When
the City Speaks: The City is the Stage …
Open Submission
Concept
Artists
will become the flaneur - city walkers for the day - using the
urban space as a stage and the psycho-geographic setting to create
art derived and inspired by it.
Context
To create artefacts of what they have seen, found and experienced
and memorised on the day of the walk. The situation will be an
impromptu one, so the work made on the day will formed from the
urban exploration.
Objective
The focus will be the city as a hybrid culture and the artists
to examine its sub-cultures, such as the graffiti artists, tattoo
artists, city icons and whatever is considered as an underground
scene, the banal everyday things that often goes unnoticed and
more; utilising the visual language and symbolism in the city
space.
Outcome
The cultural examinations by each artist will then be represented
through a chosen mode of expression and media on sections of paper
to convey their experiences. This could be through text, painting,
drawing, collage, photography, etc..
Programme
This programme will run in three cities, starting with Liverpool
(UK) in June 2007 moving to London (UK) and then Paris (France).
Liverpool, June 2007.
London, July 2007.
Paris, August 2007.
If
you are interested in participating email Jo Derbyshire at aprilskies1204@aol.com.
For
further information on this project go to either:
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
or www.transvoyeur.co.uk.
Creative
Research - Liverpool |
When
the City Speaks: The City is a Stage
Part (1): Liverpool Brief.
Jo Derbyshire (Curator/Project Co-ordinator)
June 2007
Part
(1): Liverpool Brief.
When: Saturday 30 June 2007, 10.00 am.
Where: Café (Ground Floor), Fact Centre,
Wood Street, Liverpool.
Meet: Jo Derbyshire (Curator/Projects Co-ordinator
for When the City Speaks)
Requirements: Bring your own camera, paints,
pens, pencils (paper will be provided by Jo Derbyshire).
Activity
Artists to individually or as a group to go out into city for
a two hour period and explore the city on the set theme (refer
below). Artists are to collect and research imagery and objects
inspired by the urban space. The choice of media is optional,
but to be transposed to the paper provided.
Proposed
Research Themes
China Town; Graffiti Art in urban space; The World in One City
(media phrase for Culture Company); tattoos and urban identity;
urban landscape; youth and popular culture; fashion; historical
sites; architecture; mass media logos and symbolism; city and
cultural hybridism; Plus other themes posed during briefing session.
Timetable
Saturday 30 June 2007
10.00 am Meet at Fact Centre.
10.00 am – 10.30 am Briefing session.
11.00 am Collectively or individually go into the city and research
theme set.
1.00 pm Return to Fact Centre.
Sunday 01 July 2007
10.00 am Meet with Jo Derbyshire’s to drop off finished
work.
Outcome
All art produced will be exhibited at an online exhibition at
www.joderbyshire.co.uk.
If
you are interested in participating email Jo Derbyshire at aprilskies1204@aol.com.
For
further information on this project go to either:
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
or www.transvoyeur.co.uk.
This
programme will run in three cities, starting with Liverpool (UK)
in June 2007 moving to London (UK) and then Paris (France).
Liverpool, June 2007.
London, July 2007.
Paris, August 2007.
When
the City Speaks: The City is a Stage - Liverpool Exhibition, at
the South Bohemia Gallery, Liverpool, England, Curated by Jo Derbyshire,
10th August 2007 - 22nd August 2007.
Artists
from Liverpool, across Britain and abroad, have contributed to
a creative research initiative 'When the City Speaks -
The City is a Stage', conceived by the Curator, Jo Derbyshire.
This
programme is in three stages and commenced with Liverpool on 30
June 2007, where artists collectively and in their independent
practice explored the urban space of the city. From this cultural
enquiry, each artist derived a piece of art work to denote their
experiences of the city space.
The
art produced now forms a collection and is to be exhibited at
the 'South Bohemia Gallery' (Liverpool, England) to delineate
the artistic perceptions of the urban environment in a gallery
context.
This
exhibition will run from 10th - 22th August 2007.
Opening: 10th August 2007, 7.00 pnm on wards.
