Change Here – Georgia Gendall
28 February @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Change Here transforms the train’s announcement system into an overheard conversation between two train conductors. Slipping through the uncanny gap between factual and the felt, Change Here circles themes of loss, change, despair, nostalgia and things that can’t quite return.
Using thermodynamic cycles as a narrative device and loosely drawn from factual accounts in the Cornwall Railway Society magazine, here, change is demanded, resisted and reversed – something is lost but what is lost remains unclear.
Practicalities: The installation is on the Bodmin Railway steam train, and ramps can be arranged for wheelchair access. Please also note that the train will be moving between Bodmin General Station and Bodmin Parkway Station throughout the day, please refer to the timetable. If you would like to experience the work on the moving train, please book your tickets below.
About the Artist
Georgia Gendall is an artist based in Cornwall. Georgia’s multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, performance, video, writing, photography, and participatory work.
Georgia work is often absurd and relies on risk, chance, trust and collaboration to subvert, celebrate, challenge or disrupt interspecies bodily dependencies, ecological entanglement, the environments we co-inhabit and the systems we exist within.
Rejecting traditional studio ideologies, Gendall works from a static caravan on a farm and continually resists fixed ideas of what constitutes a creative process, a tool for making, or an appropriate art material. Collecting amniotic fluid in sandwich bags during lambing season to develop photographs in, dedicating entire months to walking the landscape trying to find deer antlers (and coming back with a pile of sticks that she mistook for antlers), commissioning herds of cows to lick sculptures, starting new local traditions, making automators out of old biscuits, pretending to be a scarecrow for a summer, or convincing a 40 piece brass bands to play a song written by worms. It is through these lengthy and often ridiculous pursuits that the real work emerges – forging spaces of connection, trust, and shared curiosity.
Georgia is the founder of Falmouth Worm Charming Championships: an annual grassroots community worm charming day. Georgia co-leads Stokkøyart: a collaborative residency on the small Norwegian island of Norway. Georgia also runs Allotment Club – a rural social project space on an allotment in Cornwall dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary exchange between local growers and artists – and Forced Collaboration: an online platform that creates a space for cross-disciplinary collaborations aiming to forge relationships between artists from different locations and tackling the blockages faced in their practices. So far, this initiative has facilitated over 200 collaborations worldwide.
