GHost – the Post-GHost-Hosting
GHost is led by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal
Projections of GHost photography by Julian Wakeling and performances by GHost artistsThu, 25 February 2010, 6.30 – 9.00pmCourtroom, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU This evening concludes the cycle of events that comprised GHost II and opens the curtain for the entrance of GHost III. In a parallel projection on the walls of the Courtroom we will show Julian Wakeling’s haunted photographs of hostings I and II, which took place in the same room in October and November last year and of the GHost II exhibition at St Johns Church on Bethnal Green.Reverend Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Fabrizio Manco, Calum F. Kerr, Miyuki Kasahara and Derek Jordan, who have all taken part in GHost II, have devised a series of performances for the evening and will invite audiences to interact with the space and its invisible entities.Wine will be served and you will have a chance to purchase a copy of our GHost publications, “Hosting I: Haunted Houses” and “Hosting II: Ghost Voices”, which contain essays from the hostings and a selection of Julian’s photographs.
The Daughters of Moroni will preside over the evening.
This is a free event but please email us at ghost.hostings@gmail.com so we know how many to expect.
GHost is organised by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal.http://www.sarahsparkes.com/news/2010/www.host-a-ghost.blogspot.comJoin the Facebook group
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
SUPERMARKET
COTH - Cult of the Harvester at SUPERMARKET 2010;
Kulterhuset, Sergels Torg, Stockholm. 19-21 February 2010.
'JISM - The Trondant Spit - Domain of Chefly Appetites' Printed placemat - edition of 40, 2010, Sarah Sparkes and Simon Neville
Cult of the Harvester will be showing work from their new series 'JISM' 'Trondant Spit - Domain of Chefly Appetites' Harvester is the name of a restaurant chain in the United Kingdom. These restaurants, which also function as pubs, often occupy converted coaching houses that once served the major trunk routes, Britain's transport arteries, before the construction of motorways. Following a network of lay-lines and located on prehistoric sacred sites, Harvester restaurants reverberate with the powers buried in the soil beneath their faux rural Interiors; interiors which are festooned with fake farming implements harking back to a fabled rural idyll. Removed form any real context these scythes, trowels and ploughs serve as fetishes or ceremonial objects in the practise of an unnamed worship. The menu is meat based and there is an overpowering stench of the cooking of raw flesh. The all-you-can-eat salad bar, a rustic timber-clad stainless steel industrial server, is bathed in the warming glow of overhead spotlights with offerings laid out like specimens in a laboratory.At the apex of this sinewy network stands the Beulah Spa overlooking the vale of Croydon. Here initiates of the Cult of the Harvester congregate to cast their seed upon the sterile asphalt of the car park and around the thickly carpeted floor beneath the salad bar. This act of sacrifice reveals the mystic outlines of the fabled paradise of the Trondant Spit: Domain of Chefly Pleasures where conscientious carnivores contemplate happy meats.For the evidence at Supermarket Stockholm COTh presents Jism their latest series of limited edition ceremonial artefacts commemorating initiation into the cult.
COTH is an on-going collaboration between Sarah Sparkes and Simon Neville
New initiates welcome, please email cultoftheharvester@gmail.comYou can follow us on blogger http://cultoftheharvester.blogspot.com/
Kulterhuset, Sergels Torg, Stockholm. 19-21 February 2010.
'JISM - The Trondant Spit - Domain of Chefly Appetites' Printed placemat - edition of 40, 2010, Sarah Sparkes and Simon Neville
Cult of the Harvester will be showing work from their new series 'JISM' 'Trondant Spit - Domain of Chefly Appetites' Harvester is the name of a restaurant chain in the United Kingdom. These restaurants, which also function as pubs, often occupy converted coaching houses that once served the major trunk routes, Britain's transport arteries, before the construction of motorways. Following a network of lay-lines and located on prehistoric sacred sites, Harvester restaurants reverberate with the powers buried in the soil beneath their faux rural Interiors; interiors which are festooned with fake farming implements harking back to a fabled rural idyll. Removed form any real context these scythes, trowels and ploughs serve as fetishes or ceremonial objects in the practise of an unnamed worship. The menu is meat based and there is an overpowering stench of the cooking of raw flesh. The all-you-can-eat salad bar, a rustic timber-clad stainless steel industrial server, is bathed in the warming glow of overhead spotlights with offerings laid out like specimens in a laboratory.At the apex of this sinewy network stands the Beulah Spa overlooking the vale of Croydon. Here initiates of the Cult of the Harvester congregate to cast their seed upon the sterile asphalt of the car park and around the thickly carpeted floor beneath the salad bar. This act of sacrifice reveals the mystic outlines of the fabled paradise of the Trondant Spit: Domain of Chefly Pleasures where conscientious carnivores contemplate happy meats.For the evidence at Supermarket Stockholm COTh presents Jism their latest series of limited edition ceremonial artefacts commemorating initiation into the cult.
