Spiral Festival 2010: Art / Festival / Activities
Saturday 28 – Sunday 29 August 2010
Camden Arts Centre is delighted to present Spiral, its free annual summer festival taking over the studios, garden and café for the bank holiday weekend in August – open to families and visitors of all ages.
Visitors can build their own monumental sculpture from artist Serena Korda’s deceptive, unlikely objects and in doing so help her create a new ritualised dance to be performed at the Festival. Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa will work with a choreographer to develop a new dance class where visitors can learn to dance like a stadium rock stars such as the lead singers of Coldplay, Iron Maiden and The Who. Fresh from the success of their tour to the Copenhagen Climate Conference, The Gluts will invite visitors to join them on their film set in their studio and help them shoot a viral music video. Using a variety of costumes, scenarios and locations for their production the films will be premiered at the Spiral Festival 2010.
The festival will present creative, entertaining, and engaging artists’ projects, workshops and performances featuring work from this year’s Spiral residency artists. Activities and performances will run throughout the weekend with timed events linked to the residency projects, and activities taking inspiration from the current Camden Arts Centre exhibitions by Jim Hodges and Breda Beban.
The Spiral Residencies celebrate 20 years of the residency Programme at Camden Arts Centre. Serena Korda, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa and Hayley Newman and The Gluts have been selected from the Centre’s past programme have each been invited to the Artists’ Studio for a week to develop a new, collaborative piece of work which will culminate in the Spiral Festival 2010. Visitors are invited to take part in the development of their projects, through participating in sculptural constructions, dance rehearsals, the production of viral music videos and a series of open studio days.
The residency programme sits at the very heart of all that Camden Arts Centre does. Since the scheme’s inception in 1990 more than 80 artists from across the world have occupied the Artists' Studio, taking time to think, realise new ideas, tackle different disciplines and create new work. Their presence adds vitality and creativity to the whole programme and has resulted in some
remarkable projects.
Workshops at the festival include sculpture with Viyki Turnbull in the Ceramics Studio, where families can combine clay with various materials to create unfired experiments to take home. In the Drawing Studio, families can drop in to work with Matthew Krishanu using the Camden Arts Centre’s garden as a starting point for drawing and printing activities. All workshops are free.
Spiral Festival 2010
Saturday 28 August – Sunday 29 August 2010, 12.00 – 5.00pm. Admission free
Camden Arts Centre
Camden Arts Centre is a venue for contemporary visual art and education, where ideas are made visible and people of all ages and abilities can engage in the creative process of making art. Camden Arts Centre’s pioneering and varied programme of artist-led courses and other education activities has gained an international reputation as a model of good practice. It is known as a forward-thinking organisation where artists and others can see, make and talk about art.
Serena Korda: DECOSA Traditional, Stockholm Keifer/pin
Tuesday 03 – Sunday 08 August 2010
Korda’s project interweaves connections between sculpture, performance, ritual and the absurd. Throughout her residency, the studio will be filled with large, yet deceptively light sculptural objects which visitors will be invited to use to build their own monumental sculptures. Korda will record these processes and actions during the week, using this footage she will be working with professional dancers to develop a ritualised dance to be performed during the Spiral 2010 festival weekend. Open Studio: 2.00 – 4.00pm daily
Serena Korda
Serena Korda previously contributed to Camden Arts Centre’s programme with her work as part of walkwalkwalk in ‘Space in Architecture’, a series of events in response to the Archipenture exhibition and in ‘Did you know for instance?’ a collection of new performances accompanying the Wallace Berman and Allen Ruppersberg exhibitions.
Serena Korda’s work is impelled by a detective-like enquiry of forgotten histories. Since 2004, she has been making public works that engage with communities. Audiences participate in an event or performance that intervenes in the conventions of more accepted institutions such as a library, a lecture theatre, a puppet theatre, pub, social-club or tattoo parlour. She is drawn to restructuring the order and importance of social histories, highlighting the left-out or abandoned bits. Through performance, print and film, she works these stories back into the fabric of the everyday, telling them through the magic of the makeshift and handmade. Serena Korda’s The Library of Secrets was made for the Whitstable Biennale 2008 and subsequently shown at the New Art Gallery Walsall and Camden Arts Centre during her residency in 2009. Korda was awarded the 2009 Deutsche Bank Award for her Royal College of Art MA show. In March 2010, she performed in GO PUBLIC, an initiative at Tate Britain. Her contribution was based around a series of talks and discussions inspired by Luke Howard, the Namer of Clouds. Also in 2010, she undertakes a residency at Villa Paula, Klenova in the Czech Republic, as a recipient of the Start Point Prize. This was awarded by Galerie Klatovy for her multimedia installation Building the Matterhorn.
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa: Instrumental Break
Tuesday 10 – Sunday 15 August 2010
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa previously developed a new work for Camden Arts Centre as part of ‘For One Night Only’, an evening of performances organised in collaboration with Sonia Boyce to accompany the Kerry James Marshall exhibition. Wolukau-Wanambwa has been collecting footage of rock’s mega stars – Chris Martin from Coldplay, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden and Roger Daltrey of The Who – to see how these men perform while other members of the band take centre stage. Using this fragmented, fleeting and often unofficial documentation as her starting point, Wolukau-Wanambwa will work with a choreographer over the week to develop a dance class teaching participants to dance like stadium rock stars do when the audience is looking the other way. Open Studio: 3.00 – 4.30pm daily
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa’s work ranges from installation, sound, and video to performance, printmaking and drawing. In recent work, she has been exploring the ways that beliefs, world views and value-systems are constructed and reproduced. The roles that memory, the historical record, performance and spatial practice play in these processes have been of particular interest. Wolukau-Wanambwa is a graduate of the University of Cambridge (1998) and the Slade School of Fine Art (2008). Her first solo exhibition, A Brush for Robben Island, was presented by Butchers Projects in 2008 at the Rokeby Gallery, London, UK. Recent group exhibitions and screenings include: Whose Map Is It? New Mapping By Artists, Iniva, London, UK (2010), Indirect Speech, Intermediae, Madrid, Spain (2009), Where Is Now?, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, and (2009), Kinomuseum: Seven Guided Tours, 53rd International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany (2007).
Hayley Newman with Andrea Mason and The Gluts: Carbon Café goes viral
Tuesday 17 – Sunday 22 August
Hayley Newman previously presented a collaborative performance work with the Hamilton Yarns. Fresh from the success of their tour to the Copenhagen Climate Conference join The Gluts on their film set and help them shoot a viral music video. Using a variety of costumes, scenarios and locations in their production, the films will be premièred at the Spiral Festival 2010.
Hayley Newman with Andrea Mason and The Gluts
Hayley Newman is Reader in Performance at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Her work includes MKVH (Milton Keynes Vertical Horizontal, 2006) an event in which volunteers were driven around the Milton Keynes road grid until their coach ran out of diesel. In 2009 she formed The Gluts with Kaffe Matthews and Gina Birch and they began work on their musical project Café Carbon (a series of songs about food and climate change). They performed Café Carbon during the Copenhagen climate summit, handing out a menu of songs including starters, main courses, desserts and drinks to the people they met on their trip.
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Tuesday - Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm
Wednesdays late 10.00am – 9.00pm
Closed Mondays
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