Emotionarama
21 - 28 August 2021
Opening / Book Launch
Friday 20 August 2021
6:00 – 8:00
Please join us for an evening of signing the book with the editors Andrew Hunt and Andro Semeiko, and the collaborating artists, and a reading of extracts by actors Siân Phillips and Bill Bingham.
21 - 28 August 2021
Wed - Sat, 12:00 – 6:00
PEER presents Emotionarama an installation and listening room developed by Andro Semeiko in collaboration with actors Siân Phillips and Bill Bingham, author Zinovy Zinik and musician Capitol K. Visitors will be able to listen to pre-recorded readings of the book throughout the day whilst inhabiting an installation conducive to evoking emotions.
PEER, 97-99 Hoxton Street, London
BALTIC, Shore Road, Gateshead – (dates TBA)
Emotionarama presents a range of artists’ ideas that are described in an overtly emotional or demonstrative manner through short pieces of creative writing.
Participants were invited to produce a text that defined their imaginative and mental processes whilst creating an artwork. For example, some have chosen to record a method of thinking behind the production of an existing piece, while others discuss a concept for an unmade artwork in a reflective manner, and/or its materiality, texture, colour, shape, size, and content.
Performances of the contributions within Emotionarama will take place within environments in which members of the audience will be free to lie down, relax and close their eyes to imagine through listening. Through this process, it is hoped that potential new collaborators will have an opportunity to engage with the book’s range of creative processes and subsequently realise their own ideas in multiple forms.
Artists include: Polly Apfelbaum, Abel Auer, Fiona Banner, Kerstin Brätsch, Confraternity of Neoflagellants (Norman James Hogg and Neil Mulholland), David Raymond Conroy / Ghislaine Leung / Cally Spooner / Jesper List Thomsen, Matt Copson, Liu Ding, Gerasimos Floratos, Andy Holden, Anna K.E., Florian Meisenberg, Mike Nelson, Alicia Paz, Alexander James Pollard, Lindsay Seers, Andro Semeiko, Yuko Shiraishi, Amy Sillman, Mark Titchner, Tris Vonna-Michell, Yu-Chen Wang, and Vicky Wright.
Project Emotionarama stems from Semeiko’s PEER Residency in 2013, where he started to explore the relationship between emotions and artist’s practice, and which led him to an exhibition “An Artist’s Workshop for Unveiling Emotions” in collaboration with Sally O'Reilly at BALTIC 39.
Edited by
Andrew Hunt and Andro Semeiko
Designed by
Andrew Hunt, Andro Semeiko and Yu-Lan Wang
Hardback
178 pages, 22 colour illustrations,
25 b+w illustrations, 244mm x 172mm
ISBN: 978-1-910516-09-6
Published by Slimvolume
and distributed by Cornerhouse Publications
Launch Discount on the book –
20% off £16.00: £12.80
UK: £12.80 + postage £3.00 = £15.80
Europe: £12.80 + postage £5.00 = £17.80
Rest of the World: £12.80 + postage £8.00 = £20.80