COTH is an on-going collaboration between Sarah Sparkes and Simon Neville
New initiates welcome, please email cultoftheharvester@gmail.comYou can follow us on blogger http://cultoftheharvester.blogspot.com/
Sunday, 10 January 2010
POST
TROVE presents: Post
Part of the contents of my letter to 'POST' an digital collage and a golden rat, with the message, 'enjoy paradise'
A group exhibition organised by TROVE in association with Hayley Lock
The Old Science Museum144 Newhall StreetBirminghamB3 1RZhttp://www.trove.org.uk/
The exhibition will be an amalgamation of works responding to the idea of ‘Post’.Artists include:Darren Banks, Liz Bradshaw, Martyn Cross, Vicky Cull, Tracy Eastham, Rebecca Foster, Anna Francis, Anneka French, Helen Grundy, Lulu Horsfield, David Kefford, Hayley Lock, Renauld Loda, MAMA, David Miller, Malcolm Moseley, Justine Moss, John Rixon, Sarah Sparkes, Emily Speed, Ana Benlloch and Stuart Tait, Cathy Wade, Edward Wakefield, Lucy Wilson, Jennifer Zoellner
Part of the contents of my letter to 'POST' an digital collage and a golden rat, with the message, 'enjoy paradise'
A group exhibition organised by TROVE in association with Hayley Lock
PREVIEW Friday 15th January 2010 6-9pm Open by appointment until Sunday 31st January 2010Please contact Charlie at charlie (at) trove.org.uk
The Old Science Museum144 Newhall StreetBirminghamB3 1RZhttp://www.trove.org.uk/
For the forthcoming exhibition at TROVE this January 2010, curator Charlie Levine and artist Hayley Lock have invited friends and acquaintances from the social network facebook to partake in a Christmas card/collage exchange. All works posted through the physical and therefore traditional routes are to be displayed together in plan chests at TROVE.
The exhibition will be an amalgamation of works responding to the idea of ‘Post’.Artists include:Darren Banks, Liz Bradshaw, Martyn Cross, Vicky Cull, Tracy Eastham, Rebecca Foster, Anna Francis, Anneka French, Helen Grundy, Lulu Horsfield, David Kefford, Hayley Lock, Renauld Loda, MAMA, David Miller, Malcolm Moseley, Justine Moss, John Rixon, Sarah Sparkes, Emily Speed, Ana Benlloch and Stuart Tait, Cathy Wade, Edward Wakefield, Lucy Wilson, Jennifer Zoellner
Sunday, 20 December 2009
GHost II
GHOST II
curated by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal
Photogragh taken at St John on Bethnal Green by Sarah Sparkes 2009
Friday 18th December 6pm - 10pm
Screenings commence at 7.30pm
at St John’s Church on Bethnal Green 200 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9PA (opposite Bethnal Green tube)
Join us for the Return of GHost!A night of artist films, performances and moving image interventions to celebrate the darkest days of the season and to welcome in the ghosts that inhabit them. With moving image installations around the foyer and belfry and a screening of artist films on a movie-sized screen in the nave. Plus, as a finale a screening of Mario Bava's 1963 classic, 'I tre volti della paura: La goccia d'acqua’
And, of course, Mulled wine and minced pies!
