Tumble Weeds and Hole-Punch Drawing
21 – 25 August 2007
Still from Claire Blundell-Jones and Ed Hartwell's film 'Tumbleweeds in London'
Press Release
With so much information to take in daily, and of course, so much important business to attend to, do we ever stop to digest the 'city landscape'? 42 New Briggate present a further pairing of the region's talent with an upcoming show featuring hole-punched paper, tumbleweed and leaf-blowers.
Claire Blundell Jones will execute daily performances in various parts of Leeds for the duration of the exhibition. These performances consist of Claire escorting a ball of tumbleweed around the city whilst wearing different outfits and employing assorted tumbleweed-animating techniques.
Maps will be displayed in the gallery to show where the walks are going to take place, and the performances will be relayed into 42 on five separate monitors. Viewers are invited to make suggestions as to the attire Claire should wear, the method she should use to guide the tumbleweed and the destination of her fifth and final day at the late night opening event 6-8pm Friday 24 August.
Dave Ronalds' hole-punch drawings reference some kind of architectural mapping, but the ambiguity as to whether they are plans of rooms or buildings, maps of streets and towns, or whether they mark territories dividing countries is intentional.
Dave's drawings can be read as critical exercises in the way in which we listlessly navigate the all-to-familiar city, but they also hint at how we can reconnect with the city through a shift in perspective.
Still from Claire Blundell-Jones and Ed Hartwell's film 'Tumbleweeds in London'
Outfits worn by Claire in her five performances journeying around Leeds with a tumbleweed. Photograph taken by Yvonne Carmichael
Videos of Claire's performances undertaken during the exhibition.
photograph taken by Yvonne Carmichael.
Gallery visitors were invited to suggest what Claire should wear in her final performance, what route she should take around Leeds and how she should transport her tumbleweed.
Dave Ronalds' Coded Landscapes
Photograph taken by Yvonne Carmichael