Loading Spaces
4th-19th June Fridays - Sundays 10-4pm
SVA, 4 John Street
4th-25th June Fridays & Saturdays 10-4pm
Unit 34, Merrywalks, Stroud

‘Loading Spaces’ is a collaborative project that brings together the work of Nigel Dunkley, Roman Liškaand the Lloyd Corporation. It is premised upon an investigation into the various aesthetic, socio-political and material framings of objects within contemporary culture. This is an attempt to understand how an object is continually ‘produced’ by its multifarious circulations, exchanges, displays and representations. The moment of the exhibition becomes a ‘loading space’ objects are imported into a site where conditions can be tweaked, architecture can be intervened in and contexts can be shifted and scrutinized. How do certain objects react? How do our engagements, our navigations and our ways of looking at objects change in this space?

John Street Open Studios

Saturday 11th-Sunday 12th June 11am-6pm
Saturday 18th-Sunday 19th June 11am-6pm

SVA studio members will be opening their spaces to the public. Visitors will be encouraged to fully explore the studio working environment and to engage artists in conversation. The studios provide a collaborative working environment and home for artist groups including Quercus, Mezz, artNucleus and Studio Seven.

Quercus

Saturday 11th-Sunday 12th June
Saturday 18th-Sunday 19th June
11am-6pm

Quercus artists are currently taking part in a year long residency at the Museum In the Park, Stroud. Working in the Museum's hidden walled garden, this residency will culminate in an exhibition at the MIP in February 2012. Visitors are invited to contribute to ideas and respond to the question, "What grows in your forgotten garden?" Quercus artists are Aimee Lax, Ann-Margreth Bohl, Alison Cockcroft, Emily Joy and Anna Usborne.

Also see site festival

PROJECTS SPOKEN WORD EXHIBITIONS FILM MUSIC

see full site Festival programme at

www.sitefestival.org.uk