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Outcomes and papers from the RURAL
ART SPACE Symposium are online now:
www.ruralartspace.net
The Symposium took place in January 2007 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire(UK)
and was part of a two months myvillages.org project called Why
We Left the Village and Came Back. The symposium was a partnership
venture between myvillages.org, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
and the School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton
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myvillages.org in residency at Grizedale Arts
Grizedale Arts (www.grizedale.org)
runs an extremely interesting programme from its base in the
Lake Disctrict, a rural and highly touristic area in the North
West of England. Every year Grizedale invites six artists
and artist groups for a residency to develop a proposal on
an open brief basis.
Wapke and Kathrin spent a week in the Lake District in late March 2007, to see and hear more from the team running Grizedale Arts. They literally went to visit places where Grizedale takes or took place, to get a better understanding of the different networks and groups involved in the various strands of the programme.
We had many conversations with Adam, Alistair, Karen and
Lisa, during lunch, site visits, evening drinks, dinners,
gardening sessions, walks across the woods, drives along the
curvy roads of the Lake District, tea brakes at the Grizedale
Forest visitors centre, etc.
At the moment it's completely open where our proposal might
go. What seems certain is that we would like to develop a
proposal/collaboration with Grizedale, rather than thinking
of a project for Grizedale.
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To follow the development of our ideas and the discussion
around it, visit the myvillages.org blog on the Grizedale
website. Comments welcome! Click >>here.
To read the e-mail conversation between Antje, Kathrin
and Wapke in preparation of their residency, click >>here.
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Nov 06 – 20 Jan 07
A Shrewsbury Museum and Gallery and mediamaker project
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK
Why we left the village and came back
An exhibition and events programme that looks at the rural environment
as a space for contemporary art practice. The two months programme
explores the rural environment as a place for art production,
a new socio-cultural place and a space for critical reflection.
The project is devised by the artist collective myvillages.org
on invitation by Shrewsbury Museum and Gallery, with the aim
to explore curatorial strategies for the rural space. >>more
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myvillages.org is an international,
non-profit cultural organisation which aims to address the
discrepancy and synchronism between urban and rural cultural
development. "The village" as an origin, location
and concept is at the core of the objectives and programme
of myvillages.org.
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myvillages.org is initiated by
the artists Kathrin Böhm (D/UK), Wapke Feenstra (NL)
and Antje Schiffers (D) and registered as a International
Stichting in the Netherlands. Current members of the board
are Claudia Büttner (Curator, kunstprojekte_riem, Munich),
Nathalie Castilla Serrano Houtermans (Curator, Mixtura, Rotterdam)
and Gavin Wade (Artist-Curator, London).
The aim of myvillages.org is
to initiate discussion and practice-based projects, which
address the notion of village within contemporary cultural
discourse and development. As an umbrella organisation myvillages.org
will initiate and host various projects, which look at particular
issues or areas. Each project will have its own programming/managing
and advisory board. More about my villages.org >>here.
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