W.S. Bartlett Gallery: Monday 26th March 7pm
TALK: MICHELLE PALMER, FLAMING LOTUS GIRL
The Flaming Lotus Girls are a San Francisco-based group of artists collaborating all year round to create exceptional fire art and metalwork on a gargantuan scale.
Since 2000, the Flaming Lotus Girls' artwork has been featured at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, USA. Their project for 2006 was the most ambitious yet - "The Serpent Mother", a massive stainless steel skeletal serpent, 168 feet long with free standing moveable ribs and fire all along the spine, a hydraulically-activated moving head, arching up to 20 foot high and a 10 foot copper egg with 35 foot multidimensional liquid fuel fire effect erupting out of its interior, all controlled by participant viewers through different sequenced patterns activated via buttons.
Michelle Palmer, one of the Flaming Lotus Girls, will be giving a talk at W.S.Bartlett gallery on Monday 26th March at 7.00pm about the blood, sweat and tears of this almighty and highly revered project, one of the most prominant and successful structures of Burning Man 2006. She will also be sharing her experiences of living and working in the Flaming Lotus community for several months in San Francisco.
The Flaming Lotus Girls∞
FILM: VIOLA DI GANCIO
We will then be screening a preview of the film, "Viola Di Gancio", produced by Benedict Sanderson documenting the collaborative performance of two innovative artists whose practice defies definition. Looking to the Renaissance and Baroque craftsmen that created the viola di gamba and viola di braccio family of instruments for inspiration, Tessa Wills and Santiago Genochio worked with a traditional instrument maker to create the first viola di gancio, the Viol of the Hook.
The instrument, funded by the Arts Council consists of a large viol bolted to a long base, whose strings are connected to ropes, in turn anchored to the performer's back by large flesh hooks, which as they pull against the ropes the tension created changes the pitch of the notes played on the viol.
Lejera∞
Where:
7pm, Monday 26th, Bartlett's Gallery. 1st Floor, 249-253 Cambridge Heath Road, London.
Map and info∞
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