produced in the previous weeks,
create one more piece of work, which embodies the concepts
of your environment explored, but how the temporal experience
of exchange has been realised through cyberspace?
(From this exchange of dialogue and examples of art and
email images and text as attachments to the respective
artist, including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(8): Process and Media: Displacement, Space and
Identity/Review and Evaluation by Artists.
Week
(8) is two fold with the final exchange on the subject
of displacement, space and identity explored in the constructs
of process and media. On conclusion of this, they are
to re-address and evaluate their roles in the programme
and produce a review of their experiences and what they
have realised.
Process
and Media: Displacement, Space and Identity.
This final proposition for the artists is posed, as both
have a common factor in the way both are originally from
outside they place they reside. Fosu family heritage is
from Ghana and now in New York (US), while Gauryte is
from Lithuania and currently based in Liverpool (UK).
Through the weeks of the cultural exchange, the artists
have considered themselves as creative practitioners and
residents in the place they live. From cultural tourism,
commodification of art an culture and urban development
each artist are to explore the idea of displacement, economic
stratification, class division, the effects of global
interactions and local resistances, immigration and emigration,
nostalgia and memorials of their own memories and residues
of cultural artifact, how these are communicated (semiotics
and processes by signs, symbols, media, architecture and
technology) and to describe their own feelings of encountering
them.
The artists are investigate their parameters of difference
and similarity in the model and constructs posed and significantly
to that of displacement and how through hybridity new
concepts by experience, transition, fusion and exchange
evolve into modes of thinking and expression.
To write the final consolidation of this and do one image
spontaneously to communicate the subject of displacement
in culture.
Review
and Evaluation by Artists.
On conclusion of the artists collaborative exchange between
Liverpool (UK) and New York (US) they are each to review
and evaluate their involvement. To consider the following:
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Can you please consider what your standpoint was at the
onset?
- What you have realised creatively in your practices
and theoretically in your ideologies? From each other
and the programme?
- What is your overall conclusion to the exchange?
- What do your perceive as the strengths and weaknesses
to the exchange programme?
- What do you think you take away by this experience of
exchange on a set programme?
Select a piece of your colleague’s work and text
that most inspired you and explain why?
(From
this exchange of dialogue and examples of art and email
images and text as attachments to the respective artist,
including transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk).
Week
(9): The Gallery Space: Liverpool and New York/Transvoyeur
Artists Web Portfolio.
The research culminated from the exchange of creative
practice and dialogue by the Liverpool (UK) and New York
(US) artists will be accessible through the combined media
of digital video and Powerpoint, where members of public
can view in the spatiality of a gallery context in Liverpool
and New York and further online at www.transvoyeur.com.
Week
(10): Review and Evaluation by Programme Management.
Review and evaluation of programme by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
(UK Projects Co-ordinator/Curator).
Gaynor
Evelyn Sweeney
- UK Projects Co-ordinator, Transvoyeur.
- Programme Curator for Gender, Space, Art and Architecture.
E-mail: transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk.
Website: www.transvoyeur.com.
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Self
Portrait Series by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
'Digitisation and Self Portraiture (Gene Code Series)'.
12
June 2007.
Portraiture
occupies a central position in the history of Western
art. It has been the most popular genre of painting and
has been crucial to the construction and articulation
of individualism. Despite this, its status within academic
art theory is uncertain and there is no adequate critical
analysis of the subject available. From the Italian Renaissance
to Dutch seventeenth-century portraiture and on to Picasso,
surrealism, Lucian Freud and Cindy Sherman. Each cultural
expression examines portraiture in it the evolving history
and influences by new media and technology.
Digital
media has expanded the possibities of all art forms and
modes of expressions and significantly the way the portrayal
of the human face has developed in recent years. Not only
founded from the traditional precepts of what we observe
of another, but through experimental approaches and creative
mediums.
Digital
technology allows for creative research and new modes
of form to evolve and emerge through the diverse experimentation,
abstraction and transformations experienced. Indeed, the
digital technology has permeated post modern living in
our homes, work places and leisure activities. The analysis
of a familiar face redefined through digital media allows
an understand in the visual on how this technology affects
our lives.
The
characteristic of the news age of digitial imagery are
the combination, distribution and manipulation of information
sources. It is especially revealing in how the genre of
portraiture can be explored. The digital camera, itself
has changed this significantly in contemporary culture.
The
fundemantals of digital imagery is comparable to concepts
of our own genetic structure. Digital images reply on
the fineness of pixels to create and illusion of pictorial
reality, with individual picture elements to form the
overall image. The elemental binary code underlying digital
imagery has its parrellel in human genetic code: bits
of information are stored in the DNA, itself consisting
of binary chemical relationships.
'The nature of human identity – as
translated by artistic representations of the face –
is emerging from this intersection. The mapping of the
human genome has had implications for socio-cultural constructions
of identity, especially for race and hereditary characteristics.
... the human face and its relationship to digitisation,
identity and genetic code. ...
