Join in with the fun, innocence and adventure of flight ‘One Red Balloon’ a game for Andover Space Programme by Tom Mansfield, Upstart Theatre When we were first planning the Andover Space Programme launch last year, it felt exciting. Launching a balloon full of people’s memories and hopes, and sending it to the edge of […]
CAS:AIR Space is partnering with Andover youth festival A-Fest to launch spacecraft
Andover Space Programme is an idea devised by Tom Mansfield for Chapel Arts Studios who offered him a 2019 Artist In Residence project ‘CAS:AIR There’s a Bigger Picture Out There’. CAS:AIR is an annually repeating programme focused on engaging local people in the arts. Mansfield worked with Andover Young Carers and the Picket Twenty Fillies […]
Mission successful
CAS:AIR There’s A Bigger Picture Out There led by Tom Mansfield of Upstart Theatre successfully recovered footage from cameras sent to the edge of space! Click image for more.
Yes, It’s F**king Political
by Amanda Bates (for CAS Research Group; Drawing Languages for Dissent, August 2020) This is a song by the British rock band Skunk Ansansie. It was the first song on their debut album, released in 1996. As such, it was evidently intended as a statement: Yes it’s fucking politicalEverything’s politicalYes it’s fucking satiricalEverything’s satirical Do […]
Dissent Origins?
From Puritanism to Dissent 1660 – 1700 by Anne Hitchcock for CAS Research Group 2020; Drawing Languages for Dissent I have struggled with the term ‘dissent’. It has felt to me that it connotes so much more than just disagreement. In researching the word I found the following passage by John Spurr: What happened to English […]
CAS:AIR Themes of Life
Follow the journey so far! (click the image)
Dates announced for long-awaited Andover themed art exhibition
CAS Curator Susan Francis is pleased to invite you to enjoy the culmination of CAS:AIR Themes of Life from 27 September. A repeating, annual, community programme focused on involving Andover people in the arts, the CAS:AIR project this year saw Scottish artist John McDonald lead a group of local artists to explore the social history […]
Amanda Bates on different forms of carbon in art and science
CAS Research and Drawing Group 2020; Drawing languages for Dissent Session 5; reading Miriam Cahn I was thinking about Cahn’s softer lines and the indeterminate gender of some of her figures. I tried to draw a figure that was neither male nor female and I used (blue) soluble graphite* and splashed it with water and […]
Peripheral thinking workshop in pictures; don’t defend the centre
CAS Research Group; Drawing Languages for DissentMonday 1 June 2020 Live Session Notes: Mathematics and circles – WJ “There is value in the ramble” ML “Are we aware of the moments of resisting coherency?” YNG “A clear idea of what I’m doing makes me get stuck” YNG ML intention – notice how the two aspects […]
Garage Party; a gathering of artists
On Thursday 11 June, artists who have been showing work in the contemporary HOUSEBOUND exhibition on Instagram gathered online for a garage party. Hosted by CAS Engagement Manager, Maija Liepins, the party was an opportunity to meet, and discuss the exhibition as a group (replay available below). After five weeks, the HOUSEBOUND exhibition has reached […]
