Bella Kerr | Keeper
Timetable of Events
02 April - 12 May 2013
Keeper(s) is an investigation of occupation of the gallery space, the objects and activities
it houses, and the roles of the artist and gallery visitor.
The work is expressed through two main elements: the 'props' or physical structures
present within the space, and thekeepers, practitioners present for the duration of the
exhibition.
In addition to the artist Bella Kerr, there are three keepers - Kathryn Faulkner, Karen
Ingham and Jane Rendell - who will examine and perform occupation of the gallery as
guardians or guides, on duty, either witnessing, directing or interacting in other ways
with those who enter the space.
Week One: Tuesday 2 - Sunday 7 April 2013
Keeper: Bella Kerr 'Readings'
Tuesday 2 April - Sunday 7 April 2013
Bella Kerr will be reading in the gallery. From quiet reading to reading aloud - come and
read - quietly or to others, bring your own book, or find a text in the gallery.
12.30pm – 3.30pm Saturday 6 April 2013 | Literary Sharing with Bella Kerr
The Friends of Mission Gallery are invited to share a favourite piece of writing, the text
can be anything from poetry, to quotes, even a line from a song or a page from a book.
Week Two: Tuesday 9 - Sunday 14 April 2013
Keeper: Bella Kerr | 'Stories: Making Narrative'
Tuesday 9 - Friday 12 April 2013
Bella Kerr will arrange the objects in the gallery to invite storytelling.
Half Term Workshops & Events
Tuesday 9 April 2013 | Drawing Stories
A drawing and storytelling workshop for children aged 8-13 years, with Bella Kerr
11am – 2pm | £3 each
Thursday 11 April 2013 | Dreams
Create drawings and stories in a workshop inspired by dreams
11am - 2pm | 8 – 13 years | £3
Saturday 13 April 2013 | Mini View
A tour of Bella Kerr’s exhibition Keeper, tailored for a younger audience
11am –12pm | Under 14 years | Free
Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 April 2013
Keeper: Amanda Roderick, Mission Gallery
2.30pm Sunday 14 April 2013
Book Crossing Event with Kathryn Faulkner
Book crossing is the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read
by others, who then do likewise after they have read the book. The finder identifies the
book by registering its unique number at www.bookcrossing.comand so the book can
be tracked in its future journeys across the world. Bring along a good book of your own
to release into the wilds ofSwansea and help make the whole world a library.
Week Three: Tuesday 16 - Sunday 21 April 2013
Keeper: Kathryn Faulkner | 'Biblioscription'
Tuesday 16 - Friday 19 April 2013
As Keeper 2, Kathryn Faulkner will invite dialogue with avid readers and generate
personal bibliographies for visitors. Each consultation will produce a pinhole camera
image.
Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 April 2013 | Keeper: Bella Kerr
Week Four: Tuesday 23 - Sunday 28 April 2013
Keeper: Karen Ingham | 'Table Keeper'
Tuesday 23 - Friday 26 April 2013
Karen Ingham will oversee a consideration of 'Table-ness': the table as symbol of social
and vocational interaction; the table as data, the table as keeper of everyday traces and
encounters.
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Karen Ingham ‘Setting The Table’ : Open access invitation to come into the gallery and
interact with and consider tableness.
Wednesday 24 April 2013
Karen Ingham ‘Making Tables’: Students respond to the notion of materiality and
tableness.
Thursday 25 April 2013
Karen Ingham ‘Data Tables’: An experiment in making and considering the table as data
and data as tables.
Friday 26 April 2013
Karen Ingham ‘Writing Table’: Open access invitation to come into the space and use
the table spaces for writing and exploring the table as writing tool and palimpsest.
Saturday 27 April 2013
Bella Kerr 'Red Ball'
Raising the Bar AS & A Level students from Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthen
Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 April 2013 | Keeper: Bella Kerr
Week Five: Tuesday 30 April - Sunday 5 May 2013
Keeper: Bella Kerr: 'Talks'
Tuesday 30 April - Sunday 5 May 2013
Bella Kerr will transfer the activities of teaching to the gallery, making them visible
beyond the confines of the lecture theatre or studio. During the weekend of 4th/5th May
she is happy to offer a tutorial to any visitors - bring a sketchbook or small piece of
work.
