Robin Van ‘t Haar : ‘City Scripts’
Artist in Residence
Tue 13 November - Fri 30 November 2007

Throughout November, artist Robin Van ‘t Haar will be working here in the Viewpoint Gallery at Plymouth College of Art and Design on his long-term public art project City Scripts.

During his residency, Robin will observe day-to-day city life in Plymouth, and like a journalist, will report on it throughout a web log and work-in-progress exhibited at the Viewpoint Gallery, where documentation of previous work will also be presented.

Artist’s Statement:

Robin’s work often takes the form of photographs, maps, models, notes, videos, weblogs, site based work and digital web-based work.

“I am interested in the way people move and behave in (semi) public spaces. With my work I want to show how at certain places everybody’s moving can be -unconsciously- part of a group choreography. The way people move is an important signal for experiencing the nature of a place, but easily drowns into the background of daily noise. It is my ambition to offer people new perspectives on places they use day-by-day”.

By focusing on everyday behaviour, Robin tries to give meaning to events that are taking place all the time and everywhere, but that we hardly ever stop and think about. His work ritualizes these everyday events and reveals the characteristics and very specific nature of the places in which he works.

Robin Van ‘t Haar is a visual artist who shows his work internationally and currently lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

While Robin is in Plymouth, he is interested in exchanging ideas on working attitudes towards public space, how to appropriate space, how to document temporary works or events, how to gain a certain expertise, how to transform this expertise into a professional practice - if you would like to get in touch you can email him on info@cityscripts.com

To see more of Robin’s work,
visit www.cityscripts.com

VISITING ARTIST TALK:
Monday 3rd December 07, Studio Theatre, PCAD 12:15 - 1:30