A BIG BALL'S UP IN St IVES
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- From the top of the town, performance art from ALLARD van HOORN as the giant silver ball makes its way from the Community Orchard to the Skatepark and adjacent field and on to Ayr Field where Cornish Guise dancers and the St Ives Concert Band led the dancing.
From there it was down to the harbour where the RNLI crew rolled the ball around the harbour, pausing briefly to wave at The Mayor, standing at the outer wall of the Parish Church from where the real silver ball is thrown on Feast Day, the first Monday after February 3rd.
The procession left the beach at the Sloop slipway and went up Fish Street and along Back Road West to the Tate Gallery, where Allard gave a sound performance created from recordings of its journey.
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From the St Ives Times & Echo 14 June 2019 :
On Saturday 22 June Tate St Ives will be holding a public art event through the streets of St Ives. The ‘playful performance’ will see a 2m high silver ball, a scaled-up version of the St Ives Feast Day traditional ‘Hurling’ silver ball, rolled through the streets connecting community spaces.
The event by Tate St Ives is jointly choreographed with local community members and Tate St Ives Artist in Residence Allard van Hoorn. Having witnessed this year’s Hurling of the Silver Ball, van Hoorn was inspired to create this celebration of St Ives’ tradition of ‘Hurling’. In response his new work is a visual and audio spectacle that will move through the streets and spaces of the town. 063 Urban Songline (Another Hurling of the Silver Ball) has involved residents of St Ives sharing stories and associations to places relevant to the community both past, present and future. Many of them will take part in the performance, guiding the ball along and seeing themselves mirrored in the silver ball with their town and community behind them.
Allard van Hoorn was resident at Porthmeor Studios in February as part of the Tate St Ives Artists Programme. He commented: “These performances are a way of connecting to places by listening to them as well as research into how we use and experience the public domain and to what degree we can claim ownership over it, discussing notions of inclusion, becoming and belonging.”
Speaking about the event, Tate St Ives Director Anne Barlow said: “This performance builds on our commitment to working in spaces outside the gallery and collaborating with our communities. This new project with the silver ball has generated a lot of excitement in the town - it’s a magical idea that really fits with the local heritage and we hope it inspires many people to be involved on the day.”
The hurling begins in Palemon Best Recreation Ground, home to two community led initiatives - the Community Orchard and Skate Park - and the midpoint, Ayr Field, is now a recognised open green space for the people of St Ives following the campaigning of local people. Many of the streets along the route have a story to tell, such as the top of Barnoon Hill which marks the edge of the historic fishing community and is a vantage point to The Island and the sea that edges the town. The harbour, historically the hub of the town, holds special connections to fishing, lifesaving and leisure activities both in and on the water.
As it moves through the town, the artist will be recording sounds of the journey being made, from park to road, harbour to gallery. These sounds will be collected and mixed by van Hoorn after the ball reaches its destination, the outside space at Tate St Ives. A special sound performance will conclude the event.
Oh,I LOVE your footage !!!
Awesome. Wish I'd still been there to see it. Well done. x
Love walking those streets
Yes, with or without a big rubber ball :-)
If you’re wondering why Bagas Porthia wore net curtains, Dee Brotherton explains :
Bagas Porthia were part of this amazing project, but this time dressed as St Ives Guisers in honour of previous generations of St Ives Guisers (or "Geese Dancers") who, dressed in old hand-me-down clothes with gramma's old curtain net over their faces, would call on their neighbours at Feast time and be invited in to partake of a bit of hevva cake or a cup of tea, thus tempting the guisers to speak or lift their net veil thus revealing who they were. An innocent game played on welcoming neighbours which helped bind the community together. Our fishy net curtains over our faces is a mark of respect for all those who have gone before with this simple but iconic St Ives tradition.
كره مشتركه بين الجميع توحدهم تنشر المحبه بينهم 👌🤝👍💓💓💓💓🦅🗽