Strange goings on at Tramway

Am i being unrealistic expecting you to socially engage with me?

No, provided i can afford it.

Slick

This registration plate was spotted in glasgow.

Live Art Unpacked at Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva

Live Art Unpacked, Geneva

5 – 15 March 2008

 

Developed by La Ribot and Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency, London as part of La Ribot's Rite of Spring.

 

Tickets and booking details www.centre.ch

Full programme details: www.thisisLiveArt.co.uk

 

Led by UK based artists and organisers, Live Art Unpacked, Geneva is a series of events about and around Live Art in the UK: what it is and what it can do.  Unpicking ideas and practices, and sharing a diversity of approaches, Live Art Unpacked, Geneva features:

 

a performance, video installation, lecture, and practice based workshop by Gary Stevens;

 

a performance of The Performance Pack by Joshua Sofaer;

 

an Everything You Wanted to Know About Live Art But Were Afraid to Ask day of information and advice for younger artists, featuring the Live Art Development Agency, Lois Weaver, Joshua Sofaer, La Ribot, Yan Duyvendak, Oskar Gomez Mata, and Andrea Saemann Bale;

 

Live Art Development Agency screenings of documentation by Oreet Ashery, Franko B, Blast Theory, Anne Bean, Robin Deacon, Yara El-Sherbini, Jem Finer and Ansuman Biswas, Forced Entertainment, FrenchMottershead, Gob Squad, Silke Mansholt, Howard Matthew, Kira O'Reilly, Rajni Shah, Joshua Sofaer, Station House Opera, Grace Surman, The Vacuum Cleaner Aaron Williamson, and selected images from Manuel Vason's Encounters.   

 

Rite of Spring is a performance project presenting La Ribot and Live Art Development Agency, born from discussions held during La Ribot's residency with the Centre d'Art Contemporain (2007-2009). This project provides a unique opportunity to promote critical understanding of performance art today (its theory, criticism, practice, reception, and funding), through a special programme created specifically for young practitioners, art professionals as well as being accessible to the public.

Katya Garcia Anton – Director of Centre D'Art Contemporain Geneve 

free culture camp

The culture that we all create should not be owned or privatized by
corporations. The instrumentalisation of art and culture for economic
gain is an invasion of our life worlds that needs to be addressed and
countered. We will produce with lust for life and dance on the graves
of the bloodsuckers from the creative class and the experience
economy.
Free culture is a 3 day camp in rum46. Events and talks will be mixed
with performance, production and group works. It will be a live-in
environment for cultural production, and exchange between academics,
artists, social movements and a participating audience. Welcome!

Artists/participants:
Sine Bang (DK), Kayle Brandon (UK), Kristine Briede (Latvia), Adams &
Itso, Field Work (DK), Groupwork/Students from the Art Academies (DK),
Andreas Wegner (D/AUS), Henrik Moltke (DK), Amy Balkin (US), YNKB
(DK)

Time: CAMP: 28th of February-1st of March 2008, open to all.
Exhibition: 1st - 16th of March
Place: rum46, Århus, Denmark (www.rum46.dk)
Organizers: Field Work (Lise Skou and Nis Rømer) in collaboration
with rum46
Web: http://field-work.dk/freeculture

Starbucks Mobile Desktops

Live Art under Threat

From the Live Art Development Agency

We greatly value our partnerships and collaborations within the Live Art sector.  Like many organisations the Live Art Development Agency relies on a healthy infrastructure that supports and nurtures Live Art.  We are therefore disappointed to learn of two organisations that are currently under threat and we urge you to lend them your support.  Below are postings which we are forwarding to others who we hope will act upon them.

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Contemporary Performance Practice (CPP) at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) in Glasgow

"A leading theatrical course at Scotland's most prestigious performing arts academy is taking no new students for the next academic year. The multi-disciplinary course in Contemporary Performance Practice (CPP) at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow will not have a first-year intake in 2008/2009. Yesterday, the cash-strapped academy admitted that recruitment to the cutting-edge, four-year degree has been "put on hold" as part of the "change process" at the conservatoire." (Glasgow Herald)

read on - http://www.theherald.co.uk/search/display.var.2032090.0.rsamd_freezes_leading_course_as_part_of_drive_to_save_600_000.php

Please follow this link to see a speech made by Guillermo Gómez-Peña at the NRLA's Performing Rights, Glasgow on Sunday in support of the threatened Contemporary Performance Practice BA (Hons) at the RSAMD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPEU9VTW5tg

To support the students and staff email letters and statements of support for the CPP programme to friendsandgraduates@googlemail.com. 

