Announcing Richard Shields (EVF)- The Curfew Tower- IMPOSE||LIFT Artist in Residence.
We are pleased to announce that Richard Shields has been sent to The Curfew Tower prison from which he aims to rise through the ranks of his own organisation- The EVF. Richard has been selected due to his approach of blurring lines between his life and work- he describes “carrying out residencies in his own life.” Richard’s work becomes an unfolding document of his passage through this world often opening us up to fictional worlds and warping perceptions. Exploration via drawing and performance art bring together the live and the laboured processes that constitute his new worlds that lend from art history, personal history and local history often drawing the audience into the process.
Richard Shields is a Manchester based
artist in that much of his early career involved responding to sites
located in the city, surround by a local peer group. The artist went
on to develop a studio practice referencing personal situations from
his life there, however Shields is not from Manchester. Originally
from Bangor, County Down in Northern Ireland, Shields moved to
Manchester looking for something different.
Having been brought up, unbaptized in
an apolitical house by parents of Catholic and Protestant heritage
Shields was not influenced by one of the country’s prominent
political or religious viewpoints, which resulted in a diminished
sense of national identity and tribal unity.
Growing up in Northern Ireland in the
80’s and 90’s Shields was witness to news reports of violent
acts, political speeches, heavy police and army presence, bonfires,
marches, sectarian graffiti drawn on random objects and painted on
community walls and stories of mysterious characters who would go in
and out of prison throughout ‘the troubles’ only to find a new
lease of life, leaving prison behind them.
Announcing current Curfew Tower, IMPOSE||LIFT artists in residence- Juliet Davis and Hannah Leighton-Boyce.
The Penthouse are happy to announce the next artists to take on The Curfew Tower and call Cushendall their home are Juliet Davis and Hannah Leighton-Boyce selected due to their responsive and process driven practices that revel in the power of the moment.
“We
will be travelling to Cushendall by bike and ferry, taking the time
to physically experience the journey, going against accelerations of
time to re-engage with our own rhythms. This slowing down will allow
conversations between ourselves and people we meet along the way to
grow and develop, and will prepare us for the experience of
restriction embodied in The Curfew Tower.
Throughout
the residency we will continue to explore the contrast between the
liberation experienced through movement/travelling and the
physicality of restriction in relation to gender, the body, landscape
and the voice. During the whole of the residency we will be
‘unavailable’ and ‘inactive’, exchanging the dissembodied
interaction of screen based presence and the ‘being’ or ‘online
voice’ (communication criticized for resounding within an echo
chamber) with the isolation of the tower and physical presence of
being in and engaging with life and people in Cushendall.
We
will be developing conversations around physicality and power of the
voice as pure sound expression, its universality, physicality and
intimacy as way of listening, sharing, resisting and opposing”.
Juliet Davis:
The works Juliet Davis creates take hybrid forms between live performance, intervention,
installation, video and publication; exploring both lived,
experienced spaces and the gaps between social conventions to propose
new ways to inhabit the everyday. Davis uses pre-existing movements,
situations, words or shapes from our daily lives which are shifted
and made uncanny, creating awkward situations which blur the lines
between ‘art’ and life.
Juliet Davis studied a BA Visual Art at EESAB School (Rennes,
France) and BA Interactive Arts (Manchester School of Art, UK), and
graduated from an MFA at EESAB Rennes in 2014. She has exhibited,
performed and given talks and workshops in various art centers and
festivals including Bétonsalon (Paris), Inact (Strasbourg),
Excentricités (Besançon), BaM// (Chambéry) Manchester Art Gallery
and The Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester), The Manchester
Contemporary (Manchester), BALTIC (Newcastle-Gateshead), Harris
Flights (Preston), HEAD (Geneva), and Depo (Istanbul). She’s
co-founder of LEGROOM with artist/choreographer Amy Lawrence, a
movement/art platform exploring the possibilities of what movement
can be, which has recently opened a space in Manchester city centre,
supported by Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces.
Hannah
Leighton-Boyce is a Manchester based artist whose
works explore present day and historical narratives surrounding
objects and place through site-specific actions, sculpture,
drawing, sound and installation. Her working process combines
research and an exploration of process and materials. She is
interested the performative nature of objects; the qualities of
surface, stories and impressions made on it by its original function
and points of friction between these narratives, surfaces, and
ourselves.
