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| Talk/Performance: Elena Cologni: L'Elastico Posted: 19 Oct 2012 04:05 AM PDT Thursday 15.11.2012 Thursday Scratch Nights Talk/Performance: Elena Cologni: L'Elastico 15 November / 6.30pm / Free This is the conclusive event of a site-specific series of tours of the city, according to its inhabitants' memories in relation to specific locations. These are collected in a box placed in the gallery or they can be sent to the artist by emailing info@rockfluid.com. It is the appropriation of a game Cologni used to play as a child. It is presented to participants as a large elastic string forming a specific shape (a sort of soft sculpture) which will change according to a pattern taken from a series of drawings from the tour(s) in Milton Keynes. The body of work is part of the multidisciplinary approach of the project Rockfluid, where site-specific art practice is underpinned by elements of geography, cognitive psychology and philosophy. The exercise creates the physical and psychological conditions to enhance an awareness of the perception the body in space. Participants will follow instructions, while a camera will record their movements of their body's proximal space. Elena Cologni is studio artist at Wysing Art Centre, Artist in Residence at University of Cambridge, Faculty of Experimental Psychology, and at University of Bedfordshire, School of Art. She studied at Brera Academy of Art, Università Statale in Milan (Italy), University of Leeds, and she has a PhD from Central Saint Martins College, London (1999-2004, Fine Art with Philosophy and Psychology). She was awarded from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for her Post Doctoral project at Central Saint Martins addressing issues of memory and liveness (2004-2006), Research Fellow at York Saint John University (2007-2009) when her work became primarily site specific and participatory. |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2012 08:10 AM PDT Thursday 8.11.2012 Thursday Scratch Nights Performance: Forma 8 November / 6.30pm / Free Forma are a performance art collective who create site-specific performances united by a sensitivity to space, material and trust, offering a site for meditation and contemplation. Their performance at MK Gallery will draw on process, responding to the three gallery spaces and connecting them with separate actions to create a narrative. Objects, actions, and time are integral parts of Forma's work. Forma collective includes artists Emma Dixon, Kimvi Nguyen and Andrea Willette, who all graduated from Winchester School of Art in 2011. |
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