From our working process, Gas Gallery Oct 2013

The final scene

I’ve been meaning to write a few sentences about my collaboration with William Bock a few weekends ago for the 48 Response Time event at the Gas Gallery in Aberystwyth, so here goes. Will and I were drawn to the upstairs part of the gallery, and in particular two small cupboards that were opposite each other. One had some 90′s wall paper in it, the other was very neglected with cobwebs and a slightly unsafe floor. We were quick to reach an idea that could take place in each of these spaces, however, we decided to put that to one side, forget the pressure to show something on the Sunday and focus on our process. Having collaborated together before in London with his company, Strangeworks Collective, we decided to ask ourselves, now several years on, how can our practices and friendship be in dialogue across the space? What emerged from this question were amongst other things the creation of a human glitter ball, bad karaoke to Katy Perry and Jessie J songs and a mode of dialogue that enabled us to incorporate everything we had done over the 48 hours of the Gas Gallery challenge. Will and I hope to continue our dialogue in the coming months and expand the debates and spaces between our practices. In the meantime, check out his website www.williambock.com

I am really excited to be one of the artists taking part in the next Response Time event at the Gas Gallery in Aberystywth next weekend 25th - 27th October 2013. Housed in an old car showroom, the Gas Gallery is a new venue in town that is hosting interesting art work and project initiatives such as this one. It is the brain child of Sandra Bendelow of Scriptography Productions, the idea being that several artists respond to the gallery space and the art works during a concentrated period of 48 hours. On the final day, an audience is invited to share and view these express creations. I’m lucky enough to have paired myself up with William Bock, a great friend and collaborator from the Strangework Collective. Though the idea is not to plan in advance, Will and I have been putting together a ‘wish list‘ of possible creative strategies, objects and ideas to try. These include pinhole photography techniques, a mechanical toy lion and a bag of crayons. Watch this space….

This week (27th - 29th September 2013) at the Pradillo Theatre in Madrid, Calle Pradillo, 12 I will be attending several working sessions to open and discuss new methodologies being used in the creative practice of several emerging artists. Curated by Diana Delgado-Ureña, this week the working processes of Tamara Ascanio, Anto Rodríguez and Antía Otero will be shared and dialogues about their artistic practice and research will be initiated.

The program emerges when time and space to discuss emergent artistic practices, particularly in Spain, is rare and increasingly difficult to source. The projects featured are extensions of investigative work commenced in the context of the Masters in Performing Arts and Visual Culture run by the University of Alcalá de Henares.

The working sessions are expected to take place once a month and are an extension of a series of sessions held last year, thanks to the generous support of the Ministry of Culture.

More information to be found here http://teatropradillo.com/events/cartografias-de-la-emergencia-3/