The Broadcaster

The Broadcaster project consists of two permanent notice boards located outside converted Chapels in villages in rural Lincolnshire; Waddington and Wellingore. Each notice board is a venue for exhibitions curated by the Postmethodists. The aim is to develop and disseminate contemporary art in the everyday. By using established means, an innovative model of the distribution/dissemination of challenging/innovative art will be created in Lincolnshire. Both boards are situated on the Viking Way which is a heritage footpath extending through the County and is a destination for many national and international visitors, particularly during the summer months.

 

The term broadcaster was the name of the first machine to disseminate seed. From this the word broadcast has been appropriated to describe much cultural dissemination. The Postmethodists wish to reflect in their projects that the dissemination of information in the rural is perhaps different to the urban.

 

The exhibition program in The Broadcaster notice boards runs on a quarterly schedule, changing with the seasons: 21 September, 21 December, 21 March, and the 21 June.

 

Current Exhibition :    Landscape vs. Land-Scape

 

Spring 2011 marked the beginning of a year focusing on Landscape.  Over the past four seasons the Broadcaster has exhibited artists whose work looks at ideas surrounding different viewpoints relative to Landscape. The artists will be working from, of, and with the Landscape as well as manipulating it.  Starting off this project in Spring 2011 was Lynn Fulton showing 'Pale Hound' in the Waddington Broadcaster and 'Ponyskin' in the Wellingore Broadcaster.  During the summer months were shown two works titled  'Implements & Offcuts' by Debra Swann.  For the autumn Danica Maier  installed two new works 'Cunnyburrow' and 'Cunnycrag'.  To see the year of the Landscape to its conclusion, Lucy Strachan has shifted our usual display method and is showing two sculptures, 'Slash' and 'D Form Excavation' outside the chapels as well as drawings (untitled) in the notice boards.