Art
Take
- Artists
- Laurie Cole, Biba Cole, Leo Gavin
Take means ‘bamboo’ in Japanese.
Take is a collaborative exhibition that explores the ways we respond to poetry. Featuring works by Biba and Laurie Cole and an animation by Leo Gavin.
The works showcased have been developed from The Mother Stem, a large game of poetry consequences that took place at SPACE and Arnolfini earlier this year.
In the game, the public used large bamboo dip pens and brushes to write poetry and draw, responding to each other’s words and pictures. Artists Laurie and Biba have collected this chain of responses and used them to form new paintings and films that carry the concept further.
Biba creates an experimental film that explores every single response through the act of movement and soundscape.
Laurie constructs paintings that play with the words and visuals of the chain and highlights small and intricate moments from within the responses.
Collaborator Leo’s animation takes the same concept of responding to poetry but over a longer time period; responding to a piece of music composed in 1958 that features and responds to poetry from 780 years ago.
The exhibition aims to engage you with poetry new and old.
Open 100am-7pm daily.
For more info, visit www.facebook.com/events/2447521158806762
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