An exhibition of multimedia work by six contemporary artists in St. Augustine's Tower, Hackney.

1 August - 7 September 2003

Friday - Sunday 10am - 5pm

Private View 31 July 2003 6pm - 9pm

St. Augustine's Tower, adjacent to 354 Mare Street, Hackney, London, E8 1HV

(Free Admission)

Resonance:Resounding, echoing, sonorus, ringing. The phenomenon exhibited by vibrating systems, which are brought into oscillation by a periodic disturbance - the frequency of which is equal to that of the system.

When an object or location carries a significance or an energy beyond itself, it can be said to resonate. In Ringing each artist is isolating or responding to these echoes carried by St. Augustine's Tower in a very different way. They work with a range of media to fashion meanings and interactions which touch upon a subtle depth of reality lying at the edges of our perceptions. All share a concern withmaking artwork which extends beyond its material boundaries to consider the architecture and the context of the space in which it is shown. Connections are made between the subject of the work, the materials it consists of, the location and the viewer.

Maria Mitzali works with photography to present a series of works which although seemingly simple, present the viewer with a moment of implied significance. A traditionally idealistic holiday setting is utterly transformed through the presence of vast elemental forces. Sean Langton presents the visitors to the tower with an enigmatic cube, that allows them to listen in to signals from an isolated unit of space / time. Both works implicate participants within a larger scale of events; viewers and subjects are set in tension with the unleashed energies of an impending future.

Other artists bring breathing projections, a frozen cloud of butterflies, fragmented photographic limbs and stop frame animations of a spiral staircase, into sync with Hackney's clock tower.

St Augustine's Tower is a site that itself resonates with history. The tower is the last remaining fragment of St. Augustine's Church, which was knocked down in 1798. Just as a resonant object is a conductor of signals, the tower carries vibrations and traces of its history into the present. Ringing is the first art exhibition to be held in St. Augustine's Tower and is the first time the building has been opened to the public for a substantial period of time for hundreds of years.

Talks

Date : 4th & 5th September 2003

In conjunction with Ringing Slowfall Projects are presenting a series of talks by leading specialists within the disciplines of art, science and culture. The talks aim to provide evenings full of diverse ideas on important contemporary topics while also encouraging a questioning of boundaries between art, science, culture and historical content.There will be opportunities for questions from the floor.

Speakers include:

• Denna Jones: Redefining Art-Science
• Marios Kittenis: Resonance in Parapsychology
• Ingrid Swenson: Art in Unconventional Places
• Gustav Metzger: Extinction
• Judith Williamson: Constructing Meaning
• Sean Gubbins: History in Hackney
• John March Russell: Creativity in Science and Art

Find out more about the talks.

Workshops

In conjunction with the exhibition Ringing in St Augustine’s Tower, Slowfall Projects, with the generous support of Awards for All, are running a series of artist led workshops for members of the local community. Participants will be encouraged to learn basic technical skills and develop creatively and critically through responding to the artwork on display.

These Workshops are ideally suited to 6 - 14 year olds though are open to all ages.

Date : 25th August & 4th September 2003

Find out more about the workshops.

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The artists who have created this show are part of Slowfall Projects, an artist run group, who work together to provide local and international exhibitions of art in unconventional venues.

Slowfall Projects would like to thank The Cornflake Shop, Awards for All and Startide for their generous support.

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