Recent
works have derived from museum archives and found objects that
explore politics of labour and industrial legacy including; a
collaborative live sculpture made with residents of Helmshore,
Lancashire (2014), set within the context of the area’s industrial
heritage; and a sound installation at Touchstones Rochdale (2016)
funded by a New Opportunities Award, which explored the resonant
properties and work history of objects from the museum’s
collection. She is currently developing research through a residency
at Glasgow Women’s Library for an exhibition at Castlefield Gallery
in 2018.
Hannah Leighton-Boyce- The Event of the Thread (2014)
Juliet Davis- MULL IT OVER
(with them), durational intervention by LEGROOM in the Whitworth
Art Gallery, WARP Festival, 2016. image: from video by Sophie
Broadgate
Juliet Davis- I was the assembly hall, video by Juliet Davis, Sophie Lee and Horace Lindezey, part of Outsiderxchanges project, 2016.
Hannah Leighton-Boyce- Instruments of Industry (2016)
Announcing next Curfew Tower 17 IMPOSE||LIFT artists in residence:
Mary
Stark and David Chatton Barker
Since
meeting at a carboot sale in 2014, Mary Stark & David Chatton
Barker fell in love and began continuously documenting their everyday
lives
through tape recording, photography, hi8 video and 16mm film. They
have collaboratively produced a number of tracks released through
Folklore Tapes, as well as an EP ‘Instantaneous Spontaneity’ in
spring 2017 through Hoodfaire
The act of making artworks as gifts for one other has resulted in a
private archive of multifarious items such as a number of vinyl
dubplates, text works, zines and photographic prints.
More
recently Mary & David have created expanded cinema performances
with live soundtracks, often involving playful exploration of light
and analogue projection, handmade instruments and drawing upon
domestic rituals, such as bread making and headstands. Field trips to
remote rural locations and megalithic sites allow underlying energies
and ephemeral aspects of the landscape to lead them serendipitously
astray in elemental improvisations, interventions and unplanned
performances, always documented through sound recording and film.
They recently performed at Rogue Cinema in Manchester, CineCycle in
Toronto and Supernormal Festival in Oxfordshire.
We are pleased to announce the first round of resident artists for our curatorship of The Curfew Tower.
Artists will undertake residencies for IMPOSE||LIFT exploring their situation to the tower and the surrounding town of Cushendall considering themes of restriction and liberation of action and in action.
We will be sharing more about each artists in coming weeks.
Our first resident artist is Sandra Bouguerch who will be exploring experiences in life comparable to being physically situated in a tower.
Followed by Sophie Cooper who will be taking the chance to collaborate with
Natalia Beylis from Woven Skull / Hunters Moon Fest and inviting locals to an open house.
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Impose||Lift is supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts.
The Penthouse take over the curatorship of the The Curfew Tower.
A curfew is imposed or lifted. A blockage remains blocked or is shifted. Art can be imposed on a person or persons- Art can lift a person or persons. Action and In Action. Restriction and Liberation. You must do something. Now? You must take notice?
The title IMPOSE|LIFT is related to the idea of Curfew in artistic, societal and political terms taking into consideration ideas of restriction and liberation. Artists are invited to respond to the theme and interrogate their own position within the unique situation of The Curfew Tower and the town of Cushendall. An artist could explore identity, gender, racism, conflict, feminism, or gay rights when exploring what it means to put yourself into a tower today- previously used for imprisonment.
Artists and musicians selected by The Penthouse are invited to be awake and alive to The Curfew Tower for a self directed residency period during which they must accept the challenge to make their least compromised work. They will live in the tower but they must resist having four walls around them. They will be introduced to the town of Cushendall and over a period of time and related events including The Festival of The Glens and they will become part of the unique Curfew Tower family.
The Penthouse - is an artist led project space in Manchester city centre’s Northern Quarter founded and ran by artists Rosanne Robertson and Debbie Sharp- described as “ad hoc art space the Penthouse…is the best of the Northern Quarter” in Tony Naylor’s Alt City Guide to Manchester (The Guardian) and as “Elevating Manchester’s underground to the top floor of a tower block” by Frances Morgan (The Wire).
Our Penthouse exists in a strange series of Penthouses all around the world- most of these spaces used to display and house wealth and objects- women often used as objects in this scenario. These shiny boxes are built on racism, sexism and slavery. Displays of power at the top of the tower. Our Penthouse holds anOTHER power- and believes in the Other, the Outsider and the magical powers of every marginalized person.
The Curfew Tower is many things… One of those things is that it belongs to Bill Drummond (also magical) There are many books you could find about The Curfew Tower and many ways you can get involved.
During last October’s Exchange Rates expo in Brooklyn we talked to Sluice__ about what running an arts project means to us during a break from our residency on the rooftop of Vazquez ( A new arts building project) making performance work, sound collage and site specific interventions.
