25 Free Tickets to Performing Rights Glasgow

25 Free Tickets to Performing Rights Glasgow 

– a project from the vacuum cleaner

What is Performing Rights Glasgow?

 

Performing Rights Glasgow (10/02/08, 11 am till late) is a day of performances, presentations, discussions, screenings and interventions around ideas of performance and human rights.

Read more here http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/projects/NRLA

 

Why are you giving away 25 free tickets?

 

Last time we made an art piece at Tramway it was for an inclusive art event called Common Work; it cost £100 to get in, which we couldn't afford. So we decided to raise the ticket cost by begging outside the entrance. See - http://www.vacuum.org.uk/beggingforsocialengagement

 

This time round we're performing inside but we thought it important that people on low and no incomes weren't excluded, thus we're getting paid in tickets, which you can have.

How do I get a ticket?

You are entitled to a ticket if:

You live locally to the Tramway or live in Glasgow.

You don't really go to see much art, or have heard modern art is a load of rubbish but want to give it a go.

You wanted to go, but had been put off by the cost.

You think that art has nothing to do with social and ecological change.

You are on a low or no income.

All you have to do is email suck@vacuum.org.uk with 'A free ticket' in the subject line and a name, and we'll put you down on the list. Tickets are on a first come first served basis. Only take a ticket if you are sure you want to come, as the 25 tickets are instead of our fee.

(See further details on your free ticket below)

 

Help spread the word.

 

Help us get the message out and forward this to anyone who it maybe of interest to.

Further ticket details.

1. No one will be made aware that you've got a free ticket.
2. You won't be expected to see everything or stay all day if it isn't for you, but you must be prepared to give it a go.
3. If you would like to have a buddy for the day, so you can have someone to talk to about the art work, we can try and arrange one, so please state in your email if this is the case.
4. If you have a visual, auditory or mental impairment or difficulty, please also let us know in your email.
5. The Tramway is wheelchair accessible.
6. the vacuum cleaner is not responsible if you have a bad experience.

 

TV Hacking, Czech Style

Artists spliced fake nuclear blast into TV weather news

Kate Connolly in Berlin
Friday January 4, 2008
The Guardian

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2235252,00.html

A group of radical artists who panicked viewers of a Czech TV station
by sneaking a nuclear mushroom cloud into its weather report are to be
put on trial, prosecutors confirmed yesterday.

Six members of the Ztohoven collective, whose aims include
"penetrating public space", are to appear in court this month charged
with spreading false information. They could face three years each in
jail.

The artists sent shock waves through the Czech Republic in June last
year by splicing footage of the atomic explosion into a live panoramic
shot of the Krkonose mountains, in north-east Bohemia.

The fake blast prompted panicked calls to the switchboard of the TV
channel CT2, with some viewers fearing that a nuclear war had begun
while others suggested there had been a gas explosion.

The impact of the broadcast was compared to Orson Welles' War of the
Worlds radio broadcast of 1938, in which listeners were led to believe
that Martians were invading Earth. Listeners who took it to be a news
broadcast panicked, and several suffered heart attacks.

In the Czech broadcast viewers saw their screens obscured by a flash
of bright light after which an orange fiery mushroom cloud ascended on
the horizon.

Ztohoven said the aim of its project, which it called Media Reality,
was not to harm, but to illustrate how the media manipulates reality.

In a statement it said: "We are neither a terrorist organisation
nor a political group. Our aim is not to intimidate society or
manipulate it, which is something we witness on a daily basis both in
the real world and that created by the media. On June 17 2007, [we]
attacked the space of TV broadcasting, distorting it, questioning its
truthfulness and its credibility."

The group added that they hoped their action would "remind the media
of their duty to bring out the truth".

But Martin Krafl, spokesman for the TV channel, called the hijack
irresponsible. "The fake broadcast was really very inadvisable and
could have provoked panic among a wide group of people," he said.

Ztohoven, which in Czech means variously "out of it" and "a hundred
shits", has made a name for itself with a series of other artistic
happenings, such as its attempts to cover up a neon heart which had
been placed on top of Prague castle to mark the end of Vaclav Havel's
presidency in 2003. It also covered up hundreds of street lamps and
neon signs in Prague to protest against the unchecked proliferation of
advertisements in the post-communist Czech Republic.

Ztohoven's fake broadcast secured mainstream recognition for the first
time last month, when it was awarded the Czech National Gallery's
newly established ?9,000 young artists' competition.

See video footage of the hoax at youtube.com/watch?v=MzaN2x8qXcM

Sharing is Sexy.org is live

//We are sexy guerillas, running through the city at night with ski
masks on and our dildos strapped to the barrels of our M16's like
grenade launchers for orgasms. You've probably seen us at a sex party,
or a queer film screening, but we were blending in, totally clandestine,
hiding our g and p spot powers under our ordinary sexy as hell
appearance. We are artists and activists who you've marched with, locked
down next to, screamed beside, sipped wine at ridiculous art openings
with and chuckled at the whole situation, or painted banners and fixed
your bikes with, or sat across from on the bus. We like our anonymity
and try to maintain it...//

Finally, after a year of collective love, sweat and juices,
http://www.sharingissexy.org is available for your horny little eyes. We
encountered a lot of difficulty along the way, institutional resistance
from a university that was hosting the site, the challenges of getting
our legal questions answered while operating on an anti-capitalist's
(i.e. no) budget, our own hesitations and changing energy levels, but
now its here.

I'm writing this announcement on my own, its not a collective statement,
but it is still my hope that this project can help spread queer love and
lust and help to overthrow heteronormativity, capitalism, war and
monogamy. I hope that people will look at our little creation and get
off, and that might help them imagine a world without gender (and
national) borders, might help them get out of the army by cross dressing
into the mess hall, might help bring an end to capitalism by adding
eroticism to the world of copyright free imagery.

But are we doing enough? Do we even know who we are? Or what we want?
That is the most important part o the project for me, is the process of
experimentation, exploring the orifices of my identity and the spurtings
of my desire, finding that what I want isn't available on a shelf and
isn't compatible with the drives of global militarized capitalism.

In a way what we're doing is so very much in line with the kind of
vanity capitalism that we see in myspace and facebook, and seems even
similar to the avatarism of Second Life, so we're dangerously close to
simply taking those commercial drives one step further. Still, I think
that we've taken those drives to their illogical conclusion beyond the
acceptable limits, and will continue to do so, and we meet resistance
almost every day that embodies those limits and their police.

On monday we'll have more writing for you about the project, but for
now, I'd love any feedback you might have on the project... See for
yourself at http://sharingissexy.org