Exhibitions Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Bern O'Donoghue) — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:34:00 +0000

Lift the Lid - hop, skip, jump . . . .

noreply@blogger.com (agentesse) — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:05:00 +0000

A busy afternoon for families joining in the 'olympic' theme of this month's Lift the Lid. Skipping proved very popular with all ages and several children spending a good 20mins trying to master their co-ordination in order to master their ropes. The drawing table also proved popular with whole families sitting down to draw people cycling, diving, skipping and running..... Stretching and stretching as far as possible to draw appealed to many; bamboo canes attached to charcoal and pens enabled children to reach out to make marks and shapes on the paper from behind a red guideline. Our dice game based on leaving a trail of coloured spots kept some busy for over an hour, spreading their game across the room and overlapping each other with on the spot pile-ups ! Altogether an energetic and fun afternoon .... with parents too giving the skipping a go !

Extreme Noise Terror

noreply@blogger.com (lesleygl) — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:04:00 +0000

So, the last of my Contemporary Art Enquiries and Tea slots was on Saturday June 9th, the same day as the experimental sound art/industrial noise performances.
Great scheduling!
Quite a number of potential discussion group visitors had fled the premises by teatime. However, a few stalwarts remained and we managed some conversation despite the prevailing conditions!

The Sound of Silence?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:17:00 +0000

The Jubilee weekend meant smaller numbers participating, but the level of engagement from those who participated was exemplary! From children to older people and art lovers, all were surprised and delighted by the experience of walking around the De La Warr in total silence. And in the silence we heard and saw the building in new and surprising ways...

seaside reverie . . .

noreply@blogger.com (agentesse) — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:13:00 +0000

The unseasonably summery conditions made for a slow session - could see plenty of people cooling themselves on the balcony, the terrace and the beach. The 'P' word tends to put people off and have tried hard not to say it ... but children and young people tend to be less easily put off by the idea of making poems ! there was a nice thoughtful piece from a student from Sussex Coast College and some local school girls were keen to express their love of Bexhill in swirly felt pen. Some are torn by the desire to just walk away thinking it's not for them and then a word of phrase catches their eye and then they play around with words for a while - sometimes happy to display their creation on the window, others preferring to just leave their verse on the table.

Well done to everyone who got creative and took part !

The Poetry Jukebox

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:03:00 +0000

I was back in Gallery 2 for the second Poetry Jukebox, this week, inviting visitors to choose a poem on the theme of light - and then performing them, live and unrehearsed - whilst the lights of Cerith Wyn Evans' S=U=P=E=R=S=T=R=U=C=T=U=R=E turned on and off. Over the course of three hours - I performed to 53 people. That's a lot of poems!

"Hearing the poem was quite an experience," said Lisa, who was visiting with a group of friends, "I walked past the art and thought - I don't get that. But when I went and sat and felt the lights going on and off, it gave it a different feel."

As this was the last Poetry Jukebox at the De La Warr, I also composed a poem especially for the event, borrowing text from the exhibition catalogue - rather in the way that Cerith Wyn Evans borrows words by Guy De Bord and Jimi Hendrix in the art works on show in the Pavilion. The resulting video-poem is called s_u_p_e_r_c_o_n_d_u_c_t_o_r and explores the theme of longing. So hit the play button, and enjoy the poetry jukebox one last time...

noreply@blogger.com (lesleygl) — Sun, 13 May 2012 16:42:00 +0000

A brilliantly sunny day in Bexhill yesterday as I set up the first Art Enquiries Service for the CWE exhibition. After a slow start, due to low visitor numbers in general, people began to approach and enquire. Two small girls took up the offer of Art Goggles to view the installations, and seemed very happy with the results. More children took the Magic Mirrors downstairs in order to read the neon text piece without looking at the reflection - a nigh impossible feat for a very short person in bright sunshine!
The responses to the questionnaire were funny and charming - I walked several visitors around the exhibits personally, conversing and finding out what they think about conceptual art, installations and more....
Some responses to the work:

