Volumes Project has been conceived by Frank Bock, Nicola Conibere and Martin Hargreaves, with performances by invited artists Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon, Katye Coe, Nicola Conibere, Charlie Morrissey, Florence Peake, and Rahel Vonmoos.
In an era when most of us spend so much of our time in the virtual and digital worlds, Volumes Project focuses on the physical body as a means of exploring actual space. For MIRRORCITY the invited artists will present performances on this theme. Rather than being conventionally staged, these events will take place in ‘in-between’ spaces in the gallery and will activate the areas around artworks.
In investigating the displacing effect of dance and choreography, Volumes Project ask what other kinds of staging are possible and what other places can be proposed where bodies might meet each other.
On Saturday 15 November members of Volumes Project will discuss and appraise modes of exhibiting dance within museums and galleries. This public talk will take place as part of the MIRRORCITY events weekend.
Volumes Project will be performing throughout the exhibition (14 October – January 4). These performances will take place at intervals throughout normal gallery opening hours: Mon 12 – 6pm, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 11am – 7pm, late night Thursday and Friday 11am – 8pm.
Please scroll down for the schedule of performances.
About the artists
Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon
Refractions, 2014
In Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon's work for MIRRORCITY two bodies engage in delicate physical activity, striving to become something other than a body: material, force, a single organism. Colliding, pushing, pressing, mingling, uniting. This sculptural and minimal performance seeks to entice the viewer into the details of micro-movement. The title refers to the change in direction of a wave of light or sound when it passes from one medium to another.
Katye Coe
(to) constantly vent, 2013
Runners include: Hetty Blades, Hannah McBrien, Katye Coe, Taylan Halici, Jamila Rodrigues
Katye Coe’s performance exploits the boundaries between internal and external spaces. It involves a solo figure running a continuous circuit, passing through the gallery and out into the neighbouring cityscape.
Nicola Conibere
Do-Re-Me, 2014
Performers include: Neil Callaghan, Augsto Corrieri, Helka Kaski, Steph McMann
In Do-Re-Me two people, wrapped around each other and swaddled in swathes of black fabric, negotiate their way through the gallery. As fragmented limbs flail and reach for movement, the integrity of the body’s form is continually destabilised and transformed.
Charlie Morrissey
I am a Robot, 2014
For this work, Charlie Morrissey proposes that he is a robot. The piece, which will develop during the course of the exhibition, is a means to propose, notice and examine interrelationships between mind and body, between thinking, doing and being.
Florence Peake
Swell the thickening surface of, 2013
Performers include: Gaby Agis, Luke Birch, Neil Brown, Rachel Gildea, Lizzy Le Quesne, Catherine Long, Hamish MacPherson, Nando Messias, Joe Moran, Florence Peake, Amaara Raheem, Carolyn Roy, Nikki Tomlinson, Rosalie Wahlfrid
This performance work takes the singular action of shaking to see how far the meaning and reading of one gesture can be stretched. Moving on a circuit through the gallery, dancers explore how this action shifts their own perception, energy and state of being. Swell the thickening surface of was first developed at TINTYPE and David Roberts Art Foundation. Florence Peake is an Artsadmin Associate Artist.
Rahel Vonmoos
slow / down, 2014
For Volumes Project, dance artist Rahel Vonmoos works with displacement: the enforced departure or movement of something from its place or position. She sets out to create a personal space in the public thoroughfare of the exhibition, using movement and an aural accompaniment (comprising voices and manipulated sounds) to delineate its permeable boundaries. The soundscore is created by Vonmoos with select sound contributed by Dan Usiskin.
Performance schedule
Volumes Project will be performing throughout the exhibition (14 October – January 4). These performances will take place at intervals throughout normal gallery opening hours: Mon 12 – 6pm, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 11am – 7pm, late night Thursday and Friday 11am – 8pm.
The schedule for Monday 1 - Sunday 14 December is as follows:
Friday 12 December
2-8pm Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon Refractions
Saturday 13 December
1-4pm Katye Coe (to) constantly vent
4-7pm Nicola Conibere Do-Re-Me
Sunday 14 December
1-7pm Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon Refractions
Monday 15 December
12-3pm Florence Peake swell the thickening surface of
4-6pm Katye Coe (to) constantly vent
Tuesday 16 December
1-3pm Rahel Vonmoos slow / down
4-7pm Florence Peake swell the thickening surface of
Wednesday 17 December
1-7pm Charlie Morrissey I am a robot
Thursday 18 December
12-6pm Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon Refractions
Friday 19 December
2-5pm Rahel Vonmoos slow / down
5-8pm Katye Coe (to) constantly vent
Saturday 20 December
1-7pm Charlie Morrissey I am a robot
Sunday 21 December
1-4pm Katye Coe (to) constantly vent
4-7pm Florence Peake swell the thickening surface of
Monday 22 December
12-6pm Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon Refractions
Tuesday 23 December
1-4pm Katye Coe (to) constantly vent
4-7pm Nicola Conibere Do-Re-Me
Wednesday 24 December - Friday 26 December
CLOSED
Saturday 27 December
1-4pm Rahel Vonmoos slow / down
4-7pm Nicola Conibere Do-Re-Me
Sunday 28 December
1-4pm Florence Peake swell the thickening surface of
4-7pm Katye Coe (to) constantly vent
Monday 29 December
12-3pm Nicola Conibere Do-Re-Me
3-6pm Florence Peake swell the thickening surface of
Tuesday 30 December
1-4pm Nicola Conibere Do-Re-Me
4-7pm Florence Peake swell the thickening surface of
Wednesday 31 December
11am-4pm Charlie Morrissey I am a robot
Thursday 1 January
CLOSED
Friday 2 January
2-5pm Rahel Vonmoos slow / down
5-8pm Katye Coe (to) constantly vent
Saturday 3 January
1-7pm Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon Refractions
Sunday 4 January
1-4pm Florence Peake swell the thickening surface of
4-7pm Nicola Conibere Do-Re-Me
Florence Peake, Swell the thickening surface of, 2013 © Florence Peake, 2014. Photo: Marcus Boyle
Volumes Project are supported by Arts Council England Grants for the arts, Independent Dance and Trinty Laban.