Exploring our personal relationship with the environment through a series of temporary artist installations and interventions, performances and artist led walks, along a three mile route from Fermyn Woods Country Park to Lyveden New Bield, the programme opens on 6 August with Graeme Miller’s Track and the two premier performances by Corby Complaints Choir.
After exploring Blisworth Tunnel ahead of David Littler and Jason Singh’s event on 23rd July, we captured a spontaneous performance by Simon Woolham as we saw daylight for the first time in 40 minutes.
Our Summer 2011 bulletin features information on ‘ENCOUNTERS: Journeys through language and landscape’, a series of temporary artist installations and interventions, performances and artist led walks, along a three mile route from Fermyn Woods Country Park to Lyveden New Bield, as part of Northamptonshire’s Cultural Olympiad Igniting Ambition programme.
ENCOUNTERS features work by Jitish Kallat, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen/Paula Boulton, Rebecca Lee, Graeme Miller, Shane Waltener and Caroline Wright; installations by students from Meadowside Primary School and Keely Mills; and artist led walks by Rebecca Lee, Alison Lloyd and Sue Stewart.
The bulletin also contains information about our development of Sudborough Green Lodge into an arts, research and education laboratory as well as details of how to submit work for the next Open Online exhibition.
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Listen below to a recording of a broadcast from the drive time slot on Wednesday 13 July, recorded live on board our narrow boat Ebony, as we moored up in Stoke Bruerne and struggled to tune in.
23 July, 6-8pm
Blisworth Tunnel, Grand Union Canal, between Stoke Bruerne and Blisworth
As part of Interchange, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art’s fortnight of artistic activity and dialogue along the Grand Union Canal and River Nene in Northamptonshire, David Littler will be working with vocal percussionist Jason Singh to create a new sound piece with projections of visualised sound onto the walls of the tunnel, responding to the natural acoustics and echo of the third longest tunnel in the UK.
The event is free however booking is recommended due to limited availabilty.
To book, or for further information, please contact
Last August, thanks to Fermynwoods Contemporary Art and Corby Borough Council, children from Corby took part in an animation project led by the Tate galleries and Aardman Animation to create The Tate Movie, an animation film made by and for children in the UK.
The completed film ‘The Itch of the Golden Nit‘ is now available to view on BBC iPlayer until 4:54pm on Tuesday 19th July.
Eleven-year-old Beanie’s bland life is changed for ever when he is sent on a mission. Armed only with laser lip-gloss and a pair of blend-in pants he has to save his parents from Evil Stella and return the Golden Nit to its rightful place at the heart of the sun, thereby saving the universe.
Featuring a cast of David Walliams, Miranda Hart, Catherine Tate and Rik Mayall.
Finnish Artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kotcha-Kalleinen decided to to transform the energy people put in to complaining to create Complaints Choirs.
As part of our forthcoming Encounters, journeys through language and landscape event this summer, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art are commissioning musician Paula Boulton to create a complaints choir for the event.
As well as forming the choir, Paula will be collecting complaints to turn them into two pieces which will be performed at the opening of Encounters.
One will focus on rural and urban landscape related issues, and one on more general personal complaints.
To submit your complaints please
use the comments form below.
The artwork is a journey through the forest to discover the invisible forces at play – revealing a story of climate and environmental change.
A gallery exhibition in the Forestry Commission’s Little Barn houses a climate machine that interprets global CO2 measurements from the last 70 years, scorching the data as heat rings into paper.
Projected on the wall is a dynamic 3D visualisation of temperature, humidity, light, decibels, colour and CO2 data collected from trees in the forest and in the Mata Atlantica (the Atlantic Forest), Brazil. Environmental sensors connected to mobile phones are placed in the canopy of a tree in each of these forests.
During the residency there will be a range of ways that the public can get involved and collect their own sensory data in the woods. Visitors will be able to borrow a specially programmed mobile phone to take into the forest to use as a lens, to reveal the invisible forces at play in the forest. Visitors with Android phones will be able install the application on their phones with the help of the Artists.
The artists are also conducting an ongoing exchange between schools in the UK and Rio de Janeiro through a series of workshops in both countries, exploring environmental sensing and the future of our forests through Art, Science and ICT.
At the end of each exhibition the artists will have created a unique set of 200 art prints, showing global CO2 scorched into paper.
Showcasing our inaugural Open Online exhibition, plus our forthcoming artistic programme including:
Active Ingredient’s A Conversation Between Trees residency and installation at Fineshade Woods;
Interchange, Fermynwoods’ fortnight of artistic activity and dialogue along the Grand Union Canal and River Nene in Northamptonshire with David Littler, Jo Roberts and Simon Woolham;
And introduces two participatory projects which will form part of the summer Encounters, journeys through language and landscape exhibition; Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen’s Complaints Choir and Rebecca Lee’s Organ.
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Fermynwoods would like to announce an independent project and series of events developed by our former Artistic Director Rosalind Stoddart, from July onwards.
Saturday 2 July
Jo Blake, Greg Cave and Nick Ellison at Lyveden New Bield – An evening around a camp fire in Fermyn Woods of stories told and newly created by Jo Blake that are connected to music, BB, the natural world and conservation.
Sunday 3 July
Matthew Oates – A day of celebration of the Purple Emperor Butterfly.
Saturday 9 July
Adrian Johnson – An evening of new short verse, selected BB prose and stories inspired by BB’s illustrations in a Sudborough (BB’s long-time home) pub.
Sunday 10 July
Taffy Thomas – Taffy will take a family audience on a ‘virtual journey’ of storytelling down the river Nene in the garden of a Wadenhoe pub that overlooks the river.
Late October
Jo Blake and Jo Bell – Three days of events delivered by the artists inspired by their residency on the river Nene.
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