The
parallels between the essential building blocks of portraits
– whether painted marks, halftone dots or digital
picture elements – and the genetic material of human
beings serve as the focus for this paper. Pixels and genes
exist at the micro level, where both go relatively unnoticed
while serving a larger holistic role by contributing to
the representation of people in society. While this representation
of human identity exists individually, as in a portrait
or self-identity, it also expresses itself racially, socially
and culturally, across the human spectrum ...
The notions of a hybrid identity in this discussion come
from several angles. One approach uses emergence theory
to suggest how a single human serves as the macro-manifestation
to his or her own genetic material (comparable to an art
portrait’s construction from discrete marks), but
as the micro-element to society as a whole. Correspondingly,
human ...' (Research
source: http://con.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/11/4/60.pdf).
For
more information on Sweeney go to: www.gaynorevelynsweeney.co.uk
For
project related to Transvoyeur go to: www.transvoyeur.com
Multiple
Birth: Miscarriage of Justice (Self Portrait), 2007.
View
- Rien! (Self Portrait), 2007.
Avoidance
- Defend (Self Portrait), 2007.
Concensus
- Wanting (Self Portrait), 2007.
Imaginations
- Fall and Rise (Self Portrait), 2007.
Contemplation
- Sentience (Self Portrait), 2007.
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George
Lund at South Boheman Gallery, Solo Exhibition and Artist
in Residency Programme.
'Summer
in the City' Solo Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: 6th July 2007 - 18th July 2007.
Opening: Friday 6th July 2007, 7.00 pm.
Including performance by George Lund of the Funkadelic
Chicken, 7.30 pm.
Come
along to the opening to view the solo exhibition of this
extraordinary artist, George Lund, renowned for his exhuberant
art, vivid palette and euphoric abstract compositions.
Witness and experience the idiosyncratic live art of the
Funkadelic Chicken!
Artist in Residence Programme
The artist George Lund will be available to discuss his
art:
Saturday 7th July 2007, 1.00 p, - 4.00pm.
Saturday 14th July 2007, 1.00 pn - 4.00 pm.
Why
not come along during Lund's residency and find out what
inspires him to produce his creative visions. You could
even get a one-and-only Lund portraiture done at a reduced
price.
Curated by Jo Derbyshire.
E-mail:
aprilskies1204@aol.com
Mobile: +44(0)7946353251
The South Bohemia Art Gallery
196 Smithdown Road
Liverpool
Merseyside
L15 5JT
UK
Tel No.: +44(0)151 733 5120
Peter Worthington
(Director/Curator of South Bohemia Art Gallery)
Curators:
Laura Baxter, Natalie Bennett, Michelle Campbell and Jo
Derbyshire.
More information on art of Lund can be viewed at: www.lundart.co.uk
This
is the first in a series of exhibition to follow.
Associated
to:
www.transvoyeur.co.uk
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South
Bohemia - Call for Submissions.
South
Bohemia Art Gallery are looking for artists to show work
at the space.
Artists
should contact Jo Derbyshire in at:
aprilskies1204@aol.com
or 07946353251
South
Bohemia Art Gallery
196 Smithdown Road
Liverpool
L15
Director
Peter Worthington
Curators:
Laura Baxter, Natalie Bennett, Michelle Campbell and Jo
Derbyshire
South
Bohemia Gallery Programme 2007
MA by Creative Practice Interim Exhibition, Liverpool
Hope University MA Students.
Curated by Natalie Bennett and Jo Derbyshire.
1st - 30th June 2007.
George
Lund: Solo Show 'Summer in the City'.
Curated by Jo Derbyshire.
6th July 2007 - 8th August 2007 (Front Gallery)
John
Bridson: Solo Show.
Curated by Jo Derbyshire.
20th July 2007 - 8th August 2007 (Back Gallery).
When the City Speaks: The City is a Stage - Liverpool.
Curated by Jo Derbyshire.
10th August 2007 - 22nd August 2007.
Summer of Love.
Curated by Lis Edgar.
24th August 2007 - 12th September 2007.
Michelle Campbell: Solo Show.
Curated by Laura Baxter.
14th September 2007 - 26th September 2007.
Other
upcoming shows:
When
the City Speaks: The City is a Stage ; London.
Co-curated by Jo Derbyshire and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
Gaby
Malcom: Solo Show.
Natalie
Russell: Solo Show.
Associated
to:
www.transvoyeur.co.uk
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Art,
Liverpool and World Environment Day.
Written
by Lucia Andrea Sweeney.
Photogaphs by Tony Knox.
Art by Tony Knox and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
6 June 2007
Transvoyeur
artists, Tony Knox and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, for the
'World Environment Day' on Monday 5 June 2007 came together
collaboratively in their independent practices to produce
art set on the subjects of this international campaign.
The
objective of the campaign is founded on the current issues
of climate change and how societies actions cause and
can help reverse this. This set three challenges:
What's
the number one thing you are doing to help tackle climate
change?
What one extra thing could you do to help tackle climate
change?
What's stopping you?
