26 August - 25 September 2006
Kang-hyun Ahn, originally from Korea, and Kaoru Tsunoda, from Japan, trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, where they both completed an MA in 2004. Kaoru has spent the last two years on a specialist research development programme at the Slade and last year they both visited West Dean College as artists-in-residence.
This exhibition explores the idea of kinetic art in both the traditional sense, as a form of physical movement wherein the work itself constantly moves and evolves as in the Chaotic Circus of Kaoru Tsunoda (a series of three mobile installations), and also as a form of human automata, as in the work of Kang-hyun Ahn, where the artist's performance is captured on DVD as she simulates the movement of a wind-up doll whilst dressed in an Elizabethan costume constructed from the yellow pages,” said Dr Sharon Kusunoki, curator of the Sussex
Opening times and admission rates
Open 11.30am to 4pm, Wednesday to Sunday
Admission to the exhibition is free; admission to gardens is £6 for adults plus concessions