PAW Christmas Market

Project Art Works will be setting up a pop up shop at the Observer Building Christmas Market in Hastings on Saturday 7th December. We will be selling original pieces of art works, prints and books. Come down and say hi! Open from 11.00 – 17.00. Find the Observer Building at 53 Cambridge Road here. Can’t make the Christmas Market? You can still buy gifts from Project Art Works via Untitled Gallery.

Changing Place Toilet Funded

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Project Art Works has been awarded the Hastings Skills Capital Fund. We have received over £70,000 for a lift and Changing Place facilities to be installed in the newly built Arch 3 which is due to reopen in summer 2025. Image: Architect drawing of the Project Art Works Changing Place, August 2023, courtesy of Adams & Sutherland (click to enlarge) One of eleven projects designed to support training and boost employability across Hastings and Rother, this funding is a share of Government funding worth £1 million.

Invitation: 24 November Event in Van Abbemuseum

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Join us on November 24th, the final day of the Soils exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, for a special event dedicated to Watching Cow and Landscape (Kijken naar Koe en Landschap). This project explores questions that are not only relevant to farmers, but concern us all, such as solutions for sustainability. We welcome both experts and enthusiasts to look at the soils with us. How can the museum, and especially the art of seeing and watching, help us answer the important questions?

OIL publication: launch and story so far

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OIL online launch Thursday 7th November 6-7pm GMT This publication has developed from ‘Oil as far as the eye can see – Energy regimes in the everyday’ a tour curated and guided by Rachel Grant that took place across Aberdeen, as part of Myvillages’ Summer Camp titled ‘Who Has the Energy’, commissioned, produced and held at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, July 2023. Join us for a presentation and discussion with OIL publication author and editor Rachel Grant (Fertile ground, Aberdeen), Sam Trotman (Programme & Partnerships Director Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, Aberdeenshire), Kathrin Böhm (Myvillages) and Scott Herrett (Just Transition Organiser for Friends of the Earth Scotland and member of Friends of St.

The Stimming Pool

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The Stimming Pool, directed by The Neurocultures Collective (a collective of neurodiverse directors; Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy) and Steven Eastwood, has been selected by film festivals nationally and internationally. “The Stimming Pool is a unique film exploring a world shaped by neurodiverse perspectives. The narrative unfolds through an autistic camera, capturing diverse subjects navigating environments both challenging and comforting. Characters, some concealing their autism, others thriving in their communities, share a common goal: finding a space free from societal norms—the Stimming Pool.

I Hear You, Mikhail Karikis

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A film featuring five artists from Project Art Works and those closest to them is currently being screened as part of The Whole World in our Hands in Toronto, Canada. The Blackwood gallery have worked with curator Jacqui Usiskin on this multi site installation across the University of Toronto Mississauga. Images: Mikhail Karikis, I Hear You, 2019/2024. Special edition for The Blackwood. Single-channel video without sound, 20:57. Originally commissioned by De la Warr Pavilion and Project Art Works, UK.

Make Studio Exhibition

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Five of Project Art Works artists have had work selected for an online exhibition, Cordially Invited, curated by Make Studio. Make Studio is a supported studio based in Baltimore and the online exhibition is running alongside a physical one that is open at the same time. The artists whose work has been selected are: Gemma, Lucy Jenion, Mark Lockton, George Smith and Jakob Wright. Visit the online exhibition here: make-studio.

𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗟 𝗔𝗨𝗫 𝗦𝗧𝗬𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗦 𝗡𝗨𝗜𝗧 𝗗𝗨 𝗣𝗔𝗚𝗡𝗘 𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗘́

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À l'occasion de la 21ème édition du Festival sur le Niger, rejoignez-nous pour célébrer l'art du pagne tissé lors de cette soirée emblématique qui met en lumière la richesse de notre patrimoine textile. Plus qu'un défilé de mode, La Nuit du Pagne Tissé explore la diversité culturelle et l'industrie artisanale du Mali , en faisant rayonner le savoir-faire ancestral à travers la créativité des stylistes contemporains. Dossiers à fournir :

Arus Balik–Shifting Currents Symposium Day 2 @Nieuwe Instituut harvest by Setareh Noorani and Sandro Armanda, September 2024

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NOTE: This harvest is mainly keywords and partial recollections…Good to rewatch the video registrations of the symposium day(s) (online ASAP) Symposium Day 1 Symposium Day 2 Introduction to the day by Anita Halim Lim (on behalf of Museum Arsitektur Indonesia) Shifting currents: Added temporal layer, coming back to a place where you have been before. Diaspora as richness, negotiation as bridge. Home as archipelago, connecting and dispersed. Vocabulary, tools and artistic practice towards shared futures.

