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“Get out of the city and return to the trees.”

By: Benjamin Chandler

Or moors: BOSart ’08 refreshes contemporary practise.

Sat on a hay bail, a chicken preening itself beside me, wondering exactly where I am (Bosigran: half way between Penzance and St Ives), surrounded by conceptual drawings and performance traces mounted on the walls of a barn, listening to an artist-led panel discussing performativity, respect of the land and an ancient rock formation known as Carn Galva. What is this thing: BOSart ‘08? When I left Paddington station for Penzance at 12:05 on the 25 September I knew this was going to be an artist led initiative with a difference, but this was nothing short of fabulous. I mean how many contemporary art forums involve camping with scheduled time ‘for exploring cliffs and coves’ and a communal atmosphere which sees those involved sat around a long hard wood table in a barn conversion talking over coffee and breakfast, or rambling along tacks to the ocean, swimming in the Atlantic and listening to seal song? I think we can all agree, not too many. Throughout the course of the weekend we were introduced to a handful of artists who had immersed themselves in this rural setting and to the issuing work they had produced as response. From conceptual drawing, painting and...

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