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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.

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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Two of the artists for the next Testing Grounds on Sat 18 July seek collaborators… (more…)

Testing Grounds at Permanent Gallery

Saturday 18 July
7pm (map)
£4/3 Concessions

“The fate of thought depends and will depend for a long time between regret and assay“. Jean-Francois Lyotard, What is post-modernism? 1982

Permanent Gallery hosts Testing Grounds, a Live Art or Music event where artists are invited to make new work, 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 invites 4 artists from the UK and abroad proposing to explore the dislocation between text and image, focusing on structural fragmentation.
Sian Robinson Davies (Nottingham) creates subtle and humorous constructions of different narratives which translate formal spatial arrangements into language. David Berridge (London) will adapt texts from Kafka’s notebooks into musical and visual choral pieces. In his improvised music piece, Phillip Henderson (Nottingham/Farnham) will question “vertical temporality” with an electric harmonium, metal detector and improvised arhythm on drum kit.
Also showcased is a new performance by Catalan artist Joan Casellas (Barcelona). Joan Casellas has been performing extensively worldwide since the 1990s as an outstanding representative of the Spanish parallel art scene. This will be Casellas’ first UK appearance since 1994, when The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, organised an exhibition documenting his performances and interventions.
The event promises to be a stimulating and playful selection of works for the imagination. (more…)

GO TO TESTING GROUNDS MICROSITE

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Non Grata returns to Brighton on the 10th of March for a group performance at Permanent Gallery. Artists include Anonymous Boh, Horsecow and Dionysus P-Monroe.

“Around the name NON GRATA there have been different hushes and shushes for a long time.
The conventionalisation of art has embodied the horrible and unwanted disembodiment of the human person, from which the meaninglessness of nowadays art, is pouring out.
For those, whose world of arts starts from the point where the art world ends, NON GRATA has been a liberator, an orphic break in the seemingly unalterable course of pragmatism.
The main point of the group is ethical – it is the image of primitivism, impersonality and experimental creativity. The performances of the group take place according to the logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions by the group members. Aesthetical and provocative challenges are represented in places, where the Art World doesn’t work.”

Anonymous

Starts at 7′30pm, free

Permanent Gallery, 20 Bedford Place, Brighton, BN1 2PT

www.permanentgallery.com

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DOCUMENTATION

Microsite of performances at Shunt, Permanent Gallery, and Rich MIx March 2009 created by Non Grata:

http://www.performance.ee/diverseuniverse/ng_events/england.htm

Click to go to to BANANA micropage…

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