Xylophobia
Announcing our new programme of activity in Corby, at Barnwell Country Park, Brixworth Country Park and online, between 2022 and 2024.
Corby
Announcing our new 2 year programme
A series of artistic interventions taking place between Fineshade Wood, Deene Park, Rockingham Castle, Corby and East Carlton Countryside Park.
Fermynwoods Friday 47 – Touchstone
Touchstone was a site specific performance by Salamanda Tandem, taking place throughout Corby Cube in 2013, exploring the building through the movement, sound and touch of visually impaired performers Indra Slavena and Mickel Smithen.
Fermynwoods Friday 44 – Alternative Site Survey
Alternative Site Survey was a 2013 live art performance by Holly Rumble, using electromagnetic pick-up coils to detect and amplify the invisible electrical circuits embedded in the walls, floors and other spaces around the Corby Cube.
Fermynwoods Friday 22 – Roddy Buchanan
From Scotland to Corby saw Roddy Buchanan (an artist who examines how sports can express and communicate issues of race, nationality, aspiration, culture and identity) travel to Corby to work with communities in the town, exploring cultural shifts that take place when people relocate.
Fermynwoods Friday 19 – Tree
In 2010 Fermynwoods commissioned Tree, a new work by Dutch artist Simon Heijdens. A full-scale image of a tree, drawn by a combination of intricate computer programming and the surrounding environmental conditions, projected onto the Corby Cube from dusk each evening.
Fermynwoods Friday 17 – Gesture
Gesture (2012 to 2014) was a series of events which highlighted the diverse range of activities that take place within The Corby Cube. Virginie Litzler installed photographic work created through photo shoots of local people, “concentrating on how bodies, architecture and air converse”.
Fermynwoods Friday 14 – Floating Structures
Corby East Midlands International Pool opened in 2009 following a £19 million rebuild, designed by S&P Architects. To celebrate the new Olympic standard 50m pool, Fermynwoods commissioned artist Alex Julyan to design a series of floating structures to be assembled by local school children and floated on the pool during the opening celebrations.
Fermynwoods Friday 12 – Alter
James Smith’s Alter was a 2007 photographic audit of parts of Corby that were due to change as part of the regeneration of the town. The exhibition of James’ haunting photographs is curator Graham Keddie’s pick for his Fermynwoods highlight of the past 20 years.
Fermynwoods Friday 7 – I Want Nature
I Want Nature (2009) was the culmination of a two-year residency with artist Jacques Nimki, which presented a rural wildflower meadow within the urban surroundings of Corby’s shopping centre.