HACKNEY WICKED ART FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 20142014哈克尼·威克藝術節

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Hackney WickED Art Festival (HWAF) will take place from Friday 1 August to Sunday 3 August 2014 across Hackney Wick and Fish Island. This will be the 6th annual art festival in the 7th year of the Hackney WickED lifespan.

HWAF is a non-profit organisation, run largely by volunteers, community input and spirit.  The first festival in 2008 was a joint initiative from a mix of galleries & studios. In 2009 the festival expanded as local artist Gavin Turk became Patron and visitor numbers reached 10,000. Dubbed “the most vital event of the Summer” by NY Arts Mag, word spread and the festival expanded in 2011 25,000 people. 2013 saw the return of the festival after the 2012 London Games and the streets came alive again.

This year the festival epicentre is ‘Hackney WickED Riviera’, based at Forman’s Fish Island and Swan Wharf, where art will be celebrated in all its forms. Key elements include Curated Exhibitions, Open Studios, Performance, Film, Site-specific Art, Fate For The WickED (art market), Graffiti Jam, Development Workshops, Fashion, Music, Art Tours, Kayak Trips and great Food & Drink. Over 100 open studios to explore; over 15 exhibitions curated specially for the festival, brand new site-specific artworks and many live performances and events popping up around the streets and venues of Hackney Wick.

Arts Council England Grants for the arts funded commissions have been awarded to a series of site-specific works by Laura Oldfield Ford, Stephen Gill and Daryl Brown – selected by Ingrid Z of The Residence Gallery; performance commissions have been awarded to AAS, Eloise Fornieles and Rosie Ridgway; open studio bursaries will go to Dollyolli Studios, Dygoro Sasaki, Josephine Chime, Kirtland Ash, Linda Simmonds – Selected by Douglas Thackway and Fiona Furness of SPACE, Paul Abbott, Performance Space , Rosie Emerson, Rossen Daskalov and Vittoria Wharf Collective.

Festival Patron, Gavin Turk says,  “What people don’t realise about Hackney WickED Art Festival is the honesty of the festival; it is made from the energy of the artists… It really is quite different to any other festivals that people will have gone to” “Go to Hackney WickED for a real artist festival!”

2014年8月1日至8月3日，第六屆哈克尼·威克藝術節將在哈克尼·威克和魚島拉開帷幕。這是個非營利性的組織，運營的中堅力量靠的是廣大志願者，社區和藝術精神。藝術節的歷史：2008年，第一屆是由畫廊和工作室聯合發起的。2009年，因為本地藝術家加文·圖爾克的贊助，訪客量總量達到10000人。2011年，藝術節被紐約藝術雜誌冠予“夏日最重要的活動”，訪客再度激增到25000人。在2012年倫敦奧運會順利舉辦後，2013年藝術節回歸了。

今年的節日中心是“哈克尼·威克·裡維埃拉”，地點在福爾曼的魚島和天鵝碼頭，屆時那裏將充斥著漫天的藝術香氣。亮點包括有藝術展覽，開放畫室，表演，電影，特定場域藝術作品，藝術集市，“塗鴉果醬”活動，研發作坊，時尚，音樂，藝術之旅，皮艇還有很多美食美酒相伴。有超過100多個開放畫室，15個藝術展，還有遍佈全哈克尼·威克大街小巷的藝術作品，現場表演和活動值得期待。

由英格蘭藝術委員會授予的藝術資助委託項目，分別由勞拉·菲爾德·福特，斯蒂芬·吉尔，達里爾·布朗創作的一系列特定場域的藝術作品獲得，評審是住所畫廊的英格麗·Z。另外，AAS, 埃洛伊絲·弗尼勒斯，羅西·里奇韋榮獲了表演委託項目。Dollyolli工作室，Dygoro·佐佐木，約瑟芬·千綿，柯特蘭·阿什，琳達·西蒙茲獲得了開放畫室基金，評審是空間工作室，保羅·阿爾伯特，表演空間工作室等。

藝術節贊助人加文·圖爾克表示：“人們沒有意識到哈尼克·威克藝術節是多麼正直的節日象徵，它凝聚著所有藝術家們的正能量。它完全不同與人們會去的其他節日。”“請來感受真正屬於藝術家到節日！”