'Moist' 5 locations...Exhibition

MOIST
…Instigated by tactileBOSCH..is the umbrella title for a soon to be realized series of exhibitions [+LIVEart events] to open across ‘Diff in Sept / October 2011 We asked the artists to engage with the word ‘MOIST’ ostensibly to rethink and retell their methodologies towards its suggestion then fabricate that idea to a particular location…although primarily based at tactileBOSCH we have several additional locations. namely Wales Millennium Centre / Urban Outfitters + Milgi’s. Showcasing over fifty artists in different locations spanning Cardiff from edge to slippery edge…

MOIST…is descriptive / disturbing / visceral / erotically charged…and DAMP. Whether ab-jective or subjective / in situ or without. Its wetness personified, a reaction to environment. MOIST is about location, not necessarily site specific but site responsive. A damp basement dripping with moisture, mould fornicating on a clammy wall. Its an environment that might make you shriek out loud or run screaming from the room… slime dripping from your fingertips…it could be sexually gratifying, an orgasmic response to a word or situation…a veritable Jacuzzi of the senses or a quagmire of mortal

Dates + Locations are:
1. MOIST MOVIES @ Wales Millennium Centre: Opens 15th September [7pm]
tactileBOSCH [with the support of WMC] has curated a series of showreels showcasing experimental art-based films of TEN minutes or less. These filmic nuggets will be projected across the [cavernous] North end of the building [above Cafe Crema] daily for 3 months [changing on a monthly basis]. The films [linear / abstract / erotically charged or simply poetic] evoke a magical strangeness relating to that slow process of putting a little moisture back into MOISTURE rising…

MOIST MOVIES include:
Tim Bromage, the Cabinet Particular, Mr+Mrs Clark, Andrew Cooper, Michael Cousin, Gemma Dando, James Dean Diamond, Freya Dooley, Chris LLedrod Evans, Kim Fielding, Shani Rhys James, Andrew Johnson, Eryl Prys Jones, Melville Mitchell, MINIMA, Casey Raymond, Tiff Oben & Helene Roberts, Kira O’Reilly, Susan & Madoc Roberts, Ruadhri Ryan, Alison Sympton, Vivian Paul Thomas, Becca Voelcker, Alice Wilkins…

Opening on Thurs 15th September – 7-11pm at the WMC with the ridiculously talented Mr Andy Taylor will play live with MINIMA in conversation with the filmic ‘H2o’. Freya Dooley, a newly minted graduate from Howard Gardens, will work with charcoal, a reem of paper + a life model in situ… Performance artists Caroline Biggs, Iwan Huw Morgan & Nazma Rasool will attempt to add a little damp seatage to the auditorium with the intrepid Zillo taking up the slack…Narrative films will be shown in the theatre from 7pm for one night only…

2. MOIST URBANOS: Opens Thurs 22nd Sept @ 7pm…
tactileBOSCH tries a little retail therapy at the Urban Outfitters’ beautiful internal gallery on the 1st floor of the shop on the Hayes…featuring the startling installation work of Geraint Evans, dis-locationist Andrew Cooper, maverick photographer Alice Wilkins, custom hauser Frankfoto, teacup lover Jason Pinder, cardboard connoisseur Sam Aldridge, optional photografika Helene Roberts + Jacqui Caley + LIVE performance from Chris Lledrod Evans + the superb Telegram From the Queen [on the opening night only…]

3. MOIST BOSCH [install-latio+] Opens Sat 8th October @ tactileBOSCH Gallery @ 7pm
The central core of MOIST which will, undoubtedly, live up to the Exhibition premise and be the dampest show in town…tactileBOSCH will host a number of experimental instalationists: Shani Rhys James / Andrew Cooper / Geraint Evans + Steve Morgana, video artists: James Richards & Steve Reinke / Alyson Simpkins / Madoc Roberts + Black Engine, photographers: James Dean Diamond + Colleen Ford Ellis, LIVEart performance: Keiron Beckerton + Jo Shapland, soundscapist: Blatnova & conceptual environ-mentalists: The Cabinet Particular who will build the Cathedral for Erotic Misery in an attic near you…a labarynth of mortal intrigue!
The work will gestate in various locations throughout the building …culminating 4 days later with…

4. MOIST in MOTION: Tuesday 11th October 7-11pm
Our annual brush with ferment and death – this is the loooong night of performance - precursor +LIVEart preview for Chapter’s Experimentica… including Andy James Jones, Kira O’Reilly, Phil Babbo, Iwan Huw Morgan, :BEAN + Caroline Biggs…

*Please note the work shown at tactileBOSCH is not for the faint hearted and as one might presume from the name much of the work will have an adult theme…

5. MOIST MILGI's: 14th – 16th October
As part of Made in Roath tactileBOSCH will inhabit the upstairs floors of MILGI’s:
A family reunion in a single flat on a busy street in a town called Alice domestic derangement involving one very odd family and a house from hell…

The House that Balthus Lived…
Home is not an object, nor merely a building but a diffuse and complex condition that integrates memories and images, desires and fears, the past and the present. It is a set of routines, rituals and personal rhythms. Reflection on the essence of home takes us away from the physical properties of a house into the psychic territories of the mind!

There is an enduring human need to find psychological refuge in familiar places and spaces, but there is no sanctuary to be found here! Through creaking entrance stained with rust, staircases and doorways to nowhere, forgotten corridors, long locked rooms and what is that lurking in the attic? This is domestic dystopia! Rubbing up against clammy walls a woman ferociously kneads on a dusty floor without apparent purpose. The man of the house, no king and no castle, lord of no where, paces the living room floor... Their offspring, eternally grounded, sent supper-less to their rooms, trapped in repetitive acts ..Salensio!
Moist in its various aspects will include…
Sam Aldridge, Phil Babot, Adam Ballard, :Bean, Neil Bebbor w.Nathon Sussex, Kieran De Silva Beckerton, BLATNOVA, Caroline Biggs, Black Engine, Tim Bromage, The Cabinet Particular, Jacqui Caley *Mr+Mrs Claaark, Andrew Cooper, Gemma Copp, Michael Cousin, Gemma Dando, Freya Dooley, Geraint Evans, Chris Lledrod Evans, Kim Fielding, *Peter Finnemore, Colleen Ford-Ellis, Frankfoto, *Beth Greenhalgh, Lewis Hughes-Evans, Victoria Grey, Dr Paul Hurley, Stephanie Hurst, Andrew James Jones, Andrew Johnson, Arran Kulpi, MINIMA, Melville Mitchell, More Front Studios, Iwan Huw Morgan, Richard Huw Morgan, Steve Morgana, Tiff Oben, Kira O’Reilly, Jason Pinder, Eryl Prys Jones, Casey Raymond, Nazma Rasool, Shani Rhys James, James Richards & Steve Reinke, Flora Roberts, Helene Roberts, Soozy Roberts, Susan Roberts, Ruaidhri Ryan, Al Sympton, Dave Sopworth, Andy Taylor, Telegram From the Queen, Vivian Paul Thomas, Becca Voelker, Alice + Graham Wilkins [52]

Supported by: Arts Council of Wales / WMC / National Probation Service / HOS Construction
Arts Council of Wales / Wales Millenium Centre / HOS Construction / National Probation Service / Milgi’s / Made in Roath / Visible Art + Urban Outfitters…
Special Thanx: Emma Gelliot / Rob Ashelford / Andrew Cooper / Lewis Hughes-Evans / Becky Milgi / Mark Hulme / Neil Jefferies / / James Tyson and Cathy Boyce / Alice Wilkins + Rob Trig…