Alexandra Zierle and Paul Carter

Alexandra Zierle and Paul Carter’s collaborative work is interdisciplinary, multi-sensory and site/context responsive spanning from performance, sound, video to installation. Through their practice, Zierle & Carter critically examine different modes of communication and what it means to be human both as individuals and as a ‘collective entity’. Their work addresses notions of belonging, harmony through conflict and the transformation of limitations and sites an embodied investigation of human interactions, intimacy and trust and exemplifies a profound curiosity of the unknown, the void and the instant, namely ‘the now’.
As directors of Live Art Falmouth (LAF), they are currently working in collaboration with Plymouth Arts Centre on a performance art programme in conjunction with a Marina Abramovic exhibition for Plymouth Arts Centre, January 2010.

- Zierle & Carter

On the Private View, 24th April 7pm - 9pm, Below the Skin a one to one performance with Zierle and Carter will be bookable in the studio.

On the 16th of May, Riversong, a private performance with Zierle and Carter will be bookable throughout the exhibtion at the reception.

You maye also view Corpses of Desire, documentation of Below the Skin, for the duration of the exhibition.

Corpses of Desire

Zierle & Carter are internationally active performance artists. For wastelands they intend to explore psychological, inner landscapes as one-to-one encounters with an audience. Disruption and mystery are key factors in the performance employed to enhance sensations of heightened awareness. Subtleties such as feeling the passage of air on the skin while moving around the gallery will “allow audiences to claim their experience and actively engage in the work.”
Zierle & Carter envisage the performance being sensory and tactile including actions, and potentially sound, framed within a narrative.

- Jeni Fraser

Recent Exhibitions
2008 Exist in 08, Brisbane, Australia
2008 Contaminate, Boston, US
2008 Beyond the Abject, Collision 08 Festival, Area10 project space, London
2008 Videophile, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2007 Buenos Aires Zonadeartenacción - Foto y Video Acción 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 Out of Bounds and Invigorate, The Exchange, Penzance
2006 Ferdinand Zweig Memorial Scholarship, Patagonia, Argentina.

Live Art Falmouth website
Plymouth Arts Centre website

Jane Bailey

‘To think of place as an intersection – a particular configuration of happenings – is to think of place in a constant sense of becoming through practice
and practical knowledge.’ - Tim Cresswell, Place
I make art as a way of investigating the world, particularly ‘places’ as they are produced by people’s comings and goings. I look for interconnections and separations: between people, and between people and the locations they inhabit.
Where do I end, and other people, things and places begin? This is one of the questions that fuels my work.
My working process is often collaborative and it involves activities such as talking, eating, walking, riding, rowing and recording. Inquisitive interactions of camera, person and place are used to cast a sideways glance at seemingly straightforward, ‘natural’, environments.

- Jane Bailey

Revert

Jane Bailey’s quietly enthralling video forces a consideration of how a familiar, natural environment might be seen and experienced in other more disjointed and confusing ways. Revert presents a lush, idyllic landscape setting. Slowly, an ungainly figure walks cautiously into the frame. It may take a while for the viewer to realise that this isn’t just a pleasant walk in the woods, but an awkward and apprehensive struggle with the place and its surroundings. Here nature, even in its most benign and picturesque state, becomes a difficult, uncertain terrain.

- Rebecca Darch

Recent Exhibitions
2008 Time, Tides and Teabags, B-Side festival.
2008 At Sea, Transition 8, Newlyn Art Gallery,
2008 Screen, Contemporary Art 2008, Atkinson Gallery
2007 Participation, The Poly, Falmouth.
2007 Person, place, interaction, Degree show, MA Contemporary Visual Arts, UCF.

Jane Bailey's website
MAstars article on Axis