Rebecca Birch
02 - 08 Feb 2015
REBECCA BIRCH
fig-2, Week 5/50
2 - 8 February 2015
Rebecca Birch’s ongoing investigation around a lichen-covered stick takes on a new stage at fig-2 premises. ‘Lichen Hunting on the West Coast’, is an expanding multiple channel media and drawing installation, accompanied by a series of conversational encounters between the artist and audience. A particular lichen-covered stick has travelled with Birch since 2011, after casting a shadow across her dashboard during a road trip performance work with artist Dan Coopey. Birch produces the incident as re-enactments, anecdotes, narratives that are performed in dialogue with the audience. This new body of work informed by following trace-lines of the stick emerges as performance in two parts, the first to take place at the opening night on Monday between 6 and 8 pm, and the latter on five consequent afternoons between 3 and 6 pm. The projections produced during the second part through one-to-one encounters will be added onto the body of the installation. Thursday late at fig-2 will host a studio visit to Birch, where she will give a talk about her exhibition and her new research on waulking songs and weaving communities in Scotland between 7 and 8 pm.
fig-2 opens each Monday 6 – 8 pm, and continues from Tue – Sun 11 am – 6 pm. fig-2 is open late on Thursdays until 9 pm to coincide with the ICA late openings. fig-2, ICA Studio, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH. As the ICA is closed on Mondays, to reach the Studio please use the ramp entrance to the Studio from Carlton House Terrace, at the top of the Duke of York Steps. For more information visit fig2.co.uk
fig-2 at the ICA in association with Outset
fig-2, Week 5/50
2 - 8 February 2015
Rebecca Birch’s ongoing investigation around a lichen-covered stick takes on a new stage at fig-2 premises. ‘Lichen Hunting on the West Coast’, is an expanding multiple channel media and drawing installation, accompanied by a series of conversational encounters between the artist and audience. A particular lichen-covered stick has travelled with Birch since 2011, after casting a shadow across her dashboard during a road trip performance work with artist Dan Coopey. Birch produces the incident as re-enactments, anecdotes, narratives that are performed in dialogue with the audience. This new body of work informed by following trace-lines of the stick emerges as performance in two parts, the first to take place at the opening night on Monday between 6 and 8 pm, and the latter on five consequent afternoons between 3 and 6 pm. The projections produced during the second part through one-to-one encounters will be added onto the body of the installation. Thursday late at fig-2 will host a studio visit to Birch, where she will give a talk about her exhibition and her new research on waulking songs and weaving communities in Scotland between 7 and 8 pm.
fig-2 opens each Monday 6 – 8 pm, and continues from Tue – Sun 11 am – 6 pm. fig-2 is open late on Thursdays until 9 pm to coincide with the ICA late openings. fig-2, ICA Studio, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH. As the ICA is closed on Mondays, to reach the Studio please use the ramp entrance to the Studio from Carlton House Terrace, at the top of the Duke of York Steps. For more information visit fig2.co.uk
fig-2 at the ICA in association with Outset