Flip the Switch 10 Days of Live Art, Visual Art, Sound, Film and Installation 5 - 14 September 2014 Portland, Dorset
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b-side festival flip the switch 10 days of live art, visual art, sound, film and installation 5 - 14 september 2014 portland, dorset FREE In memory of Joe Stevens Welcome to the 4th b-side festival, in a living room, a library, a cafe, within a We would like to offer our thanks to the held exclusively on the intriguing Isle of prison wall, at bus stops, in a church and many groups and individuals who have This year’s festival is dedicated to artist Joe Stevens, a Portland. more traditionally, in a gallery and theatre. participated or supported the Artists, dear friend and colleague who passed away in July. There is a wealth of events to experience some of whom have been in residence b-side has commissioned national and and participate in: including a mass for up to a year making strong links with Joe was a talented artist whose generosity of spirit international Artists to make work in night time bike ride, cabaret, walks, film islanders, local industry and academics. shone through in both his life and his work in sound, response to Portland, UK. You can expect screenings and a shed-based communal b-side presents a unique and varied moving image and photography. His work was an eclectic mix of visual art, text, sound, reading experience! portrait of the island. We hope you will people focused, often investigating notions of place. installation and live art. Artists have explored agree. Have a great festival! He worked closely with history and archives, and the island’s heritage, cultural history and If you would like to join the conversation documenting the work of others through initiatives local taboos as well as Portland’s special about art, the island and how hosts and such as his Creative Conversations podcasts and his ecology and geology to bring you their visitors alike interpret and understand Pick up a free b-side intergenerational work, Free Time, for digital:works, unique interpretation of place. the landscape, then look out for the Art map at all festival which creatively focused young and older minds Confessional and Talkaoke. Please also sites and venues. alike, bringing a local community together. We have curated a programme of original take the opportunity to talk to the b-side work: sometimes poignant or challenging, team and Artists, many of whom you will In 2012 Joe made a visually delicate and typically sometimes celebratory and frequently find at the venues. thoughtful piece for b-side, Parallels and Meridians, witty. You will find this work on footpaths, and it was in talking about his work to the festival audience, that the depth and sincerity of Joe’s work was truly appreciated. Joe’s kindness and intuition made for beautiful work regardless of whether you worked with him as fellow artist, project manager, collaborator or participant in Alan Rogers Julie Penfold Jack Byford one of his projects. He will be sadly missed by the arts Executive Director Curator Production & Marketing Intern community, by the many audiences who have been touched by his work and especially by us at b-side. Sandy Kirkby Amanda Wallwork Sandy Hatcher Festival Producer Curator Volunteer Coordinator Rosie Russell Sally Watkins Youth Programme Producer Curator Commissioned by b-side Agnieszka Kozlowska 22 17 Re-presencing the island INSTALLATION FREE Photographs from and out of Portland Location #1 Date & Times: 5 – 14 September / 11am – 5pm daily Location #1: Stone Fisherman’s Hut, Durdle Pier, East Weares (follow signs from the Church Ope Viewing Platform) Location #2 Date & Times: 7 – 11 September / 10.30am – 4pm daily Location #2: Portland Museum, 217 Wakeham, Portland, DT5 1HS Agnieszka makes paper from local plants and not so much depict as embody the places out of A Wild Weares walk from Church Ope to East exposes it for long periods of time in primitive which they were made. A film screened in the hut Weares EVENT FREE cameras built out of rocks. Only the inherent light- gives a glimpse of the artist’s process of creating Date: Tuesday 9 September, 11am – 1pm sensitivity of plant substances is used. The title says the works. Alternatively, see a small installation in Date: Sunday 14 September, 10 am – 12pm it all, Agnieska’s ‘photographs’ are visual relics of Portland Museum, Wakeham. Meet: Church Ope Viewing Platform, near Rufus Castle a moment in time when light and landscape touch each other. The cameras were sited in multiple Guidance: Agnieszka’s work is situated in and Join Portland Ranger Lynn Cooch for a late summer locations around the Island all pointing to the around an old stone fisherman’s hut near Durdle Pier stroll, explore the wild weares and discover a part horizon, imprinting the paper inside with the subtle on the east side of the island. Follow the signs from of the island you may not know. A unique tumbled light differences between the sky and the sea. Church Ope viewing platform, near Rufus Castle. The landscape rich in history and wildlife and a chance walk takes 25 minutes along a rough and winding to meet b-side artist Agnieszka Kozlowska and visit The resulting installation invites the viewer to make path. We recommend wearing suitable footwear. her film and unique photographic works installed a journey to a stone hut in the East Weares area The site is not accessible to those with limited mobility. around the cliff edge stone fisherman’s hut. The and experience the landscape first hand. There walk involves a steep climb down to the weares, they will discover the photographic artefacts that following uneven and rocky pathways. 