PERMANENT GALLERY
PUBLIC EVENT: 30th January 7pm / £4
Commissionned Artists: Mim King, Got any Rice, Sylvia Rimat, Anne Gaelle Thiriot.
“Myth is not defined by the object of its message, but by the way in which it utters this message: there are formal limits, there are no ‘substantial’ ones.” Roland Barthes, Myth Today.
The works in this event could each be defined for a large part as construction of mythology, a construction of basic tropes in stories- as Barthes suggested, the human mind endlessly creates stories to process and interpret the world. The constructed narratives for Testing Grounds propose a fictionalised reality of the world, through different approaches: autobiographic elements; anatomic and sound examination of a town from an outside stance; stories that reflect an ambiguous presence somewhere between text and reality; and finally the re-exploration of fairy tales and folk tales in order to create a bridge between narrative and abstract features of live performances.
This event is organized in partnership with Permanent Gallery and is the 4th edition of a series of 6 events to be produced in the South East of England. Testing Grounds is financially assisted by the Arts Council England South East.