Artists participating in ARTSIDE 2011
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20/20 Group |
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Karen AppsVenue: The Southend Museum
An installation - a memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. (Edward de Bono) Website |
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Julia BarclayVenue: Performance 16 JULY 8pm - The Railway Hotel
The artist will be making poetry out of found text and video and images collected in Southend. See the result at the Railway Hotel! Website |
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Alexander BarrettVenue: Performance - a 'bedtime story' event' on 9 July 7 and 8pm - a hotel room at The Park Inn Palace Hotel
'The Somnambulist’s doppelgänger is the poltergeist, and the price for a good night’s sleep here is your life.' BOOKING ESSENTIAL | PLACES ARE VERY LIMITED | ROOM NUMBER TO BE ANNOUNCED ON THE NIGHT Website |
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Richard BaxterVenue: The Southend Museum
Hoard - pots made onsite at Southend Museum responding to the displays, allowed to dry, then immersed in water until returned to mud. It is a timeline and a cycle. Website |
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Amelia Beavis-HarrisonVenue: Installation + Performance on 9 July - Venues incl. New Look and Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe
SUCK IT! – This art work contains e-numbers / DIY performances where a pause becomes a wait, and a suck becomes an endurance. Performance + stickers in four locations from 9 July. Website |
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Melanie BodaVenue: The South Essex College
An art gallery inside a portable toilet cubicle, showcasing photographs of toilet signs from public venues in Southend. Website |
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Holly BodmerVenue: performance at The Pier
I AM HERE AND YOU ARE NOT! - a spoken performance about writing postcards Website |
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Christopher BondVenue: The Pier
Text-based installations speculating upon human relations and the English Coastline Website |
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Stuart Bowditch & Damien RobinsonVenue: Victoria Shopping Centre
Signpost is a site-specific multi-sensory installation where audiences experience sounds recorded as journeys through the town to which it points. Website |
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Stuart BowditchVenue: Buzz Box (1st Fl) Victoria Shopping Centre
British Aisles (Electronic Version) is a preview of Stuart's third printed collection of poetry, all inspired by shops and shopping. Website |
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Scotty Brave1 |
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Keshet BuckleVenue: The Utopia
Southend-on-Sea People - a series of postcards exploring how a place is defined by those who live there, drawn from donated, 'found' and covertly photographed images, the perfect seaside souvenirs. Website |
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Sally ChineaVenue: Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe
Installation about feelings and emotions this shop generates... wonder,excess, indulgence, overall overload of the sences (much like most of 21st century life)... Website |
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Maia ConranVenue: Victoria Shopping Centre, The Pier, Waterstone's etc.
Posters for places to pause in Southend are proposed by the artist, marked by posters and leaflets... these places emphasise the temporary nature of a pause. Website |
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DisinformationVenue: Sound installation - 9 July 6-10pm only, a room at the Park Inn Palace Hotel
Rorschach Audio - a ghost voice soundtrack based on a research project studying the psychoacoustics of allegedly supernatural phenomena Website |
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Alena DostalovaVenue: The Royals
A one-day survey, during which the artist will navigate herself around the town according to interaction with locals, capturing their opinions, stories and on-the-spot recommendation. Resulting photos at the Royals. Website |
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Denise W DyeVenue: The Pier Train
Photographs taken around the Pier, displayed on the train: 'the river captured in the fragment of a second / the underside of the seaside' Website |
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Footprints Theatre CompanyVenue: Performance 9 July, Southend High Street
Talk to Me - You never quite know what you'll find, or who you'll meet in the Town Centre! Website |
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Morag Keil |
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Amy FramptonVenue: Performance at Victoria Shopping Centre
A passive, several days-long performance in the first week of Artside - the artist will dwell within a transitional space for the duration of one week, studying the quintessence of the psychology within the spatial environment. See the resulting film will be shown at Artside Cinema, Southend University 9-10 July Website |
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Carl GentVenue: Clarence Yard and postcards around the town
The Southend is Nigh - Altered Southend tourist postcards to with images of sublime destruction as foretold by various apocalypticists throughout history... Website |
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Dustin GrellaVenue: See previous animations on a TV every weekend 10-4pm at the Royals
Animation Hotline - a NY-based filmmaker creates animations out of messages left on his phone. Every day he choose one to turn into a film. Leave a message on +1 212-683-2490 and you might see your message animated and shown at Artside Website |
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Elsa JamesVenue: Celly's Hairdressers - weekends only 10-4pm
