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'Object, Walk, Phone' Collaborative Artwork (with Mark Dunhill) exhibited in 'Just World Order', group show at Artsway Gallery

Artwork made with Mark Dunhill commissioned and curated by Peter Bonnell

for Artsway Gallery.

This 3-part work involved a large hanging form, the digitised ring tone of

a medieval bell and an illustrated booklet describing a guided walk. The

work evolved in response to an 11th century bell casting pit that had been

excavated at a Cistercian Abbey in Italy and built upon our collaborative

research through art practice into materiality, immateriality, scale, performative-making and collaboration.

Drawing on previous works involving cast holes, our research entailed making

a tailored cast of the internal form of the bell pit. Our subsequent investigation

into bell casting, including Theophilus Presbyter’s treatise on ‘Diverse Arts’

and the Whitechapel bell foundry, established a reference to the bell’s function

in both marking the monks' daily routines and exerting Christianity’s authority

over the geographical area surrounding the Abbey.

Walk, the artists’ booklet/ guidebook, reflected the style of local walking

guides and was based on the likely perimeter of the bell’s sound transposed

on the local terrain of the gallery. The mobile phone ring tone, of a bell of the

same size, weight and shape, rang out intermittently, imposing itself upon the

exhibition and establishing its own form of measurement and control.

The work questioned the territorial impact of the original hole and employed a range of methods to physically examine this. It drew upon our previous research ('Sculptomatic', 2005) that interrogated holes in sculpture and questions posed by R Casati and A.C. Varzi in ‘Holes and Other Superficialities’ and David and Stephanie Lewis in their essay ‘Holes’ considering the ontology, logic and epistemology of holes.

Public panel Discussion with Jane Grant, Dunhill & O’Brien and Ansel Krut in

conversation with Curator Peter Bonnell.

Exhibition catalogue with essay by Peter Bonnell and documentation of

artwork ISBN: 978-0-9558406-2-3

http://www.artsway.org.uk/press-releases/detail/just-world-order/