Field Trip 1: Assembly Walk and Talk
The landscape around St Just will be the setting for a field trip hosted by Assembly, an artist residency space in St Just.
Field Trip 2: Boat Party
Lucy Gunning and Tacita Dean are venturing back to Falmouth, where they were both art students some 25 years ago (Lucy Gunning 1984-85, Tacita Dean 1987-88). Read More
Field Trip 3: Hydroplutonic Kernow
Described in the eighteenth century as the ‘richest square mile in the old world’, the Gwennap Mining District will be the setting for a field trip led by the Falmouth-based arts organisation Urbanomic, ‘a journey into an historical process that assembled the powers of geology, mechanics, hydraulics, mineralogy and metallurgy, salvation and combustion, steam and capital into a mighty, infernal machine that traumatised the Cornish landscape and kick-started the industrial revolution.’
Field Trip 4: Studios and Stones: new perspectives, new stories
Taking the St Ives artists’ colony as a starting point, this journey will create a series of dialogues across time with the places, spaces, stories and mythologies associated with artists in the far west of Cornwall. Read More
Field Trip 5: TelePort – A Tour of the Lizard’s Landscape of Telecommunication
The far end of Cornwall contains more points of contact to the rest of the world than any other place in England. Up and down the coast from Falmouth lie landing sites for the world’s submarine telecommunications cables, carrying the bulk of Internet and phone traffic to and from the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Read More
Field Trip 6: Tristan and Iseult in Cornwall
Jeremy Millar first became fascinated by the story of Tristan and Iseult in 1998 while writing about a film by Tacita Dean that made explicit reference to Tristan’s ‘voyage de guérison’, or healing journey. Read More
Evening at Tate
Evening, Friday 21 May
Private view of Lily van der Stokker exhibition and supper hosted by Tate St Ives.
Convention Bar at The Townhouse
7-12pm, Friday 21 May
Falmouth Convention bar open at The Falmouth Townhouse, Grove Place.
Late evening at The Poly
Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews Kader Attia
10.30pm – 12 midnight, Friday 21st May
The Poly, Church Street, Falmouth
Since 1993 the celebrated curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has conducted literally hundreds of interviews – with artists, filmmakers, historians, musicians, philosophers and writers. Read More