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ART<br />
Out of town<br />
Circa69<br />
Celebrated VR artist Simon Wilkinson brings his immersive<br />
virtual reality performance The Cube to The<br />
Old Market in Hove for two nights on the 28th and<br />
29th of <strong>March</strong>. It joins 17 other VR installations in a<br />
show titled Whilst the Rest Were Sleeping, an ‘augmented<br />
reality trail, live electronic music and AV performance’<br />
about a mass disappearance which happened in 1959 in<br />
America, particularly pertinent to the fake-news-filled<br />
present day. “I first heard of the story as a child in 1982 in a magazine called Mysteries of The<br />
World,” explains Wilkinson. “It wasn't until much later that I heard about Manfred Berry and the<br />
way in which he, as an author, used the media to create these incredibly detailed story universes<br />
interwoven with fact and fiction.”<br />
Alongside the excellent Elizabeth Friedlander exhibition at<br />
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, you’ll find a display of the<br />
innovative and diverse covers that have adorned the Penguin<br />
Essentials series, which began in 1998 under the guidance of Art<br />
Director John Hamilton. In this display, Hamilton has selected<br />
100 of his favourite, ground-breaking designs, with an additional<br />
selection from the publisher’s archives that includes several<br />
Friedlander book covers and noted designers of their day.<br />
20 Years of Penguin Essentials Vitrine Display Detail<br />
(Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, photo Sam Moore)<br />
Take a trip to<br />
Towner Gallery<br />
this month and<br />
you’ll get an insight<br />
into the mind<br />
of the extraordinary<br />
Haroon<br />
Mirza; an artist<br />
who considers his<br />
main medium to be<br />
electricity. Used to<br />
working with video,<br />
sculpture, light and sound to create large<br />
scale installations, Mirza has selected works<br />
from the Arts Council Collection, as well as<br />
Towner’s Collection, and incorporated them<br />
into a unique display, called We Stared at the<br />
Moon from the Centre of the Sun. An accompanying<br />
season of classic occult and sci-fi films<br />
is screened in Towner’s plush new auditorium.<br />
[townereastbourne.org.uk]<br />
Lis Rhodes, Dresden Dynamo, 1971-2, Arts Council Collection,<br />
Southbank Centre, London © the artist.<br />
If you think Hastings’<br />
reputation as<br />
an artistic hub is a<br />
recent thing, then<br />
think again. Gus<br />
Cummins - Royal<br />
Academician and<br />
long-standing<br />
member of The<br />
London Group -<br />
has been living and working in the town for 40<br />
years. Despite having recently celebrated his<br />
75th birthday, he’s only now having his first<br />
major UK solo show. In Off the Wall Jerwood<br />
Gallery present a major retrospective of his<br />
work, tracing Cummins’ diminutive early<br />
works to the recent, monumental pieces created<br />
in his signature ‘two and a half D’. Explaining<br />
his penchant for creating works that stand<br />
out from the canvas, he says: “I like the idea<br />
of playing with perspective and manipulating<br />
events - interventions with reality, if you like.”<br />
Off The Wall © Gus Cummins<br />
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