*This event was programmed for 2020 and unfortunately could not take place* Meeting in the Playhouse, in the midst of Dartington Gardens, artist and Aller Park Studios co-founder Josie Cockram will lead a discursive Spring walk through the gardens with Maria de Lima and Ben Sanderson. The artists walk – or ‘artists amble’! – will […]
Monday 18 November, 7pm. Doors open at 6.30pm Ami Yamasaki sings the sounds of brooks, birds, trees and waterfalls. An experimental vocalist and cross-disciplinary artist from Tokyo, she creates live acoustic performances, installations and films. Ami’s work explores a fundamental question: ‘How does the world construct itself?’ For her, this question is a love letter […]
If you missed October’s talk at the studios with actor Gretchen Egolf and artist Adam Chodzko, you can listen to our recording online: Gretchen and Adam gave a generous talk about their respective experience of performance as part of Embodiment and Performance, a weekend of activities exploring the ideas of Michael Chekhov, the actor, director […]
Saturday 12 – Sunday 13 October Embodiment and Performance is a weekend of activity that considers physical performance and the development of character in body and voice. Actor Gretchen Egolf and artist Adam Chodzko visit Aller Park Studios to reflect on their experience of performance and explore the ideas of Michael Chekhov, the actor, director […]
Saturday 12 October, 10am – 4pm Aller Park Studios welcomes Gretchen Egolf, co-director of the Chekhov Collective UK, to Dartington. As part of a special weekend of events, Gretchen will lead an all-day workshop exploring Michael Chekhov’s embodied performance practice in relation to cross-disciplinary arts practice. Open to everyone – to those with experience of […]
Saturday 12 October, 7pm Aller Park Studios is delighted to welcome artist Adam Chodzko and actor Gretchen Egolf for a conversation about their experience of performance, and their respective approaches to embodiment, characterisation and voice. Ahead of this evening’s talk, Gretchen Egolf will lead an all-day performance workshop where participants will work with visualisations and […]
Sunday 13 October, 11am For this special Sunday screening, Aller Park Studios partners with the Barn Cinema to present Alps, a film selected and introduced by actor Gretchen Egolf and artist Adam Chodzko. Alps (2011) is an absurdist, darkly funny exploration of mourning and performance by Yorgos Lanthimos, director of Oscar-nominated films Dogtooth (2009), The […]
Saturday 31 August, 10am – 5pm Free admission, everyone welcome, drop-in throughout the day Aller Park Studios was founded earlier this year by three artists – Josie Cockram, Hamish Dunbar and Keiko Yamamoto. Join us for our first open day! We’ll be here all day to talk with visitors, present some of our own work […]
Having launched the project with our spring programme, we’re taking a summer break and there are no public events in July. Thank you to everyone who joined us for events in the programme so far, and thank you to our guests: Ellen Mara De Wachter, who introduced a screening of films by Robert Smithson and Nancy […]
Friday 14 June, from 6.30pm Sini Pelkki is an artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Her work derives from, and evolves around, photography and the photographic image. Short films on 16mm and digital video find subtle relationships between still and moving images. Aller Park Studios will screen Sheet No4 (2018), an experimental moving image work whose […]