protoPLAY

SOUTH HILL PARK – BRACKNELL

PUBLIC EVENT: 31^st of October 5pm – 8pm / £4 (inc. a drink)

Pre-booking essential (01344484123)

Testing Grounds is a Live Art and Music event where artists are invited to make new work, rather than reproducing a set performance. This edition is a collaboration with both the visual art department and the music department at South Hill Park and we have commissioned artists to make works with a strong cross over between music/sound and live art.

Jo Bannon

We’ve constructed the event through playing with the rhythm of each individual work; the performances suggest an invisible other, always on the edge of falling into a potential of conflict.

ARTISTS: Holly Bodmer, Christina Jensen, Jo Bannon, Leah Lovett Stavroula Kounadea, Daniel Hunt

This event is organized in partnership with South Hill Park (Outi Remes and William Trevelyan) and is the 3rd 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.

7pm Saturday 29th August 2009

Bargate Monument Gallery, High Street, Southamton, UK

Testing Grounds is a Live Art and Music event. Artists are invited to make new work, experimenting with new ideas and projects, rather than reproducing a set performance. Testing Grounds is an experimental meeting place for artists, audiences and ideas and aims to be an environment supportive of artistic risk.

This edition will feature a very eclectic mix of works, yet each occupies its own self defining ‘testing ground’, a space where ideas can be pushed beyond limits, emotions felt and attitudes re-questioned.

Each work has been selected for its capacity to twist meaning and expectation through the process of being performed. We hope that through the 6 new and exciting performances, spanning from ceramicist Keith Harrison to East London band The Coolness, the audience will appreciate the diverse artistic attitudes and approaches to finding a space for exploration, and will take the opportunity to reflect, discuss the works and socialize with each other and with the artists.

Free Event But Booking Is Essential. Contact: info@aspacearts.org.uk / 02380 338 778

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protoPLAY are currently developing a new piece called 2(two). So far the work has been made twice with the same funamental structure but quite different aesthetic outcomes. The work is at once playfull, engaged, engaging and conceptual, and we are very keen to explore how it can be developed in the near future. To this end we’d be happy to hear from potential partners and venues who would like to consider being involved in the next phases of the projects development as a performance, installation, video-work or performance-installation. 2(two)’s new incarnations will persue new aethetics, and new media.

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CALL OUT for Group Residency
Estonia, 06 – 12 October, 2008

ProtoPLAY is currently searching musicians, visual artists and live/performance artists to take part in Co-LAB’08, an exciting collaborative residency, taking place in Estonia in October 2008. Based out of Art Container, an art centre run by Estonian collective Non Grata.

Co-LAB’08 focuses on a series of open-ended collaborative projects, and a rapid turnover or creation and public presentation. Questioning the notions of individual authorship, cultural-recycling and the taboo of plagiarism, the project takes individual works as a starting point for collaboration and attempts to build, from scratch, a collective identity – or at least, a shared creative space. Both the premise and the context aim to facilitate artistic risk, as well as time for reflection and conversation.

Co-LAB’08 is for artists who want to be challenged in their collaborative, creative and devising abilities, and wish to explode the boundaries of their individual practice.

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