Join MAYK for 378,432,000,000 Seconds Of Exposure: A photo and live art exhibition from Kitchen Table Photo Club, celebrating the wonder of Nightingale Valley
Spanning December 5 to 13 in the Pulp Room gallery space at St Anne's House, audiences are invited to experience this tactile and inventive exhibition.
The exhibition celebrates the compelling black and white images, maps and art works created by the kids and adults that are Kitchen Table Photo Club, during their residency at Nightingale Valley in St Anne’s, Bristol during Mayfest 2024
As part of the exhibition, audiences will keep fingers busy contributing to a large-scale photographic collage and listen to a one off show on Thursday, December 5 entitled Hypnagogia for Holocene; a long-form lullaby of foraged sounds and poems from sound artist and KTPC special guest t l k.t l k is one of the intergenerational group of artists, walkers, thinkers and makers that took part in the month-long residency.
Along with sounds from the woods, t l k willpresent new song forms inspired by the exhibition.This multidisciplinary installation is both local and powerfully mystical.
It’s an opportunity to discover how, through the art of mucking around, KTPC created a collective sense of being in an ancient, durable and transformative place.
Led by artist Esther May Campbell and a cohort of 11 young people, this specially commissioned project involves creative contributions from Adam Hynes, Jessica Hynes, t l k, Daniel Morden, Ashley Peevor and Chiz Williams, as well as work from a number of photographers, academics and helpers.
378,432,000,000 Seconds Of Exposure is being presented as part of Confluence, a two part residency that explores how Bristol’s city centre is changing, commissioned by public art producers Ginkgo Projects.
In collaboration with a handful of Bristol-based artists, including Kitchen Table PhotoClub, Confluence offers unique and fresh perspectives to the discourse around the future of the city, and offers opportunities for audiences to contribute their experiences and thoughts throughout the life of the project.
Honing into this idea of place and in particular how children interact with nature in an urban environment, Kitchen Table Photo Club’s exhibition follows the streams and histories of Nightingale Valley, found in the St Anne's area of Bristol.
Nightingale Valley is an urban woodland, pilgrimage route and industrial outpost – one of Bristol's most fascinating spots, and a curious time capsule for the Holocene.
Following events in Redcliffe last December and continuing as part of this year’s Mayfest, Confluence is unfolding over the next few months with interventions and events running until May 2025.Confluence is a production by MAYK, commissioned by Ginkgo Projects for The Glassworks with the support of Grainger Plc.