Fissure
Summary
Fissure was a unique and unrepeatable durational performance event, a strikingly creative and affecting participatory pilgrimage through a breathtaking and ancient landscape.
To create Fissure Wilson collaborated with internationally renowned composer Jocelyn Pook, award winning poet Elizabeth Burns and choreographer Nigel Stewart, along with neuro-scientists, geologists, dancers, choirs, and cavers.
A creative encounter between artists, scientists, audiences and landscape, Fissure interrogated life, death, grief, resilience and renewal.
Supported by
Paul Hamlyn Foundation, UK
Arts Council England, UK
PRSF Foundation, UK
Description of project
I was creative consultant for this project developing the intellectual framework for the overall programme within which it was commissioned, The Re-Enchantment, which addresses the relationships between art and place and place-making. To produce the commissioning framework I undertook research into the history of art and place-making - in terms of art and cultural regeneration, public sculpture, site-specificity and performance, art and ruralism, contemporary poetics and place – and its current representation within cultural and urban strategy. The framework was ‘delphic’ and applied in a variety of contexts such as creating national partnerships, for fundraising purposes, as a curatorial strategy for the commissioning of artworks and to inform a series of events and seminars and the publication Towards Re-Enchantment – Place and its Meanings-
Type of work
Curated exhibition, performance
Published in
Yorkshire Dales, UK, 20 – 22 May 2011
Link to web site
http://www.louiseannwilson.com/#/f-i-s-s-u-r-e/4527058557
Other description
Exhibition: Fissure
Artist: Louise Ann Wilson
Consultant curator: Jason Bowman
Date
2011-05-20Creator
Bowman, Jason E.
Keywords
Performance
Fine Art
Site-Specificity
Collaboration
Art and Science
Poetry
Geology
Neuroscience
Collaboration
Publication type
artistic work
Language
eng