This series of interviews is called Encounters- if you liked our encounter- you might be interested in the others from Exchange Rates https://sluice.info/encounters
- a residency project and exhibition of indeterminacy on the Vazquez Building rooftop in Bushwick, Brooklyn as part of Exchange Rates produced by Sluice_ Theodore Arts and Centotto.
(on the corner of Central Ave and Forrest St, Brooklyn, NY 11206)
(Donation bar located in Vazquez, Donation entry to performances)
Paradiso Project:
Is a short residency project and subsequent exhibition of site specific works by artists Rosanne Robertson, Debbie Sharp, Louise Woodcock & Neil Francis (2 Koi Karp) and Benjamin McChrystal Plimmer. We will exchange our elevated position in Manchester, UK to an elevated position in Brooklyn, NY and respond to the unique site to make new works shared in various stages. Works will include longstanding and recent relationships with structure, performance, improvisation, site, sound and space.
During Paradiso Project we will occupy spheres of fire believed to exist in the earth’s upper atmosphere.
Noise Above Noise events:
Friday 24th October. 6-10pm Beat Nite Special followed by Beat Nite after party 10pm- 12am.
As part of Beat Nite by Andrew Jason & Norte Maar The Penthouse hosts a special Noise Above Noise with a rooftop performance installation by Rosanne Robertson, Debbie Sharp, Louise Woodcock & Neil Francis (2 Koi Karp) and Benjamin McChrystal Plimmer. Plus we have a set by special guest artist Maria Chavez- we we are excited to share this rooftop stage with.
Finale:
Noise Above Noise- Sat 25 Oct- 7-10pm
A one off Noise Above Noise event made up of performance works with sounds inspired by The Paradiso Project. The line up will be made extra electric by the addition of MV Carbon.
The Penthouse:
“The Penthouse is an independent not for profit artist led work and project space in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.
The Penthouse is the place to get your heads and hands dirty with ideas and new beginnings which fly from our rooftops directly into the city around us and beyond. The Penthouse is host to sound art project Noise Above Noise and was described in a feature by The Wire as “Performance series Noise Above Noise elevates Manchester’s underground scene to the fifth floor of a tower block”. We believe space for artists to do what they want is important and precious and that relationships with our audiences should be open and direct. We are a 5* Non Luxury art space. ”
Exchange Rates:
“The Bushwick Expo is the first collaboration between existing artist-run and emerging galleries in Bushwick and Sluice, the London-based art initiative for artist-run projects from across the UK and Europe. Projects from Sluice’s network of UK and European galleries will share space with existing Bushwick spaces to forge links and find common ground across a vast geographical sweep.
Exchange Rates invites representatives from kindred art communities to be part of Bushwick’s development. With a common focus on public engagement, artistic collaboration and the transferal of ideas, Exchange Rates will engender creative transaction between galleries, artists, curators and members of the public. There will be 52 galleries and projects participating from 19 different cities around the world. The expo will include several panel discussions, performance events and Norte Maar’s Beat Nite, a late night gallery tour and after-party on Friday. “
As part of the ‘From the Rooftops’ series at The Penthouse 2 Koi Karp have been residents of Suite 2 since November 2013- they will open up their world of magick, waterfalls, skreaks, tapes and hiccups to the public for one night only on Friday January 17th.
tapes, screaks, muzak, magick…
2 Koi Karp create a conflict of sound using noise/melody, analog/digital, beat/ambience using tapes, kids instruments, vocals and objects.
Members: Neil Francis (ex-Gnod and recent addition to Terminal Cheesecake) and Louise Woodcock (AKA Her Majesty’s Pleasure, sound/visual artist and member of Poppycock with Una Baines, ex-Womb) began in earnest early this year with the acquisition of The Basement Room space in central Manchester. Woodcock is also one half of installation/performance duo Woodcock&Grundstrom; regular artists-in-residence at queer monthly party event Bollox.
2 Koi Karp describe The Penthouse as a place that has informed and inspired their performances; opening up collaborative projects such as Noise Above Noise;The Queer Art Show inspired new performative possibilities, using more concrete sounds and 'wearing’ sound makers. 2 Koi Karp recently represented The Penthouse at Sluice Art Fair, Bermondsey, London.
During their residency 2 KOI KARP have been exploring new audio/visual/performative ideas and turning their residency room into an immersive art work with new changing collections of objects, waterfalls, facepainting, balls, vegetables, tapes, toys and sound makers. As part of their residency they have invited collaborators such as Gary Fisher, Matt Dalby, Rosanne Robertson, Genius of Germs and Bratan and created a number of films, images and new sound works.
