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Dear All, ****My apologies for any cross-posting**** You are warmly invited to Tracing the Pathway’s following programme of events as part of their performance and research project Groundwork. Life on the Redways with Hayley Newman Saturday 13th May 2017 In-Situ Performance Skills Workshop“Dr Bike” Bike Safety Checks Formation Cycling SessionArtist Talk Ecological Debate on the Future of Green Transport in Milton Keynes Milton Keynes Arts Centre Between 5-13th May 2017, Hayley Newman will be in residence at Milton Keynes Arts Centre, as part of Tracing the Pathway’s project Groundwork. During this period, Hayley will be exploring Milton Keynes’ cycle and pedestrian network - the Redway. The Redway was built during the early development of Milton Keynes and represents a different kind of shared space to road space. It presents an alternative future to one dominated by road systems and air pollution. The peripheral Redway paths are significant sites to consider in moving towards a low carbon world, transforming Milton Keynes into a city visibly populated by people, dogs, birds, spiders, plants and communities rather than cars. To mark the end of Hayley’s research period Hayley and Tracing the Pathway are co-hosting a day of events which celebrate and debate her findings alongside the wider cultural constructs of the Redways, the social and ecological impact of such a network being nestled within a car-dominated infrastructure, as well as challenging what the future of transport in Milton Keynes will look like over its next 50 years of existance. Tickets can be reserved at tracingthepathway.com/groundwork Life on the Redways: In-situ Performance Skills Workshop10.00am-1.00pm£8.00 Hayley Newman will lead a workshop for artists interested in site-responsive modes of performance making. The workshop will take the form of a walk, discussion and some practical exercises that will take place on Milton Keynes’ Redways. Together we will explore creative approaches to making site-specific work, including subjective processes of documenting, fictioning, drawing and using embodied experience to gather and process information. We will reflect on how the local connects to the global when considering the notion of place and the specifics of the workshops location. The Redways will be the site at which we practically develop performances, stories and ideas in situ, and as such we advise participants bring suitable footwear and clothing for working outdoors in all weathers. Dr Bike Repair Sessions 1.00 - 2.30pm Free Bring Your Own Bike Dr Bike are interactive sessions run by project partner Cycle Saviours. Cycle Saviours support and ensure people are cycling on bicycles that are safe. These Sessions will be free to participate in and offer a cycle health and safety check for visitors before they take off on the afternoon formation cycling event. Formation Cycling Session2.30 - 4.30pm FreeBring your own Bike All ages and abilities are welcome to join us for an active exercise of thinking about the Redways through movement and collaborative modes of working with bikes. Please bring your own bikes, or hire a Santander Cycle as we will be making a formation work together. Artists Talk and Q&A with Hayley Newman and New Work by Sapphire Goss6.30 - 8.30pm Free Join us for drinks and vegan nibbles to celebrate the end of Hayley Newman's residency. During the evening Hayley will share stories of her time on the Redways throughout her residency, as well as reflecting on her Social Sculpture MKVH (2004) in which she explored our nation’s oil dependency through MK’s primarily car-focused culture. We hope to encourage a debate on actions for low carbon infrastructure nationwide through consideration of Milton Keynes’ unique transport networks. In addition, video artist Sapphire Goss, will showcase work-in-progress which responds to Hayley’s findings and to her own knowledge of Milton Keynes’ landscapes, cultural heritage and identity. For further information on Hayley’s research, or to connect with the project please email Cara Davies and Ashleigh Griffith at [log in to unmask] Guests are welcome to connect with Hayley throughout her residency, as she will using Milton Keynes Arts Centre’s gallery space as her studio. Exhibition hours reflect Milton Keynes Arts Centre’s opening hours and will be open for visitors to come view, interact with and participate in her evolving ideas and working process. Hayley NewmanHayley Newman is an artist with a passion for humour, subjectivity, documentary practices and fiction. She creates performances, interventions, music and texts and has made work in nightclubs, shops, on trains and marches as well as for the concert hall or gallery. Growing up on the Buckinghamshire border, she spent many Saturdays in her teens hanging out in Milton Keynes Shopping Centre. She completed an art foundation course at Mander College in Bedford in 1989, before doing a degree in Fine Art at Middlesex University. She went on to study at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL; the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Hamburg and the University of Leeds. She is a writer and performer and much of her work is made in response to site. This includes her 2004 work MKVH (Milton Keynes Vertical Horizontal), commissioned by MK Gallery. The work involved driving a coach of volunteers around the MK road grid until their coach ran out of diesel. The social sculpture lasted for 39 hours and was her first work about oil and our dependency on fossil fuels. It has since been her dream to make a work on the MK Redway. In 2011 she declared herself self-appointed artist-in-residence in the City of London and wrote the novella Common, drawing together the social, economic and ecological crises. She often works in collaboration, most recently with eco-electro girl-band The Gluts who took their musical Café Carbon to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, and art/activist group Liberate Tate. Newman lives and works in London and is represented by Matt’s Gallery. She is Reader of Fine Art and tutor on the doctoral programme at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/people/academic/profile/HJENE78 http://www.dacsfoundation.org.uk/hayley-newman/ Tracing the Pathway Tracing the Pathway is an artist-led collective that explore the relationships between body, site and encounter. As artists, curators, and researchers, they produce site or situation-specific interdisciplinary artworks. Their work develops microcosmic worlds as catalysts for exploration and exchange. Their processes are soft, processual and organic, developing a practice that is always open-ended and subject to change. GroundworkGroundwork is multifaceted. It is grassroots, organic and responsive: curating unique artworks; supporting the professional development of local artists; and providing a platform for internationally renowned artists to make deep, long-lasting and meaningful connections with the town. Groundwork is unique to Milton Keynes for its focus on performance, site-specific and interdisciplinary work. It is also the only long-term, artist-led, self-organised project of its kind within the area which celebrates and debates the cultural heritage and identity of the town. As such Groundwork forefronts the original ethos of the Milton Keynes Development Corporation to champion artists as playing a vital role in community building. The project has been developed by artist collective Tracing the Pathway in partnership with Milton Keynes Arts Centre, with support by funding from Milton Keynes Community Foundation and Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Scheme. tracingthepathway.com/groundwork FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/wan