2015HOUSE 2-24 May housefestival.org Coley Nathan Amanda Loomes Joseph Popper Edge and Shift WED – SUN, 12 NOON – 6PM > 2- 24 MAY > ST NICHOLAS’ CHURCH, CHURCH STREET, BRIGHTON BN1 3LJ > FREE Foreword HOUSE 2015 Edge and Shift HOUSE 2015 is delighted to be presenting Invited Artist Throughout May, HOUSE 2015 presents new work for the curious, Nathan Coley’s major new work Portraits of Dissension, by established and emerging visual artists, sited across the city in co-commissioned with Brighton Festival, in Brighton this May; domestic, non-traditional and public spaces. as well as jointly offering the opportunity to view Coley’s You The seventh edition of our annual festival is an opportunity Imagine What You Desire within St Nicholas’s Church. In further to see a diverse range of new projects by international and co-commissions with Lighthouse and Photoworks, HOUSE 2015 British artists, exploring what they consider to be both timely brings exciting new installations from Joseph Popper and interesting about this year’s theme of Edge and Shift. and Amanda Loomes. Turner Prize shortlisted artist Nathan Coley is the HOUSE 2015 HOUSE’s approach is one of collaboration and partnership and Invited Artist. Coley’s new work Portraits of Dissension (page), is pleased this year to have developed a new relationship with is created for display within The Regency Town House and Outside In, bringing an exhibition from this important fittingly takes ideas around architecture in a state of renewal and organisation to Phoenix Brighton. In a further collaboration with destruction as its starting point. Complementing this, Coley’s Cinecity, HOUSE 2015 offers a pop-up cinema in a very compelling illuminated sculpture You Imagine What You Desire surprising hidden corner of residential Brighton – adding to (page 3 opposite) shows within St Nicholas’ Church – dating HOUSE’s brief of offering new engagements with art in from the 11th century and Brighton’s oldest surviving building. unexpected, domestic, public and non-gallery spaces. In response to an open-call for submissions, HOUSE 2015 And beyond HOUSE 2015’s thematic and curatorial remit of selected Joseph Popper (page 5), co-commissioned with Edge and Shift, we are delighted to act as umbrella to include all Lighthouse and Amanda Loomes (page 4), co-commissioned visual arts on offer in the main Brighton Festival within one guide. with Photoworks. Engaging the local community, City Collective (page 6), is a new video work, where Brighton & Hove residents Judy Stevens reflect on conflict and change. Festival Director, HOUSE 2015 For the new exhibition Intuitive Visions: Shifting the Margins (page 7) at Phoenix Brighton, HOUSE has joined up with Outside In, a charity working with artists who define themselves as facing barriers to the art world due to health, disability or social circumstance. The HOUSE 2015 events programme (page 12) offers many opportunities to participate including informal ‘Meet the Artist’ tours, talks, and for the first time, a pop-up cinema (page 10). Follow us at xxx for live updates on the festival. Celia Davies Visual Arts Advisor & Curator, HOUSE Nathan Coley: You Imagine What You Desire, 2014. Illuminated text on scaffolding, 550 x 550 x 240 cm. Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh. Image credit: Keith Hunter supported by partners sponsors Nathan Coley You Imagine What You Desire Front cover – cover Front of the artist. Courtesy Photo (detail). of Dissension Portraits Coley: Nathan HOUSE 2015 / Brighton Festival co-production my hotel Brighton Coley often uses the idea of a readymade to create his work. The location and context of the sculpture completes the work, allowing For Coley, this can be both the location where the work is placed as well for further contemplation of its possibilities. as the borrowed texts he re-presents to create new meaning. In this sense You Imagine What You Desire is not fixed, and the theme of The location for this work is a place of worship and the oldest surviving Edge and Shift might here be understood to be transient; posing shifting building in Brighton, St. Nicholas of Myra. It was the town’s parish understandings of the work according to where it is encountered and the church for over seven centuries and is still referred to today as the personal associations we project onto it as a result. Acknowledgements Mother Church of Brighton. HOUSE Festival would like to thank it’s many supporters and Thanks to the HOUSE team: Celia Davies Guest Curator; HOUSE Festival Limited is a Registered Charity, Coley has produced a series of illuminated sculptures that have been partners: John McPherson and John Pratty at Arts Council Claire Wearn Festival manager; Lucy Moore, Chloe Hoare, Number: 1147339 The words for You Imagine What You Desire are taken from a quote by exhibited internationally in diverse contexts. You Imagine What You England; Andrew Comben and team at Brighton Festival; Poppy Muir and Fiona Fletcher Project managers; Hannah Board: Bill Randall (Chair), Elaine Wolf, Paula Murray and Donna