{"id":631,"date":"2016-06-14T23:40:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T23:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2017-09-25T22:57:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T22:57:48","slug":"void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/void\/","title":{"rendered":"VOID"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-align-center\">\n<p><b><span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 14px;\">VOID<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 14px;\">My installation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/3-dimensions\/flue\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>FLUE<\/em><\/a> and film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/residencies\/meru-artscience-award\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Time You Need (awarded the MERU Art*Science Prize 2015)<\/em>,<\/a> will feature in the group exhibition VOID,\u00a0 exploring portals, black holes and voids<br \/>\nCurated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumenstudios.org\/future-events\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lumen Studios<br \/>\n<\/a>21st June &#8211; 11th July<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Address:\u00a0St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, E2 9PA<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-align-center\">\u00a0<b><span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 14px;\"> \/\/ ARTISTS \/\/<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Louise Beer<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Jane Grisewood<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Rebecca Huxley<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Melanie King<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Joshua Space<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Sarah Sparkes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-align-center\">\n<p><b><span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lumen Studios present an exhibition exploring the representation of black holes, voids and portals.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Opening Party: SOLSTICE, 21st June 2016, 6pm<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With talk from Chris Welch, Professor of Space Engineering at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France, where he is also Director of Masters Programs. Chris will be speaking about the representation of black holes and voids in space physics and science fiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-align-center\">\n<p>We&#8217;ll also be screening Sarah Sparkes film, <i>Time You Need and DJ set by CAETVS<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Opening Times:<br \/>\n<\/b>Saturday 25 June and Sunday 26 June, 1-5pm<br \/>\nSaturday 2nd July and Sunday 3 July, 1-5pm<br \/>\n<b>Closing Party: FIRST THURSDAY, 7 July 2016, 6pm<br \/>\n<\/b><span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Look Mum No Computer Modular Synth Set<br \/>\n<\/span>http:\/\/zibrazibrazibra.com\/look-mum-no-computer\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Sarah Sparkes<\/b>\u00a0will present a series of works exploring infinities, the void and it&#8217;s intrusion into the domestic and everyday. <i>FLUE<\/i> was originally created for a hollowed out space, once a fireplace, for Other Rooms exhibition in Basement Arts Project Space, Leeds. For VOID exhibition, the artists has rebuilt the work within a dark recess below a cupboard in the Belfry of St John&#8217;s.<br \/>\nSarah will also be screening her film <i>Time You Need<\/i>\u00a0 on the <b>VOID<\/b> opening night,\u00a0which<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0explores the potential for consciousness to time-travel within the material limits of the human body. Using the symbolism of the portal and black hole, as they are conceptualised in both science, science fiction and the artists own work, the film presents a montage of narratives and documentation of performances and installations, which together with sonic and visual disruptions, create a liminal experience for the spectator. The proposition is that one may find, herein, the time one needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Jane Grisewood<\/b>&#8216;s <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: small;\"><i>Black on Black<\/i> series explores darkness, blackness \u2013 the void \u2013 through different black paints on black paper. She will also be exhibiting Black Hole photographs, a typology of voids found in numerous locations around the world. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: small;\">Grisewood, born and educated in New Zealand, worked as an editor\/publisher in London and New York before studying fine art. She was awarded her PhD in 2010 at Central Saint Martins, UAL where she teaches experimental drawing, and has artist books in many collections, including Tate, V&amp;amp;A, MoMA, MACBA, Brooklyn Museum and Yale.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: small;\">Working across media, she investigates time and transience through the line, repetition and durational processes, where drawing is key. Recent work is inspired by boundaries between earth-bound and cosmic temporalities, invisible and visible, black holes and cosmic web.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Melanie King<\/b>&#8216;s current research considers how invisible forces are represented in the field of both art and science. Melanie will present a series of experimental films exploring the bubble and its&#8217; relationship to cosmological theories such as the multiverse and inflation theory. \u00a0Melanie will be showing a series of cameraless photography prints, directing light onto photosensitive paper to create void-like impressions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gk-social-buttons\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"gk-social-label\">Share:<\/span>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"gk-social-twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=VOID&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahsparkes.com%2Fblog%2Fvoid%2F\"\n\t            onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'twitter-share', 'width=550,height=235');return false;\">\n\t            <span class=\"social__icon--hidden\">Twitter<\/span>\n\t        <\/a>    \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<a class=\"gk-social-fb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahsparkes.com%2Fblog%2Fvoid%2F\"\n\t\t\t     onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'facebook-share','width=580,height=296');return false;\">\n\t\t\t    <span class=\"social-icon-hidden\">Facebook<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<a class=\"gk-social-gplus\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahsparkes.com%2Fblog%2Fvoid%2F\"\n\t           onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'google-plus-share', 'width=490,height=530');return false;\">\n\t            <span class=\"social__icon--hidden\">Google+<\/span>\n\t        <\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOID My installation FLUE and film Time You Need (awarded the MERU Art*Science Prize 2015), will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,31,29,42,26,4,30,28,27],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-hole","tag-first-thursday","tag-flue","tag-lumen","tag-portal","tag-sarah-sparkes","tag-solstice","tag-st-john-on-bethnal-green","tag-void"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}