"Hollywood neon"

"I followed the nails, braille-like, but using my eyes"

"challenge to decode"

"transient, being both familiar and vague"

"calmness and wellbeing"

"relaxing and challenging"

"I would keep this piece ( the light columns) in my kitchen"

"shifting patterns and relaxation"

"it makes my hearing aid go funny"

up the purple path . . . . .

noreply@blogger.com (agentesse) — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:35:00 +0000

An afternoon filled with carefully composed free verse, inspired by Cerith Wyn Evans exhibition, went in a flash. Cold blank skies formed a backdrop to a range of sweetly composed thoughts stuck to the windows outside the cafe. Some approach the task like an exam and like to get it over with quickly, whilst others stood around, thinking for up to half an hour, carefully selecting the 'mot juste' in order to convey their feelings and ideas.

Thanks to those of you who joined in and to Penny for encouraging all to have a go !

Dreams at De La Warr

noreply@blogger.com (Daniel Marcus Clark) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:12:00 +0000

So what does lie beyond this moment?
On a beautiful blustery day, while the building was ransacked by an immersive theatre group, storyteller and composer Daniel Marcus Clark found refuge in the warmth of gallery one with the good people of Bexhill and beyond collecting tales and accounts of their dreams. The accounts were beautifully soundtracked by Cerith's flute piece incarnation installation, recorded and then compiled to create a collective dream piece which can be found here:
Dreams and Cerith Wyn Evans

Participants also drew pictures of their dream landscapes on acetates, which were stuck onto the glass looking out at the horizon to show what does indeed lie beyond for us all.

A love letter in sound

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:08:00 +0000

Not your average love letter, no fancy words, no paper soaked in perfume, no protestations of undying commitment, just sound. Ordinary sound, everyday sound, ignored sound. The sound of silence... This was the focus of a very successful workshop afternoon on Saturday 14th April, in and around the Cerith Wyn Evan's exhibition. I took groups of up to 4 people on a silent soundwalk around the De La Warr so that they could express their love of the building through attention and listening. Here is the one of the binaural recordings that I made, please listen on headphones.

misty blue with eerie grace !

noreply@blogger.com (agentesse) — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:22:00 +0000

What a lovely spring Saturday afternoon ! With over a hundred words and phrases gleaned
from Cerith Wyn Evans favourite poems and song lyrics we had plenty to play with. The building was buzzing with lots of people glancing at and toying with our collection words. Although the idea of composing poetry clearly worried some people, the idea that they could use someone else's words seemed much less scary and much more manageable.
Using the actual words to compose a bit of verse seemed to work best with some people using the window pens to add the odd word that they really needed. Suggestions of forms to follow included limericks and Haiku which some people did have a go at, but mostly they were happy to compose their own bits of free verse and blank verse. Some examples can be found below:

Falling dust
drawn away with
eerie grace. by S.Smith

Brightness around
light
brightness around sea. by Lana

Everybody out of today
looking for a better tomorrow
to find that the best day
was yesterday. by Issy

Furrow brow agony
pure eyes beam

white withered finger
come in baby

Pampered poodle come alive
a picture frame. by Fernie

Shiny Sparkles
Twinkle in my
Face
It's Pretty

magic corridors
towards misty blue
on
liquid garden. by Olivia Kennedy

Magic mirrors reflect
the moon. by Milly

Infinite timeless day
sighing white burning. by Anne

Be up a purple path sky
with little angles fluttering. by Marcie Garwell

Speed pools spray
sweet angle climbs
faithful
your upward golden rose

Where to, here in the garden

Magic corridors goin up and
up so scary scaring you
can not believe your eyes. by Molly

October hillows where
wondering sun reborn comes. by MC

Eleven moons and
weeping eyes help heavy
sleep. by SD

Sky
believe
in
Better. by Toby

By the end of the afternoon we had over 40 pieces of poetry in various forms adorning the windows - so well done to all those who took part.

