Neal, Beggs

Shipsides, Dan

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Wave FrontierAn exhibition (as part of a group exhibition titled No Shooting in this Area – see below) of Dan Shipsides, Neal Beggs and collaborative artworks under the umbrella of Shipsides and Beggs Projects.The wall drawings are new works by SBP – the star fence design motif is a development from a small wire fence we made in 2015 in Belgium and the wire twist a developing motif we’ve incorprated for several years. The wooden bombs were made by Neal in 2011, the star video (Mortar | Device) by Dan in 2011.Along with the exhibition we developed a new music/sound work Wave Frontier (30min Live performance) which we performed at the opening (19th April 2016) which combines old time songs, with Shipsides and Beggs songs and the overall composition is structured throughout with a new score composition derived in part from the French - Spanish border's elevation from Atlantic to the Mediterranean.A rough live recording of this is on soundcloud here. https://soundcloud.com/shipsides-and-beggs-proj/wave-frontier-working-titleIt is our ambition to find an opportunity to record properly this in a decent studio.The exhibition 'No Shooting in this Area' focus on war, and conflict, in both a direct and indirect way. Works by several different artists including SBP, and from different countries, are presented in the exhibition. For our part we presented an arsenal of wooden bombs with construction manual, a star animation video and wall drawings based on wires, stars and fences. Our music presentation / happening on the opening night follows on from this theme, but is probably better understood as being a stage in our ongoing project which we call 'Still Not Out of the Woods' which could be thought of as a general and personal comment on post World Wars' western culture since the late 1950's and corresponds to the influences that have played on and shaped our respective lives, music and art being fundamental to both of us.Another strong influence for SBP has and continues to be mountains and stars, which once you start to look at from a contemporary art point of view, seem to touch either directly or metaphorically on just about every subject under the sun. One such topic being frontiers and nation, mountains often denote physical frontiers and stars are often used within symbolic national identity, the EU for example, and there are many more. Frontiers are basically the partition of land, and it is this word partition that led us into translating the elevation of mountain frontiers into musical partition (another name for a musical score)- a concept we first developed from Via Ferrata wires (Iron Way - WW1 mountaineering routes) into fence wires then into guitar string wires.The music that we played at Pau is based on the elevation of the Spanish and French frontier that traverses the Pyrenees. In addition to this music we also interweave it with some traditional public domain (Old Time) songs from America which speak about mountains, pilgrims, wondering souls etc, a reference maybe to the timeless nature of the refugee. These songs are, Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow, and Going Across the Mountain. We have adapted these songs to fit the moment, but its easy to find other versions of these songs by various artists on the net. The song 'Still Not out of the Woods' is an original SBP work. Young French artist and musician, Brice Aulin joined us to play rhythm guitar in this performance.<br/

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02/11/2018 Shipsides & Beggs - Wave Frontier, Pauhttp://www.danshipsides.com/DshipsidesWeb/PAU.html 1/2Shipsides & Beggs ­ Wave Frontier ­ Pau, France     HomeCV & contactTextsBibliographyProjectsWave FrontierAn exhibition (as part of a group exhibition titled No Shooting in this Area – see below) of DanShipsides, Neal Beggs and collaborative artworks under the umbrella of Shipsides and BeggsProjects.The wooden bombs were made by Neal in 2011, the star video (Mortar | Device) by Dan in 2011.The wall drawings are new works by SBP – the star fence design motif is a development from asmall wire fence we made in 2015 in Belgium and the wire twist a developing motif we’veincorprated for several years.Along with the exhibition we developed a music/sound work Wave Frontier (30min Liveperformance) which we performed at the opening (19th April 2016) which combines old time songs,with Shipsides and Beggs songs and the overall composition is structured throughout with a newscore composition derived in part from the French ­ Spanish border's elevation from Atlantic to theMediterranean.A rough live recording of this is on soundcloud here.  https://soundcloud.com/shipsides­and­beggs­proj/wave­frontier­working­title It is our ambition to find an opportunity to record properly this in a decent studio. The exhibition 'No Shooting in this Area' focus on war, and conflict, in both a direct and indirectway. Works by several different artists including SBP, and from different countries, are presented inthe exhibition. For our part we presented an arsenal of wooden bombs with construction manual, astar animation video and wall drawings based on wires, stars and fences. Our music presentation /happening on the opening night follows on from this theme, but is probably better understood asbeing a stage in our ongoing project which we call 'Still Not Out of the Woods' which could bethought of as a general and personal comment on post World Wars' western culture since the late1950's and corresponds to the influences that have played on and shaped our respective lives,music and art being fundamental to both of us.Another strong influence for SBP has and continues to be mountains and stars, which once youstart to look at from a contemporary art point of view, seem to touch either directly ormetaphorically on just about every subject under the sun. One such topic being frontiers andnation, mountains often denote physical frontiers and stars are often used within symbolic nationalidentity, the EU for example, and there are many more. Frontiers are basically the partition of land,and it is this word partition that led us into translating the elevation of mountain frontiers intomusical partition (another name for a musical score)­ a concept we first developed from Via Ferratawires (Iron Way ­ WW1 mountaineering routes) into fence wires then into guitar string wires.The music that we played at Pau is based on the elevation of the Spanish and French frontier thattraverses the Pyrenees. In addition to this music we also interweave it with some traditional publicdomain (Old Time) songs from America which speak about mountains, pilgrims, wondering soulsetc, a reference maybe to the timeless nature of the refugee. These songs are, Poor Pilgrim of02/11/2018 Shipsides & Beggs - Wave Frontier, Pauhttp://www.danshipsides.com/DshipsidesWeb/PAU.html 2/2Sorrow, and Going Across the Mountain. We have adapted these songs to fit the moment, but itseasy to find other versions of these songs by various artists on the net. The song 'Still Not out ofthe Woods' is an original SBP work. Young artist and musician, Brice Aulin joins us to play rhythmguitar in this performance.A walk through video of the 'No Shooting in this Area' exhibition. SorryThis video does not exist.No Shooting in this Area. Le Bel Ordinaire. Pau. 2016. Group Expo Walk­Through­Video withShipsides & Beggs Projects. from Neal Beggs on Vimeo.  Info for the exhibition: No Shooting in this Area ­ Le Bel Ordinaire ­ espace d'artcontemporain, Pau, France'No Shooting in this Area' curated by Émilie Flory and Cécile Archambeaud from 'image / image' atthe Bel Ordinaire in Pau, France.No Shooting in this Area, which is named after a photo by Lee Friedlander approaches the topic ofwar in a very broad sense, and concentrates neither on one particular historical period nor on aspecific geographical zone.A change of perspective is neccessary for the purpose of the exhibition to unfold ­ by focussing onhow the contemporary artists express the idea of violence, power, war or conflict rather thanshowing explicit images, and by choosing evocative counterpoints closer to poetry, imaginary orhumour.Is it possible to speak about violence without showing it ? Can we reconsider History withoutnarrating it ? How can art and contemporary artists shed a new light on past and current conflicts ?How do they manage to testify without falling into political speeches, or emitting a judgement ?Selected artworks mix the artistic disciplines and mediums of representation. They introduce adistance between the seriousness of the topic and the form they take. It’s precisely this distancethat the curators found interesting ; or how the artist offers an alternative to the speeches and theusual representations of war and its consequences.Curators : Émilie Flory et Cécile Archambeaud ­ centre d’art image/imatgeMore info: http://belordinaire.agglo­pau.fr/expositions/560/no­shooting­in­this­area 

Wave Frontier:No Shooting in this Area

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Wave Frontier:No Shooting in this Area

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