Jo
Derbyshire
(Curator of When the City Speaks Programme and Resident Curator
of South Bohemia Gallery)
Email: APRILSKIES1204@aol.com
The
South Bohemia Art Gallery
196 Smithdown Road
Liverpool
Merseyside
L15 5JT
UK
Peter Worthington
(Director of South Bohemia Art Gallery)
Mobile: +44(0)7791145190
Further
information on the When the City Speaks Programme is available
at:
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
Associate
exhibitions programme:
www.freewebs.com/southbag
Affiliate
to Transvoyeur.
www.transvoyeur.com
When
the City Speaks - The City is a Stage
Concept
Artists will become the flaneur - city walkers for the day - using
the urban space as a stage and the psycho-geographic setting to
create art derived and inspired by it.
Context
To create artefacts of what they have seen, found and experienced
and memorised on the day of the walk. The situation will be an
impromptu one, so the work made on the day will formed from the
urban exploration.
Objective
The focus will be the city as a hybrid culture and the artists
to examine its sub-cultures, such as the graffiti artists, tattoo
artists, city icons and whatever is considered as an underground
scene, the banal everyday things that often goes unnoticed and
more; utilising the visual language and symbolism in the city
space.
Outcome
The cultural examinations by each artist will then be represented
through a chosen mode of expression and media on sections of paper
to convey their experiences. This could be through text, painting,
drawing, collage, photography, etc..
Programme
This programme will run in three cities, starting with Liverpool
(UK) in June 2007 moving to London (UK) and then Paris (France).
Liverpool, June 2007.
London, July 2007.
Paris, August 2007.
Creative
Research - London |
When
the City Speaks: The City is a Stage
Part (2): London Brief.
Jo Derbyshire and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney (Co-Curators)
July 2007
Part
(2): London Brief.
When:
10.00 am, Sunday 22 July 2007.
Where:
Outside the Foundry, 86 Great Eastern Street London EC2A
3JL.
Meet:
Jo Derbyshire and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney (Co-Curators).
Requirements:
Bring your own camera, paints, pens, pencils (paper will be provided).
Activity
Artists to individually or as a group to go out into city for
a two hour period and explore the city on the set theme (refer
below). Artists are to collect and research imagery and objects
inspired by the urban space. The choice of media is optional,
but to be transposed to the paper provided.
Proposed
Research Themes
The 100 Club (London’s famous music venue); Abbey Road Studios
(London’s rock ‘n’ roll landmark); 23 Brook
Street, London (Jimi Hendrix’s 1960s residence); 34 Ridgmount
Gardens (Bob Marley’s first London address); 430 Kings Road,
London (The cradle of British Punk); The Astoria (Great, but grungy
London venue); Tate Modern; Tate Britain; Victoria and Albert
Museum; National Portrait Gallery; Hoxton; Shoreditch; The British
Museum; The Science Museum; The Natural Museum; The London Eye;
The Imax Cinema; Madame Tussauds & London Planetarium; Buckingham
Palace; Tower of London; The House of Parliament and Big Ben;
Westminster Abbey; St Pauls Cathedral; London Zoo; Hyde Park;
Hampstead Heath; Charing Cross Road; Chinatown; Commercial Street;
Connaught Square; The Docklands; Elephant and Castle; Fleet Street;
Haymarket; Imperial War Museum; Kensington Gardens; The Maill;
The Millenium Dome; Battersea Power Station; The Monument to the
Great Fire, London; The Old Baily; Oxford Street; Portobello Road;
Regent Street; Royal Bontanic Gardens; Russell Square; Shaftsbury
Avenue; Tottenham Court road; Tower Bridge; Millenium Bridge;
Banksy and similar graffiti art in urban space; tattoos and urban
identity; urban landscape; youth and popular culture; fashion;
historical sites; architecture; mass media logos and symbolism;
city and cultural hybridism; Plus other themes posed during briefing
session.
Timetable
Sunday
22 July 2007
10.00 am Meet outside Foundry.
10.00 am – 10.30 am Briefing session.
11.00 am Collectively or individually go into the city and research
theme set.
1.00 pm Return to Foundry with your research and art completed
and pass to the Curator.
