For the first time at Dorchester Festival we host an artist in residence at the Roman Town House and new site specific commissions for the Town Hall. Artists¹ talks and social events give you the opportunity to meet the artists and curators, to see the way they developed their work for the festival. For a short intense period Dorchester will be transformed and we welcome both the artists and the audience to these events at Dorchester Festival.
Helen Pritchard Creative Producer This selection of artworks is as much defined by the personal and artistic background of the artists, as it is the result of a three month dialogue with two curators and their response to the physical and social context of the Dorchester festival. In this sense, the fact that three of these artists are from Eastern Europe is the given element, but not the primary one. The curators¹ concept was not to present what is/might be Eastern European¹ but to select artists whose works challenge our views of creation, presentation, perception of contemporary art and who would be challenged by the specific sites of the festival. The result is a diverse picture of site-specific installations, performances and workshops that will happen over the five days of the festival. Judit Bodor Artists Roddy Hunter (UK/Scotland) Roman Town House Roddy Hunter is a recognised artist, organizer, writer and teacher in the field of contemporary performance art practice. He has become best known for contextual and conceptual performance art works mainly concerned with urban knowledge and ideology. He has exhibited in the streets, art centres, galleries and museums of Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East for over ten years. He is currently Director of Art at Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, England where he lives and works. Antal Lakner (Hungary) Town Hall/ Magistrates Room Antal Lakner's projects can be interpreted as attempts to fill gaps in reality. With the credible, realistic appearance of his works he seeks to directly interfere with the processes of society. His art is rather subversive; apparently conforming to the operation of the system, he in fact works against it. The characteristic traits of his works are a critical attitude, absurd humour and irony. Vassya Vassileva (Bulgaria) Roman Town House Vassya Vassileva is a performance artist and lecturer. Her performances are a mixture of planning, improvisation and experimentation. They are pseudo-scientific, pseudo-theoretical, philosophical and purely physical interventions that combine audience participation as well as total negation of audience presence. Martin Zet (Czech Republic) Town Hall / Magistrates Room "A biography of Martin Zet is not available now. One of little surer things is that at this very moment he is still (at least partly) alive. Asking him to say to us something about his practices he answered: 'I am always fascinated how easy it is to make relatively unimaginable things. One doesn't need much. The biggest problem is to make a decision, to follow it until the things start to become mechanical and then to change, modify or leave it.'" 3.23pm, 5th March 2006 in Libusin (courtesy of ZCCA-Libusin) Visual Art Programme (installation, performance, video) rchester Festival 2007 Visual Art Diary Monday 21- Sunday 27 May Performance/Installation "... AND THAT WHICH IS R O M A N AND THAT WHICH IS NOT (R O M A N) ...". Roman Town House Open daily 9am - 7pm Monday 21 - Monday 28 May Artist in Residence Vassya Vassileva Roman Town House Friday 25th - Monday 28th May Exhibitions Antal Lakner & Martin Zet Town Hall/ Magistrates Room Open Daily 11am - 2pm Friday 25th May Visual art Artists Talk Town Hall 1 - 2pm Saturday 26 May Vassya Vassileva Performance Roman Town House 2pm Saturday 26 May Roddy Hunter Durational performance Roman Town House 8pm 11pm Monday 28th May Social Event with the Artists Town Hall 2pm Admission to exhibitions and all events is free. For more information call 01305 266926. For a full festival programme featuring over 60 events see www.dorchesterfestival.co.uk or tune into Dorchester Festival radio 87.7fm _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