2pm Tuesday 30 April 2013
Open Access with Eilish O'Donohoe + Ciara Healy
Eilish O'Donohoe will talk about the Book as Object, Artefact and Container in an
historical context. Ciara Healy will present a discussion on Thin Places, portals and how
objects can make us thick or thin. She will look at artists' work which could be
considered to be 'thin' and books that deal with the idea of portals into or out of this
world.
Wednesday 1 May 2013
'Drawing Stories', a drawing and writing workshop with Bella Kerr + Catriona Ryan.
Materials provided, but bring a sketchbook and drawing kit if you have one.
Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 May 2013
Tutorials with Bella Kerr
Week Six: Tuesday 7 – Friday 10 May 2013
Keeper: Jane Rendell | Coming to Welsh
In Coming to Welsh Jane Rendell will respond to childhood memories and dreams of a
Welsh Dresser owned by her great aunt.
Jane Rendell is half-Welsh, she trained as an architect at the universities of Sheffield and
Edinburgh before working for ARP and the feminist architectural cooperative Matrix in
the 1990s. She studied for her MSc at UCL and PhD at Birkbeck, University of London
in feminist architectural history. Her writing explores spaces between architecture, art,
feminism and psychoanalysis and authored books include Site-Writing (2010), Art and
Architecture (2006), and The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002). Recent texts have been
commissioned by urbanists transparadiso, artists Jasmina Cibic and Apoloniia Sustersic,
and institutions such the FRAC Centre, Orléans, and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, She
is Professor of Architecture and Art, and Vice Dean of Research at the Bartlett, UCL.
See http://www.janerendell.co.uk/
6 – 8 pm Tuesday 7 May 2013
Jane Rendell and performance artist Mike Pearson will read from their work on
childhood, landscape and memory.
Mike Pearson studied archaeology in University College, Cardiff (1968–71). He was a
member of R.A.T. Theatre (1972–3) and an artistic director of Cardiff Laboratory
Theatre (1973–80) and Brith Gof (1981–97). He continues to make performance as a
solo artist, in collaboration with artist/designer Mike Brookes as Pearson/Brookes
(1997–present) and for National Theatre Wales. He is co-author with Michael Shanks
of Theatre/Archaeology (2001) and author of In Comes I: Performance, Memory and
Landscape (2006), Site-specific Performance (2010) and MIckery Theater: an imperfect
archaeology (2011). He is currently Professor of Performance Studies and Leverhulme
Research Fellow at Aberystwyth University.
Carrlands: http://www.carrlands.org.uk
Warplands:http://www.landscape.ac.uk/landscape/impactfellowship/peforminggeographies
warplands/warplands.aspx
Mike will read from extracts from A Death in the Family (1992); Bubbling Tom (2000)
and Neither here nor there (2009).
Jane will read from ‘The Welsh Dresser’, Site-Writing, (2010).
2 – 5 pm Wednesday 8 May 2013
Jane Rendell will lead a Site-Writing workshop consisting of a series of short creative
writing exercises. Participants are requested to bring along favorite writing implements
(paper, pencil, camera, needle, thread etc.) and an object connected to childhood
dreams and memories. Participants are encouraged to experiment and so no special
writing expertise is required.
6 – 8 pm Friday 10 May 2013
Jane Rendell and poet and artist Sharon Morris will read from their work on childhood,
language and translation.
Sharon Morris is an artist and poet who trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL,
where she is currently head of the doctoral programme researching the relation
between words and images using psychoanalytic theory and the semiotics of C.S. Peirce.
Her creative works give a subjective voice to themes of place, its geology, history and
ecology. Her artworks include installation, film, video and live performance with
projection. Recently she made a performance and film-poem for the exhibition Film in
Space, Camden Arts Centre, 2013. False Spring, Enitharmon, 2007, her first collection of
poems, was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Jerwood Prize and Gospel Oak, her second
collection has just been published by Enitharmon Press, 2013.
References/websites
https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=SMMOR81
http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/sharonmorrispage.html
Sharon will read from her current writing in progress set in Pembrokeshire, where she
was born, and present an earlier audio work (first shown at Chapter Arts Centre,
Cardiff) that deals with the transition from the Welsh to English language.
Jane will read from ‘Coming to Welsh’ (2013), a new work created for Keeper.
Closing event | 3 - 5pm Saturday 11 May 2013
Speakers: Alicia Miller from Axis and Amanda Roderick, Director of Mission Gallery