Upcoming: Nomadic Village UK
"One never goes as far, as when one doesn’t know where one is going." - C. Columbus
COMING SOON: Nomadic Village UK 2012
Wolsingham, County Durham, North-East England
May 21st - June 3rd 2012
The Nomadic Village is a temporary 10-day settlement set up on a vacant lot in County Durham, UK. The nomadic artists’ mobile homes/ateliers will form the structure of the Village, with On The Road Productions’ (ORP) Steyr-Ikarus bus acting as its townhall. Artists will come together to work in this autonomous environment to stimulate creativity and exchange, and attract local people to observe and participate in the process. At the end of the Village there will be a public exhibition/show that will invite a wider audience to appreciate the works produced during the Village. The project is run by Klaus Maehring (Lead Artist and founder) from ORP/Austria.
The Nomadic Village UK 2012 is produced in collaboration with ISIS Arts (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) and supported by Durham County Arts Team. It will seek to invite nomadic artists from all over the world, whose practice is rooted in themes surrounding nomadism; those who intentionally displace themselves to seek encounters that not only influence their work but form it; artists who work without borders and constantly respond to situations, places and people along their journey. The Nomadic Village will act as a platform for artists working in this manner, ultimately creating a wider, more visible network for nomadic artists.
Klaus Mähring is a nomadic artist who spent a month in residence at ISIS in August 2011 to research and develop The Nomadic Village project taking place in County Durham in May 2012. Klaus travelled the region in his converted 1970's bus, which acts as his home, studio and means of transport as well as hosting a cinema, residency space, darkroom and rooftop terrace.
Video from Klaus's Steyr-Ikarus bus.
Klaus drove from Austria in his mobile atelier, he spent August travelling around County Durham, Northumberland and Tyneside in search of the perfect location to host a temporary village for artists to live and work.We are pleased to announce the Nomadic Village UK will be held at the Demesne Mill site in Wolsingham, County Durham.
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About Klaus Mähring
Klaus tours around remote rural locations connecting with local communities and setting up temporary spaces for artists to work and collaborate. The work produced during the journeys is exhibited in 'Galerie Nowhere', a mobile gallery set up in the remote locations.
Klaus Mähring is an Austrian photographer, he often works with an old 5 X 4 plate camera to create stunning portraits of people living in rural locations around Eastern Europe.Klaus also runs 'On The Road Productions', a company which aims to develop and run collaborative projects with other nomadic artists. In the past On The Road Productions has set up a Nomadic Village in a small community north of Sofia, Bulgaria. It allowed other artists with mobile homes and studios to join Klaus in the temporary settlement to create work in response to the community, landscape and each other. North East artists, Lindsay Duncanson and Marek Gabrysch travelled there to be part of this process.
"By driving around, I find pictures, people, places... Realising the Nomadic Village in 2009, I gladly found out that there are some other artists for whom mobility generates the same autonomy of work, like I have been experiencing. Being on the road means being somewhere else, being in a certain inbetween that hasn't been catgeorized or pigeonholed yet."
KlausMähring
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO APPLY FOR THE NOMADIC VILLAGE CLICK HERE.
Follow Klaus's progress on his website.
