PANEL DISCUSSION
4pm-6pm
with Dominic Johnson, Julie Tolentino, Michael Mayhew, Mary Babcock and ]performance s p a c e [ Associate Artists: Bean, jamie lewis hadley, Stephanie Hurst, Benjamin Sebastian, Kiki Taira and Anna Martinou |
| Dominic Johnson |
‘We live and work in a spoilt country’ - Ron Athey
Radical and challenging work needs a community; a community needs radical and challenging work.
Points that we would like the discussion to touch on/engage with:
What is radical?
Can radical exist?
Intuition v’s logic (does it have to)
Ethics
New technologies & social media
What is community? local/public/global/audience
festivals/events/regular platforms … studio culture?
And what is its significance/ impact/ relationship to the radical?
Our hope is that the discussion will start with the invited individuals and ]performance s p a c e [ associate artists responding to these questions and concepts in reference to each individuals artistic approach and experience. Calling into question the current state of live/performance/time based practices and their surrounding communities and dialogues.
What has been - how/why and where do we go from here?
Utilising Lois Weavers ‘Long Table’ format (where ‘audience’ can engage in the discussion by sitting at the table), we hope to encourage an open discussion - a format that parallels the fluxing reality that is ]performance s p a c e [.
Klara Schilliger & Valerian Maly
8pm-8:45pm
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©Klara Schilliger & Valarian Maly and ©Sabine Groschup, Wie |
Klara Schilliger ( * 1953 ) and Valerian Maly ( * 1959 ) work and live together since 1984. Their artistic field is performance art and installation. They use the term of Install Action for works, where the public is directly involved. Intermedia installations and performances are often site specific works. Klara Schilliger and Valerian Maly move as a matter of course between the different genres of arts, but without any pretended multimedia allures.
They have taken part in many international exhibitions and Performance Art Festivals, such as „ Zeichen und Wunder ”, Kunsthaus Zürich and Centro de Arte Contamporanea, Santiago de Compostela 1995; “ Time wise “, The Swiss Institute, New York 1996 ; or „ Performance Art in NRW “ Essen / Germany 2000 ; “ Asia Topia – Performance Festival “ in Bangkok and Chiang Mai in 2004 ; Performance Intermedia Festival, OFFicina, Szczecin 2006. Valerian Maly and Klara Schilliger received a scholarship Werkjahr Kanton und Stadt Luzern 1995. Their artpieces can be found e.g. in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Luzern. In 2008 Klara Schilliger and Valerian Maly received the „ Kunstpreis der Stadt Bern “, the Art Award of Bern / Switzerland.
Ewa Rybska & Wladyslaw Kazmierczak
9pm-9:30pm
Ewa Rybska & Wladyslaw Kazmierczak, an artist-duo originally from Poland, have been presenting performances internationally since 1997. Their work often explores ironic and nihilistic attitudes towards fashionable values and artificial icons in art and culture. They have produced a number of political performances based on aspects of freedom, paradoxically also in democratic countries, focused on difficult and traumatic themes; political hypocrisy, issues of oppression, freedom and elimination of the origins of cultures by the process of globalisation. Rybska & Kazmierczak have performed over 150 performances in Slovakia, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Belarus, Ireland, Slovenia, Mexico, Indonesia, Canada, Korea, France, USA, Israel, Finland, Estonia, Spain, Great Britain, Sweden, China and Poland, and currently live and work in the UK.
Film Screenings
From 2pm
Poshya Kakl: Kitting Iran
Poshya Kakl: Kitting Iran
Julie Tolentino: Eye Witness
Eye Witness is a film exposing three intimate experiments between a filmmaker and a mover.
In the first, the Severance uses the moving frame to capture unpredictable live movement in intimate ways and re-telling. In the second section, the artists assign themselves specific parameters for the dialogue. They brainstorm verbally and visually, finding conceptual and rhythmic intersections along the edges of fact and fiction. Tolentino’s simple task of moving the three dimensional body in a straight line becomes an effort of concentration under the camera’s proximity and interrogation. Severance’s initially stark frame contains the body for as long as possible, but eventually surrenders to join the movement. Finally, in “Evidence,” the final section, Tolentino’s naked, moving body is manipulated as she snakes backward on her hands and knees, balancing a cluster of Chinese medicine cups. The frame waits patiently for the promised evidence to become clear, while time and movement twitch in and out of reality- giving way to an ethereal, electric sonic path that anticipates (and dreads) the arrival of the body.
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| dis-locate © Lisa Cazzato Vieyra & Helena Hunter |
Sinead O'Donnell: violent
Mellville Mitchell: Duet
Helena Hunter: dis locate
THROUGH OUT THE NIGHT:
LEE ADAMS, RON ATHEY, STAV B, ERNST FISCHER AND HELEN SPACKMAN: The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth
LEE ADAMS AND RON ATHEY: Visions of Excess
Tickets:
All Saturday: £10
All Saturday + after-party: £15
Only after-party: £7.50 (if you book online), £10 on the door
Only after-party: £7.50 (if you book online), £10 on the door
