Printing The Space
Schedule
Thu Sep 29 2022 at 12:00 pm to Sat Oct 08 2022 at 05:00 pm
Location
The Vestibules | Bristol, EN
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The audience is invited to participate in the printing of a new space, inside the City Hall. Exhibition open Wed-Fri 12.00-17.00 & Sat 8th Oct with free and inclusive mono-printing workshops between 13.00-16.00. Postview Fri 7th Oct from 18.00-20.30Jamie Lee’s practice often uses different equipment to build installations. The equipment he uses comes from TV and film production processes; light stands, TV screens, clamps, sound speakers and cables. What is presented on this equipment asks questions of the equipment itself, for example its history and usage, combined with thoughts on technology, labour and autonomy. Sometimes these works form a pause, a looping moment that can be viewed in terms of Lee’s working methodology. Recent projects stem from short, fictional texts, written over the last two years. These texts are set in near future metropolises, where works of art have become antagonists, able to influence the actions of both humans and objects.
Lee’s first solo project ‘Printing the Space’, marks as a departure from his predominantly screen based work. For the exhibition the artist will invite the audience to provide their labour by producing mono-prints. Their work will then hang inside the exhibition for its duration. The work will be anonymous, but together will create a room inside the Park Street Vestibule. The idea of using an exhibition space and transforming it into a workshop, was inspired by skills and methods learnt on East Bristol Contemporary’s Day School programme. A self funded alternative arts course that includes a studio as well as monthly workshops with invited guest artists and creative practitioners.
‘I’m interested in using the Park Street Vestibule as a workshop, where members of the public would be invited to make work that would then be hung inside. The space would first be prepared ready for audience participation. My current ideas are based on a workshop I was part of during my time on EBC’s Day School. We were talking about context and different timelines in relation to the physical space we were occupying, then writing and drawing freely about the different objects and people that may have inhabited the space before us or after us. I’m interested in taking these processes and translating them into mono-prints. They would grow and become the walls of a space inside an already existing structure, that could reference the space and create a new space within it. The prints would not be attached to the walls, but onto a framework brought into the space. This would be both my first solo exhibition and first time working with the public on a personal project.’
Lee’s work has been screened at Plymouth Art Weekender and Sheffield Doc Fest. He is an alumni of East Bristol Contemporary’s Day School programme ’22 and is an Associate of Open School East 2022-2023.
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Where is it happening?
The Vestibules, College Green,Bristol, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays: