An interactive exhibition across three venues exploring the ways in which we connect as human beings
Skipton Big Ideas:
Human Connections
ArtHouse Jersey’s Skipton Big Ideas: Human Connections is an exciting multi-site exhibition that uses a range of different media to examine how we connect as human beings. Sponsored by Skipton International and launching on Saturday 4 November, the show is spread across three locations where visitors will encounter sculptures, film, installations, interactive technology, theatre, filmed portraits and a laboratory/ There are opportunities to participate, further explore these connections and even become part of the artworks themselves. Below are some of the key attractions on offer.
People We Love by KMA (pictured right and above by © Esme Mai) & gallery exhibition at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House. 3 November to 17 December, 10.30am to 6pm.
Earlier in the year, Islanders were invited to take part in the artwork where they were filmed gazing at a picture of someone they love. Visitors will be met with the penetrating gaze of the artwork’s subjects, inviting them to feel each unspoken story as the faces tell the tale of someone they love. People We Love explores the invisible transaction between a person, a piece of art and that emotion which bonds us all: love.
The exhibition space will also feature works by prominent international artists including Gina Czarnecki (UK), Tessa Garland (London, UK), Natasha Tontey (Indonesia) and Arlene Wandera (Kenya/ London,UK)
Pictured below from left to right, featured artists; Kimatica, Natasha Tontey and Silvia Mercuriali of Etiquette.
Totem by Kimatica Studio
Maritime Museum. Monday 6 November to 17 December, every day 10.30am to 4pm
Totem is an immersive ritualistic experience that invites audiences to explore human connectedness through a techno-reinvention of an ancestral spirit being, a sacred object, and a symbolic representation of tribal cohesion and harmony - The Totem. Although its beliefs and functions vary between cultures, a common purpose of this symbol is connection. The Totem was believed to strengthen the group's unity and maintain ties to ancestors, consciousness and the community.
An interplay of light, motion and emotion, using body-tracking software Totem invites visitors to move, create and influence the artwork live in the Tapestry Gallery. Suitable for family members of all ages! Free entry/no booking required.
Baptêmes de Terre by Fred Martin
ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House. 12 to 18 November, 10.30am to 12pm, 2pm to 3.30pm, 4.30pm to 6pm.
This artistic ceremony of Baptêmes de Terre (Earth Baptisms) functions as both a rebirth and a revelation. Through his ritual performance, artist Fred Martin immerses participants’ faces in a bath of clay to create an expressive cast. The casts are then used to create plaster copies of the faces of the people who participate in this ceremonial practice and finally brought together to create a magnificent communal artwork. The masks do not conceal but rather reveal the most minute and intimate details of a face, in an authentic experience based on sharing and bringing people together.
Baptêmes de Terre face castings will take place from 12-18 November. The artwork will then be developed in the gallery and the final work revealed on 25 November. Fred Martin is based in Lille, France and has travelled the world to create his installations and sculptures in-situ. His material of choice in the Baptêmes de Terreseries is the primordial clay with which he finds an elementary connection.
Etiquette by Rotozaza
The Yard, Jersey Museum. 3 November to 16 December on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Etiquette is a half-hour experience for two people in a cafe created by Rotozaza (Ant Hampton & Silvia Mercuriali). There is no-one watching, no ‘audience’ as such - other people in the cafe are not particularly aware of it happening. You wear headphones which tell you what to say to each other, or to use one of the objects positioned on the table. There is a kind of magic involved - for it to work you just need to listen and respond accordingly. Free to book and take part and available in 17 languages including French, Portuguese and Polish.
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Gina Czarnecki
Ground-breaking multi-disciplinary artist whose work is inspired by developmental biotechnology & the intertwining histories of medicine, myth and ethics.
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Tessa Garland
London based artist and independent curator who has exhibited widely. Creep East explores our fundamental urge as human beings to watch each other.
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Natasha Tontey
Interdisciplinary artist based between Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Her film work employs fiction as a method of speculative thinking.
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Arlene Wandera
London based, Kenyan-born artist. On the Ladder is an activated sculpture consisting of figures and found objects collected from Venice, London, and Johannesburg.