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Closing words Arus Balik – Shifting Currents Symposium Day 2 by Setareh Noorani (Nieuwe Instituut) Thank you everyone for joining us during this second day of the Arus Balik – Shifting Currents symposium, either in person or online. I once again want to thank the chairs Setiadi Sopandi, Robin Hartanto Honggare, and Ayos Purwoaji, and all the speakers, Amanda Achmadi, Sandro Armanda, Nashin Mahtani and Mohammad Nanda Widyarta, Remco Vermeulen, Yasmin Tri Aryani, and Paoletta Holst.

Arus Balik–Shifting Currents Symposium Day 1 @Nieuwe Instituut harvest by Isabel Bruijstens, September 2024

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Session 2 Diasporic imaginariesChair: Made Ngurah Amanda PinatihSpeakers: Christopher Reinhart, Setiadi Sopandi, Nazif Lopulissa How does the existence of diasporic vernaculars impact the lived realities in the 21st century? And how can we view architecture and design as tangible reflections of these realities? Such questions lay at the base of the second session in the Arus Balik–Shifting Currents symposium. It traced the diasporic imaginaries that arise through an intermingling of diverging temporalities, traditions, identities and localities, while also exploring how such imaginaries are re-articulated through architecture and design.

An Evening With ruangrupa @Nieuwe Instituut harvest by Isabel Bruijstens, September 2024

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A large table, decorated with a soft, red cloth and books and snacks scattered across it, stands in front of the audience. The latter are seated on stairs-like benches going up in height as one moves further to the back of the Nieuwe Instituut’s auditorium. One of the first things Reza Afisina (ruangrupa) voices, is the wish to break through the literal and figurative hierarchy of the room. Angga Cipta (Gudskul), proposes to start the evening with a check-in ritual and asks: when was the last time you went to a sports match in a sports arena?

Hello Halo by Ruby Colley

‘Hello Halo’ is a new work composed by Ruby Colley for Exaudi Ensemble. The composition has been devised with her brother, Paul Colley, who is non-speaking & is an artist at Project Art Works. The process examines the intimate complexity of neurodiversity and sibling relationships as well as unconventional methods of communication. Collaborating with Paul has informed a compositional score formed of memories, sounds and non-language based communication. It explores the intimate dynamics of caregiving and sibling dynamics alongside alternative communication methods.

Art Breaks October

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Join Project Art Works for our Art Breaks this October half term. Art Breaks focusses on children and young people with complex needs, alongside their parents, carers and siblings. These sessions will take place at the Project Art Works studio in Hastings on Tuesday 29th, Wednesday 30th and Thursday 31st October. There are two sessions per day, 10.30 -12.00 and 13.30 – 15.00. To apply please use the link below and complete the form by 17.

Arches Development

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The contractors Hawes are on site at Project Art Works and the development of the Arches is under way. The works will greatly improve the Arches, resurface the front yard and provide completely new studio spaces in Arch 3 (the one nearest the railway line). If all goes well the site will look something like this by mid April 2025: The funders for the Arches development are: Arts Council England, Wolfson Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Clothworkers Foundation, Foyle Foundation, and Levelling Up Partnership funding (who have also funded some of the development work at Trinity Hall as well as the Architectural Heritage Fund).

Michelle & Sid Writing

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For the exhibition Kaleidoscopic Realms at Nottingham Castle we were asked to commission two writers to comment on the practice and work of Michelle Roberts and Siddharth Gadiyar. The writing is used in the exhibition programme which you can download here: Kaleidoscopic Realms Booklet. We approached Tony Colley, who was an Artist Lead working with Michelle for many years in the Project Art Works studio. Tony wrote: When first encountering the works of Michelle Roberts the visual feast in front of us draws us into a world that bridges our engagement with her imaginative reality, a reality we share.