CPR - the Centre for Performance Research, Wales

 'the Aberystwyth-based powerhouse of international theatre' (The Guardian)

Arts Council of Wales have announced intended funding cut to CPR which threaten CPR's continuing work.  CPR has launched an online petition for support.  Read about the funding history and cuts at:

 

http://www.gopetition.com/online/17052.html

 

CPR request that you circulate this email to colleagues, associates and friends who you think would be concerned with CPR's situation.  In addition, at this extremely difficult and precarious moment, CPF would greatly welcome hearing from those wishing to write in support, encouragement and advocacy of the value and integrity of our work - past, present and future.

 

Letters of support may be addressed to Judie Christie and/ or Richard Gough

Email to cprwww@aber.ac.uk

or by post to:  CPR, The Foundry, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK, SY23 3AJ 

 

www.thecpr.org.uk

Residencies at The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home

CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND RESIDENCIES

The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home is now open for visits, project proposals and residencies. 

The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home is a space for dissenting the Capitalism of Culture and has been set up to coincide with Liverpool 08, European Capital of Culture.

The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home is run by twoaddthree (Gary Anderson, Lena Simic add Neal, Gabriel and Sid) from a council property bedroom in Liverpool, with the annual running budget of £2, 857.10 (10% of twoaddthree's combined annual net income, i.e. two 0.5 lectureship salaries, some freelance work, tax credits and child benefit). We are interested in DISSENT and would like to, in collaboration, discuss and research homemade aesthetics, the private/the public, the familial, class and money matters. 

We are a very small home-run initiative. In addition to food and accommodation, we can afford to pay each visiting artist/cultural activist/collective/grouping etc. a very limited amount, with the top amount being £238.09. 

When applying please outline (in no more than one page of A4 – having three kids, part time jobs and running The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home is an extremely demanding business):

• What you would like to do at the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home
• How long you would like to stay (old Balkan saying goes: Svakog gosta tri dana dosta! Each guest is enough after three days – but we are flexible and easy to persuade). And please don't forget to tell us when. 
• How your project relates to DISSENT (and/or homemade/DIY aesthetics, family matters, home, private/public)
• Budget

Short bio (300 words max) and links is a plus but not essential!

Please send it all as an attachment to theinstitute@twoaddthree.org, with subject line: RESIDENCY

Alternatively post your application to 
The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home
7 Bright Street 
Liverpool 
L6 1DL
UK

Thank you

twoaddthree 

www.twoaddthree.org

Surplus - The Film

We've always liked this film, we found it on-line just now.

Watch it for free here
http://quicksilverscreen.com/watch?video=28538

Radio Ballet Leipzig Main Station Part 1

I Am A Think Tank

Artsadmin presents I Am A Think Tank led by Richard DeDomenici

I am a Think Tank gives you the chance to express your socio-
political opinions to a wider audience
through a range of processes including performance, interventions and
happenings.

The group will meet every Tuesday from 5-7pm from the 26th February
for 10 weeks to discuss
political issues that affect you and your communities. Leading the
project is artist Richard
DeDomenici (http://www.dedomenici.co.uk/) and a selection of invited
guests including urban
climbers, journalists and musicians with the aim of actively bringing
awareness to the issues
affecting the group.

How to take Part
We are currently recruiting people aged 16-25 to take part in this
project. If you would like to get
involved please email Sam Trotman or call 020 7247 5102 before 23rd
February.
For more information check out
http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/projects/project.php?id=205

Hazard - call for proposals

Proposals are now invited for Hazard08:

Hazard08 – Saturday 12 July 2008 – Manchester City Centre
produced by hÅb and greenroom in collaboration with the participating artists.

A micro-festival of  incidental intervention and sited performance, with a hint of mischief!  
Chance encounters, random occurrences and risky ventures around and about the city centre.  
Cheeky, thought-provoking + sometimes raunchy sprees of eccentricity…

Hazard07 was a pilot event, produced on very limited resources and thanks to the goodwill and collaboration of a vast number of people.  
It saw 17 pieces of new original work across 2 days involving 32 artists, 23 participating young people and conservatively calculated audiences of 12000.  Participating artists were:  Action Hero, Angel Club North, The Bucket Company, Caution Horses, CHIRP, Richard DeDomenici, DIRECT ACTion, Doldrum Theatre,  Shahram Entekhabi, Escape Theatre, The Fictional Dogshelf Theatre Company,  Jamie Fletcher/Ellie Harrison, MANDY ROMERO, Shabnam Shabazi, the vacuum cleaner.

Work presented ranged from wrapping a public space in 2.5 kms of Hazard tape, to shop window burlesque, dry-wipe graffiti to mass yawning.
For a glimpse of what went on go to:  www.myspace.com/hazardmcr
Largely playful and often mischievous, the work did not shy away from the confrontational or controversial but broached it in the public domain, bringing Market Street to a halt on several occasions and with swathes of yellow and black tape making their mark on the entire city centre.

