A event on Friday 21st April. The event starts at 11:00.
Libby Bove is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in North Somerset. Her practice draws on folk culture, archival collections, vehicular maintenance and occult. Through a combination of ceramics, costume, print and photography her work explores joyful and magical elements of the human condition, whilst touching on themes of dystopia and ecological collapse. The eclectic nature of her practice results in works which can suggest surreal alternative worlds and incongruous comic tableaus.
So Turns the Wheel of the M.O.T is a folk-fiction vision of an imagined timeline.
A world free from the persecution of witches and cunning folk, and where plant knowledge, folk magic and intention are woven into the everyday and mundane. This project focuses in particular on how the practice of folk custom and ritual dance could be applied to the repair and the maintenance of vehicles. The work exists as a series of sculpture and costume pieces, which come together in staged photographic tableaus to depict imagined historical folk customs and dances, taking place at a number of M.O.T. test stations.
At first , the idea may feel absurd. Although when you look back at how folk magic in all forms was used in so many aspects of daily life, It stands to reason that a culture with folk ritual at its core would be using it to fix vehicles. Traditionally farmers would have employed Morris dancers to perform on the last of the crops to ensure a fruitful harvest the coming year; Whilst in orchards across the land, mummers would enact folk plays of death and resurrection, warding off winter and blessing the trees for another year. This work hopes to offer a new perspective on the value that we assign to these customs and opens conversations around this shared history.
Private View April 20th, 7pm - 9pm
Opening times 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th 11am - 6pm
The Former Fire Boat station is located on Lower Guinea street, BS1 6Tj
It is a small brick building adjacent to the Scout's boating hut and around the corner and along the harbour wall from The Ostrich pub.
The Fire Boat Station is a pop up venue and is not currently wheelchair accessible.
The project is supported by Bath Spa University Enterprise Showcase Fund
Entry requirements:
So Turns the Wheel of the M.O.T is a folk-fiction vision of an imagined timeline.
A world free from the persecution of witches and cunning folk, and where plant knowledge, folk magic and intention are woven into the everyday and mundane. This project focuses in particular on how the practice of folk custom and ritual dance could be applied to the repair and the maintenance of vehicles. The work exists as a series of sculpture and costume pieces, which come together in staged photographic tableaus to depict imagined historical folk customs and dances, taking place at a number of M.O.T. test stations.
At first , the idea may feel absurd. Although when you look back at how folk magic in all forms was used in so many aspects of daily life, It stands to reason that a culture with folk ritual at its core would be using it to fix vehicles. Traditionally farmers would have employed Morris dancers to perform on the last of the crops to ensure a fruitful harvest the coming year; Whilst in orchards across the land, mummers would enact folk plays of death and resurrection, warding off winter and blessing the trees for another year. This work hopes to offer a new perspective on the value that we assign to these customs and opens conversations around this shared history.
Private View April 20th, 7pm - 9pm
Opening times 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th 11am - 6pm
The Former Fire Boat station is located on Lower Guinea street, BS1 6Tj
It is a small brick building adjacent to the Scout's boating hut and around the corner and along the harbour wall from The Ostrich pub.
The Fire Boat Station is a pop up venue and is not currently wheelchair accessible.
The project is supported by Bath Spa University Enterprise Showcase Fund
Entry requirements:
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