Looking Aside - Eventhood and the documentation of performance
10 November - 11 December 2009
Looking Aside is a unique exhibition from major artists approaching the
question of how to document performance practices that are by definition
fleeting and transitory. Rather than looking head-on, these artists have
worked sideways, creating new artworks that sit alongside the events they
record or suggest. The results hover between documentation, performance
and visual art, and are startling, unexpected and genuinely beautiful.
The SPILL Performance Tarot Exhibition - Commissioned by SPILL Festival A limited edition deck of 78 tarot cards made by ‘maverick’ artists from around the world, working with photographer Manuel Vason. World premiere.
Tim Etchells and Hugo Glendinning - Empty Stages. An on-going photographic project cataloguing empty stages in a variety of contexts including pubs, conference centres, church halls and working men’s clubs.
Tom Bangbala - Orchestral Life. Bangbala has been photographing musicians for over 30 years, capturing the unseen realities of life as a classical musician.
Lucy Cash and Goat Island - A Last, A Quartet. A four-screen film installation, taking material from The Lastmaker, the ninth and final work from the influential Chicago-based performance company, Goat Island.
For opening times to the exhibition please see opening hours listed on the right column.
Tim Crouch: England
Tim Crouch's England is performed in the Peter Scott Gallery on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th November 2009. For further details and tickets please see the Nuffield Theatre's web-site.
Experimentality: Photography Competition and Exhibition
13 January - 6 February 2010
As part of our collaboration with Lancaster University’s Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) and their year long theme of Experimentality, we are delighted to launch a new photography competition. Anyone living in the Lancaster and Morecambe area can enter, young or old. Chosen by a distinguished panel, winning entries will form a public exhibition in Spring 2010.
Entries should respond to the title of ‘The Experiment’. This could be a photograph of an actual or imagined experiment, or be experimental in form or content. You can use a digital or film camera, or more unusual kinds of photography (lomo, camera-less, pinhole, camera obscura etc).
Deadline for entries: Friday 4th December 2009.
Max 1 image per entrant (composite images are fine), either as a print of on disc in jpeg format. Please do not email. Mark entries with your name, address, age and the title of photograph, and send to:-
‘The Experiment’, Exhibitions & Events Officer, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, LA1 4YW.
Experimentality is the 2009-2010 Annual Research Programme of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Lancaster University, and is being delivered in collaboration with LICA and many other organisations across the Northwest of England. It is a year-long collaborative exploration of ideas and practices of experimentation in science and technology, the arts, commerce, politics, popular culture and everyday life. In a linked series of events in the Northwest of England - interdisciplinary workshops, arts events, and an international conference - it brings together leading practitioners from various fields; academics from the social and natural sciences, arts and humanities; and members of the wider public. It uses the notion of the experiment to explore vital questions about the relationship between knowledge and power, freedom and control in the modern world. For more information, see www.lancs.ac.uk/experimentality.