Phoenix Brighton

'DREAM HOME'

Late opening: Fri 14, Sat 15 & Sun 16 May until 9 pm

Apr 24 - Jun 6, 2010

Daily opening: Tue - Sun 11am - 5pm
 

Kim L Pace

Gary Barber

Rona Innes

HOUSEWARMING PARTY: Meet the artists, explore the house and experience a number of impromptu performances throughout the evening.
Friday 23 April, 6 – 9 pm.

PERFORMANCES

6:45pm THE HOUSE BAND
Jonathan Gilhooly, Keith Baxter, John Harris
‘Songs from the Hearth’

7:30pm SHORT FUSE
Tara Gould and Louise Hume from Short Fuse
Reading 10 x 100 word short stories

8:00pm MONTY OXYMORON
Music and sound improvisation

8:30pm LABORATORO
Bruno Humberto, Alistair Strachan
Johanna Ronkko, Jim Sanders, Xelís de Toro)
Poems with movement and projections

Click here for 'Dream Home' VIDEO by Matt Page

Gary Barber
Alvaro Collar
Jane Fox
Tony Gammidge
Jonathan Gilhooly
Caitlin Heffernan
Rona Innes
Kim L Pace
Natalie Papamichael
Jim Sanders
Ben Thomson

In a twist to the Open Houses theme, Phoenix Brighton takes visitors on a voyeuristic tour of a home which has been inserted into a public gallery space. Moving through a labyrinth of hallways, rooms, wardrobes and hidden spaces, visitors can catch glimpses of the private lives of its inhabitants.

Sculptor Ben Thomson has designed a floor plan into which he and other artists have poured their dreams and fantasies in the form of installations, photographs, paintings, drawings, film, sculpture and animation. Rather than replicating a literal domestic interior, the spaces evoke a range of memories and qualities associated with notions of ‘home’ -- comfort, vulnerability, ambition, nostalgia, secrets and discovery.

Glimpsed through windows and heard through the walls, a cast of characters begins to reveal itself. From adolescent dreamers and nuclear families to time travellers and transients, the protagonists appear through the objects they gather and the atmospheres they create. Visitors will encounter the house’s diverse occupants through the work of the eleven artists.

The gallery also houses a collection of ‘dream boxes’ created by Alex Greenhalgh & Belinda Greenhalgh, Margot Bristow, Marion Charles, Stig Evans, Denise Felkin, Sue Partington, Michael Seal, and Clara Vichi.

VIDEO ART MAPPING - introduction talk and evening of videos - Free, 27th April 7pm.  Part of the VAM residency.

VIDEO ART MAPPING - workshop  - Free, 2nd May. Part of the VAM residency
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SCREENING OF 'SEARCHED FOOTAGE' - Free, Two Sundays, 23rd May & 6th June 2 - 4pm, in the gallery. Free admission 
Join Artist in Residence, VAM (Visual Art Mapping) instigator and ‘Dream Home’ resident Alvaro Collar for a viewing of selected videos found on YouTube. Madrid-based Collar has been scouring the internet for hidden gems of filmic beauty. Discover a whole new universe of remarkable pieces specially selected in collaboration with Observatorio de Video Digital. Free admission.

HOME TRUTHS: GALLERY DISCUSSION - Wed 26 May, 7 pm, free. You’ve snooped around their house...now meet the artists in the flesh and hear what they have to say about their work and ideas. Join the dream artists in a discussion around the exhibition and related themes such as private space, domesticity and voyeurism. The discussion will be facilitated by Peter Seddon from the University of Brighton (tbc).

HOME MOVIES - Sunday 16 May
Do you have old home movies lying around in your loft?  Now’s your chance to dust off your favourite standard 8, super 8 or 16 mm films and see them projected again. Join ‘Dream Home’ exhibitor Gary Barber for an afternoon of chattering projectors and revivified memories. You can drop by the any time between 12 noon and 4 pm. Gary will also be available to look at your old film cameras and offer a free valuation – just like Antiques Roadshow.