Hester Reeve’s YMEDACA opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park on 28 June 2014

Hester Reeve’s YMEDACA: 28 June 2014 – 07 September 2014

The artist’s concerns are documented in two exhibitions – ‘The Temple of the Muses’ in the NAEA and ‘The Game Plan’ in the Upper Space.

YMEDACA is the name for Reeve’s experimental open-air academy which, on 30 August 2014, will offer visitors a unique chance to experience creative activities inspired by Platonic questions such as ‘how can education bring joy to the soul?’.

YMEDACA is a two-year project by live artist Hester Reeve at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). Inspired by the collections of the National Arts Education Archive as well as the landscape of the Bretton Estate, YMEDACA stood as a re-mapping of YSP as a contemporary translation of the very first university, Plato’s ‘Academos’, established in ancient Greece. The project explores the relationship between art and philosophy, and innovates on forms of performance documentation.

Hester Reeve is a performance artist who works with Live Art actions, philosophy, dialogues, drawing and photography. Hester is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. You can find more information on Hester Reeve and her work on her webpage.