With (in no particular order): Glenn Church, JoWonder, Geraldine Swayne, Daisy Delaney, Sinead Wheeler, Magnus Irving, Sarah Doyle, Tessa Garland, Lisa Fielding Smith, Gail Burton, Rebecca Feiner, Sam Treadaway, Katja Tukiainen, Sarah Breen Lovett, Calum F Kerr, Anne Charlotte Morgenstein, Andrew Graves-Johnston, Mason Stone, Richard Mansfield, Fernando Cestari, Mikey Georgeson, Reverand Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Geoff and the Daughters of Moroni, Miyuki Kasahara, Jo David, Julian Wakeling, Derek Jordan, and David Buckley on the ORGAN
Visit our website for more info: http://www.host-a-ghost.blogspot.com/
or join our
Facebook group
With thanks to St John’s Church on Bethnal Green, the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (University of London), Betting on Shorts, Paul Dillon, Jonathon McKay, Cosimo Trisolini and Intellect Books.
curated by Sarah Sparkes and Ricarda Vidal
Photogragh taken at St John on Bethnal Green by Sarah Sparkes 2009
Friday 18th December 6pm - 10pm
Screenings commence at 7.30pm
at St John’s Church on Bethnal Green 200 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9PA (opposite Bethnal Green tube)
Join us for the Return of GHost!A night of artist films, performances and moving image interventions to celebrate the darkest days of the season and to welcome in the ghosts that inhabit them. With moving image installations around the foyer and belfry and a screening of artist films on a movie-sized screen in the nave. Plus, as a finale a screening of Mario Bava's 1963 classic, 'I tre volti della paura: La goccia d'acqua’
And, of course, Mulled wine and minced pies!
With (in no particular order): Glenn Church, JoWonder, Geraldine Swayne, Daisy Delaney, Sinead Wheeler, Magnus Irving, Sarah Doyle, Tessa Garland, Lisa Fielding Smith, Gail Burton, Rebecca Feiner, Sam Treadaway, Katja Tukiainen, Sarah Breen Lovett, Calum F Kerr, Anne Charlotte Morgenstein, Andrew Graves-Johnston, Mason Stone, Richard Mansfield, Fernando Cestari, Mikey Georgeson, Reverand Marc Vaulbert de Chantilly, Geoff and the Daughters of Moroni, Miyuki Kasahara, Jo David, Julian Wakeling, Derek Jordan, and David Buckley on the ORGAN
Visit our website for more info: http://www.host-a-ghost.blogspot.com/
or join our
Facebook group
With thanks to St John’s Church on Bethnal Green, the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (University of London), Betting on Shorts, Paul Dillon, Jonathon McKay, Cosimo Trisolini and Intellect Books.
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Dissolving Cube
THE DISSOLVING CUBE
Thursday 26th November 4 – 8pm
Ends Decemeber 6th 6pm
at, The Portman Gallery, Morpeth School, Bethnal Green
Antonio Cabrera, Naomi St Clair-Clarke, Andrew Cooper, David Collins, Shireen Darabi, Daisy Delaney, Sarah Doyle, Charlie Fox, Mikey Georgeson, Emma Hart, Heike Kelter, Ryo Ikeshiro, Miyuki Kasahara, Simon Katan, Dean Kenning, René Luckhardt, Mark Mc Gowan, Hassan Najmi, Laura Oldfield Ford, Paul Sakoilsky, Kristian Sakulku, Sarah Sparkes, Thump & Fiend, Raymond Yuenfai Vuong,
Curated by Andrew Cooper
Thursday 26th November 4 – 8pm
Ends Decemeber 6th 6pm
at, The Portman Gallery, Morpeth School, Bethnal Green
"Stainless" hand painted wall paper by sarah Sparkes 2009
I made hand painted wall paper, using a one inch decorating brush to creat a repeat motiff.
The Dissolving Cube presents work which corrupts the boundaries between object, word, performance, sound, the viewer and the viewed. The work includes visual, poetic and sound art forms which blend together to dissolve artificial boundaries between separate art works.
The show will pose questions concerning art's purpose. The work will interact with the audience of the school and local area. Several artists will be working with students to produce work for the show.
The cube will mutate, dissolve and reach out down Portman Place, beyond Globe road from four different zones. The artists will install their own work and negotiate the form which each zone takes.
The show will pose questions concerning art's purpose. The work will interact with the audience of the school and local area. Several artists will be working with students to produce work for the show.
