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Hastings Arts Forum Press Release 36 Marina, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 OBU Telephone 01424 201636 Exhibition title: Conflicts in Time Seeing ‘Time’ ‘Time’ Explored Dates: 19 – 29 March Where is ‘Time’? Six months ago eleven artist members of the Hastings Arts Forum were invited to make works which show how they think about and experience time. Over two weeks in March at the Forum’s galleries we will be confronted by some surprising results. Dr Laura Bear from the Anthropology Department of the London School of Economics has been leading a three year long series of seminars where anthropologists from the UK and USA have been considering issues of global time. Her invitation was for the artists to bring their different forms of expression, which reach beyond the medium of words, to illuminate the Conflicts in Time which the anthropologists have been discussing. In this exhibition visitors will be seeing time, and many of the puzzles and conflicts that it generates in our lives, through the visually dramatic representations created by these artists. To mention a few there will be: o A large, mixed media assemblage of salvaged suitcases containing found objects, representing what might have been their valued contents, and through which the artist reflects on the brevity of our time here and the endurance of our links with our personal histories and cultures. A similar focus on triggering memories and emotions of times past is created in her book assemblages where the left hand pages are permanently sealed and the double page spread at which it is open houses evocative artifacts displayed in niches cut into the pages of the book. (Artist - Lynne Bingham) o On 19 March one of Sid Beynon’s works ‘Nothing is written in stone’ will be recreated on the beach in front of the galleries by a team of HAF members. As the tide goes out during the afternoon they will arrange the text in contrasting coloured stones in the shingle and as high tide approaches in the evening it will be washed away. Sid Beynon died last Summer but his powerful ideas live on in this way. o An installation incorporating the many kinds of time tables and charts that govern our lives displayed with plants produced from seeds set to germinate in pots five weeks earlier in accordance with the most beneficial moment in the current lunar cycle. ( Artist – Sue Barnes) o A wall of almost abstract paintings of Sussex woodland seen from the artist’s studio window, one produced each day, stimulated by an interest in I Ching and The Book of Changes and demonstrating the infinite potential for change and the transitory nature of the world around us. (Artist - John Hacker) o Ephemeral and decaying objects such as discarded bus tickets, newspaper cuttings or shopping lists that the artist has transformed into objects of contemplation by placing them in the permanent space of a gallery. (Rosie O’Driscoll) Continued ... 2 o A large series of paintings showing elaborate linear designs in which the artist believes we will search for order but where he has placed none. He wants us to learn to free ourselves from our normal habits and recognise that we should contemplate the possibilities of non linear time, premonition and glimpsing the future. (Artist - John Plummer) o Similarly challenging to our frequently rigid understanding of time is the real time computer installation which shows a map of the world with two sets of changing digital numerals which diverge increasingly as we watch. The computer is sending the time from here and now in Hastings to a computer in Boston and as these ‘times’ increasingly diverge we are forced to understand that the time we are living in is in a different realm and is a slower form of time from that inhabited by ‘information’ on the internet. (Artist - Max Irwin) This exhibition is a joint project between Hastings Arts Forum and the Anthropology Department of the London School of Economics with funding from the Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC). At the start of this exhibition on 19 March the anthropologists will meet with the HAF artists to explore how they have rendered the issues in visual media. On Saturday 26 March there will be a Family Day with ‘Conflicts in Time’ workshops for children in the morning and a puppet show in the afternoon. ARTISTS Sue Barnes Sid Beynon Rose Biela Lynne Bingham John Hacker Andy Moran Mary Morris Rosie O’Driscoll John Plummer EXHIBITING MEDIA Graphic work and living plants Public art installation and photographs Assemblages of made objects and photographs Mixed media sculpture Watercolours with pencil Screened video presentation Mixed media paintings Found objects and paint Acrylic on canvas paintings Annie Rae Watercolours with gouache and pencil and fine art prints OTHER PARTICIPANTS Laura Bear Four ethnographic films, Hooghly Soundings, from recent fieldwork in Kolkata, India Mary Evans Organiser of Family Workshops on 26 March Harry Lyons Cultural historian exhibiting illustrated panels Julian Rumball Puppeteer giving performances on 26 March Nick Weekes Performed music/sound piece on 19 March Griselda Bear Exhibition curator For images or more information on the exhibition contact [email protected] or Dr Laura Bear ([email protected]) on the Conflicts in Time project.