Dreams of De la Warr

Drawing on some of the themes in the Cerith Wyn Evans exhibition, storyteller and composer Daniel Marcus Clark found out what lies beyond this world by collecting accounts and drawings of peoples dreams. These were compiled to create a dream map and a recorded piece which can be found here: Cerith Wyn Evans Dream track one

The accounts were beautifully soundtracked by Cerith's flute piece incarnation installation.

Participants also drew pictures of their dream landscapes on acetates, which were collated into a map of the dream realm.

A magical day!

Cerith in Colour

To mark the opening of the Cerith Wyn Evans exhibition - Lift the Lid was a creative celebration of colour and light. Using lightboxes and the sun - we made columns and sculptures - drew with cellophane - until everything was glowing.

The Cerith Wyn Evans Poetry Jukebox

To celebrate the start of the Cerith Wyn Evans exhibition, we turned Gallery Two into a Poetry Jukebox this Saturday. The Poetry Jukebox is a unique live literature event, specially developed by De La Warr artist and writer Wendy Ann Greenhalgh for the season. The Jukebox allows Pavilion visitors to choose a poem on the theme of light, beauty and heat from our instant, online poem hunter - and then hand it over to Wendy and her team - for a personalised, live and unrehearsed performance inside the gallery.

Visitors picked poems as diverse as the beacons in the first poem of AE Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad' and Ken Nesbitt's light fearing father in 'I Think My Dad is Dracula!' And we ended the day with a performance of Cecelia Weir's 'Lights On, Lights Off' as the giant columns of Cerith Wyn Evans' S=U=P=E=R=S=T=R=U=C=T=U=R=E slowly turned themselves off and on.

"It really works," said one visitor. "They say a picture's worth a hundred words, but sometimes it's hard to know what something's saying, but the poems helped to say it."

The lyricism of Cerith Wyn Evans' work and the medium of poetry, are certainly a great match, and Saturday's Poetry Jukebox was very popular. How often do you get your own personalised poetry reading - performed just for you - after all? We'll be running the Poetry Jukebox again on Saturday May 19th - so if you missed it this weekend, then come along and join us next time. This event isn't just for poets, writers ... or grown-ups! Bring your kids along and let them choose a poem too!

Many thanks to poet Jac Cattaneo, who also joined Wendy to give readings on Saturday.

Cerith Wyn Evans opens

Cerith Wyn Evans' at DLWP exhibition opened last weekend to crowds of visitors and critical acclaim.

With a special opportunity to see Wyn Evans' new 'firework' piece, And if I don’t meet you no more in this worldThen I’ll, I’ll meet you in the next one And don’t be late, don’t be late, followed by music by DJ Princess Julia, a great evening was had by all and the Pavilion's Gallery spaces were revealed transformed.

Employing Cerith Wyn Evan’s ongoing investigation of architecture as a starting point and specifically curated as a response to the De La Warr Pavilion, this exhibition consists of three major installations and smaller new works dispersed throughout the building. Taking the entire Pavilion as an opportunity for installation, including our two gallery spaces and the roof-terrace, the exhibition also provides the impetus for a wider programme of related live art, music, performance and film during the season.

Visitors will see the De La Warr Pavilion’s Gallery spaces stripped back so that they are undivided for the first time. With all of the windows revealed, the installation in Gallery 1 explores the relationship between manmade and natural light, returning the building’s structure to its original purpose – as a space for visitors to experience and enjoy. Moving up through the building, Wyn Evans' recent spectacular light/heat column installation, S=U=P=E=R=S=T=R=U=C=T=U=R=E ('Trace me back to some loud, shallow, chill, underlying motive’s overspill…') 2010, is installed in Gallery 2 to create an intensely glamorous environment with toxic overtones.

Described by the artist as “a love letter to the building”, the exhibition embodies recurrent themes within Evan’s art: code, language, text and an interrogation of aesthetics.

Cerith Wyn Evans in The Guardian (Exhibitionist: This week's art shows in pictures), 24 March: "In horror movies, flickering lights generally mean something supernatural. There's a similar fusion of language, electricity and yearning in Cerith Wyn Evans's art"

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Welcome To Bexhill

Young artists and their families joined us for a special Lift The Lid session this Sunday - as we made a giant model of Bexhill.

We made the De La Warr Pavilion itself, complete with a seagull on the roof!

Accrington Park - with flowers, ponds, ducks, tadpoles ...

Swings ...

... and trees with singing birds in them.

And we made...

Roads and railway tracks...

Shops...

Railways and trains...

And police stations and fire stations and schools and hospitals.

Finally we made the Bexhill sea and the things we find in it...

Everything from Sailing Boats...

...to whales!

Lift The Lid was hosted this month by DLWP artist Wendy Ann Greenhalgh. Thanks to volunteers Ben and Jehan and all the amazing young architects, town planners, engineers and artists who took part. Lift The Lid sessions happen the first Sunday of every month from 2-5pm. Join us for the next one!

Last day of Warhol

A muted winter sun shone over the last busy day of the Warhol season. The whole place was very busy with people busily fitting in a last look at this great exhibition before it closes. Our fantasy dressing up sessions, where people can come along and try on a few strange wigs, mustaches or tiaras and daydream about hanging out with all the fabulous people at the Factory, are now at an end. We had a good selection of men, women, children, singly or in big groups joining in the fun and exploring their party personas.

if you go down to the woods today ....

you're sure of a big surprise ...

if you go down to the woods today, you'd better go in disguise !

Day and night hiding out
She got no reason to be shy . . .

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me !

Just like thaaaat !

A happy end to a busy and successful season and many thanks to all those who took part and to the volunteers who helped out.

The Voice of The Pavilion

You are the voice of the pavilion

Saturday was our last chance to listen for the voice of the De La Warr - as our participatory project came to an end. Inspired by Andy Warhol's love affair with the trusty tape-recorder he called 'his wife' - visitors took pen and paper around the building with them, to document the sounds of the building - becoming a human tape recorder, for 15 minutes. The echoes, the silences the conversations and the tread of feet provide the backdrop for what they saw and what they heard. Have a last listen to the voice of the pavilion - it's the voice of every visitor - so it's your voice too.

Paul:

steam blowing cutter tapping
distant engines laughter echoing
half conversations shoes shuffling
feet stepping whispers and murmurs
doors opening and doors closing
chairs sliding phones ringing
Bob whistling cafe musicing

Roehamster:

Voices are mingled, confused and co-mingled; an oasis of coherent conversation sits around a table on the top floor. Isolated snippets of conversation on genuine and antique 'cassette tape recorders' lie and wait for you to slip on headphones, rewind, fast forward, play, eject and stop.

The names of the interviewees mean nothing; once-beautiful, once-intimates of Warhol umm and err as a starstruck interviewer simpers.

Elsewhere, the din and thrum is never ending.

And the last word goes to four year old - Orla.

baby crying
men talking to ladies
cats in my head