Lesley Guy & Tom O'Sullivan || Laura Harrington || Petra Szemán
Artworks on this page will become active on 18th May
18-22 MAY 2020
Lesley Guy & Tom O'Sullivan
Laura Harrington
Dolores Hobby
Stephen Hurrel
Islanders
Fritha Jenkins
Rob Smith
Sneha Solanki
Petra Szemán
ArtHouses Inverted will launch on 18th May 2020 and artworks will become available day-by-day through the week, on this webpage. Just click anywhere to start!
ArtHouses is a project in which artists are invited into peoples homes to share their work with audiences. This year ArtHouses is inverted, asking artists to share works with audiences who host them in their homes through the internet.
Inversion requires a renegotiation with the things around us, and a rethinking of relationships with the places where we live, how we communicate with people and how we work. Like many others, artists' economies have been affected, and the networks of our ecologies disrupted - economy and ecology both words that have their eco-roots in the ancient greek word oikos, the home. This inverted version of ArtHouses presents a situation for artists to produce work at a time when we are being asked to stay in our homes and we are recalibrating our ways of working to that.
ArtHouses INVERTED is a project designed and produced by Sophie Buxton and Rob Smith.
Find out more and follow the project on social media @arthouseswb
Artworks on this page will become active on 18th May
Artworks on this page will become active on 19th May
Artworks on this page will become active on 20th May
Artworks on this page will become active on 21st May
Artworks on this page will become active on 22nd May
There will be a live broadcast by Stephen Hurrell at 1pm
Stephen Hurrel
From HERE__to THERE
LIVE Broadcast at 1pm
from HERE __ to THERE was a live, on-screen work that collapsed the space between ‘here’ and ‘there’ by creating an artwork directly on each viewer’s screen.
People were invited to take a screenshot of the screen from their perspective and email it to the artist. Each image was then combined with a photograph of the reverse-perspective of the screen to create an artwork unique to each participant.
Monday 18 May, 12:00 (midday)
Don't Just Do Something, Sit There, Laura Harrington
Each day people were invited to join a contemplative meeting with a landscape through the portal of zoom. Today’s meeting was with the fells above Allenheads facilitated by Alan Smith and Helen Ratcliffe of Allenheads Contemporary Arts
Tuesday 19th May, 18:00
Don't Just Do Something, Sit There
Laura Harrington
Each day people were invited to a contemplative meeting with a landscape through the portal of zoom. Today’s meeting was with a garden in Shoreham, Kent, facilitated by Fiona MacDonald (Feral Practice)
Wednesday 20 May, 12:30
Don't Just Do Something, Sit There
Laura Harrington
Each day people were invited to join a contemplative meeting with a landscape through the portal of zoom. Today’s meeting was with an old brick factory in Cambiano, Italy, facilitated by Andrea Caretto and Raffaela Spagna (Caretto e Spagna)
Thursday 21 May, 20:40
Don't Just Do Something, Sit There
Laura Harrington
Each day people were invited to join a contemplative meeting with a landscape through the portal of zoom. Today’s meeting was with the sea in Newhaven, Edinburgh, facilitated by Simone Kenyon.
Friday 22 May, 14:00
Don't Just Do Something, Sit There
Laura Harrington
Each day people were invited to join a contemplative meeting with a landscape through the portal of zoom. Today’s meeting was with the foothills in the Italian Alps, facilitated by Sara Cattin.
Petra Szemán
These cityscapes are made up of various layers.
If life was a movie, transition would be seamless like a train shooting along in the landscape.
In reality, it resembles more the layers of the animation stand, the multiple planes occasionally moving out of sync.
ISLANDERS
Call Me
Call Me continues Islanders' (Giles Bailey, Jamie Hammill, Nellie Saunby and Sophie Soobramanien) work examining the construction of identity from states of isolation. Using a score collaged from disparate media consumed during lockdown, a new choreography has been developed to be performed in our domestic spaces. As musical accompaniment, we return to the character of the generic castaway who performs a song pleading for contact from the outside world.
vimeo.com/sophiesoo
DOLORES HOBBY
If images are fast, are objects slow?
If images are fast, are objects slow? has stemmed from a series of drawings made each day over the month of April, beginning at home as a way to build ideas for solid works, and transforming into performative drawings of a character interacting with an empty landscape. In this crossover of the physical and digital world, this avatar moves freely throughout and expresses themselves on behalf of us. This body, which is somewhere between image and object, appears in different forms across the expanse of scrolling pavement with unknown purpose and aimless energy.
