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selection of images from The Soft Landscape exhibition event last month. Photography by Joe Plommer

Sadly, our residency at North West Cambridge has come to an end. We have re-located to a new studio-based project, elan, over at CB1 near the train station in Cambridge. However, we are continuing to explore new contexts for The Soft Landscape to be presented to an audience and with a particular focus on publishing the book we had produced as part of our residency outcome. We will continue to use this blog as a way of sharing the progress.

There are some great photos of GRAVEL: notes from the other side of the fence up on the North West Cambridge Art Programme website

http://www.nwcambridgeart.com/events/calendar/gravel-notes-other-side-fence/gravel-notes-other-side-fence/

and photos of the book on Apropos website

http://www.apropos-site.com/2015/05/31/the-soft-landscape-2/

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All things studio: individual, collective, critical, reflective.

Great a-n blog post by Nicola Naismith about ESP at Aid & Abet

We are busy installing the final elements to our end of residency exhibition. Today we erect the heras fencing and black tarpaulin in the outdoor studio to create a backdrop for some film and sculptural assemblages

#studio event

installation begins this week:

book signed off and at printers

hiring heras fencing + tarpaulin and monitors

framing drawings and enlarging photos

temporary shelving for research books

#studio

In the distance

Faint light

Shimmers

Fragments of life

Turned on.

#poem

just received the fantastic first draft of Edward Shepherds essay, The Constant Factor, for our catalogue, which creatively documents the residency process over the last year. Over the next week we will be editing the content from over a long list of 400 images into a more concise record of our time.

#catalogue

starting to sort through drawings in the studio

#drawing

“Material process is a thought process, not a product, let alone a finished product. Conversely, thought is manifested as material. Thinking occurs through things where material things are a necessary condition of thought. This suggests that we do not think about things so much as through things”.

The Scatter: Sculpture as Leftover, Briony Fer

Starting to consider how to bring all the content we have generated over the past year into a public event for the end of residency outcome. I like how Gabriel Orozco uses tables as “platforms for an action” - small landscapes of things, experiments with materials, collections of stuff. All with a potential to become something through imagination.

We were on Dartmoor, Brent Fore Hill at Ball Gate to be exact. The date was the 29th July, 1971, though there was little evidence of summer to be heard in the howling wind. During the same year I w...

‘a feeling for nature’

“I felt the great power that certain places, certain sights exercised over me, without discovering the principle of this enchantment. Some everyday objects unquestionably contained for me a part of that mystery, plunged me into that mystery.....The way I saw it, an object became transfigured: it took on neither the allegorical aspect nor the character of the symbol, it did not so much manifest an idea as constitute that very idea. Thus it extended deeply into the world’s mass....”

Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant, trnsl. with an introduction by Simon Watson Taylor (London: Picador, 1980), pp. 128, 130

#research

Documentation from last nights collaborative live performance event with The Mckenzie Break and film-maker Rob Hill

#performance #sound #music #event #sculpture

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SARAH HUGHES AND DAVID STENT: OBJECTS OF CONJECTURE

Exhibition launch event: Thursday 5thMarch, 5 – 8pm; music performance 6.30pm

Free drawing session: Monday 9th March,10am – 12noon

Discussion: Sarah Hughes and David Stent in conversation with Nat Goodden, Tuesday 17th March, 4.30...

"Myth has been defined as the gap between an object and our understanding of it. Such a gap is evident as we recall the experience of regenerating lost memories through an object that we have rediscovered. Joyful or sad these evoked memories reconnect us to the place or event. These memories are not a total recall of place or event but are edited remembering. Such an editing of memory constructs our personal myths. For this reason alone these objects have a value beyond monetary cost".

John Newling: Extract from Cathedral Page 157

#research

Personal Landmarks 2015

"conspicuous object(s) in a Landscape"

local symbols

casual navigation

micro monuments

(un)familiar environment

(un)chartered territory

natural or man-made

#object #performance

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