ATOI ARTS

2010-12-09T06:37:00.000-08:00

New website

2010-05-19T14:50:00.000-07:00

For collaborative projects please visit: www.atoiarts.org
For works by Amy Thomas please visit: www.amy-thomas.co.uk
For more information on Oliver visit www.atoiarts.org
or contact us atoiarts@gmail.com

Current project : "Cloud Seeding" in China

2009-06-25T14:57:00.000-07:00

'The Well', ATOI, Dimensions variable

Oliver and i have been invited onto a six month residency at the Chinese European Art Centre in Xiamen, China.

We have been awarded funding from the Arts Council England to support this project.
You can follow the project at www.cloudseedingproject.blogspot.com

We have launched 'Cloud Seeding' at Gallery 35 in Greater Manchester at their summer exhibition. For press release and more visit www.gallery35.net

LACKING LANDMARKS

2009-04-10T02:22:00.000-07:00

Amy Thomas solo show 10th April -26th April

Private View 10th April 19:00- till late

Lacking Landmarks

Landmarks: Structures built initially to aid sailors navigate featurless coats.

I aim to create situations and objects of compulsion, concealment, communication and conciousnss.

Lacking Landmarks refers to a state of mental and physical loss wherby a fictional character ("explorer") has attempted to create geographical landmarks in hope to find their way back or through an area.

The back room showcases three seperate works: 'Saint Lucy', a wax sculpture. 'Seeking Music', a performance of two blindfolded musicians that play together but slightly out of time and' With Micheal' The remains from a days personal "performance" from Michael (a 41 year old artist with severe autism) creating, questioning and destroying his clay sculptures.

Michael creates all his sculptures by working from the inside out. For example when making a body he will firstly make the heart, then the skin, then the clothes. Although the viewer will not be able to see what is on the inside of his sculptures it is integeral to michael that everything is in place.

Amy Thomas Solo Show poster, private viewing

2009-04-03T04:39:00.000-07:00

Distillation, Private View 27th Feb 09, Oliver Irvine Solo Show

2009-02-28T04:06:00.000-08:00

2009-02-18T04:19:00.000-08:00

Distillation. 26FEB-8MAR
Oliver Irvine solo show
Private view 27FEB 6-9.pm

Previous Exhibition: "By Whatever Measures Necessary"

2008-12-14T07:55:00.000-08:00

First Floor: "Without Precedent" 8th jan-22nd feb.

"HIDE CIRCUIT"

Sales Room. Paintings from Oliver Irvine and Amy Thomas

AIR BUDAPEST RESIDENCY 08

2008-11-20T09:34:00.001-08:00

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"HIDE"

Three WW2 Stretchers, paint

Amy Thomas and Oliver Irvine

LIVE ART FALMOUTH 08

2008-01-27T05:10:00.001-08:00

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"YOU DECIDE 02#"

Performance

Amy Thomas and Oliver Irvine

"In Oliver Irvine and Amy Thomas’s ‘You Decide 2#, the implication of the audience is given political relevance. Described as an ‘Orchestrated Interrogation Circuit’, the piece features a female figure in an orange jumpsuit suspended in a harness, her legs forcibly spread apart. Throughout the room, there appear to be bodies crumpled on the floor under black cloths. On the back walls, a figure in a yellow radiation suit paints the same motif over and over again, slowly darkening the walls with its broad splashes of paint. But this whole scene is largely obstructed by clusters of painter’s easels, prepared with paper and pieces of charcoal. As the sound of hymns and prayers comes over the sound system, blindfolded spectators sit at the easels and begin to draw. It’s not clear if the first to draw were instructed to do so, but as they leave, other audience members volunteer to take their place, covering their eyes to an image that is impossible to ignore, putting charcoal to paper, and sketching their testimony."

Theron Schmidt is a writer and performer based in London. He was selected for Writing from Live Art, a Live Art UK initiative, and his critical writing has been published in AN Magazine, Dance Theatre Journal (forthcoming), Platform, and Real Time (Australia).