A Morphé Arts initiative

S TA R T I N G P R I N C I PA L SO U R G R O W I N G R E S E A R C H F O C U SL I A C H AV E Z & L I N N E A S P R A N S E Y

“BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE”“WRITE THE BOOK YOU WANT TO READ”“START WHERE YOU ARE WITH WHAT YOU’VE GOT”

Experimental, professional, zero-budget, artist-led, gallery and platform.

To contribute to the local arts scene in Dundee by creating high quality shows, events and publications around questions of art, life and faith.

Video, Audio and Print Publications | Partnerships | Opportunities ...

NOMAS* PROJECT S S TARTING PRINCIPAL S

9a Ward Road, Dundeefind us on facebook, follow us on twitter: @nomasprojectswww.nomasprojects.org

Bourriaud“Artistic activity, for its part, strives to achieve modest connections, open up (one or two) obstructed passages, and connect levels of reality kept apart from one another…” (Relational Aesthetics, 1998)

Raban“For better or worse, [the city] invites you to remake it, to consolidate it into a shape you can live in. You, too. Decide who you are, and the city will again assume a fixed form around you. Decide what it is, and your own identity will be revealed, like a map fixed by triangulation. Cities, unlike villages and small towns, are plastic by nature. We mould them in our images: they, in their turn, shape us by the resistance they offer when we try to impose our own personal form on them. In this sense, it seems to me that living in a city is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relation between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. (Soft City, 1974)

TR IANGUL ATIONGrowing research focus

Asking;* What impact do artists’ have?* By what means?* What is our function? * What does the city need?

“I think artists have the amazing privilege of being able to shape our futures. They are given the space and time to see/explore/feel the current moment whilst also placing it in relation to the past and therefore have the potential to dream of a variety of futures

In regards Dundee, I’d say it needs to recognise and be proud of its own deep potential, as a city not quite like any other, rather than regenerating every forty years as it attempts to model itself on other ‘successful’ models of a city ...

TR IANGUL ATIONA growth in perspective

“One medium of art tries to relate to another medium by defining and describing its essence and form”

“Artists began to use their own literary and artistic genre of art to work and reflect on another art to illuminate what the eye might not see in the original, to elevate it and possibly even surpass it...”

“... We then need to challenge our own and each others practices whilst also making engaging work that is necessary for the given moment and accessible to a wider audience”

Interdisciplinary, collaborative, relational, clearing obstructions.

EKPHRASISReflection in practice

L IA CHAVEZ& L INNEA SPRANSEY 7-11 May 2014 (Sunday PM /Evening)

Linnea Spransy’s paintings, drawings and installations are generated using systems and rules, which are distillations of her interest in science, philosophy, theology, and quantum physics. Graduating from Yale in 2001 with an MFA in painting, her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally at numerous academic institutions and galleries and is featured in corporate collections. Spransy lives in Kansas City, MO where she leads a rather unorthodox lifestyle, architected entirely round her core values: spirituality, community, art, and simplicity.

L IA CHAVEZ& L INNEA SPRANSEY 7-11 May 2014 (Sunday PM /Evening)

Lia Chavez is a New York-based artist working in a wide range of media, including performance, photographic processes, painting, sculpture and installation. Her work investigates the astonishing mysteries of light, form and interior space. Lia has been featured in a number of internationally renowned venues, including the Venice Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Frieze Art Fair and The Armory Show. She was a fellow in gender theory and visual cultures at Oxford and holds an MA in Photography and Master of Philosophy in Visual Art from Goldsmiths College in London, where she was also an ORSAS scholar.

L IA CHAVEZ& L INNEA SPRANSEY 7-11 May 2014 (Sunday PM /Evening)

I approach performance art as a much-needed link between the disembodied observation of positivist science and the immersive nature of human experience; it’s something which I call “embodied research.” As I have journeyed through intensive experiments in contemplative disciplines such as prolonged fasting, meditation and silence, **I have found that inspiration is far from arbitrary and can be methodically mined. Moreover, as my senses have become more ajar, I have discovered that the universe is heavily pregnant with inspiration. If you listen closely, the whole world is singing.**

“BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE”“WRITE THE BOOK YOU WANT TO READ”“START WHERE YOU ARE WITH WHAT YOU’VE GOT”

Experimental, professional, zero-budget, artist-led, gallery and platform.

To contribute to the local arts scene in Dundee by creating high quality shows, events and publications around questions of art, life and faith.

Video, Audio and Print Publications | Partnerships | Opportunities ...

NOMAS* PROJECT S S TARTING PRINCIPAL S

9a Ward Road, Dundeefind us on facebook, follow us on twitter: @nomasprojectswww.nomasprojects.org