writing

Last year I did the 6 hour work without Lou. My health was not good. I decided to take in my laptop - with only access to write - no times visible, in case I wanted to write as I was there.
the result can be found by following THIS LINK
There was a projection in the space - the overlaying of black & white cctv footage from 2008 and 2012
extract:

In not in here not here.

Feet object to use. I see much of myself on video preparing for the first time. Bill, Ann – Ann also on the overlay of last year – Liz vacuuming. Lou, even Lou, spreading the words over the floor.

No one came in with the bell – the recording of sound is a few minutes ahead of time today and the video far behind. The voice rings out – I get distracted wondering if they have put thyme on the pebbles that arrived in the nick of time.

I have put a bee out of the window, not a bumble not a honey some other bee. The window is now closed.

I see me in close canon 2008 2012 feet almost planted all together.

THIS IS A LINK TO SPOKEN WORD VERSION - I use the airing cupboard as a recording studio but the bats are now a bit noisy and their scamper & chatter can be heard

Maura

overlays

1. from the creation process
2. from i
3. from ii


A LINK ...to a link ... to a piece of writing made during the 2013 event by Maura

evolving

As with last year there are challenges to be met, there are differences that have to be faced and worked through, for both Maura and Lou.
A quote from last year:


"Their physical ability to perform in the event is likely to be limited and changed. Both artists feel that this in itself raises interesting questions about performance and ritual, questions which were inevitable in mounting such an ambitious project, such as: are we participants in the event or performers? Are the audience participants in this ritual? When we celebrate our daily and annual rituals what remains the same and what changes, and how much are the changes the way we remember? ‘Oh that was the Christmas that we had to…. because of such and such…’"


All are welcome to come and spend time in the space - as ever there will be a limit to how many people can be present at any one time, usually this causes no problem.
You might want to bring a cushion...there are chairs.
More details in previous posts



The artists are dedicating this year’s event to the memory of John Sharkey in gratitude for his friendship, and his particular contribution to untitled: holy hiatus.


Eleni mae’r artistiaid yn cyflwyno’r digwyddiad er cof am John Sharkey i ddiolch am ei gyfeillgarwch, ac yn arbennig am ei gyfraniad i untitled: holy hiatus.

Untitled Holy Hiatus 7

Thursday May 22nd 4.00 – 10.15 p.m. Small World Theatre, Cardigan
Dydd Iau Mai 22ain 4.00 – 10.15 y.p. Canolfan Byd Bychan, Aberteifi


This annual, six hour, performative event explores how liminal space is created, experienced and shared, using repetitions of a phrase of movement and a 13th century song.
Each event includes live vocal performance and playback of the previous year's recording; this process amplifies the acoustic response of the space, which slowly overwhelms the earlier recordings to form an extraordinary evolving soundscape.
You may attend at any time from 16.00 – 22.15.
The kitchen will be open for refreshments, and there will also be an exhibition of work from previous events.
Entrance fee: donation.


Mae’r digwyddiad perfformiadol hwn yn dangos sut y gellir creu, profi a rhannu gofod trothwyol, trwy ddefnyddio cyfres o symudiadau a chân o’r 13 ganrif dros gyfnod o 6 awr. Mae pob un digwyddiad yn cynnwys perfformiad lleisiol byw a chwarae recordiad y flwyddyn flaenorol; mae’r broses yn chwyddo ymateb acwstig y gofod ac o dipyn i beth bydd yn goresgyn y recordiad blaenorol i ffurfio llun rhyfeddol mewn sain.
Gellir dod yma unrhyw bryd rhwng 16.00 – 22.15.
Bydd lluniaeth ar gael yn ogystal ag arddangosfa o waith y blynyddoedd cynt.
Tâl mynydiad: rhodd


The artists are dedicating this year’s event to the memory of John Sharkey in gratitude for his friendship, and his particular contribution to untitled: holy hiatus.

