August 2006

Fri 18 August
Kira O’Reilly
Inthewrongplaceness Archive
(A slow crushing dance with a pig for one person at a time)

This work emerges from research with skin biopsies from newly dead pigs, cultivating the skin cells in vitro, in preparation to work from a biopsy of my own body’s skin.

The work left me with an undercurrent of pigginess, unexpected fantasies of mergence and interspecies metamorphoses began to flicker into my consciousness; making fiercely tender and ferocious identifications with the pig as stand in, double, twin, doll, imaginary self.


Kira O’Reilly
Inthewrongplaceness

For venue details and to book a free ticket for a one to one performance please contact the Gallery on
01736 363715

Photo Credits:
All August archive photography by
Morgan Lowdnes.
Steve Tanner for Kira O' Reilly and FrenchMottershead.
Simon Cook for Richard Layzell
evening performance.

Archive Review texts by Rupert White.

Saturday 19 August
Penzance Town Centre
from 13.00 onwards. Free

Unless specified, these performances will take place at different sites throughout the afternoon. Please visit Newlyn Art Gallery Shop at 4 Causewayhead for up to date information and map.

Jordan McKenzie
At Arm’s Length Archive
is a 4 hour outdoor performance manouvering a large cube and drawing upon its surface with graphite. The performance will start from the site of Newlyn Art Gallery at 13.00 and follow the shoreline and townscape to Penzance.

McKenzie’s solo exhibition Vitruvian
is at SPACEX, Exeter, 29 July - 23 September, www.spacex.co.uk

FrenchMottershead Shops Archive
have invited customers and staff of selected Penzance shops to participate in an artwork. Customers will have been provided with an instruction after each sale – whispered by sales staff or stamped on receipts – specifying a time on Saturday to return to be part of a group photo, which will be exhibited later in each shop.


FrenchMottershead
Five Shops


SlipperyFish’s Packet Holiday
Archive
Near Morrab Garden’s bandstand,
whisks you away to four fabulous destinations: Tokyo, Amsterdam, Las Vegas or Berlin. Hosted by two extraordinarily accommodating flight attendants, each traveller receives a Polaroid photo to cherish and remember their holiday.

Aileen Lambert
Breath Street Archive
In a subtle performance using one of life’s necessary activities, Lambert
will leave temporary traces of herself throughout the town centre. Her breathmarks will momentarily mark her presence in the busy town centre.

Melissa Longenecker
Charter and Manifest Archive
American artist Longenecker will ask the people of Penzance for directions. She will ‘commission’ and collect hand-drawn maps of the town area, which will be assembled and displayed in Newlyn Art Gallery Shop window.

Amanda Lorens
Tango In Transit Archive
Outside the Lugger Hotel on the Promenade Lorens will present Tango In Transit, a collaboration with In-Transit mobile art projects. A private peep show combining sound with live tango dancers enclosed in the back of a luton van, between 13.00 to 16.00 and 18.00 to 20.00. The evening will continue in the bar with a tango dance party, all are welcome to join in or just watch.

Saturday 19 August
Jubilee Pool at 20.30. Free

Richard Layzell
The Radiant Curve Archive
During Friday and Saturday, Layzell will instigate a series of discreet seafront investigations and collective happenings, working as a roving waiter, gardener, potman, surveyor or painter.

He will present his experiences in a
unique experiential evening at the
Jubilee Pool on Saturday evening at
20.30. “It’s time to measure the Modernist curve, to assess the slope of wave against wall, to let your shirt fly in the face of the weather, to be in and out of it, a tourist tool, the expansive host.”


Richard Layzell
Skin Paper Bronze