2 Koi Karp work tirelessly as artists pushing at possibilities with humour and colour and do it with complete passion and direct powerful expression- because they have to. The Penthouse thrives off their energy and full on unapologetic creativity. Their open studio will be a glimpse into what has been an ever changing work of art- The Penthouse invite you to get up close to the many facets of 2 Koi Karp’s creations over the course of the open studio from 7pm with a live end of residency performance at 9pm.
Open Studio- 7-10pm Live Performances- 7.30pm and 9pm
Announcing 2 Koi Karp in Residence at The Penthouse.
11 November - January 2014 With Open studio in December (date tba).
2 Koi Karp will also open their studio doors during NOISE ABOVE NOISE _TWO_ 28 Nov 7-11pm.
2 Koi Karp create a conflict of sound using noise/melody, analog/digital, beat/ambience using tapes, kids instruments, vocals and objects.
Members:
Neil Francis (ex-Gnod and recent addition to Terminal Cheesecake) and Louise Woodcock (AKA Her Majesty’s Pleasure, sound/visual artist and member of Poppycock with Una Baines, ex-Womb) began in earnest early this year with the acquisition of The Basement Room space in central Manchester. Woodcock is also one half of installation/performance duo Woodcock&Grundstrom; regular artists-in-residence at queer monthly party event Bollox.
2 Koi Karp create a conflict of sound using noise/melody, analog/digital, beat/ambience using tapes, kids instruments, vocals and objects.
Members:
Neil Francis (ex-Gnod and recent addition to Terminal Cheesecake) and Louise Woodcock (AKAHer Majesty’s Pleasure, sound/visual artist and member of Poppycock with Una Baines, ex-Womb) began in earnest early this year with the acquisition of The Basement Room space in central Manchester. Woodcock is also one half of installation/performance duoWoodcock&Grundstrom; regular artists-in-residence at queer monthly party event Bollox.
2 Koi Karp made their public debut at an artists’ residency in Ibiza in May 2013 with Islington Millat a Video Jam event. The duo are now Associated Artists of Video Jam and have created live scores to films by Cheryl (NYC art/party collective) and by Louise Woodcock, and are soon to perform at the Title Art Prize at Blankspace.
2 KOI KARP describe The Penthouse as a place that has informed and inspired their performances; opening up collaborative projects such as Noise Above Noise;The Queer Art Show inspired new performative possibilities, using more concrete sounds and ‘wearing’ sound makers. 2 Koi Karp also recently represented The Penthouse at Sluice Art Fair, Bermondsey, London.
During their residency 2 KOI KARP will be exploring new audio/visual/performative ideas and turning their residency room into an immersive art work.
We love 2 KOI KARP - they work tirelessly as artists pushing at what can be achieved and doing it with complete passion and direct powerful expression- because they have to. The Penthouse thrives off their energy and full on unapologetic creativity- inviting them to do a residency was a no brainer.
During 2 Koi Karp’s residency The Penthouse will be open by appointment - please email thepenthousenq@gmail.com if planning to visit.
Thursday 10th October, 6-8pm (Open studio event with drinks reception).
Friday 11 Oct 1-6pm Open Studio
Saturday 12 Oct 1-6pm Open Studio
Sunday 13 Oct- Open by appointment
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The Penthouse is a new artist led work place in Manchester city centre. We occupy the top floor of a 1961 office block on Hilton Street in the Northern Quarter.
The Penthouse is a place for making, doing, sharing and showing. Our ideas fly from the rooftops.
One of The Penthouse residencies, as part of From the Rooftops, are especially offered to a recent graduate who we believe would benefit from time and space dedicated to making new work post graduation. Holly recently graduated with distinction from MA Contemporary Fine Art at the University of Salford and was selected for the residency based on her graduation exhibition ‘Only forward?’.
For Only Forward? Holly used her graduation exhibition to carry out her own end of course residency occupying a large empty city centre office/retail unit. Holly demonstrated an intelligent use of space and efficient decision making and editing. The risk of responding to this specific time and space without a definite ‘show’ in mind for the end point, for us, paid off well. What was offered was both an end point and a starting point, a crucial moment in time. We are excited by Holly’s approach and believe it will flourish well paired with the experimental interests of The Penthouse.
Holly has used her residency to explore her interests in site specific approaches to developing, making and showing work that starts with a camera and grows and becomes ever more layered over time.
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