Art / analogue photography
Kitchen Table Photo Club contribute to group exhibition: ‘378,432,000,000 Seconds Of Exposure’
Now one year in to Confluence – MAYK’s ongoing residency programme commissioned by Ginkgo Projects – a new group of artists and creative collaborators are joining to produce a photo and live art exhibition from Kitchen Table Photo Club (KTPC).
Opening on December 5 and running for nine days at St Anne’s House, 378,432,000,000 Seconds Of Exposure will celebrate “the wonder” of nearby nature reserve Nightingale Valley.
KTPC aims to be an affordable, fun-to-run weekly community art group, initially set up by award-winning artist Esther May Campbell around the kitchen table in her Easton home.
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“Kids gather to look at books, fiddle with analogue cameras and exhibit work, fundraise and eat cake, all the while fostering friendship, connection and emotional resilience” she explains.
“However, these skills are often kicked about and forgotten as deep play is the club’s primary concern (as is making toast and learning to think like artists).”
Poster: MAYK
Described by curators as “tactile and inventive”, the breadth of exhibited work will include maps, artwork and black and white images made by a cohort of young people and adults at KTPC.
Accompanying the first day of the exhibition, there will be a one-off multidisciplinary installation from sound artist t l k entitled Hypnagogia for Holocene, a “long-form lullaby of foraged sounds and poems” that will play as audiences interact and contribute to a large-scale photographic collage.
This multidisciplinary installation is both local and powerfully mystical,” say MAYK. “It’s an opportunity to discover how, through the art of mucking around, KTPC created a collective sense of being in an ancient, durable and transformative place.”
Alongside Campbell and t l k, contributing artists on the project include Adam Hynes, Jessica Hynes, Daniel Morden, Ashley Peevor and Chiz Williams, as well as work from a number of photographers, academics and helpers.
A portrait of t l k – photo: Giulia Spadafora
Kitchen Table Photo Club: 378,432,000,000 Seconds Of Exposure is at the Pulp Room gallery space at St Anne’s House on December 5-13.
The one-off show Hypnagogia for Holocene, ft t l k, will take place on December 5.
Follow @esthermaycampbell and @maykithappen for more information, or visit www.confluence-bristol.com.
Main photo: Esther May Campbell
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