Archive | 2011

ARTSIDE 2011 ARCHIVE PAGE

2011 BLOG and VIDEOS - see below

2011 ARTISTS and short description - click here

2011 photos from all Artside events - click here

ARTSIDE - last weekend

This Saturday - 16 July - is the last day of Artside so have a look at the art exhibition in the Southend venues.

+ 16 July 8pm at the Railway Hotel:
JUST KILL ME NOW! - The Poetry of Southend-on-Sea
Come and join us at 8pm for a 20-minute performance by Julia Lee Barclay. Julia's poetry + visuals performance piece is made by cutting up found words recorded in a notebook, along with video and photos taken in abandoned buildings, on the pier, the amusement park and the seaside when she visited Southend few weeks ago.

Holly Bodmer

Holly Bodmer performance poetry piece I AM HERE AND YOU ARE NOT! at the end of the Pier last Sunday was about writing postcards:

Oliver Guy-Watkins - video from event

Oliver Guy-Watkins turned the seafront scene into a winter one with fake snow every hour from 12-4pm on 2 July:

Madelaine Murphy - video about Birdbox

Madelaine Murphy has been installing a birdbox made of food, every day of Artside:

DIY performance from Amelia Beavis-Harrison

Amelia Beavis-Harrison installed four large sticker at Mr Simms sweet shop, the Royals, Shakeaway and New Look, involving passers-by in a pausing game with sweets. You can still visit these venues , take a sweet from a nearby jar and perform, until 16 July:

Park Inn Palace Hotel performance event

On Saturday 9 July, we held a performance event at Park Inn Palace Hotel. Alex Barrett read his spooky bedtime story with the background sound from Disinformation. The performance started at 7pm and was repeated again at 8pm, with a new audience.

ARTSIDE photos and videos:

At the Artside market on Saturday, Kate Murdoch asked passers-by to fill in a postcard with what they thought we should Stop /Look /Listen - see the results on her website HERE.

Trotter Sisters stall's highlight was their 'lunch' at 3.30pm:

Connecting both ends of Artside, SUE WILLIS undertook a journey that represents a very personal response to Southend and its High Street:

Saturday 9th July - Aftermath

Thank to today's wonderful performers, especially Footprints Theatre Co., Sue Willis, Amelia Beavis-Harrison, and Kate Murdoch, Trotter Sisters and artbookart in the Artside Market.

Lots more to come tomorrow in the High Street:
Josh Langan 10am -3pm - Railway Hotel Pub, Mud and Guts - a sound/film installation documenting the artist's explorations of Southend's subterranean. Have a play and take control of the pause button!
2-2.20pm – The Pier
HOLLY BODMER – I am here and you are not! – a spoken performance about writing postcards
2-5pm – University of Essex, Elmer Approach
ARTSIDE CINEMA – a pop-up cinema with all Artside films

Saturday 9 July events

Come down to Southend High Street this weekend for some more art interventions!
ARTSIDE MARKET (including Trotter Sisters with their Size Zero project) is on Elmer Approach from 10-5pm, with ARTSIDE CINEMA next to it from 2-3pm. Have a chat with a red telephone performer outside Odeon Cinema and from 1pm, SUE WILLIS starts her moving performance here.
Meet at 2pm outside Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe for AMELIA BEAVIS-HARRISON's Suck It intervention in four venues.
Few places are still available for the evening 'BEDTIME STORY' performance at Park Inn Palace Hotel - BOOK HERE.
For more details, click HERE.

6 July - Keep your eyes open

New works and interventions are being added throughout the week during ARTSIDE, so keep checking the website to see what is going on...
Things to look out for -
Laura Kennedy's soaps crop up at various public toilets
Madelaine' Murphy, a new foody bird box everyday at Cafe Society, Victoria shopping centre
Richard Baxter, daily at the Southend Museum
Laura Keeble, around and about the place
and more...

2 July - Kate Murdoch | In Case you missed it!

2 July - Josh Langan

Saturdays! 10am -3pm - Railway Hotel Pub
Mud and Guts - Sound / Film installation documenting the artist's explorations of Southend's subterranean. Have a play and take control of the pause button! For dates see EVENTS

1 July - Lizzy Le Quesne

Performance 1-3 July 12-5pm at Southend University, Elmer Approach

Moving and writing, the artist makes direct engagement between body and space, bringing inner sensation and awareness of body into dialogue with outer environment...

TO SEE ALL EVENTS THAT ARE ON this weekend 2-3 JULY - go to EVENTS.

1 July - Richard Baxter | HOARD - Day 1

Several dry but unfired pots relating to the timeline of the history of pottery making are lined up. These pots are facsimiles of ones on show in the museum which were all made or found in the Southend area.
Each day one pot is immersed in the bowl and allowed to dissolve back into mud.
Each pot contains ‘treasure’ (kept in bank cash bags) which is revealed as the pot breaks down.
Each successive pot represents a later time period, and may be in a different clay colour to result in stratification of the sediment.
time lapse video of HOARD collapsing here

1 July - Tomorrow in Tomassi

Anna Lukala will be at Tomassi's on Sat 02/07/11, from 11am continuing her Artside project. Go down and participate. You won't leave empty handed! (If you're quick, that is!)

1 July - Madelaine Murphy
Bird Box No1 'Cherry and a Flake'

This is to be a series of birdboxes - 16 days - 16 sculptures, explores notions of sexuality through the icon of a birdbox or nesting box, and the ideas about 'home' - what that means - temporary or permanent, at home where we are, in our own skins, and how often we want to be somewhere else - a wistfulness or hankering for escapism - going on holidays, travelling... and the yearning to go home, quite often not to a place but a time in memory, as the physical place of home is a constantly changing physical space, place, reflecting the constant change in our lives.

30 June - Helen Stratford | 'Please Wait Here'

Instructions for performing a queue for a pleasure pier train, Do It Yourself Performances for Southend-on Sea

30 June - The Thames Estuary Dovecote at Pier Hill this Saturday

Join us this Saturday 2nd July and make a piece of origami to add to the Dovecote, or bring your bus ticket or your parking ticket - something to do with your journey and add it to this piece of artwork beautifully crafted from local salvage.

See you there!

28 June - Bed Time Story Event BOOK NOW

To book your place at either 7pm or 8pm, please book your place here. The places are limited and will be allocated on first-come, first-served basis. We'll contact you to confirm your booking.

The room number will be revealed to participants on the day of the event by a txt message and email.

27 June - Four days to go...

The events taking place over the next few weeks have been announced! Check out the times, dates and places here.

25 June - Call for interns

We are still looking for few interns to help with installation of the work, performance and promoting the events. Contact us here.

22 June - Artside Programme

18 June - Artside 2011 artists announced

Click here to see the artists participating this year! Apart from art in 24 venues, there will be a special Artside market on the 9th July and lots of interventions and performances on the High St - more details coming soon.

1 June - Julia Barclay

Julia Barclay came to Southend yesterday to collect images of local signs and graffiti to make into a poetry and visual performance piece which will take place on 16 July 8pm at The Railway Hotel.

Read more about her trip here.

2010 Archive

Did you miss Artside last year? See the video from Birgit Deubner's performance (image on the left)
and more archive footage from last year's events HERE.

Birgit Deubner: A procession led by the artist moved among all ARTSIDE venues. Beaks were worn by all participants of a silent flock expressing curiosity and interest in town’s locations, people, and primarily the art venues around which the flock of ‘intruders / visitors’ huddled looking in through the windows, and thus drawing attention to these places.

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