protoPLAY

Orion Maxted latest:

International performance festival organised by Ornicart, Marseille.

fest2007-depliant-a3-rect.pdf

“Can We Infect You, Please?”, Nolias Gallery- London

protoPLAY PERFORMANCE AT FWD CULT, 14/04/2007,

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

June 2006

You can download a .pdf version of the catalogue for this event here: DEconstruction/REconstruction, 2006 catalogue (.pdf)

During ‘Deconstruction/Reconstruction’, 14 artists lived, worked and slept in a gallery for 100 hours, deconstructing and reconstructing each other’s works. It consisted in putting a system in place for artists to experiment on creativity processes: the Deconstruction process, which is the formal and conceptual analysis of an art piece/performance. And the Reconstruction process: the collective production of new works based on this analysis. The event employed strategies of inter-artist cultural recycling, whereby groups were formed to respond to the work of another artists work from within the show. The event itself, as well the individual experiments within it, also followed this structure, creating connections between the works and between different practices and practitioners. These connections called into question whether the work was mutating, being transcribed, translated, or recycled. . It also created a blurring of identity leading to a dissolution of authorship and a convergence of the activities. Ideally, the artists were looking for a state where ‘play’ between the component of the event (the artist/the performance, the past/the future) was kept as open as possible, whereby there is an ongoing unresolved state between ‘Deconstruction’ and ‘Reconstruction’, neither and both of these at the same time.
Audiences respond to the raw immediacy of this type of approach, and can understand that it is the continual unfolding of collaborative possibilities, that does indeed provide a haven where risks and experiments can be taken each day, rather safely reproducing ‘dead’ art.

DEconstruction/REconstruction artists:

Invited artists: Anna Chocola, Eileen Gannon, Liz Murray, