5 November 2022, 12-5.30pm
Online
Temporalities of Access is a partnership event between A Language of Holes and British Art Network funded project, The Art of Captioning. Both projects are supported by Wysing Arts Centre and this event, on Saturday 5 November will bring together the culmination of a year’s research into the creative possibilities of captioning, along with the necessity of centering access and accessibility arts contexts.
Speakers to be announced soon.
The Art of Captioning is a research group, supported by British Art Network, that explores what creative captioning can bring to art while advancing vital work around access, equality and inclusivity in the sector.
By becoming a member of The Art of Captioning research group, you will have access to regular e-bulletin's from the group organisers, sharing information about forthecoming events, ongoing research and online resources.
To become a member of the group and receive regular updates, please sign up to the Mailchimp here.
To find out more about British Art Network and further research groups please click here.
The Art of Captioning is co-led by Hannah Wallis (Artist and Curator; Assistant Curator, Wysing Arts Centre) and Sarah Hayden (Associate Professor in Literature and Culture, University of Southampton, AHRC Innovation Fellow: Voices in the Gallery).
The research builds on Wallis and Hayden’s programme, Caption-Conscious Ecology, at Nottingham Contemporary. You can find out more about Caption-Conscious Ecology here.
Image Credit: Seo Hye Lee, [sound of subtitles], 2021, Courtesy of Bexley Local Studies & Archive Centre and London’s Screen Archives
12 July to 22 August 2021
Open daily, 12–5pm
Sound artist and DJ Ain Bailey presents a series of new works for Version, the first onsite exhibition at Wysing Arts Centre of 2021.
Sound artist and DJ Ain Bailey presents a series of new works for Version, the first onsite exhibition at Wysing Arts Centre of 2021. Installed in three parts across Wysing’s site, the title pays tribute to the ‘version’ of a vocal reggae track. Throughout the exhibition, Bailey brings together sound and sculpture as means to expand on ideas and techniques of ‘sonic biography’, a generative methodology of sound exploration that the artist has finessed over the years. Presented with the opportunity to occupy several spaces across the site, Bailey has produced a series of works that reflect on the artist’s Jamaican heritage, albeit from the position of someone who has not yet visited the island. A rendition of “Linstead Market”, a traditional Jamaican folk song, sung by artist and composer Elaine Mitchener plays intermittently throughout reception upon arriving, a nod to songs held in memory and childhood. Moving through to the main gallery, an installation, including a sound composition capturing the cooking of a traditional Jamaican dish, ackee and saltfish, is accompanied by sculptures, exploring the interconnected roles of sound and food in forming biography. For the third and final part of the exhibition, Bailey has transformed Folke Kobberling and Martin Kaltwasser’s Amphis sculpture in the Wysing grounds into an homage to dub, the music genre which originated on the island.
The three sound pieces will be accompanied by a translation, written by artist and writer Taylor Le Melle. Presented alongside the sound works as a textual ‘version’ of the compositions, these act as an experiment in sound translation, whereby sonic components are shared in alternative ways. This element is developed in partnership with exhibition curator Hannah Wallis, as part of an exploration of how sound works can be made more accessible for D/deaf audiences.
Ain Bailey’s exhibition is generously supported by Arts Council England, DASH and The Future Curators' Programme, The Henry Moore Foundation and The Elephant Trust.
With special thanks to Martha Todd from Studio1Ceramics.
Access Information
Sound works in the exhibition are available in experimental textual forms.
The outdoor grounds at Wysing are uneven and have varying surface textures, which may cause some difficulty for unaccompanied wheelchair users.
The work in Amphis is also available to view in the Open Studio, as Amphis is not wheelchair accessible.
Accessible parking and toilets are available.
If you have other access requirements that you would like to check with us before booking, please get in touch with Ceri Littlechild, Wysing’s Head of Operations, at ceri.littlechild@wysingartscentre.org and we will be happy to help.
For more info please click here: http://www.wysingartscentre.org/archive/exhibitions/ain_bailey_version/2021
Wysing Open Studios
Online July 14 – August 16 2020
Wysing Open Studios 2020 brings together Wysing’s studio and associate artists to share their practices. This year we host Open Studios online to provide a platform for the artists to share how their studio practices have changed during 2020 so far and the recent months of lockdown.
I have been working with the Wysing studio artists to bring together an online programme of talks, performances and digital works; and will be moderating two panel discussions around how studio practices might have changed in light of the recent global health crises.
Wysing Open Studios 2020: Studio Artists Panel Discussion (Part 1)
22 July, 5–6pm
With Damaris Athene, Lawrence Epps and Soheila Sokhanvari.
Wysing Open Studios 2020: Studio Artists Panel Discussion (Part 2)
5 August, 5–6pm
With Emanuela Cusin, Robert Foster, Bettina Furneé and Lucy Steggals
More information about how to attend and further events can be found here.
Wysing Broadcasts
R22 by Catalina Barroso-Luque & Ferronia Wennborg
So happy to be working with the Wysing team on the new Wysing Broadcasts site.
Loved working with Catalina Barroso-Luque & Ferronia Wennborg and with Abi Palmer on micro-commissions for the site. And am continuting to contribute to research threads around ‘Radical Broadcasting’ and monthly round-ups within the Wysing Team. More to come.
Interview whilst in lockdown with my good friend Tom Little for his new research-led publishing platform, Etwia Press.
Read here.
Garota Hacker created by ZU-UK & La da Favelinha
UK version presented at Cabot Circus, Bristol with Creative Youth Network
Supported by Co-Creating Change and British Council
independent evaluation by Hannah Wallis
Royal Society of Arts Panel with ZU-UK, March 2020
Human Rights in the World of Fashion & Textiles
For info visit here.
Performed at Gas Station, East London and internationally via Instagram Live on July 10, 2019
With support from ZU-UK and Dove Street Studios.
Documented by Andi Sapey, Théodora Lecrinier, Nathan Clarke, Tom Little and Alec Game.
Photo credit: Andi Sapey
Cley19 - BORDERLINES
presented by Dyad Creative
43 Artists across 3 Sites in North Norfolk
04.07.2019 - 04.08.2019
More info here.
Dyad Creative were invited in November last year by Big Shop Friday (Milton Keynes), to talk about what it means to create new projects and undertake the task f setting up an artist-led space.
You can listen to the podcast here.
Easton Pottery Residency, September 2018
True Stories Live: WOW Special with Molly Naylor.
You can listen to a recording of my story for “Now’s the Time” back in April on Soundcloud.
