Stoke / Spode

I have recently returned from a short trip to Stoke on Trent to visit/take part in the project Resurrecting the Obsolete, a multi-disciplinary and participatory site-specific project initiated by Anne Helen Mydland and Neil Brownsword in collaboration with the British Ceramics Biennale (forthcoming in 2013). The project takes place in the former Spode ceramics factory, a large industrial site in the centre of Stoke Town, which is now abandoned and partly derelict. Ceramicists, sculptors, installation & performance artists, photographers and video makers took part in the initial workshop, which will continue in March 2013.

Upcoming activities

The research project Re: place at Bergen Academy of Art & Design (KHIB) is about to go live this autumn. Follow developments at the project blog  Re: place.

The first event will be an exhibition together with Scott Rettberg at the KHIB gallery Rom 8, from 5 - 14 October. More information following soon. During the exhibition period there will be a workshop/seminar and a guest lecture programme. Details to be found on the Re:place blog.

Jewelsh website offline

My main website, jewelsh.com, is now offline. Until recently it was hosted by the Apple Mobile Me service, which has now been discontinued.

Extra pages will soon be added to this blog to replace the content previously found on jewelsh.com

Revived

This blog is being revived and will continue to be in use in coming months. New posts on forthcoming projects will be added in due course.


See also the new blog for Re:place, an art research project currently in development at KHIB.

JW 16-05-2012

PLACEHOLDERS - seminar programme

PLACEHOLDERS

Seminar programme

KHIB

Project Room, 6th. floor, Kunstakademiet, C. Sundtsgt 53

Thursday 22 September

12.00 Introduction: Jeremy Welsh

12.15 Presentation: Patrik Entian

13.00 Presentation: Justin Bennett

14.30 Presentation: Richard Launder

15.00 Presentation: Johan Sandborg
15.30  Presentation: Peter McCaughy

19.00 Book launch: Brandon LaBelle at Hordaland Kunstsenter

Friday 23 September

10.00 Presentation: Jeremy Welsh

11.00 Presentation: Synne Bull 

12.00 lunch

12.30 Presentation: Brandon LaBelle
13.30  Presentation: Michelle Teran

14.00  Conclusion, summing up

PLACEHOLDERS: a research seminar at KHIB

Jeremy Welsh - from image series Paraphrase (2010)

Documentation images from the seminar

Placeholders is a two-day seminar taking place at Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen on 22 - 23 September 2011. The seminar will examine ways in which artists from a variety of practices including photography, video, sound, performance, site-specific work and painting approach the issue of "place". Individual presentations will highlight ways in which (a sense of) place is constituted, challenged, reconstructed or communicated through a broad range of artistic strategies.

Speakers are:
Synne Bull, one half of Bull.Miletic - artist duo together with Dragan Miletic (Oslo) whose video works have explored a broad range of sites and places. An ongoing project, Heaven Can Wait, consists of video recordings made at many of the world's rotating restaurants.

Brandon LaBelle, Professor of new media and sound art at KHIB. LaBelle's works include installations, performances and projects in public spaces, often combining sound, sculpture and text. LaBelle is also author of several books including Background Noise; Perspectives on Sound Art.

Justin Bennett, audio artist (Den Haag) Bennett's work includes installations, drawings, cd's and other audio works, commissioned sound for dance and theatre, and public interventions. His most recent work was made for the public art project "Invisible Architectures" in Newcastle on Tyne.

Michelle Teran is an artistic research fellow at KHIB. Her current work revolves around geo-tagged performative video pieces uploaded to the web and linked to maps & Google Earth. Through these she builds up narrative journeys that allow new ways of exploring or experiencing a number of cities.

Patrik Entian is a final-year research fellow in painting at KHIB. His project "Looking for Painting" deals with landscape by exploiting contemporary network technology. The main source and focus for his recent work is the feed from a webcam in Antarctica.

Richard Launder is an Associate Professor in ceramics and sculpture at KHIB. His works often take on a performative character and are frequently staged in public spaces, working through strategies that have their roots in Situationist practices.

Johan Sandborg is a photographic artist, associate professor and vice-rektor at KHIB. He will discuss his recent project "Bridge to Bridge", a photographic record of the changing environment of Bergen's former docklands.

Peter McCaughy, a Glasgow-based artist & lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, working with sire-specific and socially engaged urban projects.

Jeremy Welsh (seminar organiser) is Professor & MA Course Leader at KHIB. His works in video, photography, installation and text have often been an investigation of place and time. Together with Bull.Miletic he has in recent years participated in a series of projects entitled Cities Reimagined, and was the initiator of the blog & collaboration platform BUU.

TO REGISTER FOR THE SEMINAR SEND EMAIL TO jayjaywel at gmail dot com

Location details:
Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen, Kunstakademiet
C. Sundtsgt. 53, 5004 Bergen

Thursday 22 September 12.00 - 16.00
Friday 23 September 10.00 - 14.00
***SPECIAL EVENT*** book launch by Brandon LaBelle, Thursday 22 September at 7 pm
Hordaland Kunstsenter, Klosteret 17, 5005 Bergen

Lines Converging At A Distance

Lines converging at a distance, a site specific sound installation by Trond Lossius, opened on 7th. July at Håkons Hall, Bergen. The installation will be in place until 18th. September, providing a calm, immersive and meditative contrast to the tourist traffic outside on the quayside. The installation continues Trond Lossius' investigation of sound in space and bears many of the characteristics of earlier works, taking recorded sounds as a starting point and manipulating the material digitally to create a drifting soundscape that contains the essence of the original sounds but transforms them into sonic structures that become part of the physical environment. The sounds and the physical structure interact beautifully - the scale and volume of the architecture provide a frame that allows Lossius to stretch the scope and ambition of his work. I look forward to returning when there are less (preferably no) people present in order to have a more concentrated listening experience.