KIN screening in Hastings

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KIN, directed by Tim Corrigan and Esther Springett, will be screened at Electric Palace Cinema in Hastings on Sunday 22nd September. About KIN Growing up Mell wished her autistic brother could speak – now, in adulthood, she realises you don’t have to talk to explain what you need. KIN is a coming of age story between two sisters (Mell and Janine) and their neurodivergent and autistic brother (Carl), exploring sibling relationships, family duty and care.

SOILS at Van Abbemuseum

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The Brabant chapter of the Cow and Landscape is part of the SOILS exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, until 24 November 2024. What place can Dutch rural and more-than-human life be given within contemporary art amid growing demands for agricultural transition? We believe that good coexistence between humans and the more-than-human requires us to recognize how the economy is rooted in local cultures and (natural) environments. The work introduces the conceptual framework rural sociologist Inez Dekker and visual artist Wapke Feenstra developed together for this project as they journey through the Netherlands from autumn 2020 to spring 2024.

Pasang Surut: Edisi Khusus Vol. III – Sebelum Hancur Lebur – Martin Suryajaya

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Bersama:Martin Suryajaya (penulis dan pengajar)Nurul Muthmainnah (pegiat Riwanua)Harry Isra M. (pegiat Riwanua) Sabtu, 13 Juli 202416:00 WITA – selesai LURING di RiwanuaKompleks Perumahan Dosen Unhas, Tamalanrea, Blok H14Makassar, Sulawesi Selatan Pasang Surut adalah salah satu wahana percakapan tentang buku di Riwanua yang terjadi sekali dalam dua minggu sejak 2023 dan membahas beragam literatur tentang Indonesia dan dunia, baik fiksi maupun non-fiksi. Pada Pasang Surut: Edisi Khusus ini, Riwanua membahas karya terbaru Martin Suryajaya, Sebelum Hancur Lebur (Penerbit baNANA, 2024).

Harvest on Majelis 16 March 2024 – Tool Sheds Fellowship – Casco Art Institute

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General Threads what is lumbung kios? how to keep experimenting with the tools and stay playful? how do we (centralize) exchange? and who benefits? how to communicate/organize/negotiate the needs of the collective? how do we work across affinities/overlaps/connections between working groups? how do we connect the local to the not-so-local and make it meaningful on both ends? how to fit our way of working to a beyond documenta15 moment? are we still working with the values built/articulated through documenta15?

Harvest on Majelis 15 March 2024 – Tool Sheds Fellowship – Casco Art Institute

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Erick explained how’s lumbung press using cloud.lumbung.space as a kind of storage for their work. Yazan told of the website and publication on learning Palestine. Roel explained of how to continue lumbung.space as infrastructure but also how to taking care this together the importance of books.lumbung.space as a kind of library but also how it can be connect to the lumbung kios as one of the tools Hands-on session with Reinaart how to use lumbung.

Harvest on Majelis 8 March 2024 – Tool Sheds Fellowship – Nieuwe Instituut

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Reza told about how to keep practicing lumbung and how to facing lumbung as a kind of trademark. The potentially of lumbung.space can be seen as tools to show the process of how things going on. Some of friends always using several tools of lumbung.space like cloud.lumbung.space to put some files as a way act of how to archives General updates as well by Gertrude about lumbung land and how lumbung practice continue through the open call of Sandberg, Gudskul, and deappel Fred updated lumbung press from Greenland.

Lammas Land Haystack

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Haystacks are a series of gatherings about rural undercurrents and practices in urban settings, set up by Kathrin in her home town London May 2013. Haystacks paused during the pandemic, and are restarting with the 2024 Lammas Land Haystack. Haystacks have no fixed location. Previous haystacks are listed here. /|\///|\\\///|||\\\\///\/\\//|\\\//|\\//\\||//|\\

Provoke to think

The book that won’t be written Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA) has been reflecting on its past and future. We intended to write a book about it, but instead came up with a card game using some of the words, phrases and questions harvested from our many conversations. It seemed like a good way to open up our reflections to others, to move away from an introspective process towards sharing in a more open space.
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