United Visual Artists (GB)
The Poetics of Movement
July 19th – July 25th 2020
United Visual Artists United Kingdom
UVA (United Visual Artists) is a London based collective founded in 2003 by British artist Matt Clark. UVA’s diverse body of work integrates new technologies with traditional media such as sculpture, performance and site-specific installation.
Drawing from sources ranging from ancient philosophy to theoretical science, the practice explores the cultural frameworks and natural phenomena that shape our cognition, creating instruments that manipulate our perception and expose the relativity of our experiences. Rather than material objects, UVA’s works are better understood as events in time, in which the performance of light, sound and movement unfolds.
UVA has been commissioned internationally by institutions including the Barbican Curve Gallery, London, England; Manchester International Festival, Manchester, England; Royal Academy of Arts, London, England; Serpentine Gallery, London, England; The Wellcome Trust, London, England; Towner Gallery, East Sussex, England; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England; YCAM, Tokyo, Japan, and others. Previous group exhibitions include Blain|Southern, London, England; Riflemaker, London, England; Bryce Wolkowitz, New York; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; and Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China.
UVA is collected by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, France and MONA, Australia. Public works are sited internationally in Toronto, Dubai, Philadelphia and London.
The practice has an open and inclusive approach to collaboration and have worked with artists including choreographer Benjamin Millepied and the Paris Opéra Ballet, filmmaker Adam Curtis, and musicians Massive Attack, Battles, and James Blake. Most recently UVA collaborated with Christopher Bailey for the Autumn/Winter 2018 fashion runway show at Burberry.
The workshop will be run by Will Laslett and Willem Kempers.
Will has a background in architecture and now works across a wide range of spatial, physical and detail design challenges. He is responsible for leading each project’s spatial design output.
Willem uses code to create form and behaviour. His work focuses on making the digital interpret the physical, and how digital processes can be manifested in physical space.
The Workshop
The movement of an object through space creates meaning, at least as perceived in the mind of the viewer, but this is only through a subjective applied prior knowledge or experience of the world. Distilled to its essence, however, it could be said it is the properties of movement itself be it speed, direction, acceleration, or a certain combination of each that we imbue certain associations or interpretations. Whether its an imitation of a familiar real world interaction, a depiction of a normally unseen phenomenon, or an abstract representation of a theme, any complexity of subjective meaning might be distilled or extrapolated from these fundamental properties. Indeed we might also anthropomorphise movement, either in its creation or interpretation, and whether its intended or not. Two objects made to move in relation to each other, but which in themselves may have no reflection of the human form, may be interpreted as the interaction of two people and the multitude and complexity of emotions and meanings that might entail.
During the course of the workshop participants will create kinetic artworks which seek to explore this creation and interpretation of meaning in movement based artforms. Here this is condensed to its most fundamental basis as the movement of objects in space; broad in spectrum, but distilled in essence. The objects created may be of any practical scale, controlled or uncontrolled, and powered actively or passively through their environment.
Housing
Accommodation & food are included
We can accommodate for special catering
All participants sleep in dormitories
To book a private room or bring additional guests, get in touch: workshops@boisbuchet.org
Education
Our staff are available to help you conceptualize & produce your designs
Tools & materials are provided by Boisbuchet
All workshops are taught in English
The number of participants is limited to 22
Activities
Weekly campfire, exhibition & guided tour of the Domaine
Conferences from designers throughout the week
The famous Wednesday Porky’s party