The Dialogical Chair, Lillehammer, Norway July 2012

The Dialogical Chair

A new collaboration with Jan Steinum Sculpture/Photography/Installation

This site-specific installation, the first of a series (we hope) was developed during my recent trip to Lillehammer, where Jan is currently artist in residence at the home of the Norwegian painter Jakob Weidemann.

Tacturiency, Summer Lodge, NTU July 2012

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Tacturiency 

A collaborative project that I am developing with Emma Cocker, this work Tacturiency: game of resonance was produced during a one-week 'residency' at Summer Lodge, NTU with excellent support/involvement of intern, Christine Stevens. 

Further documentation of Tacturiency at Summer Lodge can be found here. 

Emma and I are developing ideas from the Tacturiency collaboration for future residencies.

Rhod 2012, Wales - new site specific work

Tact Series: Orange

4 new site responsive works for Rhôd 2012

Rhôd is a unique open-air contemporary art event held annually in Drefelin, Carmarthenshire. Since 2009 the owners of Melin Glonc Mill, Roger Lougher and Mari Beynon Owen, have arranged for artists to show their installation art in and around the old corn mill.

The underlying theme of the event has been to open a dialogue between artists who work in urban and rural environments. Each year the show has been curated by artists who have previously been exhibitors. This year the curator was Kathryn Campbell Dodd.

Connection/Time, performance collaboration with Paul Hurley

Connection/Time

An interdisciplinary project investigating  participatory live digital archiving in the occurrent arts through online social media.

Lead Artists: Paul Hurley, Dane Watkins
with Phil Owen, Steve Robbins, Clare Thornton H. Ren and Caroline Wilkins

Hosts: Knowle West Media Centre, Performance Exchange, SITE Festival Stroud, Arnolfini and Station Gallery, Bristol

BLOP, Arnolfini February 2012

You can lead a horse to water...

A new durational performance installation first tested during the Bristol Live Open Platform

Arnolfini. I am currently developing proposals for future experiments with these performance drawings.

'A heightened sense of making' Summer 2011

A Heightened Sense of Making 

Made on site at Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Summer 2011. It was created in my temporary studio, one of the Hetherington Creative Units. 

I worked intensively during my 3 month residency to generate new material, using 'In All Languages' movement vocabulary and in-camera editing, to capture what I term "heightened moments of making". 

During the film I am seen interacting with objects and sculptural forms to create a new performance work for camera.

Using In All Languages movement vocabulary as a stimulus. Sculpture, writing, performance

touch - movement - making

photo: Russell Basford 

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'Unfurl' Residency with Exhibition & Performance September - November 2011

"Extremely compelling piece - beautifully choreographed!"

 

Unfurl: A Work in Two Parts

by Clare Thornton

Sat 3 Sept 2011 - Red Lodge Museum, Bristol

Rogelio Vallejo (performer) and Zoe Childerley (photography)

These activities were framed by the Artist's research into depictions of the Fold in paintings, historical interiors and in critical texts. This research was furthered during her inaugural Artist in Residence with the University of Bristol Theatre Collection. Through the production of objects, garments and writing the Artist explored site specificity, processes of display, concealment and transformation.

Unfurl extended beyond the Performance Installation to include a variety of free Public Events.

Mon 26 Sept - Fri 11 Nov - Unfurl Exhibition, University of Bristol Theatre Collection, 21 Park Row. Focusing on the recently acquired Mander & Mitchenson Collection, revealing some unexpected treasures and making new work inspired by its holdings.

Tues 18 Oct, 2 & 3pm – Unfurl Exhibition tours with the Artist and Jo Elsworth, Director, Theatre Collection as part of InsideArts, the University of Bristol Festival of the Arts and Humanities, (free, booking via this link - Eventbrite)

Thurs 3 Nov, 5.30pm for 6pm start – an In Conversation informal discussion about the inaugural Residency Project and a wider discussion around artists responding to museums, archive and historical buildings. The discussion included input from project collaborators and practitioners interested in these fields.