SYMBOLS OF THE SUPERNATURAL
AND THE REALITY OF THE UNSEENAmy Cutler/ Ashley Scott Fitzgerald/ Bjorn Hatleskog/ Caroline Gregory/ Inga Tillere/ Jonathan Ford/ Jowonder/ Kevin Quigley/ Lisa McKendrick/ Marie-Therese Docherty/ Marq Kearey/ Minerva de Carvalho/ Phill Wilson Perkin/ Rebbeca Davies/ Sean McLusky/ Sarah Sparkes/ Sharon Gal/ Siobhan Mc Auley
Curated by Kevin Quigley23-27 November 2022
PV: Friday 25th November 6-9pm
2nd event: Saturday 26th November 12pm-6pm
Gallery open daily: 12-6pmwww.fiveyears.org.uk | @Fiveyears Gallery
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Performances
PV
Friday 25 November
We have a especially commissioned performance work from artist Caroline Gregory‘Offering to Mor-Rioghan’
Here in the darkness, …..space between spaces…. swirling mists..... waiting-not-waiting, nothing….no thing…..a breath…a blinking eye……a beating heart...... a threshold place neither awake nor asleep, a whisper.... hush… the Mor-Rioghan awaits.
Caroline Gregory is a London-born artist who has recently migrated to the South coast. Her live work explores internal, ancestral, and universal narratives and the transformative power of relationality. Her interventions seek to invite audiences into experiences of collectivity, ritual, and participation.
@carolineagregory
www.carolinegregoryart.com....................
2nd event
Saturday 26 November
TWO performances
Performances from 1pm sharp....................
1st
New work from
Amy CutlerThe Sky is Hidden in the Rock (live cinema)
Amy Cutler will be presenting a live cinema performance - drawing on Solar Rituals and Observations and their relationship to cinema’s need for “sacred darkness” (Casetti, 2008).
It will include new AV work to be created on her November residency at the site of La Penya Foradá in La Vall de Gallinera. This naturally formed perforated rock arch - on the site of a hidden Convent destroyed by an earthquake - creates a rare solar alignment phenomenon twice a year, which valley residents gather to observe as a festival event.
Drawing on the history of cinema as a ‘science of light’ and its relationship to other forms of social gathering for skygazing, eclipses, or at natural observatories for witnessing the cosmos, Cutler will create an illuminated journey in honour of the local ecologies of this communal site, from its astronomical phenomena to its prehistoric cave paintings.
Amy Cutler is an international live cinema artist and experimental designer. She is also a Daphne Oram award-winning sound artist, and has created interactive and immersive audio-visual experiences recently in San Francisco, Poland, Amsterdam, Paris, Finland, and at Glastonbury Festival’s Shangri-La. Her work draws on her background training as a Geographer (PhD) and often makes use of fieldwork and outdoor locations to consider alternative traditions of nature observation, spectacle, projection, and its audiences. This includes projects such as her touring ensemble NATURE’S NICKELODEONS, which most recently created live-generated nature documentary in the round, co-composed by the environmental monitoring of the atmosphere of the audience space, from brain waves to humidity.
www.amycutler.net
Twitter: @amycutler1985....................
2nd
Minerva de Carvalho
Sound art performanceSound performance based on the idea of the artist as mystic- the carrier and interpreter of messages from other realms.
Minerva de Carvalho is a visual and sound artist whose work explores dichotomies between conscious/subconscious and presence/absence, with a focus on ‘otherness’ and ‘liminality’.
Her sound performances are influenced by experimentalism, noise and musique concrète with added mystical and hauntological qualities.
SYMBOLS OF THE SUPERNATURAL
AND THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN‘All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind, pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality’.
Henry James
All Symbols are Occult - layered, hidden, veiled -
- Or the Anthropologists would take us further and say that the meaning of Symbols is impenetrable.
Where Symbols are only open for interpretation; different view points with time, memory - shifting understanding.
Motivation to understanding is therefore key -
Symbols - acting like tools of memory to pinpoint humanity, essence, deep knowledge.
Symbols are part of the complex reality of the unseen!
But what is the unseen?
Jung and the Scientists of the mind would tell us Reality is modes of consciousness -
- switching between perceived conscious and unconscious states, which are then annotated, researched and questioned - using scientific terminology - new words to describe - reality - words like Supernatural?
But of course reality is in the living? - the experience and the essence of being - the art of being?
In this exhibition SYMBOLS OF THE SUPERNATURAL AND THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN the artists offer an interpretation of an unseen reality.
An exchange of thought and ideas on what could be called - the unknowable?
Or perhaps its the implicate order of wholeness? - where through the artists joint imagination - the known and unknown collide majestically!
Five Years
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Boothby Rd
London
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