Dreams of De la Warr

noreply@blogger.com (Daniel Marcus Clark) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:27:00 +0000

Drawing on some of the themes in the Cerith Wyn Evans exhibition, storyteller and composer Daniel Marcus Clark found out what lies beyond this world by collecting accounts and drawings of peoples dreams. These were compiled to create a dream map and a recorded piece which can be found here: Cerith Wyn Evans Dream track one

The accounts were beautifully soundtracked by Cerith's flute piece incarnation installation.

Participants also drew pictures of their dream landscapes on acetates, which were collated into a map of the dream realm.

A magical day!

Cerith in Colour

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:50:00 +0000

To mark the opening of the Cerith Wyn Evans exhibition - Lift the Lid was a creative celebration of colour and light. Using lightboxes and the sun - we made columns and sculptures - drew with cellophane - until everything was glowing.

The Cerith Wyn Evans Poetry Jukebox

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:14:00 +0000

To celebrate the start of the Cerith Wyn Evans exhibition, we turned Gallery Two into a Poetry Jukebox this Saturday. The Poetry Jukebox is a unique live literature event, specially developed by De La Warr artist and writer Wendy Ann Greenhalgh for the season. The Jukebox allows Pavilion visitors to choose a poem on the theme of light, beauty and heat from our instant, online poem hunter - and then hand it over to Wendy and her team - for a personalised, live and unrehearsed performance inside the gallery.

Visitors picked poems as diverse as the beacons in the first poem of AE Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad' and Ken Nesbitt's light fearing father in 'I Think My Dad is Dracula!' And we ended the day with a performance of Cecelia Weir's 'Lights On, Lights Off' as the giant columns of Cerith Wyn Evans' S=U=P=E=R=S=T=R=U=C=T=U=R=E slowly turned themselves off and on.

"It really works," said one visitor. "They say a picture's worth a hundred words, but sometimes it's hard to know what something's saying, but the poems helped to say it."

The lyricism of Cerith Wyn Evans' work and the medium of poetry, are certainly a great match, and Saturday's Poetry Jukebox was very popular. How often do you get your own personalised poetry reading - performed just for you - after all? We'll be running the Poetry Jukebox again on Saturday May 19th - so if you missed it this weekend, then come along and join us next time. This event isn't just for poets, writers ... or grown-ups! Bring your kids along and let them choose a poem too!

Many thanks to poet Jac Cattaneo, who also joined Wendy to give readings on Saturday.

Cerith Wyn Evans opens

noreply@blogger.com (DLWP) — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:15:00 +0000

Cerith Wyn Evans' at DLWP exhibition opened last weekend to crowds of visitors and critical acclaim.

With a special opportunity to see Wyn Evans' new 'firework' piece, And if I don’t meet you no more in this worldThen I’ll, I’ll meet you in the next one And don’t be late, don’t be late, followed by music by DJ Princess Julia, a great evening was had by all and the Pavilion's Gallery spaces were revealed transformed.

Employing Cerith Wyn Evan’s ongoing investigation of architecture as a starting point and specifically curated as a response to the De La Warr Pavilion, this exhibition consists of three major installations and smaller new works dispersed throughout the building. Taking the entire Pavilion as an opportunity for installation, including our two gallery spaces and the roof-terrace, the exhibition also provides the impetus for a wider programme of related live art, music, performance and film during the season.

Visitors will see the De La Warr Pavilion’s Gallery spaces stripped back so that they are undivided for the first time. With all of the windows revealed, the installation in Gallery 1 explores the relationship between manmade and natural light, returning the building’s structure to its original purpose – as a space for visitors to experience and enjoy. Moving up through the building, Wyn Evans' recent spectacular light/heat column installation, S=U=P=E=R=S=T=R=U=C=T=U=R=E ('Trace me back to some loud, shallow, chill, underlying motive’s overspill…') 2010, is installed in Gallery 2 to create an intensely glamorous environment with toxic overtones.