There
is the option of completing the task on these dates in your own
time and sending your contribution to the Curators. If you wish
to complete this project in your independent practice, please
aprilskies1204@aol.com
or transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk
for the postal address to despatch your complete work to. It must
reach the Curators no later than 25 July 2007.
Outcome
All art produced will be exhibited at an online exhibition at
www.joderbyshire.co.uk.
If
you are interested in participating email Jo Derbyshire at aprilskies1204@aol.com.
For
further information on this project go to either:
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
or www.transvoyeur.co.uk.
This
programme is in three cities:
Liverpool, June 2007.
London, July 2007.
Paris, August 2007.
When
the City Speaks: The City is a Stage - London Exhibition, at the
South Bohemia Gallery, Liverpool, England, Curated by Gaynor Evelyn
and Sweeney and Jo Derbyshire, 14th September 2007 - 26th September
2007. To be Rescheduled .... New Dates
to be Announced
Artists
from London, across Britain and abroad, have contributed to a
creative research initiative 'When the City Speaks - The
City is a Stage', conceived by Jo Derbyshire. This research
and cultural platform has been co-curated by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
and Jo Derbyshire.
This
programme is in three stages and commenced with Liverpool on 30
June 2007 and continued to London on 22 July 2007, where artists
collectively and in their independent practice explored the urban
space of the city. From this cultural enquiry, each artist derived
a piece of art work to denote their experiences of the city space.
The next stage to this creative research is scheduled for Paris
in August 2007.
The
art produced now forms a collection and is to be exhibited at
the 'South Bohemia Gallery' (Liverpool, England) to delineate
the artistic perceptions of the urban environment in a gallery
context.
This
exhibition will run from 14th - 26th September 2007.
Opening: 14th September 2007, 7.00 pm on wards.
Jo
Derbyshire
(Curator of When the City Speaks Programme and Resident Curator
of South Bohemia Gallery)
Email: APRILSKIES1204@aol.com
The
South Bohemia Art Gallery
196 Smithdown Road
Liverpool
Merseyside
L15 5JT
UK
Peter Worthington
(Director of South Bohemia Art Gallery)
Mobile: +44(0)7791145190
Further
information on the When the City Speaks Programme is available
at:
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
Associate
exhibitions programme:
www.freewebs.com/southbag
Affiliate
to Transvoyeur.
www.transvoyeur.com
When
the City Speaks - The City is a Stage
Concept
Artists will become the flaneur - city walkers for the day - using
the urban space as a stage and the psycho-geographic setting to
create art derived and inspired by it.
Context
To create artefacts of what they have seen, found and experienced
and memorised on the day of the walk. The situation will be an
impromptu one, so the work made on the day will formed from the
urban exploration.
Objective
The focus will be the city as a hybrid culture and the artists
to examine its sub-cultures, such as the graffiti artists, tattoo
artists, city icons and whatever is considered as an underground
scene, the banal everyday things that often goes unnoticed and
more; utilising the visual language and symbolism in the city
space.
Outcome
The cultural examinations by each artist will then be represented
through a chosen mode of expression and media on sections of paper
to convey their experiences. This could be through text, painting,
drawing, collage, photography, etc..
Programme
This programme will run in three cities, starting with Liverpool
(UK) in June 2007 moving to London (UK) and then Paris (France).
Liverpool, June 2007.
London, July 2007.
Paris, August 2007.
Creative
Research - Paris |
When
the City Speaks: The City is a Stage.
Part (3): Paris Brief.
Jo Derbyshire (Curator)
August 2007
Part
(2): Paris Brief.
Cut
off Date: Friday 31 August 2007.
When:
August 2007.
Where:
Paris, France.
Activity:
Independent/group research in Paris (France) and submission to
Curator. Artists to individually or as a group to go out into
city for a two hour period and explore the city. Artists are to
collect and research imagery and objects inspired by the urban
space. The choice of media is optional.
