Tuesday 29 September 2009

Spring Fling Residency Launch


Photograph copyright Angus Bremner
Sarah Jackets and Chris Helson launched their residency at Wigtown Booktown last friday night and it runs until Sunday October 4th.
For the launch the festival’s artists in residence invite you to join them in The Hut where they are showing two extraordinary video works. Helson and Jacket’s Wigtown residency begins with Mordechai Vanunu’s banned performance of “I Am Your Spy”, mailed out of Israel hidden in a hollowed-out copy of Hunter S Thompson’s Kingdom of Fear. Then we get to The Heart of the Matter as Graham Greene’s assistant spy answers a theological question.
Photograph copyright Angus Bremner
Call into Wigtown to visit the rest of the fabulous festival and call in on the first Wigtown Book Festival Spring Fling Artists in residence.

Friday 25 September 2009

Spring Fling Artists at Wigtown Book Town



Spring Fling Artists in Residence.
Chris Helson and Sarah Jackets are at The Hut at Reading Lasses.
This year Wigtown Book Festival are delighted to welcome their first artists in residence, a collaboration with Scotland 's premier art and craft open studio event, Spring Fling. During the festival multimedia artists Chris Helson and Sarah Jackets will be creating work to be shown during the final three days. They plan an intriguing residency and invite you to the Hut to explore ideas and enter "The Exchange Library of Significant Books". Launch Saturday 26 September 7pm; Exchange Library or Significant Books, 2-5pm daily. Installation 2-4 October 11am-6pm.