Described by the artist as “a love letter to the building”, the exhibition embodies recurrent themes within Evan’s art: code, language, text and an interrogation of aesthetics.

Cerith Wyn Evans in The Guardian (Exhibitionist: This week's art shows in pictures), 24 March: "In horror movies, flickering lights generally mean something supernatural. There's a similar fusion of language, electricity and yearning in Cerith Wyn Evans's art"

www.dlwp.com

Welcome To Bexhill

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:36:00 +0000

Young artists and their families joined us for a special Lift The Lid session this Sunday - as we made a giant model of Bexhill.

We made the De La Warr Pavilion itself, complete with a seagull on the roof!

Accrington Park - with flowers, ponds, ducks, tadpoles ...

Swings ...

... and trees with singing birds in them.

And we made...

Roads and railway tracks...

Shops...

Railways and trains...

And police stations and fire stations and schools and hospitals.

Finally we made the Bexhill sea and the things we find in it...

Everything from Sailing Boats...

...to whales!

Lift The Lid was hosted this month by DLWP artist Wendy Ann Greenhalgh. Thanks to volunteers Ben and Jehan and all the amazing young architects, town planners, engineers and artists who took part. Lift The Lid sessions happen the first Sunday of every month from 2-5pm. Join us for the next one!

Last day of Warhol

noreply@blogger.com (agentesse) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:54:00 +0000

A muted winter sun shone over the last busy day of the Warhol season. The whole place was very busy with people busily fitting in a last look at this great exhibition before it closes. Our fantasy dressing up sessions, where people can come along and try on a few strange wigs, mustaches or tiaras and daydream about hanging out with all the fabulous people at the Factory, are now at an end. We had a good selection of men, women, children, singly or in big groups joining in the fun and exploring their party personas.

if you go down to the woods today ....

you're sure of a big surprise ...

if you go down to the woods today, you'd better go in disguise !

Day and night hiding out
She got no reason to be shy . . .

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me !

Just like thaaaat !

A happy end to a busy and successful season and many thanks to all those who took part and to the volunteers who helped out.

The Voice of The Pavilion

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:11:00 +0000

You are the voice of the pavilion

Saturday was our last chance to listen for the voice of the De La Warr - as our participatory project came to an end. Inspired by Andy Warhol's love affair with the trusty tape-recorder he called 'his wife' - visitors took pen and paper around the building with them, to document the sounds of the building - becoming a human tape recorder, for 15 minutes. The echoes, the silences the conversations and the tread of feet provide the backdrop for what they saw and what they heard. Have a last listen to the voice of the pavilion - it's the voice of every visitor - so it's your voice too.

Paul:

steam blowing cutter tapping
distant engines laughter echoing
half conversations shoes shuffling
feet stepping whispers and murmurs
doors opening and doors closing
chairs sliding phones ringing
Bob whistling cafe musicing

Roehamster:

Voices are mingled, confused and co-mingled; an oasis of coherent conversation sits around a table on the top floor. Isolated snippets of conversation on genuine and antique 'cassette tape recorders' lie and wait for you to slip on headphones, rewind, fast forward, play, eject and stop.

The names of the interviewees mean nothing; once-beautiful, once-intimates of Warhol umm and err as a starstruck interviewer simpers.

Elsewhere, the din and thrum is never ending.

And the last word goes to four year old - Orla.

baby crying
men talking to ladies
cats in my head

Bobby America says goodbye to Bexhill

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:37:00 +0000

The final session of Radio Free Warhol presenter (and Andy Warhol's Factory survivor) Bobby America, reminiscing about the 80's and talking about Warhol the man and his work with visitors to "Warhol is Here".

more artverts!

noreply@blogger.com (Daniel Marcus Clark) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:19:00 +0000

Nice day today. More artverts made- a homage to warhol's campbells soup, here's a link. Thanks to all who took part!

http://soundcloud.com/dmc_delawarr

more fun at the 'Factory'

noreply@blogger.com (agentesse) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:18:00 +0000

Although it was a rather bleak January afternoon, the DLWP was pretty busy and we had plenty of eager folks ready to dress up and pose as one of Andy Warhol's many illustrious and glamourous friends and aquaintances for a fabulous photo opportunity.

