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Recent Publications & Curations



ESSAY (German): Der Dartington-Eros: Von wilden schönen Gärten der Utopie und des  postmodernen Tanzes in: Lettre INTERNATIONAL, EUROPAS KULTURZEITUNG 149, Krieg und Frieden, Juni 2025.

Signs: a Shared Habitat exhibition together with Stuart J Young in February/March 2025: Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes.

Tenuis: a group exhibition together with Jamie Mills and Stuart J Young in October 2024: Plymouth Art Weekender.

Gardens of Culture II: A talk by Eila Goldhahn on 19 November 2024: Dance at Dartington Hall at Poolhaus Blankenese
https://www.poolhaus-blankenese.de/projekte/koinzi-dance-dartington-hall/

Gardens of Culture I: Visionen und Experimente für eine Zukunft, Conference & Exhibition Curation by Eila Goldhahn together with Nele Lipp and Brygida Ochaim. November 2023, Warburg Haus, Hamburg.

INTERVAL Photography and Texts. Shared Habitat at Warburg Haus, Hamburg, November 2023.

A talk by Eila Goldhahn on 17 November 2023: Dartington College of Arts and postmodern dance in the 1980s at Warburg Haus, Hamburg, November 2023.
MoverWitness Interdisciplinarity at Authentic Movement Summit: A Chinese /English Conference Presentation by Eila Goldhahn, 21 May 2023:
“MoverWitness (Goldhahn 2007) is a new term (for the Discipline of Authentic Movement, Adler 2002) and aids to transfer core values and practices usefully to other disciplines.” (Conference Proceedings)



BOOK (English): Reflections on Authentic Movement: Theory, Practice and Arts-led Research (Goldhahn 2022/ Routledge)


Questioning ‘Normality’, a Book Review (Goldhahn & Plevin 2022)
in: Journal for Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy

Here we are now: The MoverWitness Project Talk and film showing E. Goldhahn in Alongside British Art Show (CAMP, Plymouth, April 2022)

Blue Bed / Blaues Bett an installation in Mnemosphere Project (2021), Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

Being seen digitally: exploring macro and micro perspectives in Journal for Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy (August 2020)


MoverWitness. Authentic Movement photographic chapter frontispieces by Eila Goldhahn in Essential of Dance Movement Psychotherapy (Payne 2017)

© 2024. Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young. All rights reserved.

Matricycle


The haptic contact with materials leaves imprints  of physical movements in the emerging sculptures. These visible forms are like an echo of the movement: they mirror the fleeting performance with the  material. They touch upon the beginnings of embryonic movement: form and folding of early developmental stages like blastula and gastrula.
Material: steel wire and gauze
Works shown at: Dartington College of Arts UK
Kunsthalle Halle
Kunstverein Basis Frankfurt
Open Studios South Devon U
Development grant for the upcycling of pocket springs with support from the  University Plymouth UK

Durch den körperlichen Kontakt mit Materialien enstehen Abdrücke von Bewegungen in Skulpturen. Diese Formen ähneln einem Echo: sie spiegeln die Begegnung von flüchtigen Ereignissen mit Materialien. Sie deuten auch auf den Anfang von embryonalen Bewegungen an, nämlich die Formung und Faltung in frühen Entwicklungsstadien wie Blastula und Gastrula.              
Material: Stahldraht und Gaze
Dartington College of Arts UK
Kunsthalle Halle
Kunstverein Basis Frankfurt
Open Studios South Devon UK

Entwicklungszuschuss für die Wiederverwertung von Federkern in Designkontexten und Produkten mit freundlicher Unterstützung der University Plymouth UK

Eine Publikation über MATRICYCLE kann hier als PDF heruntergeladen werden. Realisiert mit Unterstützung des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz. 

Matricycle



                                                                                          

                                                                    

VISUAL ART: Sculpture and Painting
by Stuart J Young




Prayers
In Prayers Stuart J Young explores the calligraphy of sacred text. Some of these works are akin to mandalas, whilst others seem to open up voids and unknown universes. Using Indian ink, watercolour and natural pigment on paper Young’s works convey fragility through embodied, visible language.
In a concentrated, mindful state my haptic making enters a space between human and ‘other’.


Prayers are currently on show at
Balabrook Retreat House on Dartmoor.


All images and ideas © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2024





Tenuous


This series of work began in Germany some ten years ago. The sculptures are slender and fine and embody an almost immaterial quality of being and relating. There is an uneasy movement and inscription of space, as though their bodies make the air around them tremble, perhaps from being pierced.
Tenuous tabletop-sized sculptures is made from papermache and formally explores movement and tension between two or three lines or abstracted figures. They are informed by observations of plants, animals and humans in relational, somatic, gestural interactions. There is something vulnerable about these works as they allude to fragility and temporality, perhaps to an impending demise. Tenuous has been envisaged as models for life-size sculptures or utopian architectures.
They compliment still points in installations of Goldhahn’s MoverWitness dance films.
All images, ideas and texts © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2024
More Sculptures






Stuart J Young also develops a body of sculptural works inspired by the classical modern period’s sculptors (such as Jean Arp and Henry Moore).  Stuart J Young carves figures directly in wood for example in apple or holly or in plaster, which can be cast in metal or ciment fondue, pigmented with ochres, siennas and polished beeswax or simply painted.
Stuart J Young / Exhibitions:
Poolhaus Blankenese, Hamburg
Warburg-Haus, Hamburg
Dudley Museum & Art Gallery, Dudley, Midlands
Chapel Gallery @ Saltram House, National Trust, Plympton
Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth
The Ariel Centre, Totnes, Devon
Skulpturengruppe, Minden, Westfalia
Keitumer Skulpturentage, Sylt, Germany
KunstRaum Weissenohe, Nürnberg
Open Studios, Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, Frankfurt
Delamore Arts, Dartmoor, Devon
Artist Residency Pfälzer Hof, Idar-Oberstein, Germany
Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes



All images and ideas © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2024
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