Rachel Grant
The Living Room
No.6 East Terrace, Fegg Hayes
Exhibition opens at 11am on Monday 23rd March
Exhibition runs from 10am until 2pm everyday apart from Sundays and will close at 2pm on Saturday 4th April when the door will close for the final time before it’s demolished!
Sarah Nadin/Clare Reynolds
Benches
16th March – artwork on buses for 4 weeks
21/28 March – 4 Spontaneous performances (location TBC)
Chris Twigg
Feel The Feeling
Exhibition opens 11th March and runs until 18th March
Work is displayed at Hanley Library, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, and on billboards around Hanley South.
Sarah Nadin/ Claire Reynolds
A collaborative mission combining dance, photography and digital processes. Created from the thoughts of the people of North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent this project aims to unveil aspects of the area’s contemporary identity. Public response will inspire a contemporary movement piece which will be photographed and displayed in the public realm.
Louise Wood
I believe that Cross Heath may have a particularly high tenant turnover, and I wish to contact past residents of one flat or house, bringing the lives of individuals unknown to each other together. This ceramic response piece will collage together their stories, memories, photos, thoughts, and emotions.
Chris Twigg
I’ve been on a ride: through working in the arts, in the design industry and teaching graphic design at University. Art and design with a social and ethical focus is now my main interest, striving to make a positive change, dealing with issues of real importance.
Claire Barber
I am proposing to respond to Stoke-on-Trent’s bus network. The site of the work would be contained in the bus ticket and the Smart Multi-operator bus ticket. I hope the work may generate an imaginative, personal and poetic reflection that a local bus journey within the Stoke-on-Trent area can provoke.
Rachel Grant
(After quotation by Zygmunt Bauman)
The philosopher and Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman talks here about the natural bonds that traditional communities one had and the way in which external influences have prompted individuals to widen their horizons and question their own identities. Bauman argues that once this questioning has begun the community becomes unnatural and defunct. The result is a disconcerted group of individuals who begin a search for ‘people like us’, or as Bauman describes ‘peg communities’ where they can hang their own experiences together in the hope of rebuilding a sense of community.
My proposal for Place, Space & Identity 2 is to create a location to place the ‘peg’ and opportunities to ‘hang’ individual experiences together.
For those who are new to this blog, welcome to all. We have recently been blogging using a psi2 blog however we have decided to move the content to here. It makes sense to run the psi1 and psi2 blogs in one place.
We are expecting to add content on a regular basis as well as information regarding the commissioned pieces. Please check back on a regular basis.
We will soon be showing a twitter feed on this site and by using the tag #psi2 we aim to capture comments from there, you can also share your views directly through this blog or even contact us, we look forward to a conversation with you.
People involved in that animation – Myself (Rob Pointon) and Karen Sayle (Camera Work and Editing) collectively going under the banner of BIGred Studio. We had James Kelsey, a staffs uni animation student helping us out all week and he did a top job. Please credit him as well – Animation assistant.
Clare and Sarah have now finished the research stage of their project ‘Benches’. After spending four weeks trawling the towns and parks of Stoke-on-Trent to find folks on benches (not easy in January!) they have been warmed by peoples willingness to talk, and be photographed! Clare and Sarah wish to extend their thanks to the many people who took the time to sit and chat with them.
Now Sarah is busying herself compiling all the photographs, testing out different benches and different backgrounds for the final image while Clare is choreographing a movement piece using recordings and stimulus from the research so far. Through this project they have commissioned local producer Paul Rogerson who has followed them about whilst recording sounds from the city to create an exciting original sound score which will accompany the dance piece in some spontaneous performances around the city, watch this space for more details….
The B Arts flickr stream has been updated with some more images from the Place Space and Identity 2 launch. More images to come as well as a little more video so watch this space.
We hope to have guest bloggers from the psi2 programme however we also look forward to comments and guest blogs from others interested in the work bring carried out.
