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About Time Festival 2015-12-15

About Time Festival
Eleanor Clare & Dillan Marsh: The Travels of The Toucher
20th-29th Nov

With cardboard boxes over their heads, and two holes punched out for their arms, they began with wet clay, and without any other idea than to see what came by handling it. What they arrived at was not a sculpture, but a way to begin. The forms were destroyed and remodelled – the possibility to reform them was always there. It was a way to get to the thing.

On a wet and windy day, they journeyed out to Tigh na Cailleach, home of the Old Woman of the Glen, just before she withdrew into her shelter for the winter. They were not sure what they might find, or what to do when they got there. They were walking a path that had been walked for thousands of years. They were looking for the very beginnings of meaning and making: to connect thousands of years ago with today. They wanted to find it, but when they found it, they didn’t know what to do next. Not there at the shrine, nor in the studio with the clay.

About Time is a satellite programme of contemporary art running from October 2015 – January 2016. It is curated by a consortium of Leeds-based artists and curators led by Mexico, Pavilion and SPUR with contributions from Assembly House Leeds, Basement Arts, Black Dogs, Leeds Animation Workshop, Left Bank, Pyramid of Arts, Seize, Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun and many others. Coinciding with the launch of the British Art Show 8, this city-wide initiative features commissioned artworks, texts and events which aim to highlight the work of artists, cultural producers and curatorial projects based in Leeds, alongside their international peers. The programme takes place across a diverse set of venues including artist-led spaces, museums and heritage buildings.



Tags: exhibition / text / collaboration / cycle / circle / installation / sculpture / Eleanor_Clare / costume / creation / show / 2015 / mask / rock / collage / helmet / poster / Edinburgh_Sculpture_Workshop / nature / fruit / matter / megalith / press_release / shrine / Assembly_House_Studios / festival / pagan / suit / Norsk_Kulturradet / The_Travels_of_The_Toucher / Bergen_Kommune / flyer / About_Time / Matt_Wheeldon / head / vegetable / Mike_Winnard / uniform / Ellie_MacGarry / Rufus_Newell / Tigh_na_Cailleach / ancient / Lester_Drake / clay / Avebury / Mascots_and_Stones /


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