Interior: Constellations
- Touching the House of Memory
A mixed media installation by Tereza Stehlíková
Kingsgate Gallery, West Hampstead, London NW6
17th September - 3rd October 2010
Press Preview and Private View: 16th September 2010, 7pm - 9pm
Interior: Constellations is a solo exhibition of new work in multiple media by London-based Czech artist / filmmaker Tereza Stehlíková. Creating an immersive installation - including a multi-screen projection, memory boxes, found objects, drawings and photography - Interior: Constellations will explore the archetypal house of childhood, and its influence on the creation of the self, in a sensual and imaginative meeting of interior and exterior realities.
In this seamless and enduring dialogue, the house enacts on, while also becoming legible as a map of, the psyche’s progression, as the rooms, staircases, doors and furniture of the domestic are further imbued with the richly textured potential of the un /conscious.
Drawing on the distinctive legacy of Czech Surrealism and the insights of phenomenology, Stehlíková’s work plays with significant scale shifts, incarnating influential philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s concept of intimate immensity through her focus on objects charged with memory, creating fertile constellations of association in a spirit of informed reverie.
Interior: Constellations also develops Stehlíková’s long term advocacy of the tactile as a critical, albeit often overlooked, element in contemporary fine art practice, relevant here both thematically and practically, as the means by which time imprints its histories into objects and sites and as the process whereby those stored impressions might subsequently be retrieved.
Tereza Stehlíková works as an artist, filmmaker, writer and associate lecturer in animation. She is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at the Royal College of Art, researching tactile memory and its relation to the moving image. Her films have been shown in various international film festivals, while her writing, photography and illustration has been widely published. She founded the tactile arts network Art in Touch and co-edits the cross-disciplinary magazine Artesian.
Note: there will be an off-site screening (during the exhibition, date tbc) of new / recent films by Stehlíková, alongside work of influence by Jan Svankmajer, Stan Brakhage and others.
For further information, artist interview and images, please contact Tereza Stehlíková
info[at]terezast.com
Kingsgate Gallery is open from Thursday - Sunday, 12- 6pm.
110-116 Kingsgate Road, London NW6 2JG
Tel/fax: 020 7328 7878; www.kingsgateworkshops.org.uk
Tube: West Hampstead, Kilburn (Jubilee line); Train: West Hampstead (London Overground / Thameslink); Brondesbury (Overground); Buses: various www.tfl.gov.uk
Open Studios 2010
Kingsgate Workshops Trust
Preview: Fri 11th June, 7 - 9pm
Open Studios continues Sat 12th and Sun 13th June, 12pm - 6pm
Come to Kingsgate Workshops Trust’s Open Studios 2010 and meet local artists and craftspeople. See behind the scenes at an artist's studio and buy unique art works. Support talented artists and designers making work in the UK. Enjoy the free attractions and participate in our art workshops for all ages. For more information of activities over the weekend please visit our website www.kingsgateworkshops.org.uk
Address:
110-116 Kingsgate Road
London NW6 2JG
Tel/fax: 020 7328 7878
The Rare Theatricall, London, 12th and 13th April 2010
Swift as a Shadow, Short as Any Dream
The Rare Theatricall’s latest project is set to be the group’s boldest and most ambitious work to date. Taking a visual approach to both the popular and lesser-known poetry of William Shakespeare, this unique collective of musicians, dancers, puppeteers and animators open up the literary works, finding new expressive possibilities in an exploration of both Baroque and contemporary performance practices. The TRT players will provide a live musical backdrop to the performances with incidental music from John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Matthew Locke’s The Tempest. Dancers will re-tell the classic tales, merging baroque steps with contemporary movement; shadow puppets with digital projection and period instrumentalists with stop-motion animation.
The Rare Theatricall holds a Leverhulme Junior Chamber Music Fellowship at London’s Royal Academy of Music and thus is committed to creating performances of exceptional quality.
For more information please visit The Rare Theatricall
Tickets: £10/6 (concession)
Time: 7.30 pm
The Crypt on the Green,
St. James’ C of E Church,
Clerkenwell Close,
London,
EC1R 0EA
Nearest Tube: Farringdon
ARTESIAN ISSUE NUMBER 2
The second edition of Artesian, a journal for committed creativity in art and life, which I co-edit is available now. Within the informal frame of 'water' it features work by Sally Potter, Susan Derges, Howard Barker, Andrew Kotting, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Ackroyd and Harvey, to mention just a few.
For more information please see:
Artesian
or email us:
info [at] gotogetherpress.com
First issue of : ARTESIAN
Journal for the Enduring Arts
Published by Go Together press
Our new journal dealing with life as art, art as life, exploring connections between various forms of creative expression as well as human knowledge, in an effort to counteract fragmentation, so prevalent in the culture around us.
Its first issue, within the informal frame of ‘earth’, will include original contributions from John Berger, Don DeLillo, Anne Michaels, Jan Svankmajer, Iona Heath, Deborah Levy, Rosalyn Driscoll and many others, alongside articles on the spiritual geology of place, tunnels, imagination.
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The Story of Violet
“A sweet tale about a dissatisfied young girl who learns through her dreams that imagination is the key to happiness. Very prettily illustrated.” Lisa Mullen, Time Out London
40 pp, fully colour illustrated through out, bi-lingual (English-Czech) book
Price £ 5.99, 198 CZK, 9 Euros
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Philip Jeck @ The Curzon Cinema | 17.06.06
6-7pm, Saturday 17th June, 2006
Curzon Soho, Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1
Fingertips – a live music film event
By Tereza Stehlíková, with an original soundtrack performed live by Philip Jeck
Vertigo is a unique project which champions innovation & diversity in form and culture for independent film and the moving image. Through its magazine, website and special events, Vertigo engages audiences, educators, students and practitioners, introducing new work and critical debate. Its latest issue is launched tonight and is available for sale after the event and at the cinema anytime.
