Between November 2018 and November 2019 CAS Artists James Aldridge (Wiltshire) and Karen Wood (London) have collaborated as Urban Rural Exchange. Meeting for bi-monthly walks in Wiltshire and London, and maintaining a dialogue online via instagram @UrbanRuralExchange, James and Karen have documented their experiences of where they live and work, through collections, bundles, tape drawings […]
Speakers Announced for Inside/Outside Arts Symposium
The Laboratory of Dissent is an experimental 5 week project. Join us for our launch event: the Inside/Outside Symposium on Sat 2nd November. You can look forward to short films, presentations, and a panel discussion with key contributors. LIST OF SPEAKERS 1.Jon Adams‘The disconformity anomaly’ 2.Louis Braddock Clarke‘Untangling The Noises of Matter’ 3.Vivian Chinasa Ezugha‘Performing […]
Let Us Dissent
A dissenting voice is an alternative voice. Whether quiet or loud, individual or collective, the dissenter invites us to see the world in a different way. CAS Associate Artists are coming together in this exhibition to present their alternative voices. As part of a collective, together CAS Artists are interested to explore on a conceptual, […]
Art Laboratory embraces Dissent as a methodology
1st November – 11th December 2019 Winchester Gallery, WSA, Park Avenue SO23 8DL CAS Associate Artists will be on-site at Winchester School of Art (WSA) for a 5 week experimental project, read on to find out how you can join in. What would it mean to be more creative by embracing dissent? Since late in […]
The ties that bind – CAS, the Block_Chain, and Curating Dissent
For the last few years it has been my great pleasure to work with the Andover based Chapel Arts Studios (CAS), their Director David Dixon, and the various artists of the exciting CAS Associate Artists programme. Since late in 2014, and especially during the spring of 2015, we have engaged in a stimulating and […]
Truth-DARE, what’s next for socially-engaged practice?
We are pleased to announce that Laurence Dube-Rushby and CAS together have secured funding to develop our support for socially-engaged practices. As part of an ongoing commitment to developing art actions for social change, Laurence will collaborate with CAS and its Dissent program to deliver a two day Socially Engaged Practice Forum in 2019. In this […]
A Peek at The Power of Two
How to summarise the flurry of activity between the Block_Chain resident artists this week? BLOCK 3 On a mountainside in Catalania, Sarah Misselbrook chokes back the ashes of her ‘facemask’ of incinerated charcoal drawing,while back in her flat share on the ‘dingy’ side of Cambridge, Denise Kehoe ponders the power of her Poundland cake of, […]
A story from LOD1
Dawn Evans talks to Yonat, David, Maija and Chester (2017) about her experience of Week 1. Laboratory of Dissent 2015. I think this might be helpful for any new Associates to witness the ongoing discussion as we continue to reflect on the experiences that we have shared, it offers a bit of background of how […]
Introducing new, collaborative project to take us into 2018
Project Details Go to Opportunities BLOCK_CHAIN > THE POWER OF 2 is a process rather than an exhibition, a vehicle rather than a fixed destination, a non-hierarchical container for exchange, evolution and innovation. Borrowing it’s terminology from the blockchain, BLOCK_CHAIN > THE POWER OF 2, seeks to transmute the digital framework into a material reality […]
Layers of Time and Peripheral Colours
On Thursday 4th CAS artists revisited images of The Laboratory of Dissent exhibition (2015) which ran for 5 weeks at the Winchester Gallery. Each artist selected an image, and passed it on to another artist for response. Artist Dawn Evans invited us to explore “porous thinking” and move away from the central image, to create […]
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Fig. 1 – YNG, ‘How do you know you love someone?’ The piece of paper that my hand found inside Dawn’s box carried the following question: ‘How do you know you love someone?’ I chose to ponder upon it while eating an apple I had in my bag. (see figure 1). I still don’t know. Fig. […]
Mapping the domestic in the gallery space
Initially we agreed to divide the gallery space to different domestic areas: ‘living-room’, ‘kitchen’, ‘storage’, ‘library’, ‘music room’, ‘studio’. However, when artists came to the gallery they each set her work in a specific part of the gallery, pushing to the side the idea of allocating spaces as above. Susan chose a wall on which […]
Do You Reserve The Right To Make Your Own Meaning?
“Looking at concepts that are made [through art and design] is it important to look at the institutional role of developing meaning and creating conclusions that artists aren’t perhaps willing to make? Institutions like to have a product or concluded idea to sell.” August: “The institution of art critic and art historian, because they are people and professions, you […]
Tracking The Red Thread
At the beginning of The Laboratory of Dissent, I unearthed a poem I wrote about how I want to live. It was a frustrated poem, contrasting the urgent passion of individuality with the unthinking consumption of pre-packaged cultural norms and social agreements. It’s called ‘Shut Eye’ and I was able to draw from it a couple of motifs. The […]
Domesticating conflicts: presentation, text for panel discussion and other notes
Laboratory of Dissent Domesticating conflicts Bibliography Panel discussion – Symposium Laboratory of Dissent Laboratory Dissent Domesticating conflicts 2015 – 1 Domesticating conflict text for PPP