In 2008 we are seeking to do it again – this time condensing our efforts into a single day to take-over the city centre.

We are now looking for proposals of work:

As a guideline, we really want to focus on work that intervenes in public spaces in the city centre, largely daytime and that people come across by chance rather than demanding a booked, fixed audience.  We are interested in work that is socially engaged, and/or conceptually motivated, low or no-tech and pretty self-sufficient – so we're not, at this stage, looking for big site-specific spectaculars.
We will give brownie points for creative engagement with the idea of Hazard and/or use of yellow and black tape!

In addition to the general call for proposals of work, there are also a number of specific opportunities:

1. A 'launch' event that focuses on and draws attention to the event.
2. Public Screens - this year we would like explore use of large format screens in the public domain – for a series of short pieces, produced either in advance on mini-dv or, live-to-camera performances.  This is not a call for proposals for high-tech video productions but to think creatively about the performative use of public screens for intervention.  Ideas might include:
   

• a series of short trailers in advance of the event
• a series of short mini-dv video pieces,
• interactive pieces with a live camera on the 12th
  

      nb: Use of screen tbc

Hazard will be programmed by Tamsin Drury of hÅb and Garfield Allen of greenroom.  We will select from proposals from this call and other research, to put together the best possible programme of work for the event.  There are no fixed criteria aside from the guidelines above and the feasibility/legality of the ideas for realisation in the public domain.  Fundraising is currently underway and we aim to be able to pay reasonable artist expenses.

This year we've put together a form for proposals, just to make sure we get roughly the same details from everyone.  
Please don't be put off – it's not long or bureaucratic!!

To submit an idea please complete the form attached and e-mail to: hazard@habarts.org
By 7 March 2008
Forms also available at: www.myspace.com/hazardmcr

Live Art workshop at Tate Modern: around Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth

Around Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth

Led by artist activist THE VACUUM CLEANER

Saturday 23 February 2008, 10.30–13.30
Saturday 8 March 2008, 10.30–13.30

This workshop, conducted by artist activist the vacuum cleaner will concentrate on the body as a site for political resistance taking as inspiration Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth. Issues such as the ability of art to address the long legacy of racism and colonialism underlying the modern world will be tested with physical and conceptual tools during the workshop.

The vacuum cleaner is a cultural resistance collective pursuing radical social and ecological change. By working in-between the poetics of art and the pragmatics of activism the vacuum cleaner attempts to disrupt concentrations of power and reverse our journey towards ecological collapse.

Tate Modern  McAulay A
£50 (£35 concessions), booking required

For tickets book online
or call 020 7887 8888.

This event is related to the The Unilever Series: Doris Salcedo: Shibboleth exhibition

Courses & Workshops

Save CPP

The Influencers festival / Barcelona, February 28-29-1 March 2008

THE INFLUENCERS
Festival of media action and radical entertainment

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*February 28-29-1 March 2008*
Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona
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with ALAN ABEL, ALTERAZIONI VIDEO, SANTI CIRUGEDA, BRODY CONDON,
LAIBACH, MONOCHROM, TREVOR PAGLEN
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program: http://www.theinfluencers.org
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Welcome to 4th edition of The Influencers, the talk show you won't see
on TV!

The Influencers explores controversial forms of art and communication
guerrilla, presenting independent projects that play with global
popular culture, infiltrate the mass media, and transform fashions,
consumption and technological fetishism.

The key to The Influencers is found in its guests and stories:
impostors, pseudo-totalitarian musicians, conceptual hackers, deviant
geographers, anarchitects and actors from invisible theatre. In these
three days they are going to present their work, show known and less
known material and speak with the public about challenges, goals and
strategies.

With The Influencers, the border between disciplines is erased (since
the message really is the message, and the medium is just a tactic),
links between apparently distant projects are found, and bold
genealogies are drawn between different countries and generations.
Ambiguities are also explored and contradictions are discussed. In the
manipulation of everyday symbols, as well as within what is excessive
and politically incorrect, we will possibly find inspiration for
changing the present and imagining the future.

See you all in Barcelona!

THE CITY OF THE SPECTACLE // THE MOVIE

THE CITY OF THE SPECTACLE // THE MOVIE

The City of the Spectacle was developed during the 2007 in Barcelona. This project consists in programming,  organising, and spreading out a series of spectacles around the city. The peculiarity of all of them, is that they already take part from the everyday city life. Every spectacle shows a different aspect of the transformation of the city,showing on the whole, how Barcelona is turning into a big city-spectacle, and how this makes feeling its own citizens as tourists, spectators or even extras.

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUET57iTUY

MORE INFORMATION AT:

www.laciudadelespectaculo.blogspot.com