Out There
3rd Feb 2005 - 4th Feb 2005
Out There. Site Visit 1 with Chris Drury and Elisa Bracher. 3rd-4th February 2005
 Out There Site Visit 1Chris Drury and Elisa Bracher |
 Out There Site Visit 1Chris Drury |
 Out There Site Visit 1Chris Drury and Elisa Bracher |
As part of the Out There project all of the eight artists will visit UEA for a two day research trip. As well as meeting Sainsbury Centre staff and engaging in discussions about the practical aspects of the project, the artists will spend time walking around the parkland, getting a feel for the place and selecting a site where they would like to make their work when the residencies begin in mid-June.
The first of the Out There site visits took place on the 3rd and 4th February. Our first two artists to visit were Chris Drury, who traveled to us from East Sussex, and Elisa Bracher, who flew in from Brazil. It was fantastic to meet them both and to receive so much enthusiasm from them about the project. Both selected a site for their work and came up with a number of ideas. We are looking forward to seeing these initial ideas explored as the next couple of months progress, ready for their realization in June.
Chris commented: �The work that I will create will be dependent on the environment here � I like my projects to draw on experience but also to take me one step away from what I know about.� He added �This is the first time I�ve visited Norwich or UEA. A project like this, where you�ve got some time to visit and get ideas about the site and then just three weeks to make your piece, is always a cliff-hanger until you�ve done it. It�s stressful but it�s exciting too.�
Elisa, whose works have previously been placed in a more inner-city setting in the centre of Sao Paulo, thinks that such a different site might provoke new reactions to her work. �Often, my work has been in a purely urban setting and I�m very interested in how people respond to it within the place they come across it. Ignoring it, reacting with hostility towards it, whatever their response is.� Bracher does not use drawings or plans, working directly from thought to material, so the two-day site visit is crucial. �My work doesn�t have a �starting point� or a �finishing point�. I will think about it, it will be part of what I do, it will include thoughts I�ve had along a certain line for a long time. It will incorporate all sorts of elements of my experiences up to that point. But a project like this is hard work because every new space demands a completely different approach. And the parkland outside the Sainsbury Centre is a totally new landscape for me which means it is throwing up new ideas, new processes.�
