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Over the course of a two months residency period at Exeter’s Spacex Gallery, artists Amy Fenek, Lady Lucy and myself were invited to respond to the context of Exeter’s West Quarter and to involve residents in the production of an artwork.
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Majorette Rehearsing, three screen projection with sound, Spacex Gallery Exeter, 2010.
Majorette Rehearsing is an inward looking portrait of the built environment and its residents, unfolding in multiple trajectories across three walls. The constant pulse of long receding views, framed and enabled by the digital technology, expands and alters the scene, acknowledging an act of public performance without ceremony. The majorette is the chosen West Quarter archetype: a paradoxical figure of individual aspiration, community celebration and carnival.
A first response to the West Quarter is documented in this extract from the residency journal.
Interview with Devon Artsculture
People’s Republic of South Devon report on the residency
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