Each
of these were looked at in the context of urban space,
significantly Liverpool (England), where the two artists
are based. The city is in a process of regeneration, but
the emphasis has been on the municipal centre and the
surrounding areas still left. One in particular is the
Garden Festival site. still left. It's 20 years since
the International Garden Festival opened in Liverpool
attracting visitors from around the world through the
Summer of 1984.
The
1984 International Garden Festival was the first of its
kind in Britain. Billed as "a five month pageant
of horticultural excellence and spectacular entertainment"
it took place on a site that only two years before had
been derelict. The Festival contained more than sixty
individual gardens, a Festival Hall, public pavilions
and even a miniature railway which toured the site. It
also included a pub, The Britannia and a Pathway of Honour
recognising Liverpool stars including Cilla Black, Ken
dodd, and Nerys Hughes. The
Garden Festival was built on a site in the old south docks
area by the Dingle. Much of the site was derelict and
needed to be cleared of industrial waste before the landascaping
for the festival could commence.
The Garden Festival was one of the first major projects
undertaken by the Merseyside Development Corporation a
body set up to in the wake of the Toxteth riots to regenerate
Liverpool in the early 1980's. The legacy of the Festival
was meant to be a unique riverside parkland gifted to
the city and "available for all to share".
The festival ran from 2 May to 14 October 1984, and highlights
included the arrival of the Tall Ships from 1 - 4 August.
The
Festival site now is a different story. The site has changed
hands several times since 1984. Half of the original festival
grounds have been used for a residential housing development.
The rest of the site, after various incarnations as leisure
and entertainment facilities is currently owned by developers
and lies empty and derelict awaiting development.
the
artists explored the history of the Garden Festival from
its acclaimed onset to it deterioration now. It is an
example how society wastes from something exceptional
to the cultural and commerce of the city to be wasted
and left to decay. In terms of the environment, the number
one thing that this site represented in it inauguration
was the celebration of our natural environment. However,
in contrast the abandonment is cognative to what we should
to resolve this. The final analysis in consideration of
the what has stopped any constructive action happening
is ignorance. Therefore, we have;
-
to celebrate and preserve what we have without undue waste;
- to take responsibility for what we create;
- to avoid apathy and ignorance and promote awareness
on the subject of the environment.
Whether
such is our own immediate place we live or the greater
implications of our actions globally.
A
series of photographic studies were made of the Garden
Festival. From this collection the two artists collaboratively
and mutually selected three, which embodied the current
state of the site and the visual source material to be
explored by the artists. Knox and Sweeney took the three
images and through their independent creative practice
produced a series of art to highlight the subject of environmental
issues, significantly in the area of Liverpool and to
the broader implications of the planet.
Further
information on the subject of climate change and 'World
Environment Day' can be viewed at:
>>
Environment Agency (UK)
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/wed/
>>
Mend of the World
http://www.mendoftheworld.org/
>>
UNEP - World Environment Day
http://www.unep.org/wed/2007/english/
For
inormation on the artists and Transvoyeur go to:
Tony
Knox
>>
www.tonyknox.org.uk
Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
>>
www.gaynorevelynsweeney.co.uk
Transvoyeur
>>
www.transvoyeur.co.uk
Images
for Creative Research
Tony
Knox
"I
have taken the concept of Mothman, an alter ego and one
set on urban myth. As a creature which exists in the forgotten
places, such as the Garden Festival, to become the layer
and sanctuary. Similar to the natural inhabitation of
plants and animals that reside there now, from the onset
of it declines and abandonment, commercial interest has
reduced down this site for property development. The part
which remains is now targeted for redevelopment of luxury
accommodation. Now what was once the pride, as the first
in the world in 1984, the Garden Festival, has been deconstructed
and what remains of the natural wild life is threatened.
In contrast the figure of Mothman personifies the self
indulgences of alter egos and aspirations compelled by
commercial venture, albeit the consequences on the environment".
Gaynor
Evelyn Sweeney
"The
three images were layers in perspective to produce an
artificial and disjointed scene of the Garden Festival.
This technique to convey a sense of depth in the reality
of this environment and significantly with the iconic
Japanese temple, which is now boarded up and covered with
graffiti. However, the displacement of the three images
forming the composition as one landscape is similar to
the dereliction and neglect of this space. There are the
obvious items of trollies and waste which invade the setting.
I have chosen the naked female form, digitally dismembered
and positioned through out the perspective of the composition.
This is two fold. From a form representative of sculpture
in Antiquity, it assumes society’s penchant for
the artefact and the object d’art. Yet, this headless
form is obviously produced from a photographic source
and the subject human, merely reduced down. The humanity
in the flesh is the vulnerability and yet choice of intervention.
This digitally created image is modified further by deteriorating
it equal to the decay we choose not to see, acknowledge
or admit, but exists in the city of Liverpool".
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Mothman
in Cologne ...
Captured
by photographers and rendered by Artist in comic strip
of this mythical creature. For more information on the
enigman of Mothman, go to the Researchers website of Tony
Knox at www.mothman.org.uk