Shadows are cast like moving images of static objects, proving that time is passing as they change and shift across the uneven ground. If the mind is viewed as the domain of freedom and autonomy and the body is just physical science, why do we feel so trapped in our collective situation?
SNEHA SOLANKI
Virocene Series
The Corona virus genetic sequence infects and takes over an image from a Lock-down library of documentation. Check back over the week to monitor infection of the chosen image.
https://electronicartist.net/FRITHA JENKINS
Still finding the words (untitled)
Still finding the words (untitled) was filmed in my kitchen this week. Materials used in the video include hair cuttings from 18/05/20, rocks, stones and rubble collected from childhood to pre-lockdown, frozen tap water, washing up water, packaging from recent parcels, kayak and hoover.
ROB SMITH
Home-Mars-Elsewhere
This stop-frame animation was made using an astronomical telescope mount as it tracked the movements of Mars for twenty four hours from my front room in Whitley Bay. It is accompanied by an image from the Martian surface captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover earlier this week.
Neither of the landscapes described by these images was known before they were captured. Through this work each becomes known through its interrelation to the other, only to be recomposed as they are distributed across multiple other locations and a network of technologies.
http://robsmith.me.uk
Lesley Guy and Tom O'Sullivan
The Raspberry Oracle
The Raspberry Oracle takes as its starting point a set of 52 postcards that Lesley and Tom have collected over the last couple of years and have used for divination purposes. The invitation by ArtHouses to produce an artwork in response to the current Lockdown, prompted the idea of sharing this Oracle. The cards have, for the most part, been used in readings within the Artist’s home. The process of finding each card, and then sharing readings, has been a private and domestic act of creativity and divination. For ArtHouses Inverted, Lesley and Tom have somewhat formalised the Deck and produced a guide to the Oracle. This includes their own interpretations of the cards, together with further commentaries and notes.
The Raspberry Oracle is a playful experiment in how meanings can be generated through images, conversation and shared imagination. Participants are encouraged to find their own meanings for the cards and how they might be read - the guide is there only as a prompt and indication.
Download the guide to the Oracle here
Laura Harrington
Don't Just Do Something, Sit There
Laura Harrington invites you to join a series of zoom meetings.
These meetings involve no speaking or interaction with your host and others whom have joined. Instead they are invitations to participate in exercises of attention, body stillness and sensory awareness with multiple biogeographical locations. Hosts, who all have personal and working connections with Laura, have each been invited to share a small element of where they live through the internet. Each 40 minute encounter will exist only through this meeting.
Monday 18 May, 12:00 (midday) hosted by Alan Smith and Helen Ratcliffe, Allenheads, Northumberland
Tuesday 19 May, 18:00 hosted by Fiona MacDonald (Feral Practice) Shoreham, Kent
Wednesday 20 May, 12:30 hosted by Andrea Caretto and Raffaela Spagna, Cambiano, Italy
Thursday 21 May, 20:40 hosted by Simone Kenyon, Newhaven, Edinburgh
Friday 22 May, 14:00 hosted by Sara Cattin, Piemonte, Italy
Some suggestions for engagement
In order for everything to run smoothy Laura wanted to give some technical advice on how she would like it to work and wanted to share a few suggestions for enabling the meeting to work as artistically intended.
Artistic
1.The intention for this meeting draws from a workshop devised by Jean MacGregor called 'Don't Just Do Something, Sit There,' referred to as an exercise in disciplined stillness used as a way of developing students’ capacity for observation and for contemplation in the natural world. I was interested in how this might translate through the portal of Zoom (whether we like it or not a platform that has quickly become one of main social networks and means for connectivity).
2.You are of course welcome to come and go according to your own situation. However, you are encouraged to remain for the entirety of the 40 minutes.
3.You are invited to leave mobile phones to one side.
4.You are invited to tape over the clock on the top right hand side of your computer.
5.Take a few moments to settle yourself. You could explore noticing your breath for a few minutes or some gentle stretching or both. Gently notice how your body is responding.
6.Find a comfortable position where you can explore your own stillness throughout the meeting for 40 minutes. Consider a position that will allow you to feel connected without effort, through your body; including the contact you make with objects and the space around you.Notice any changes happening as time passes through the meeting.
7.During the meeting pay attention to all your senses and what they are taking in. Observe what is coming in.
Technical
1. You will need the Zoom app to attend a meeting. You can install this here
2. For each meeting there will be a link which you can link through your browser or an ID and password for you to join a meeting through Zoom.
3. Please use the link, ID and password at the time specified.
4. Mute your mic before entering and during the meeting, in case it is not muted by the host.
5. Turn off the video.
6. The meeting will be ended by the host after 40 minutes.