Ymedaca

Ymedaca was an Arts Council funded project realised through a 2-year residency at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and which culminated in the following related elements: A one-day garden academy, 2 exhibitions (The Temple of the Muses & Ymedaca -The Game Plan) and a special edition visitor map of YSP. Ymedaca built upon Reeve's longstanding research investigating contentious issues of power and hierarchy in the historical relationship between philosophy and art and which is invested in innovating constructive and creative platforms to expound and evidence the philosophical agency of certain formulations of art. For this work, Reeve recast the entire grounds of YSP as a contemporary translation of Plato’s Academos (5 BC). The project was initiated through research at the National Arts Education Archive (based at YSP) into the history of art school education in the UK alongside the reading of Plato’s dialogues. Reeve invited 7 local groups to devise ‘liberalational manoeuvres’ (as opposed to standard educational workshops) for the one-day garden academy: Practices to honour the recently Dead - The Royal British Legion Naked Exercise - Yorkshire Sun Society Geometry – Wakefield Pagan Meet Up Spherical Geography & the Cosmic Soul – West Yorkshire Astronomical Society Harmony and Hymns to Eros – Cantabile Practices of Transcendence over the Mundane – Hand Tools United Sacrifices to Athena – The Magick Club Lounge