This event launches a
collaborative project between Hestercombe House and Gardens, the University of
Gloucestershire’s School of Creative Arts and the Countryside and Community
Research Institute.
TEST BED will consider ideas of
systems within gardens and nature-based solutions for water capture and
replanting for a more resilient future. You
are invited to experience a series of experimental artworks that can be
experienced in a rhizomatic way around the gardens. The event will set the
scene for what might happen during the project. Being theatrical and
experimental, it will be structured around ideas of how Georgian gardens were
animated in the past by incorporating moonlight and sound.
The
afternoon will first involve a walk and talk to experience
the artwork of Zillah Bowes, Susie Olczak, Harriet P Carter, research from
Alice Goodenough and Philip Reeder, sound works by Ben Hamid, Tim Land and Matthew Lovett in collaboration with Tina Hitchens and Yvonna Magda, and music from Harvey Cullis and Graham Binns. Later
there will be discussions with the artists, plus Andrew
Bick, Dan Keech, James Weldon, Chris Short and Hestercombe’s Head Gardener
Claire Greenslade.
