Jay Young took part in a discussion at Bluecoat last night about her work and issues of Globalisation and localisation. Also speaking with her was Sean Hawkridge. Since leaving Liverpool School of Art and Design a few years ago Sean has had a scholarship/residency with Static, helped to set up the Liverpool based artists group/studios ‘The Royal Standard’, has exhibited and made art internationally and currently works at Liverpool Biennial.
For Sean, being an artist today meant being global. Sean stressed the necessity to make links and to make work flexibly enough to enable movement and critical response to a changing environment. For Sean, sitting alone in his own studio would drive him ‘mad’. His own work has two main themes. One is ‘random acts of kindness’. The other is a response to the way we situate ourselves, and communicate with, our changing environments. Sean also stressed the importance of making online work and keeping up a good website – http://www.seanhawkridge.com/
For Jay, working as an artist over the last few years has been a constant dialogue with different places and different people. Jay has worked in numerous environments. Her last work was part of the ‘Happy Stacking’ project, run by Grizedale Arts – http://www.grizedale.org/ , which saw several artists working in a remote Chinese ‘eco tourist’ town. For Jay, working with others means finding out about them. Jay thought that going somewhere new and doing the same work that she usually did would be a waste of time. Interestingly enough, Jay also works without a permanent studio environment, preferring to make plans/ideas/critical interventions until the point arises when she ‘needs to make work for a specific purpose’.
For Sean, being an artist today meant being global. Sean stressed the necessity to make links and to make work flexibly enough to enable movement and critical response to a changing environment. For Sean, sitting alone in his own studio would drive him ‘mad’. His own work has two main themes. One is ‘random acts of kindness’. The other is a response to the way we situate ourselves, and communicate with, our changing environments. Sean also stressed the importance of making online work and keeping up a good website – http://www.seanhawkridge.com/
For Jay, working as an artist over the last few years has been a constant dialogue with different places and different people. Jay has worked in numerous environments. Her last work was part of the ‘Happy Stacking’ project, run by Grizedale Arts – http://www.grizedale.org/ , which saw several artists working in a remote Chinese ‘eco tourist’ town. For Jay, working with others means finding out about them. Jay thought that going somewhere new and doing the same work that she usually did would be a waste of time. Interestingly enough, Jay also works without a permanent studio environment, preferring to make plans/ideas/critical interventions until the point arises when she ‘needs to make work for a specific purpose’.
The discussion which followed both presentations addressed issues of the local and the global. Suggestions were made about the new relationships that now exist between globalised economies and smaller ‘local’ hubs of activity. One suggestion was that the most cutting edge work now gets made on a constantly shifting ‘periphery’ which acts as a counterpoint to a bland globalising culture. Another was that we are now all ‘glocal’ – a mixture of the local and the global.
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