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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

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Co-LAB08:

Performance, exhibition and residency project by protoPLAY in collaboration with Art Container & Non Grata.

Transforming individuals works into collaborative performances in order to build, from scratch, a collective – or shared – creative space.

Framing process over and above outcome, Co-LAB08 is a custom-made environment to support artistic risk. Co-LAB08 questioned notions of individual authorship, cultural-recycling, and the taboo of plagiarism, encouraging a continual flow of Deconstruction and Reconstruction.

Artists lived and worked together at the Art container residency space and Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, October 2008

Participating artists: Tanel Saar, Orion Maxted, Beth Greenhalgh, Sam Hasler, Yoko Ishiguro, Dan Jarman, Simon Whetham, Josephine Wood, Bruno Ribiero, Sandra Jogeva, Anonymous Boh, Ernest Truly.

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JUMP TO ARTCONTAINER PAGE: www.artcontainer.ee/index.php?id=16

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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The Workstation, 3rd to 28th of august 2007
Private view featuring performance by artist Toomas Kuusing- 7PM
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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By Orion Maxted & Al Paldrok

With Miriam King, Elsa Aleuia, Roshana Rubin-Mayhew, Tara Clabeq-Bristow.

‘Survival’ was a six-day nomadic workshop moving from the Sussex downs in southern England to the London streets, with no food, no money and sleeping outdoors. The action was half workshop / half performance. We invited artists by open submission – thus working together to survive, having never met before, was a part of the challenge.

The first two days formed workshops in the rural environment exploring primitivism, whilst foraging for nettles. On moving into London, the outcomes of the discussions formed street actions responding to the context of the city. The focus will be on the activity, development and survival of the group, not the production of performances for passers by. Rather this artistic activity is a way to focus reflection on the activities in general, and mainly as a constituent part of the proposed fundamental needs: 1) Full stomach 2) Community 3) Art.

Together with four participants we moved with the flow of the city itself, nourishing ourselves and making art from its spare but healthy resources which would normally go to waste or be otherwise left inactivated. ‘Survival’ is as much about finding a contemporary evocation of an ancient ‘wilderness ritual’ as it is a workshop for exploring ideas about society and performance to help develop the professional practice of its participants. Consistent amongst these rites, is the action of being separated from one’s society and going to survive in the wilderness in order to find out about oneself, and hence about society.

‘Survival’ is a challenging yet life-affirming experience. Through it new understandings of oneself and one society, new approaches, increased confidence and a renewed creative vigour can be gained.

Documentation book:

http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/pdf_docs/Survival_DIY.pdf

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Survival was a DIY 4 Project.

DIY 4 was a collaboration between the Live Art Development Agency, Artsadmin, and New Work Network, and was developed with Nuffield Theatre/LANWest, New Work Yorkshire, Fierce Festival, Colchester Arts Centre, The Basement Arts Production South East, and Dance4.
DIY 4 was part of Joining the Dots, a Live Art Development Agency initiative supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Survival on Live Art Development Agency website:

http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/prof_dev/diy/DIY4_MaxPal.html

More info to come….