As part of Flamm by Creative Kernow (21-22nd October 2023)

Our relationship with the Earth is changing.

We must attune ourselves to the Earth and each other by listening, responding, and moving together. Core explores these themes in a quarry, a scar of past extraction. Once a test site for dynamite drills, Holman quarry has been silent for decades. Core invites us to dance to new rhythms and sounds in this carved landscape. The lost rhythms of percussive drills are replaced by electronic beats made entirely from quarry recordings. These unique sounds, mixed by acclaimed producers during workshops, let us reconnect to the rhythms of the Earth.

Date: Saturday 21st October 2023

Time:
First performance 6.30PM-8.30pm
Second performance 8.30PM-10.30PM

Location: Holman Quarry, Lanner, Redruth TR16 5HG. The event will be accessible via minibuses.

Booking is essential but free to attend, cash donations are welcome. More info on how to book to come. Keep an eye out on Flamm website and socials. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

About Abigail Reynolds

Abigail uses montage techniques of layering and folding to destabilise singular ideas of cultural and political ecologies. She often works in dialogue with disciplines and places outside the art world; a silver band, geologists, libraries. She works across sculpture, print and film as well as creating ephemeral events to bring disparate things into conversation. She works with a strong awareness of plurality; keeping a space complex and unreconciled.

“The pages and images she excavates, now dislocated from their original context, become more like artifacts or archaeological remnants – more enigmatic, more mutable, and open to more complex meaning and association.” (Martin Clark)

Abigail is noted for her work in collage, using dynamic forms of assembly to release the latent possibilities in book plates by cutting and folding. To fold or layer historic images or events brings into focus our relation to time, making it possible to discern things that are almost completely lost. Another medium she often uses is glass – using it  metaphorically to focus the act of looking and to suggest alternative modes of perception as well as simply to focus the light.

CORE is being presented as part of a multi-layered programme of exhibitions and events. Supported by Art Night, Counterpoints Arts, Creative Kernow, Cultivator, Good Growth, Levelling Up, Shared Prosperity Fund and Cornwall Council. Part of the Platforma festival 2023, produced by Counterpoints Arts and partners across the South West of England.