There was great feedback from the exhibition. Approximately 60 people braved the wet and windy bank holiday weekend.
Wonderful experience - with eyes closed, I’m in all my favourite places
Great sensations! Close your eyes and you’re there.
Brilliant work. Animation was fantastic and the interactive countryside experience was wonderful! Thanks to the artists and all people involved.
Sounds and barefoot. Brilliant idea, relaxing - I enjoyed it.
flip-flop is a series of short videos by Clare Carswell made in the mobile phone whilst the artist is working on other projects. The portability and immediacy of the phone camera and software mean that ideas can be grabbed and realised in a few moments. The mobile phone takes on the aspect of a multi-media sketch-book with the phone functioning as a drawing tool. These videos can be shared with others via MMS or downloaded to the computer for further working and sharing over the internet.
Two of the flip-flop series will be projected at BEAM for the first time and are viewable here :
Journeys through industrial landscapes
My work in this exhibition shows work in progress on a project concerned with industrial landscapes in Britain. I am trying to capture what I experience as I walk through some of our industrial heritage. I take advantage of the digital camera to capture images quickly and instinctively, and then process them without editing or compensating for under or overexposure.
I am also exploring those landscapes through research into old maps, with the aim of linking these landscapes today with their industrial past. Sometimes all that remains may be a place name.
Manchester
9th October 2006 : A 42 minute walk from Ancoats to Miles Plating along the Rochdale Canal
I’m showing a series of 12 painted polaroid images at Beam-Art. The Dunbar Series is my painterly response to the place celebrating the ‘extra’ and ‘ordinariness’ of its buildings and somewhat down-at-heel atmosphere. Dunbar is a small fishing town on the edge of the North Sea, 30 miles SE of Edinburgh, and where I lived for three years. I am a Professional Member of the Society of Scottish Artists, a printmaker and painter.
Listen to some of the sounds from Outside In online:
Photos of the Outside In installation by Alun Ward at BEAM, Saturday 24th May.
You are invited to remove your socks and shoes, don the headphones provided (with optional hygienic covers), step onto the raised platforms, close your eyes, and listen…
OUTSIDE IN invites you into three micro-environments linked, via similar sounds, to very different locations and places in time. These sounds are then mixed by the artist according to your location within the piece, allowing you to be both ‘inside’ and ‘outside’, to travel and to stand still.