Week 14

Rory Pilgrim

"Rory Pilgrim’s work explores questions of time and connections between activism, spirituality, music and performance. He was born in 1988 in Bristol and graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 2008."

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Rory Pilgrim is the latest artist on the Site Gallery's platform residency program his current work is titled 'Words Are Not Signs, They Are Years'. Below is the synopsis of his residency:

"As our relationships with language, technology and each other develop, what potential do words now have? Artist and activist Rory Pilgrim considers the radical potential of language and intergenerational dialogue by bringing together a council of local elders for his Platform residency to discuss progress from a generational perspective and the wisdom of age as a radical proposition. Steadily optimistic, Rory’s work has tackled subjects such as social pacifism, revolution, youth powerlessness and homophobic violence.

Over the course of four weeks, the galleries will become a place where people come to speak about social, spiritual and revolutionary change, as well as an open studio where new artwork is produced. In an age increasingly dominated by virtual experience, Rory is fascinated by the importance of physically coming together.

The elders’ conversations will be captured in the form of musical performances, poetry, song and posters that gradually fill the main gallery space.  Pilgrim will collaborate with David Andrews, a poster maker from Sheffield who he has worked closely with since a chance encounter brought them together five years ago. Meticulously painted by hand, Andrew’s posters have been seen throughout the city since the 1970s."
http://www.sitegallery.org/archives/7998