protoPLAY

ARTISTS: Jamie Wyld, Becky Bowley, Micheál O’Connell, Bela Emerson, Verity Combe.
Curated by Nadege Derderian

Free, 7pm onwards

Testing Grounds is a quarterly programme of Live Art, Performance Art, Sound art and Music and the event 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.

Testing Grounds 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.

Event Date: 19-20 July 2008

‘What the F*** is happening now?’ is a music and Live Art Festival, set in Falmer village – on the outskirts of Brighton. The festival will set up a matrix of durational and spatial live and installation works over-lapping across the duration of the festival throughout a Manor house and Gardens. Time and space as concepts or as physical realities become a challenge; an object of play; or ‘disappear’ in some way…

Reconsidering artistic explorations from the 1960’s to the present day, the event brings artists and musicians together to turn an old-fashioned English countryside village into a contemporary arena of ideas, activities and attitudes, either physically or conceptually.
The manor house and country gardens will provide a comfortable setting where artists and audiences can adopt a distended experience of time and space, and correspondingly of the works, to have time to reflect and talk as we piece them together.

This event is organised by Beatabet, Vole and protoPLAY, to explore shared ideas.

To read more about the event please go to: www.whatthexxxxishappeningnow.org

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

protoPLAY in collaboration with videoclub

The YouTube Thing is a curated screening of videos from YouTube of touching, angering, curious, visceral and ever-so voyeuristic pieces, taken from the mass contemporary ‘archive’ of YouTube.

Each month, over 3 billion videos are watched on YouTube. That’s the same number as there are base-pairs in the human genome. If 3 billion is a large enough number of simple combinations for the emergence of the most complicated thing in the known universe – us – then what can we imagine might emerge from the simple combining of videos on YouTube by watching one after the other? Are we experiencing the emergence of the unconscious collective brain of YT and everyone that uses it?

We have approached You Tube as a gigantic reservoir for images and information, and the selection process as a linguistic act. Each video forming a sentence fragment or paragraph, with each having its own meaning, but also interestingly belonging to a chain of signifier and signified, eventually creating a new entity.

Through the collaborative process of making this project, our discussions led us over much territory, conceiving possible ways of relating ‘scenes’, linking together common aspects of one video to another, whilst attempting to convey an overall theme or themes.
Questions of reality and fantasy emerged, as well ideas of scale – from the micro to the macro – the invisible to the inconceivable – the cellular to the galactic – extremes which are fantastical and part of ‘reality’ at the same time. Within this, realities or questions of truth became apparent – events that occur as acts of nature or unstaged actions (CCTV, documentary filming), compared to individuals who have created staged ‘truths’ (such as vlogs), contrasted with and commented upon one another.

Click here for our selection

protoPLAY curated a programme of videos selected on YouTube. We approached YouTube as a gigantic reservoir for images and information, and the selection process as a linguistic act. Each video formed a sentence fragment, which has a meaning on its own, but also interestingly that belongs to a chain of signifier and signified, to eventually create a new entity.
1/ Battle at Kruger (8’23)
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2/ Battle field (1’50)
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3/ UF Lacks Freedom of Speech – James Kerry (3’33)
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4/ # 1 Relaxation / Nature DVD - Vol 11 California Waterfalls (1’12)
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5/ Bus Uncle (____ - Bilingual Substitle) (5’59)[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/RSHziqJWYcM" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

6/ Cock And Ball Torture – Aphrodisianus (1’36)
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7/ Christie’s Sells Warhol’s Green Car Crash For $71.72 Million (9’08)
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8/ Market Meltdown (3’13)
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9/ Stupid dog (O’41)
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10/ Why do you watch the videos I make? (1’44)
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A PROJECTION OF VIDEOS SELECTED ON YOUTUBE
Hosted by Phoenix Arts
Saturday 13 October 2007, 3pm to 4pm and repeated Sunday 14 October 1pm - 2pm

WHAT
Videos from YouTube will be screened in the format of a video art presentation. protoPLAY has approached YouTube as a gigantic reservoir for images and information, and the selection process as a linguistic act. Each video forms a sentence fragment, which has a meaning on its own, but also interestingly that belongs to a chain of signifier and signified, to eventually create a new entity. A manifestation of our global community’s unconscious thoughts?

Open Phoenix Video Art Festival Saturday Programme:

1 – 3pm     A programme of works selected by Victoria Melody
3 – 4pm     The YouTube Thing, curated by protoPLAY
4 – 5pm     Society curated by videoclub (Jamie Wyld)
WHERE
Phoenix Arts Association
10-14 Waterloo Place
Brighton BN2 9NB

The YouTube Thing is part of Open Phoenix Video Art Festival, curated by Victoria Melody.
Phoenix Arts

videoclub

Victoria Melody