EASTwork
14 July – 18 August
Four artists selected to show in EASTinternational have been commissioned to produce work for public spaces in and around Norwich.
French|Mottershead
Shops
Live and work in London
French|Mottershead bring their site-based photographic work ‘Shops’ to Norwich. Staff of selected city-centre shops invite their customers to return at a specific time and date for a group photo shoot outside their shop. Buyer and seller renegotiate their daily encounter and become involved in making the artwork. The resulting images are given to the shops and displayed for the duration of Contemporary Art Norwich 2007. They will appear in the Norwich Advertiser distributed on 6 July 2007 and at Tourist Information Centres.
Arni Haraldsson
Beautiful Brutalism
Lives and works in Vancouver
Much of Haraldsson’s work is concerned with capturing the ‘recent past’ and lost aspiration of Utopian Modernist Architecture. As his contribution to EASTwork he has photographed the concrete buildings in the landscape at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and has produced the booklet ‘Beautiful Brutalism’ with a text on Denys Lasdun by the architectural historian Dr Stefan Muthesius. The booklet will be distributed in Tourist Information Centres in Norwich. Haraldsson’s photographs will also appear at bus stop sites in the centre of Norwich at Debenhams and St Stephen’s. A talk and tour will commence from Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at UEA on 19 July at 1.15pm.
Eva Hertzsch and Adam Page
Art At The Grove
Live and work in Berlin
Hertzsch and Page are concerned with sharing responsibilities, particularly within residential neighbourhoods where they feel the living environment and social fabric offers time and space for encountering art and exchanging views. Hertzsch and Page have run a series of drawing workshops in West Norwich bringing together the residents with artists. Those attending the course were asked to interview their friends and family about their own ideas concerning cultural experiences such as hobbies and leisure activities in exchange for a drawing they have made. A final exhibition and presentation of the works will be held at The Grove Inn, Cadge Road, West Earlham, Norwich on Sunday 15 July at 1pm.
Ron Tran
Old/New Meridian (St Benet’s Level Mill, Thurne)
Lives and works in Vancouver
Tran’s work consistently examines and highlights the everyday, meshing together mundane activities, events and objects, and often subverting them to create new meanings and interpretations. Having purchased a picture postcard of a Norwich sunset, Tran hopes to go on a quest with local musicians to find the original location where the image was taken, reframe the scene and record the remaining sunset from the point in time where the photo left off. A musical score will accompany the video work and will be shown in Norwich Market near where the postcard was originally purchased.
Further information on these projects and their locations can be obtained by visiting EASTinternational at Norwich Gallery and Norwich School of Art & Design.
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