The cube will mutate, dissolve and reach out down Portman Place, beyond Globe road from four different zones. The artists will install their own work and negotiate the form which each zone takes.
Antonio Cabrera, Naomi St Clair-Clarke, Andrew Cooper, David Collins, Shireen Darabi, Daisy Delaney, Sarah Doyle, Charlie Fox, Mikey Georgeson, Emma Hart, Heike Kelter, Ryo Ikeshiro, Miyuki Kasahara, Simon Katan, Dean Kenning, René Luckhardt, Mark Mc Gowan, Hassan Najmi, Laura Oldfield Ford, Paul Sakoilsky, Kristian Sakulku, Sarah Sparkes, Thump & Fiend, Raymond Yuenfai Vuong,
Curated by Andrew Cooper
Friday, 30 October 2009
Deserters residency
DESERTERS
I was artist in residence at a deserted comunity centre in Nunhead. The centre was abandoned due to an outbreak of legionaires disease. Many items were left behind and I used these as well as some built interventions to create 'Deserters' for Nunhead Arts Week
DESERTERS Nunhead Community Centre
56 Nunhead Lane SE15 - Tel: 07906 206 166
Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th 12-6pm
Artist Sarah Sparkes responds to the absence of community at the Nunhead community Centre.
I hope you can join us at Nunhead Community Centre this coming weekend. I've been artist in residence there for the past week and have been making work on site along with several other artists whom I've invited to collaborate with me on the project.
The centre was closed down because of an alleged contamination with legionnaires' disease and there is a feeling of sudden abandonment in the building, with the ghosts of the old community still very much in residence. The work, made on site, is a direct response to this feeling and much of it incorporates objects found at the abandoned centre.
more about the residency here:
http://www.surgery123.org/
I was artist in residence at a deserted comunity centre in Nunhead. The centre was abandoned due to an outbreak of legionaires disease. Many items were left behind and I used these as well as some built interventions to create 'Deserters' for Nunhead Arts Week
DESERTERS Nunhead Community Centre
56 Nunhead Lane SE15 - Tel: 07906 206 166
Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th 12-6pm
Artist Sarah Sparkes responds to the absence of community at the Nunhead community Centre.
I hope you can join us at Nunhead Community Centre this coming weekend. I've been artist in residence there for the past week and have been making work on site along with several other artists whom I've invited to collaborate with me on the project.
The centre was closed down because of an alleged contamination with legionnaires' disease and there is a feeling of sudden abandonment in the building, with the ghosts of the old community still very much in residence. The work, made on site, is a direct response to this feeling and much of it incorporates objects found at the abandoned centre.
more about the residency here:
http://www.surgery123.org/
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Fate & Freewill
FATE AND FREEWILL Contemporary Art Space, California, USA
Curated by David Leapman
'For What We Are About To Receive' Sarah Sparkes 2009, mixed media
Contemporary Art Space announces Fate and Freewill, an exhibition of UK and USA artists, with text written by Martin Holman.Private View opening October 17, 2009, 6:30 – 9:00 pm.