Close (formerly) at Brighton and the playwright and activist George Bernard Shaw; “Imagination is the Desire was previously exhibited on the façade of the Museum of Futers, Chloe Hoare, Elissa XXX, Rosie XXX, XXX and Sophie Anne Boddington, Nicola Coleby, Arjo Ghosh,* Hove City Council; Celia Davies, Juliette Buss and the team at Martin, Site managers; Katie Robson Volunteer coodinator, Simon Martin* and Dino Skinner. beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you Contemporary Art as part of the 19th Biennale of Sydney in 2014. Photoworks; Miriam Randall, Juha van ‘t Zelfde and the team Poppy Muir and David Hill, fundraising, Claire Quigley 1 at Lighthouse; Tim Brown at CineCity; Anne Boddington, *Special thanks are due to Arjo and Simon, who are standing imagine and at last you create what you will.” Finance Officer, Fiona McTernan Advertising, Dr Patrick down, for all their help and advice over several years. University of Brighton; Mark Scarratt; Charlotte Barrow at Spaven Evaluator, Shelley Bennett Yeti PR, PR consultant, Visit Brighton; James Clewlow; Roger Browning at Victor Sophie Martin Intern and all the HOUSE 2015 volunteers, The HOUSE commisioning panel consisted of: The phrase is made manifest here in the form of a sculpture with Boorman, Nick Tyson at The Regency Town House and without whose involvement, HOUSE could not take place. Celia Davies Director, Photoworks illuminated lighting and scaffold, situated in an area of the building Father Robert Chavener at St Nicholas’ Church. Miriam Randall Executive Director, Lighthouse HOUSE has been developed and coordinated by Festival Juha van’t Zelfde Artistic Director, Lighthouse where a part of the congregation would normally sit. Help save the medieval tower of the mother church of Brighton. The tower houses one of the finest ring We would also like to thank the HOUSE 2015 artists: Directors Judy Stevens and Chris Lord. Laura Ducceschi Music producer, Brighton Festival Nathan Coley, Amanda Loomes, Joseph Popper, Judy Stevens and Chris Lord Directors, HOUSE 2015. of bells in Sussex and is one of only three ten-bell peals in the Diocese of Chichester. The church seek Abigail Norris and Maria Pattinson. 1George Bernard Shaw, The Serpent, Pt. I, Act I in Back to Methuselah (1921) donations in order to restore this ancient landmark. Courtesy of Father Robert, St Nicholas Church. 2 3 WED – SUN, 12 NOON – 6PM > 2- 24 MAY > THE REGENCY TOWN HOUSE, 13 BRUNSWICK SQUARE, HOVE BN3 1EH > FREE Nathan Coley Portraits of Dissension HOUSE 2015 / Brighton Festival co-commission A new commission by renowned Turner Prize shortlisted artist Nathan Coley. NATHAN COLEY Coley is interested in how we relate to public space and architecture and what Nathan Coley was born in 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland. we believe. He often uses architecture as a ready-made, as a means to take Between 1985 and 1989 he studied at the Glasgow from and replace in the world. His work is sensitive to its context and School of Art. concerned with the process of historic interpretation and the aftermath of politically charged situations. From 1998 to 2005 he lived and worked in Dundee. In 2007 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. Coley’s new work takes as its point of departure themes of architecture in a state of renewal and destruction, including materials referencing Brighton’s His work is represented in many international public and private collections. Royal Pavilion and images of a Brighton landmark building on the day it was bombed, together with ready-made documents from a morally uncertain world. He currently lives and works in Glasgow. A sculpture cast in bronze referring to the monumental, is complemented by a series of handmade sculptures from the artist’s studio all of which share a state of being, having been subjected to physical shift, resulting from acts of conflict. As sculptures of architectures, they may be understood as portraits of the issues they reflect back at us. Portraits of Dissension acts as a locater in which to explore ideas of Edge and Shift in relation to unrest, the monumental and absence, portraiture and representation, space and occupation, conflict and aftermath. Marking moments in history and the collective memory, Portraits of Dissension is not about the specifics of the events themselves, but more an abstract from which to explore wider implications, more universal ideas; a memorable and fixed point about which we can begin a discussion, relate back, reflect and consider what is next. Images: Courtesy of the artist 4 5 WED – SUN, 12 NOON – 6PM > 2- 24 MAY > SERVANTS’ HALL, THE REGENCY TOWN HOUSE BASEMENT, 10 BRUNSWICK SQUARE, HOVE BN3 1EH > FREE WED – SUN, 12 NOON – 6PM > 2- 24 MAY > THE KITCHEN, THE REGENCY TOWN HOUSE BASEMENT, 10 BRUNSWICK SQUARE, HOVE BN3 1EH > FREE Amanda Loomes Relict Material A HOUSE 2015/ Photoworks co-commission Relict Material is a new film installation from Amanda Loomes, shot on location at AMANDA LOOMES marine aggregate and concrete industry sites along the Sussex coast.