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Tuesday 8 May '07 (from myvillages.org)
Grizedale Arts is a cultural producer.
Lawson Park is currently being set up to become a producing small holding again, by establishing a vegetable and fruit garden and keeping some farm animals.
How is the one linked to another, and how can modes of production be refined rather than re-established?
To marry cultural production from a contemporary art context with the traditional agricultural forms of production could be a great playful experiment. And hopefully not the continuation of established modes of production in both areas, art and agriculture. Paintings and sausages.
What is Lawson Park going to produce?
A well connected international art network with week long periods of intensity?
Who is the production for?
Is the production meant to be the proof of labour or a format for exchange?
I ve just been to Folkestone on the weekend, which still has a small local fishing harbour, but it’s also having a new “Creative Quarter”. Guess what the Sunday market was called? Fishermen and Arts Market. No joke.
Topics:
- add things[1]
- amphibians[1]
- architecture[2]
- Arnofini[1]
- arnold circus[1]
- being different[1]
- building[1]
- building site[1]
- celebrity[1]
- censorship[1]
- China[3]
- construction[1]
- Culture Cumbria[1]
- drystone walling[1]
- Egremont[1]
- Far West[1]
- farmer[1]
- film festivals[1]
- fungi[1]
- furness beekeepers[1]
- furniture[1]
- golf[1]
- ground source heat pump[1]
- Guest Room[1]
- handling[1]
- Happy Stacking 7[1]
- Honesty Box[1]
- Honesty Stall[1]
- Internationaler Dorfladen[1]
- July bombers[1]
- Kurt Schwitters[1]
- Langdale[1]
- Lawson Park Collection[1]
- Littoral[1]
- Liverpool[1]
- London[1]
- Malcolm Wilson Rally[1]
- Merz Barn[1]
- money[1]
- Mycology[1]
- myvillages[1]
- name[1]
- Narnia[1]
- Nina Pope[1]
- outside broadcast[1]
- overkill[1]
- Peter Hodgson[1]
- Peter Inman[1]
- Pope and Guthrie[1]
- proposal[6]
- public works[2]
- residencies[1]
- rural girl[1]
- Ruskin[1]
- self-importance[1]
- Seven Samurai[1]
- shack[1]
- skep[1]
- Slade School of Art[1]
- soil[1]
- something[1]
- song for a circus[1]
- soul music[1]
- Stuart Bastick[1]
- Sufelje[1]
- SXSW Film Festival[1]
- Texas[1]
- the Supernaturals[1]
- toads[1]
- two guys[1]
- UCL[1]
- USA[1]
- Village Kiosk[1]
- village shop[8]
- weather[1]
Months:
Our blogs:Grizedale Arts Blog, Farmyard Radio, myvillages.org
3 Comments
The intention with the farm is to offer the resource, create a patchwork of projects within the farm from differing cultural standpoints, so art context, agricultural or touristic. The idea is to bring a much broader range of culture into play - cross referencing and interacting. Historically cultural dialogue has advanced through a much broader body of activity than the art world now allows - for example the import of tea generated a flowering of the European ceramics industry, the examples are legion. The chance interaction and misunderstanding has always informed art practice and advancement.
Adam Sutherland, May 10, 2007 13:05
I like the idea of misunderstanding, see my quote of Ruskin he is optimal convinced in his cultural standpoint and that produces in my opinion a very good text.
He is also in a certain time and place when he writes this. You also will produce in a certain time and place? Will you reflect on that? Would like to hear you first thoughts.
What do you do with the material collection that creates the patchwork? How to deal with artefacts that you will store but have different levels of value outsite of this storeroom?
Wapke Feenstra, May 13, 2007 15:01
I think we have to always move, so staying current with a wider context, there is no wealth but context to paraphrase Ruskin's most famous quote (there is no wealth but life).
I want to recycle this collection of stuff (Wapke is refering to the Grizedale (art) store)we have in our store room, at the moment we are making a pig sty and a garden shed from old works (I Death a work by flatpack for Roadshow becomes I Shed). We have recycled some works more quickly than others so the store acts a repository of material/ideas that will have a relevant use one day. I think it is interesting to make the immediate history of the programme apparent in the current working, nothing is precious in it's fixed state, these works are all ideas on the way to somewhere.
adam sutherland, May 14, 2007 14:37