'Come up and see me sometime !"

"We are the Girls..."

"People ask me everywhere is that really all your hair ? "

"Close But No Cigar. Sharp suit, big car Who do you think you are ?"

A friend of Guy Gawkes perhaps !

"Dressed up All dandied and dressed up All feathered and pressed up And feeling so fine Dressed up"

"I tried a handlebar design and my Fu-Manchu was real fine."

"My Ronald Coleman made 'em blink, my Pancho Villa made 'em think."

"They're mysterious and spooky and all together ooky."

"Put the camera on me, I got all this jewellery on me."

"I spy for the FBI, I got an X-ray camera hidden in your house."

"We're a couple of swells, We stop at the best hotels, But we prefer the country far away from the city smells."

"Cause my hair is curly and my teeth are pearly ...."

daniels 2nd artvert day

noreply@blogger.com (Daniel Marcus Clark) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:35:00 +0000

great day today! lots of artverts made. no pics this time but have set up a soundcloud, so if you click on the link below you can listen to what we've been making!

http://soundcloud.com/dmc_delawarr

All ears...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:36:00 +0000

We're back again at the De La Warr today for Part 3 of our participatory project - recording the voice of the Pavilion through the sounds of what's happening here during the Warhol Is Here exhibition. With the sound of Christmas carols echoing through the building, this session has been mellow and definitely festive. Here's what we heard...

Time: 14.41
Louisa de Silva
Aged 46

Downstairs a lady to another lady Looking at the Norma Jean
"Oh its Jean… Jean what was her name. Billie Jean"
Security Guy interrupts "Norma Jean not Billie Jean King"

Time: 14.58
Sandra
Aged 10

recorder
wind sssshhhhhhh waves
noisy footsteps
people walking
singing classics
music
people drinking
people talking

Time: 15.13
Sean
Aged 29

Clink,Clunk….five golden rings…
Clink,clunk,clink….three french hens
…..hmmm….squeak….bang…
Clip,Clop…lots of cows…
Click,Click,Click…….da dee dee dee
dum diddly doo dum…shuffle,sniffle,
….clap,squeak….oh well…..
Clip Clop……AAHGH

Time: 15.23
Max
Aged 10

Inside:
calm christmas music
clinking glasses
drone of people talking
Outside:
crash of waves
clatter of skateboards
screech of the seagulls

And finally thanks to David Wright for this beautiful poem inspired by the sounds of Warhol:

Vibrations in essence, resonate around and through me,
Music dances, filling the moments between chatter,
Humming creeks split the gentle motion of the sea,
Voice over voice, try to please, try to flatter,
Warhol on black, speaks in dark tone,
As the door slams behind him on a time that is gone,
Broken clicks of heels, as they stride cross the floor,
Out onto the sea and the sound of the shore.

Bobby America 10th December 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:02:00 +0000

The latest installment of Bobby America is audio only. Please do not adjust your sets...

lights! camera! action !

noreply@blogger.com (agentesse) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:46:00 +0000

A very busy afternoon at the "Look at me: Who am I?" photo booth with plenty of people prepared to try on groovy gloves, wavy wigs, twinkling tiaras and various superstar style accessories. The feather boa continues to be hugely popular and it is surprising how quickly the inner 'star' shines through !

Born to Boogie !

"Fetch me my longsword ..."

Ladies and gentlemen Hurry hurry hurry Step right up . .

"Who Me ?..."

Is it cos Im cool ?

"Is that a photographer I see before me?"

Abracadabra !

"I feel pretty, Oh so pretty .."

Altogether a fun afternoon with winter sunshine and a happy crowd all keen to be famous for
15 seconds.