Inscriptions - 8m 49s video shown to the customers at the hairdressers, which documents a number of performances to examine black femininity, revealing 'cracks in hegemonic black beauty'. Website |
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Miss Annabel Dee
Venue: The Railway Hotel
Ceramic pieces made with images and observations from the Railway Hotel costumers. Website |
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Laura Keeble
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Laura KennedyVenue: Various toilets at Southend High Street
A series of small hand-stamped soaps detailing intimate fears and pressures that the audience is invited to wash away, they will be left at random public toilets around the Southend High Street. Website |
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Josh LanganVenue: The Railway Hotel upstairs - weekends only
Mud and Guts - Sound / Film installation documenting the artist's explorations of Southend's subterranean. image : courtesy Peter Brenchley |
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Mark Langley
Venue: The Pier & Park Inn Palace Hotel
Performance /Photos - The artist finds memorial benches, sits on them and contemplates the once favoured view from each eponymous bench, which results in a series of photographs. Website |
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Lizzy Le Quesne
Venue: 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... Website |
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Life is Elsewhere
Venue: Performance and events 2 July 12-4pm, The Royals
Video screening also on 9-10 July 2-5 at Southend University Website |
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Anna Lukala
Venue: Tomassi's
Photographs: Documenting the ordinary / Creating dialogue by participation You can find Anna Lukala in Tomassi's Saturday 02/07/2011 from 11 am Anyone is welcome to participate and you won't leave empty handed... if you get there quick! Website |
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Sally Mumby-Croft
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Gillian McIver & Catia Ott
Venue: Park Inn Palace Hotel
The Landscape of Pleasure - a short film made about Southend by Parallel Project Production (Gillian McIver & Katia Ott - writers / directors/ camera / Nazir Tanbouli - editor Website |
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Kate Murdoch
Venue: Various venues and High Street
STOP LOOK LISTEN - The seaside historically is a place to relax and put your worries and cares to one side; this piece invites you to take time out to do just that. Website |
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Madelaine Murphy
Venue: Pier Hill 2 July
Plumbum Visual Arts Dovecote: made from architectural and nautical salvage, it celebrates the cultural wealth of Essex. The public are asked to contribute to the artwork to complete it's intention. Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Website Venue: Cafe Society Birdbox: the comfort, the romance, the reality, the idea or ideal of what 'home' can mean. 16 sculptures, 16 days, exploring our relationship with food. Website Venue: 9 July 10-5pm - ARTSIDE Market at Elmer Approach artbookart - installation of altered and manipulated books, open to the public to interact with Website |
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John O'Hare
Venue: Adventure Island
The Strange Elixir - In these Southend waters ancient relics do lie - rumoured to hold the power to disperse both cloud and fog; they bring good fortune but also given rise to mysterious aquatic plant species... Website |
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Ann Rapstoff
Venue: Performance Sun 10 July 12-4pm at Utopia
Office for the Dissemination of Sympathy - a mobile office research space set up to provide the public with sympathy as and when needed. A participatory work. Website |
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Steve Rosenthal
Venue: Ticket office at The Pier
Postcards and an electronic message at the Pier's ticket office Website |
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Tony Stallard
Venue: Southend Radio - 1 July only
First Breath - Neon and Helium Balloons - a response to the nature of the amusement park and its poetic relation to the material world Website |
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Helen Stratford - urban (col)laboratory
Venue: The Pier
Please Wait Here: Instructions for performing a queue for a pleasure pier train A DIY performance Website |
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L H TrevailVenue: Cafe Society at the Victoria Shopping Centre
Uncollectables - A small display of uncollectable toys, created in collaboration with a local ebay seller. Website |
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Trotter SistersVenue: Unit 24-25 Royals + 9 July Artside market on Elmer Approach
Trotter Sisters will be live and direct and causing a pausing down artside. Abundance and lack, cake and size zero. We are on a journey. Website |
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Fran Wilde
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Sue Willis
Venue: Performance, Sat 10 July 1pm Southend High Street
Connecting both ends of Artside, the artist will undertake a journey that represents a very personal response to Southend and its High Street. Website |
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Nicholas Wright
Venue: Argos, Victoria Shopping Centre
A collage made from Argos catalogues presents a visual archive of the areas most at risk of sudden change due to human intervention - bits of scrub land fields and meadows. Website |
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Stephanie Wuertz
Venue: Shakeaway
Video Magic Kingdom - Waves of neon light unleash a sea of pastel visions carrying bittersweet memories of childhood back to haunt. Website |