TIME TRACE PLACE
Video-art Details:
Time-Trace-Place 12 June 2018
Performance Film 0:58
Video Gav Osborn
Artists/Performers – Gary Farr – trumpet, Rachel Graff – voice & violin, Sarah Keirle – voice & viola, Gavin Osborn – flute and Clare Wardman – experimental drawing and materials
Location Borlase Smart Studio and Fishermen’s Cellar 4, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall, UK
‘2nd – 15th June 2018 – A collaborative residency, site and place-specific performative installation for Porthmeor Artists’ Studios and Fishermen’s Cellars, St Ives, Cornwall, UK.’
www.time-trace-place.weebly.com
Collaborative Artists and Musicians:
Gary Farr – Trumpeter, Co-founder of the Vonnegut Collective, and Member of the BBC Philharmonic
vonnegutcollective.co.uk
Rachel Graff – Composer, performer and educator with a specialism in open-form scores
rachelgraff.com
Sarah Kierle – Violist, Singer, Composer and Sound Designer
Sarah Keirle | Electroacoustic Composer | Manchester (wixsite.com)
Gavin Osborn – Project Co-ordinator, Flautist, Composer and Cross-disciplinary Artist
gavinosborn.weebly.com
Clare Wardman – Visual Artist-Expanded Painting: Architectural Intervention, Installation, Moving Image and Performance
clarewardman.com
Nina Whiteman – Singer and Composer, Co-director of Trio Atem, Educator with University of Manchester & Royal Northern College of Music
‘…memory, history, change, the fragment, layers, palimpsests, the physical, the numinous;
what trace brings, what it leaves, the traces we find, the traces we make, & the traces we follow onwards.
Our site & its situation exemplify this in ways literal & metaphorical – both Porthmeor Studios & St Ives show complex active layers of uses & relationships historical & current through a continuum of occupancy over time.
Our collaboration becomes both investigation & embodiment of our theme: a continuum of activity, enacted in real time, in situ, cumulative over the course of the residency, sensitive to materiality of place & to human & natural processes. This is reflected in how we bring together sound, visual art media, film, & text: each medium affects the other as visual art becomes scores, found materials become instruments, & beyond.
We explore all this via a collaboration of different perspectives – visual & interdisciplinary artists, musicians, composers all bring their personal & particular investigations. These elements are brought together over the fortnight, with the installation gradually accumulating & being transformed through our collaborative practice, a structured process working across two spaces.
These spaces are kept open to the public – audiences are able to experience the working process as the installation grows around them each day, as well as informal & formal live performances with Q&A sessions, creating a unique open-access experience for audiences of all ages & backgrounds.’
Gavin Osborn Project Co-ordinator
Creative Partners: Arts Council England, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Charitable Trust and Rotary St Ives