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LIVE ART AND MUSIC FESTIVAL PERMANENT GALLERY

SATURDAY 17TH OF MAY FROM 6PM

SUNDAY 18TH OF MAY FROM 2PM

Permanent Gallery invited 15 artists and musicians to make a performance at the next Testing Grounds event.
Testing Grounds is a quarterly programme of Live Art, Performance Art, Sound art and Music and will run this time over two days, the Saturday the 17th and Sunday the 18th of May. Testing Grounds has two main focuses. The event provides a platform for the artists to experiment with new ideas and projects, focusing on the contextualization of their work and to take a risk, reaching for that idea that is currently just on the edge of their horizon, rather than reproducing a set performance. The event also provides the audience with a wide variety of works by presenting an eclectic programme, and to alternate genres/disciplines, as well as embodying diverse artistic attitudes and approaches.

ARTISTS : Beth Greenhalgh, Samuel Hasler, Seth Kriebel, Birdengine, Ricky Leach, Taylan Halici, Alex Coxall, Pablo Perezzarate, Zoe Bouras, Adam Fearon, Sara Popova, Michail Mavaronas, Salma Nathoo, Rufus Osborne, Fry-
Curated by Nadege Derderian

PERMANENT GALLERY
20 BEDFORD PLACE
BRIGHTON / BN1 2TP
INFO@PERMANENTGALLERY.COM
WWW.PERMANENTGALLERY.COM

Link to Permanent Gallery

Link to Regency Town House

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The Workstation, 3rd to 28th of august 2007
Private view – featuring performance by artist Toomas Kuusing- 7PM
Co-curated by Jamie Wyld and Nadege Derderian

Toomas Kuusing’s paintings are recollections of performances. Instances, “drawing fundamental elements from the transient“, the paintings are for the most related and depict the collective performance work by artist group Non Grata, the imagination of the painter forming a kind of post-production on the video documentation work- which is also shown as part of this exhibition.

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Anna Chocola and Thomas Michalak are performing at Sloveniarof, an Experimental Funfair organised in Slovenia. Dressed as butchers, they will challenge their audience to eat as much meat as they want, or can.

http://www.eniarof.com/EniarofBlog/

Just a quick one, Join Grant Newman for Dissipation, sound text radio environments, on Radio Reverb 97.2 FM (on line @ radioreverb.com) Mondays at Midnight. See his page on this site for contact details, where you can find out how to get involved.

ACT ON THIS INFORMATION

Arts Council England is about to make a massive 35% cut in their Grants for the Arts funding - which has helped protoPLAY in the past. If this cut goes ahead, it will mean that independent artists and many arts organisations (including yours truly) will often find it much more difficult to work and exist. We feel passionately about this and so to help in finding ways to protest, we recommend the following links:

http://www.theyworkforyou.com

Use this site to find and email your local MP. It’s a really effective way to get your voice heard, and the more voices the greater our chances of making a difference.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/lotteryolympics/

Use this site to sign the petition to 10 Downing Street opposing the funding cuts across Arts Council, Heritage Lottery, Big Lottery and Sport England, which are a direct result of Lottery money being used to plug the funding gap in the 2012 Olympics.