4 Commissioned by b-side 2 26 Alex Hartley Credits: Hartley is represented by the Ellie Harrison & Roshana Rubin Mayhew Victoria Miro Gallery. With thanks to The Land’s Trust and Groundworks. Portland Erratics INSTALLATION FREE What is Left? INSTALLATION FREE Sculptural installation Photography and audio Date & Times: 5 – 14 September Date & Times: 5 – 14 September / 10am – 6pm daily Location: On the quayside between Portland Marina and Portland Castle. Location: 107 Fortuneswell Portland, Dorset DT5 1LU (near Fortuneswell launderette) Parking: Parking at Mulberry Avenue car park, near Portland Castle: Liberty Road, Castletown, Portland DT5 1AZ These stones have been collected Artist Alex Hartley’s recent sculptural Walk & Talk ARTIST TALK FREE Since the beginning of the year, Ellie Harrison is a performance from Portland, an island famous interventions into the landscape have Date: Friday 12 September. 4pm - 5pm Roshana and Ellie have been maker and artist living and working for the export of rock and stone. explored the relationship between Venue: Meet at the site of Alex’s artwork travelling the country to photograph in Leeds. Roshana Rubin Mayhew is They are all migrants to the island. the individual and place. They revisit on the quayside at Portland Marina. Short 50 people in their own homes with a photographer and artist based in Brought by the wind and tide, the question ‘where do I belong’. For walk on level ground finishing at Hotel an object they have inherited from London. by longshore drift or delivered b-side Alex has searched for a selection Aqua, Castletown, DT5 1BD where you can a loved one who has died. Earlier or dumped by ships over many of migratory stones: wanderers, or take refreshment. in 2014 they visited Portland and This exhibition forms part 3 of the centuries. I have dived on a wreck transported foreign rocks, and he is worked with thirteen people from the Grief Series, a 7 part project which sunk in the harbour in the late 1800s, presenting them with their stories of Join Alex Hartley, along with a geologist area - meeting participant’s friends, aims to facilitate a space for people to retrieve a single piece of stone displacement within the confines of twin and a marine archaeologist on a walk families, pets, hearing incredible to talk about bereavement without ballast carried to Portland within the vitrines. These paired containers are built along the harbourside uncovering stories stories and drinking volumes of tea in shame, but often with humour and now decaying hull, and collected a onto existing platforms, looking out to of both arrival and departure as they delve the process. often with sadness. ‘kelp holdfast’ - a stone detached in sea, between the new Portland Marina into the layers of history of this significant a storm and carried here attached and the Island’s historic Castletown area - area of Portland and explore the concepts Forming an exhibition in an empty Guidance: This exhibition is on many to a piece of kelp. Innocuous objects home to Portland’s old dockyard. behind Alex’s work. house of hand-printed photographs floors and is not accessible to visitors that you might not give a second coupled with bespoke viewing chairs, with limited mobility. glance, they are rich in history and recorded interviews and transcribed geology and unlock another layer of booklets, this intimately powerful Credit: Funded by Arts Council England Portland’s history. exhibition invites you to take part in Lottery Grant the conversation about people lost, objects gained and the continuing relationship between them. 6 Commissioned Commissioned by b-side by b-side Alistair Gentry 6 9 Ania Bas 24 R***** EVENT FREE Literary Cutlery INSTALLATION FREE Encounter and discussion Forks, knives and fiction Various: 5 – 6 and 10 – 14 September at various festival sites Date & Times: 5 – 14 September / 8am – 6pm Monday – Saturday / 10am – 4pm Sunday Date: 12 September.* Location: The Cove Inn Location: The Sugar Loaf Café, 4 Reforne, Easton, Portland, DT5 2AL Date: 13 September.* Location: South Entrance IRC The Verne Alistair Gentry is a writer and artist or an artist and Underground Movies EVENT FREE It’s a Portland tradition that mentioning a Over the Summer Ania Bas was resident artist I create situations that support dialogue writer… sometimes other things, too.