Tuesday 31 March 2015

Opening of A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING



Nicole Polonsky's A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING opened on Sunday 29 March.

In this work Nicole Polonsky offers a site-specific installation which responds to the domestic window as a liminal arena in which the private and public realms meet. Polonsky is interested in this as a locale where gestures towards activism may be performed, and political affiliations, belief systems and cherished hobbyhorses are voiced within the constraining parameters of the surrounding frame.

DLROW FOR EHT TAKING presents a narrative that mines Nicole's past. 

This is the first time within her mature creative practice that the artist has produced an explicitly diaristic piece. Comprising lines of reverse, or mirror, writing inscribed in turn on the inside and outside of the window pane, the text reads correctly only when viewed line by line from opposite sides of the glass. 

By teasingly inviting and hampering the spectator’s engagement with the work, the artist seeks to convey her ambivalence towards self-revelation as source material and subject.

DLROW FOR EHT TAKING continues until Friday 24 April.



Nicole installing the work







Caroline Gregory signing the visitor's book



Jo McCormick signing the visitor's book



Animated discussion between myself and Nicole at the opening 



Steve Rushton viewing the work





By holding mirrors to the window viewers are able to read 
the text written on both sides of the window 




Images by Daren Callow




Sunday 22 March 2015

Last week of - Fox's Window 11.3.11 - and opening of - A Dlrow For Eht Taking



Miyuki Kasahara's show Fox's Window 11.3.11 continues until 27 March
  below is a video of Miyuki's and Calum F. Kerr's performance of the Fox's Window at the opening of Miyuki's show.

The next show

A
DLROW
FOR
EHT
TAKING


by Nicole Polonsky opens on Sunday 29 March from 2pm to 5pm.

In A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING Nicole Polonsky offers a site-specific installation which responds to the domestic window as a liminal arena in which the private and public realms meet. 

A A DLROW FOR EHT TAKING presents a narrative that mines Polonsky's past. 

This is the first time within her mature creative practice that the artist has produced an explicitly diaristic piece. By teasingly inviting and hampering the spectator’s engagement with the work, the artist seeks to convey her ambivalence towards self-revelation as source material and subject.







Saturday 7 March 2015

Video of Fox's Window Story Telling Performance



A video of Miyuki's and Calum's performance of the Fox's Window at the opening of Miyuki's show - Fox's Window 11.3.11 - on Sunday 1 March





Miyuki's show continues until 27 March 

Following this show Nicole Polonsky presents

A
DLROW
FOR
EHT
TAKING


a site - specific installation that responds to the domestic window as a liminal arena in which the private and public realms meet - the opening of her show is Sunday 29 March from 2 to 5pm. 



Wednesday 4 March 2015

Fox's Window 11.3.11 - Opening & Performance on Sunday 1 March



Miyuki Kasahara's Fox's Window 11.3.11 - opened on Sunday 1 March with a
reading with Calum F. Kerr, of Fox's Window written by Naoko Awa - a Japanese writer of modern fairy tales




Following their performance we gathered by Miyuki's window installation Fox's Window 11.3.11 to hear her talk about the work, which combined elements of the story with details of the affects of the radiation from the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant caused by a tsunami in 2011





Miyuki first adapted Fox's Window - a story telling performance stage set - in 2011 for the Nunhead Festival as a response to the nuclear disaster see 


for more details of this. 

I have heard that my friend's young daughter who sat entranced during the story telling has repeatedly re-told the Fox's Window story to her friends.   


John 'Jazzman' Clarke enjoying a cuppa

Installation photographs by Calum F. Kerr and Miyuki Kasahara 

Performance photographs by Steve Rushton