"There’s a work by the British artist Sarah Sparkes that raises the spectre of predestination, and (involuntarily) of Private Frazer’s portentous thousand-yard stare. A lace-rimmed, delicately-worked place mat is embroidered in gothic script with the omen “We are all doomed.” And, for good measure and compositional balance, the phrase is repeated.Only that Sparkes mixes the dark with the light. The mat is actually a plastic imitation, dyestamped in a factory, and the words are painted. It imitates the sort of domestic embellishment thought “proper” since Victorian times to protect furniture valued or cherished on account of its cost or provenance from spills and marks. What its painted incantation proclaims its decoration tries to inhibit. Handcraft to ward off, to “daintify” the inevitable into a familiar old saw, like one traded half in jest— “if the wind changes you’ll stay like that”. We know the wind will not change us irrevocably: by mouthing the warning, we give destiny the slip.Yet there it is, projected with modest means, an artwork that illuminates the “big question”: the paradox of fate and free will. The force within this deceptively simple work is its arresting tension. Sparkes’s For what we are about to receive invokes the table graces that offer thanks to God. It interrogates the evolution of prayer into an insurance policy that acknowledges that His grace rules. But are we okay with that?" (From Who’s in charge here? A new essay by Martin Holman Martin Holman for Fage and Freewill)
FATE AND FREEWILL Contemporary Art Space announces Fate and Freewill, an exhibition of UK and USA artists, with text written by Martin Holman.Private View opening October 17, 2009, 6:30 – 9:00 pm.Contemporary Art Space is a nontraditional venue for art in Riverside, CA. This will be the second show at CAS following David Leapman’s solo show Whispering Sprinkles in September 2008. Fate and Freewill showcases young and established artists from the UK and USA:
Lee Tusman, Sarah Sparkes, Hannah Schwadron, James Reilly, Danny Rolph, David Leapman, Stuart Elliot, Daniel Sturgis, and Jessica Snow. The exhibit features 4 West Coast US artists and 5 British artists in a range of media, including performance art, painting, installation, and fabric art.The theme of the exhibition is inspired by the eternal question of whether human action is a result of fate or freewill. From a philosophical point of view, there’s no scientific proof whether an action has been made by fate or freewill despite centuries of dispute by philosophers and religious scholars. The artists in the exhibit explore this duality and begin to ponder the implications of the question.Fate and Freewill opens October 17 and remains open by appointment until November 14.
For more information on the exhibit and artists, visit http://27petalthinkers.wordpress.com/ For more information, contact Artist and Curator David Leapman.
Curated by David Leapman
'For What We Are About To Receive' Sarah Sparkes 2009, mixed media
Contemporary Art Space announces Fate and Freewill, an exhibition of UK and USA artists, with text written by Martin Holman.Private View opening October 17, 2009, 6:30 – 9:00 pm.
"There’s a work by the British artist Sarah Sparkes that raises the spectre of predestination, and (involuntarily) of Private Frazer’s portentous thousand-yard stare. A lace-rimmed, delicately-worked place mat is embroidered in gothic script with the omen “We are all doomed.” And, for good measure and compositional balance, the phrase is repeated.Only that Sparkes mixes the dark with the light. The mat is actually a plastic imitation, dyestamped in a factory, and the words are painted. It imitates the sort of domestic embellishment thought “proper” since Victorian times to protect furniture valued or cherished on account of its cost or provenance from spills and marks. What its painted incantation proclaims its decoration tries to inhibit. Handcraft to ward off, to “daintify” the inevitable into a familiar old saw, like one traded half in jest— “if the wind changes you’ll stay like that”. We know the wind will not change us irrevocably: by mouthing the warning, we give destiny the slip.Yet there it is, projected with modest means, an artwork that illuminates the “big question”: the paradox of fate and free will. The force within this deceptively simple work is its arresting tension. Sparkes’s For what we are about to receive invokes the table graces that offer thanks to God. It interrogates the evolution of prayer into an insurance policy that acknowledges that His grace rules. But are we okay with that?" (From Who’s in charge here? A new essay by Martin Holman Martin Holman for Fage and Freewill)
FATE AND FREEWILL Contemporary Art Space announces Fate and Freewill, an exhibition of UK and USA artists, with text written by Martin Holman.Private View opening October 17, 2009, 6:30 – 9:00 pm.Contemporary Art Space is a nontraditional venue for art in Riverside, CA. This will be the second show at CAS following David Leapman’s solo show Whispering Sprinkles in September 2008. Fate and Freewill showcases young and established artists from the UK and USA:
Lee Tusman, Sarah Sparkes, Hannah Schwadron, James Reilly, Danny Rolph, David Leapman, Stuart Elliot, Daniel Sturgis, and Jessica Snow. The exhibit features 4 West Coast US artists and 5 British artists in a range of media, including performance art, painting, installation, and fabric art.The theme of the exhibition is inspired by the eternal question of whether human action is a result of fate or freewill. From a philosophical point of view, there’s no scientific proof whether an action has been made by fate or freewill despite centuries of dispute by philosophers and religious scholars. The artists in the exhibit explore this duality and begin to ponder the implications of the question.Fate and Freewill opens October 17 and remains open by appointment until November 14.
For more information on the exhibit and artists, visit http://27petalthinkers.wordpress.com/ For more information, contact Artist and Curator David Leapman.
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