WANTED: Stories at the Spring Tide Festival – join Proboscis in Burton Bradstock for Storyweir
ExLab is a ground-breaking arts programme along the Jurassic Coast, where earth scientists and artists collaborate to reveal hidden landscapes through the lenses of art, geology and technology. As part of ExLab, artist Alice Angus of Proboscis invites you to join her at the Spring Tide Festival, where you can contribute your stories and experiences of Burton Bradstock and Hive Beach to Storyweir. Have you lived nearby, worked there, walked there, fished, farmed, swum, fossil hunted or anything else? Alice is beachcombing for stories on the beach and invites young, old and everyone in-between, to bring words, ideas, or found objects to tie into the Storyweir net at the festival on 19 and 20 May, 10am – 4pm.
Storyweir is a ‘weir’ for catching stories – the title is inspired by traditional methods of fishing, including seine netting – which was (and still is) used to catch mackerel at Hive Beach. Storyweir is about how the human story of Burton Bradstock and the Jurassic Coast converge, revealing how people and places impact on each other. Come and find Alice and attach your memories, words, small sketches or objects you have found in exchange for tea and cake!
Alice is especially keen to involve children in the process: “We’d love families and children to come along and make a postcard-sized drawing to add to the net about what they imagine humans are leaving in the landscape that future geologists will find in millions of years time!”
Storyweir is one of five new commissions that comprise Exploratory Laboratory (ExLab) – being delivered as part of the Maritime Mix programme this summer across Dorset. Throughout the spring Alice is visiting the area to talk with scientists, local people and visitors to record stories, memories, and folklore that will inspire a new temporary artwork at Hive Beach in August 2012, as part of the Cultural Olympiad.
Storyweir has been co-commissioned by Bridport Arts Centre and PVA Media Lab, in partnership with the National Trust and Hive Beach Cafe. ExLab is a unique venture from the visual arts collective Big Picture, having won a major award from Arts Council England to commission a series of new artworks responding to England’s first natural World Heritage site, a 95 mile section of stunning Dorset and East Devon coastline known as the Jurassic Coast. ExLab is one of only five Dorset Cultural Olympiad projects to be invited to become part of the London2012 Festival. Find out more from the Maritime Mix website: www.maritimemix2012.com. Follow the progress of the project at www.exlab.org.uk and look out for news and updates – things being added regularly. We’re also on Twitter (ExLab2012) and Facebook (Ex-Lab-art-meets-science-on-the-coast). You can find out more at: proboscis.org.uk/tag/storyweir/ . For information on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site visit www.jurassiccoast.com
Stories Wanted at the Spring Tide Festival
Join Artist Alice Angus at the Spring Tide Festival to attach your stories and experiences of Burton Bradstock and the beach onto the Storyweir net.
Have you lived nearby, worked there, walked there, fished, farmed, swum, fossil hunted or anything else…? Alice is beachcombing for stories about Burton (Hive) Beach and invites young, old and everyone in between to bring words, ideas, or found objects to tie into the net at the festival on 19 and 20 May, 10am – 4pm.
Find her and attach your memories, words, small sketches or objects you have found in exchange for tea and cake!
Alice is part of arts group Proboscis who are creating a new project Storyweir about how the human story of Burton Bradstock and the Jurassic Coast, and the physical geology influence each other.
She is especially inviting children to come along and make a postcard-sized drawing to add to the net about what they imagine humans are leaving in the landscape that future geologists will find in millions of years.
Throughout the spring Alice is visiting the area to talk with scientists, local people and visitors to record stories, memories, and folklore that will inspire a new temporary artwork at Hive Beach in August 2012, as part of the Cultural Olympiad.
You can find out more at:
proboscis.org.uk/tag/storyweir/
Storyweir is a commission by Bridport Arts Centre and PVA MediaLab, in partnership with the National Trust and Hive Beach Cafe. It is one of 5 new creative works for ExLab, a visual arts project about the Jurassic Coast, funded by Arts Council England and West Dorset District Council. ExLab is part of the Maritime Mix Cultural Olympiad by the Sea.