Proposed
Research Themes
Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel), Musee du Louvre, Musee d'Orsay, Notre
Dame Cathedral (Cathedrale de Notre Dame de Paris), Arc de Triomphe,
Sacred Heart Basilica of Montmartre (Sacre-Coeur), Pere-Lachaise
Cemetery (Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise), Sainte-Chapelle, Musee
Rodin, Decorative Arts Museum (Le musee des Arts Decoratifs),
Centre Pompidou, Hotel des Invalides, Musee de l' Orangerie, Quai
Branly Museum (Musee du Quai Branly), Musee Marmottan, Palais
de Tokyo, The Catacombs (Les Catacombs), Le Marais, Opera Garnier,
Musee National du Moyen Age-Thermes et Hotel de Cluny, Hotel de
Ville, Place de la Concorde, Pantheon, Museum of Eroticism (Musee
de l'Erotisme), Musee Nissim de Camondo, Tour Montparnasse, Angelina,
Musee Picasso, Montmartre, Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Shakespeare
and Company Bookstore, French National Library (Bibliotheque Nationale
de France), Musee Carnavalet, Champs-Elysees, Sewers of Paris
(Les Egouts de Paris), Montmartre Cemetery (Cimetiere Montmartre),
La Cite des Sciences et de L'lndustrie, Palais Royal, Musee National
des Arts Asiatiques - Guimet, City Museum of Modern Art (Musee
d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris), Basilique de St-Denis, La
Grande Arche de La Defense, la Conciergerie, Galeries Nationales
du Grand Palais, Ile St.-Louis, Saint-Sulpice, Place Vendome,
La Madeleine, Institut du Monde Arabe, Pont Alexandre III, Place
des Vosges, Musee des Arts et Metiers, Musee de la Musique, Montparnasse
Cemetery (Cimetiere Montparnasse), Place de la Bastille, Musee
Maillol, Eglise Saint-Sulpice, Harry's New York Bar, Museum of
Natural History (Musee d'Histoire Naturelle), Canal St-Martin,
La Cinematheque Francaise, Bercy Village, Maison de Balzac, Maison
de Balzac, Rue Cler and more …
Timetable
August 2007
Creative Research:
To research art in the urban space and produce visual dialogue.
Friday 31 August 2007
Submission:
Final outcome to be sent to Jo Derbyshire, the Curator, no later
than 31 August 2007.
Ensure each piece is clearly market: ‘WTCS Paris’
and include:
-
Name.
- Postal address.
- Email.
- Telephone number/mobile.
- Curriculum Vitae.
- Artists Statement (no more 250 words).
- Title of piece, media, dimensions and date produced.
- Prepaid return packaging.
Send
your submission to:
F.A.O.:
Jo Derbyshire (Curator)
Re: Submission to WTCS Paris
The South Bohemia Art Gallery
196 Smithdown Road
Liverpool
Merseyside
L15 5JT
UK
Outcome
All art produced will be exhibited at an online exhibition at
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
with a galllery exhibition to be announced to show the collection
of submissions.
If
you are interested in participating email Jo Derbyshire at aprilskies1204@aol.com.
For
further information on this project go to either:
www.joderbyshire.co.uk
or www.transvoyeur.com.
When
the City Speaks - The City is a Stage
Concept
Artists will become the flaneur - city walkers for the day - using
the urban space as a stage and the psycho-geographic setting to
create art derived and inspired by it.
Context
To create artefacts of what they have seen, found and experienced
and memorised on the day of the walk. The situation will be an
impromptu one, so the work made on the day will formed from the
urban exploration.
Objective
The focus will be the city as a hybrid culture and the artists
to examine its sub-cultures, such as the graffiti artists, tattoo
artists, city icons and whatever is considered as an underground
scene, the banal everyday things that often goes unnoticed and
more; utilising the visual language and symbolism in the city
space.
Outcome
The cultural examinations by each artist will then be represented
through a chosen mode of expression and media on sections of paper
to convey their experiences. This could be through text, painting,
drawing, collage, photography, etc..
Programme
This programme will run in three cities, starting with Liverpool
(UK) in June 2007 moving to London (UK) and then Paris (France).
Liverpool, June 2007.
London, July 2007.
Paris, August 2007.