Eleni mae’r artistiaid yn cyflwyno’r digwyddiad er cof am John Sharkey i ddiolch am ei gyfeillgarwch, ac yn arbennig am ei gyfraniad i untitled: holy hiatus.



LINK to a short video about this work made by Jacob Whittaker

LINK to the Venue: Canolfan Byd Bychan, Aberteifi | Cardigan and many thanks to them for their support

 

there is a 15 minute break 6.50pm - 7.05pm

 

see previous blog posts for more information

Untitled Holy Hiatus 6

Come to observe, to be within the space created, or to use the space for quiet meditation, for a contemplative or devotional act. You may stay for any length of time. There are limits to how many people might be in the space at any one time - you will find light refreshments in the kitchen.

There are some chairs, but you might wish to bring a cushion and/or blanket.

Dydd Mercher Mai 22

4 – 10.15 y.p
Canolfan Byd Bychan

Aberteifi

Wednesday May 22
4 – 10.15 p.m
Small World Centre
Cardigan

 

LINK to Canolfan Byd Bychan map, address etc

 

there is a 15 minute break 6.50pm - 7.05pm

 

see previous blog posts for more information

mid May 2013 update

Holy Hiatus: untitled is an annual event created by artists Maura Hazelden and Lou Laurens and will be showing on May 22^nd, from 4pm to 10.15, in Small World Theatre. Maura was originally commissioned by Ruth Jones to make a work for ‘Holy Hiatus: Ritual and Community in Public Art’, a symposium and series of commissioned works, including work by Alastair McLennan and Simon Whitehead, shown in Cardigan in 2008.

Maura invited Lou to work with her on a piece which explored repetition. In that first year, they had many discussions about the kind of rituals we all engage in, ranging from quotidian activities such as making and serving a meal, to events which mark the passing of the year, and religious festivals. Maura and Lou both had an interest in how simple acts might become devotional through intention and also how rituals develop over long periods of time, when circumstances change how they are celebrated. They created a durational event in Small World Theatre and have continued it as an annual event, now independently of the commission. Holy Hiatus: untitled is in its sixth year, each time having been different and yet the same, always on the same date: May 22^nd.

This year there are particular challenges. Lou has recently given birth to her first child and Maura has photosensitivity and difficulty working bare foot.  Their physical ability to perform in the event is likely to be limited and changed. Both artists feel that this in itself raises interesting questions about performance and ritual, questions which were inevitable in mounting such an ambitious project, such as: are we participants in the event or performers? Are the audience participants in this ritual? When we celebrate our daily and annual rituals what remains the same and what changes, and how much are the changes the way we remember? ‘Oh that was the Christmas that we had to…. because of such and such…’

Although, or perhaps because, this is an intense and deeply vulnerable time for both artists, the event promises to be a moving and wonderful experience for attendees. The event will include performance, video projection and an extraordinary evolving soundscape created by the process of recording the playback of each previous year’s performance, so that the layers are transformed by the acoustic response of the building itself.

There is an accompanying exhibition at Small World Theatre, open until the 24^th of May

Whatever the Weather website you can find link to a map and details of venue

the exhibition will continue until the end of May 24th

Exhibition for 2013

In the two weeks before the event there will be some work in the gallery at Canolfan Byd Bychan

An exhibition of visual, text-based and documentary work related to Untitled: Holy Hiatus from Maura Hazelden and Lou Laurens.

Maura reviews a broad range of work exploring the liminal, memory and surface.
From order to evanescence: solid to vapour: experience to memory; what separates one thing from another?

Arddangosfa o waith gweledol, testunol a dogfennol yn gysylltiedig â 'untitled: holy hiatus' gan Maura Hazelden a Lou Laurens.

Mae Maura yn bwrw golwg nôl dros rychwant eang o waith sy'n archwillio'r ymylon, y cof, ac arwynebedd. O'r trefnus i'r diflannol; o sylwedd i anwedd; profiad i atgof; beth sy'n gwahanu un peth oddi wrth y llai?

LINK to opening hours on Whatever the Weather website

now up until at least 25th May