ARTSIDE Wish you were here.....

Artside is now over for this year.  If you visited any or all of the artists then please help us to improve the event for 2011 by taking 2 minutes to fill in our feedback form here. 

All the input we can gather is really appreciated, we have tried to keep is as short as possible - thank you!

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Friday is the last chance to see art in all 17 Artside venues.
EVENT: 3-4pm, 1st Floor BHS - come to BHS to meet Jane Sealy and crochet
with her to add to her Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef sculpture.

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7-9pm - THE RAILWAY HOTEL (Upstairs) - Free
Closing party of the first edition of Artside, a project bringing art to
Southend High Street. Come to celebrate with us and tell us your comments.

KATY BEINART - A Guide of the Lost Legends of Southend on Sea
Katy Beinart's limited edition set of postcards will be available free at our closing party. The Guide consists of 9 postcards featuring building and places in Southend that have disappeared or have been altered significantly. Last week, she has also placed LOST posters at their original locations.

Also:
* Screening of short films about the sea and also of the ARTSIDE live events.
* ARTSIDE canvas bags and rock
* Hayley Lock limited edition print available to order (£30)

http://www.artside.org.uk/

See the website for artists info, maps and videos from ARTSIDE events.

BATHSHEBA SPORLE - Performance

NATASHA CARSBERG - Beach installation -

NATASHA VICARS  - Live art on the beach

SATURDAY 17 JULY


10.15am – simultaneous broadcast on Phoenix FM, Saint FM, Safe Radio
KELDA FREE & DAVID BRAZIER
Southend Serenade - 2010 marks the 90th anniversary of a world first in radio broadcasting. In June 1920, Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba travelled from London to Chelmsford. Her voice was heard hundreds of miles away by the lucky few who owned a radio receiver. A collective art duo, KELDA FREE & DAVID BRAZIER, invited the local radios to broadcast the song sung by Dame Melba all those years ago, to be heard once again in Southend.

2-3pm - BATHSHEBA SPORLE - performance at UTOPIA CAFE, Unit 2, Royals
BATHSHEBA SPORLE will be exploring the culture of violent teens and adults, using her fashion background to build a sculpture of a full body suit which takes the shape of a very powerful violent image that she remembers very well from her teen years.

3-5.30pm - NATASHA VICARS live art on the Southend Beach off Marine Parade (between TWO PEBBLES cafe and the jetty pier, next to Adventure Island)
Flowers for the Sea is a live art work where the artist will be asking visitors to step away from the seaside entertainments and take a moment to contemplate the sea - source of inspiration for countless novels and paintings, potent symbol, a body of water, to us unimaginably vast and strong. In doing so, she displaces a tradition from Brazil and, working from a flower stall on the beach, introduces individual participants to a practice that involves offering flowers into the waves.
Thank you to Derek's Florist for donating bucketfuls of beautiful flowers for the piece.

All day - NATASHA CARSBERG land art – site-specific installation on the Southend Beach off Marine Parade (between TWO PEBBLES cafe and the jetty pier, next to Adventure Island)
Natasha will be arriving to Southend early in the morning when the tide is out - in time for some beach-combing. She will then create an installation (about 9 x 9ft) out of found elements. The piece will stay on the beach until disassembled by the wind, the sea and beach-goers.

SUNDAY 18 JULY

10-6pm - LAURA KEEBLE
An outdoor sculpture outside Starbucks on the Southend High Street.

From 12pm - BIRGIT DEUBNER
A procession led by the artist will move between the 18 ARTSIDE venues. Beaks will be worn by all participants of a silent flock  expressing curiosity and interest in city locations, people, and primarily the art venues around which the flock of 'intruders / visitors' will periodically huddle looking in through the windows, and thus drawing attention to these places.

 

JANE SEALY's Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef has been installed at BHS - you can find it next to Sally Kidall's work upstairs, next to the hairdressers. The crochet coral reef fuses science and mathematics with fine art and handcraft. It is made up of crocheted pieces that replicate the forms of natural coral. The original project was organised by the Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles. Come to meet the artist on Friday 23rd July at 4-5pm and crochet your piece of coral to add to the reef!

It was a perfect, sunny day for the beach yesterday so it was easy for Lois Elizabeth Taylor to find willing participants for her live art piece - Fish in the Sea.
It consisted of playing a board game exploring chance, decision, opportunity, hope and fear.

Don't miss tomorrow's performance on the beach by LOIS ELIZABETH TAYLOR - look for a flower stall! SUNDAY 11 JULY 2-4pm - for location see the events' map.

Helen Sturgess is sending daily postcards to Waterstone's on the High Street with updates of her activities. Four have been received already and you can see and read them in their shop window.

Her collaborative land art piece with Jessica Fuller consists of 50 pink stripes with individual memories of lost items. As with any outside installations, the duration is unpredictable, so you might just be lucky to see few last strands before sea takes them:

Today, the first ARTSIDE performance took place at UTOPIA by Ann Harvey - see a short video below: