HINTERLAND...
by Melissa Bliss
UK
Melissa Bliss is an artist based in London. Her key interests are people and place and internal and external geographies. She uses a variety of media such as video, photography, sound, performance and installation.
Her work is often created through participatory processes in live interactions, audience participation, conversations and collaborations.
She has shown work nationally and internationally in Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost in New York, Beacon Art Projects in Lincolnshire, FRED in Cumbria, EASTinternational in Norwich and node-l media arts festival in London.
She has created guided walks, maps, sound works, videos for mobile phones and computer-mediated installations. Her work has been shown in a variety of locations including a shop window, a village hall, canals, cafés and through telephones.
HINTERLAND
A new film commission
Part of The Intercult North SEAS Festival
Shown at Leicester Children's Holiday Centre, Mablethorpe on 20 September 2009
Beacon in partnership with East Lindsey District Council has commissioned artist Melissa Bliss to respond to her residency in Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire. She has created a film made with four residents of Mablethorpe which was screened at Leicester Children's Holiday Centre in Mablethorpe.
This project is supported by Arts Council England, East Lindsey District Council and the Aroma Company.
BEACON
Beacon is a visual art organisation with charity status based in Lincolnshire. It works nationally and internationally. Beacon is an invited partner for the UK Black/North SEAS project.
INTERCULT NORTH SEAS FESTIVAL
SEAS is an arts initiative which is taking place around the Black and North Sea regions during 2008 and 2009. Skegness, the only UK venue, will be one of the 10 locations hosting this exciting project from 25 September to 3 October 2009. The Skegness International brochure can be downloaded here.
MORE INFO
Beacon Art Project: www.beaconartproject.org
Skegness International: www.skegnessinternational.com
Intercult North SEAS Festival: www.seas.se
Leicester Children's Holiday Centre: www.childrensholidaycentre.co.uk
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