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YOlk is...
YOlk is a small art organisation set up and run by Nottingham
Trent Fine Art Graduates Becky Beinart, Elaine Speight and Ziggy
Slingsby.
It aims to establish and strengthen creative links between Nottingham
and its twin cities, enabling a greater opportunity for exchange
for all sections of the community.
The Artists involved in the YOlk residency are: Elaine Speight,
Becky Beinart, Ziggy Slingsby (Nottingham), Eva David (Gent),
Tatiana Tushina (Minsk), Metka Zupanic, Vesna Bukovec, Lada
Cerar (Ljubljana) Miriam Huschenbeth and Katarina (Karlsruhe).
The residency is supported by the Arts Council of England, Connect
Youth International and Nottingham City Council. For more information
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An exhibition of new collaborative art work by
ten artists from Nottingham and its European twin cities of Ljubljana
(Slovenia), Ghent (Belgium), Karlsruhe (Germany) and Minsk (Belarus)
is to open in Nottingham.
The artwork will be the outcome a two week residency in Nottingham,
during which the artists will work together, exploring ideas of
place and the city to create some new art.
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Elaine Speight, one of three Nottingham Trent
fine art graduates who has set up YOlk, explains all...
YOlk aims to establish and strengthen creative links between Nottingham
and its twin cities, enabling a greater opportunity for exchange
for all sections of the community. That's what the residency is
all about.
As the work will be made during the residency, it's difficult to
say exactly what it will be.
However, I think that there may be quite a few pieces made either
by individual artists working alone or by more than one person.
However, the work will be inherently collaborative as it will be
a direct response to discussion between all of the artists at the
beginning of the residency (which will carry on throughout).
The work may be determined by the main medium which each artist
works in, for example the artists from Slovenia work mostly in video,
the artist from Ghent is a sound artist and myself and the others
from Nottingham are into live art and performance. Though, of course
these may all cross over within different pieces of work.
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The work will be displayed in an exhibition at
the Malt Cross, St. James' Street, in Nottingham. During the exhibition
YOlk will run workshops where community groups can explore ideas
of place, culture and communication in a creative way. For more
information visit www.yolkart.org.
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