AT PLAY 3

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At Play, curated by Cally Trench and Outi Remes, consisted of four exhibitions exploring ideas about play.

At Play 1, At Play 2 and At Play 3 took place at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, with production by South Hill Park.

At Play 2012 took place at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell; the New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham; and OVADA, Oxford.

Links to At Play 1; At Play 2; and At Play 2012

At Play 3

At Play 3, installing Let It Fly (2010)
by Bithja Moor

At Play 3

At Play 3,
with Green Trolley (2011), Red Trolley (2009), Blue Trolley (2009) and
Yellow Trolley (2009) by Liz West; and Kaltenkirchen (1998) (2007/8),
Bad Segeberg (2000) (2007/8) and Dresden (2003) ((2007/8) by Bithja Moor

At Play 3 (in 2011) explored ideas about making sense of the world and escaping from it, and both the pleasurable and the more sinister aspects of play. While children use play to make sense of the world, adults pften use play to escape from it. Both have pleasure ... but play can also have an obsessive, addictive, aggressive or divisive side.

At Play 3 took place at South Hill Park, Bracknell from 16 April to 19 June 2011.

The artists in At Play 3 were Rachael Allen, Carol Coates, Claire Deniau, Nisha Duggal, Alice Flight, Jane Glennie, Frances Greenough, Tom Hackett, Jenny Kiehn, Este Macleod, Tom Marshman, Beverley Matchette-Downes, Penny Matheson, Bithja Moor, Mary Oliver, Steve Perfect, Neil Raitt, Gary Scholes, Cally Trench, Liz West and Mandy Wilkinson.

Click here for a short film on youtube by Cally Trench and Hepzibah Hill about At Play 3

Click here for a short film on youtube showing Tom Marshman's performance at the opening event of At Play 3 called Knitting Without Tears

At Play 3

At Play 3, with Edge VI, VII, VIII, IX and X (2010) by Beverley Matchette-Downes

At Play 3

At Play 3
with British Biker (2003) by Penny Matheson and
Untitled 1 (2009) and Untitled 2 (2009) by Frances Greenough

At Play 3

At Play 3
with Recollection (2011) by Este Macleod

At Play 3

At Play 3
with The Silicone Boys (2009), and Attributes and Games Diagram (2011),
Tales of the Riverbank (2011), Chapter 3 (2011), Peter's Brother (2011)
and What Kind are You? (2011) by Tom Hackett

At Play 3

At Play 3
with The Knitted Room (2003), Knitting the Room (2003) and
Walking with Room (2003) by Jenny Kiehn; The Silicone Boys (2009)
by Tom Hackett; Recollection (2011) by Este Macleod; and
Giacometti Barbie (2009) by Neil Raitt

At Play 3

At Play 3
with Vegetable Thieves (2010) by Cally Trench

At Play 3

At Play 3
with Push (2011) by Mary Oliver
and XM2020 (2005-2011) by Gary Scholes

At Play 3

At Play 3,
with NO WORK NO PLAY (2011)
by Alice Flight

At Play 3

At Play 3
with War photos.These are not war
photos (2011) by Jane Glennie

At Play 3

At Play 3
with Spy on the Block Blue 3 (2010) by Mandy Wilkinson

At Play 3

At Play 3
with Control Panel (1999) by Gary Scholes

At Play 3

At Play 3
with Cave V Mclean (2008) by Nisha Duggal

All photographs by Cally Trench.

At Play 4 will take place in 2012.

Play can be free and spontaneous, or it can be bound by rules and conventions – as with board games and sport . At Play 4 will explore ideas about rules, or the lack of them, in play, and the spirit of the Olympics.

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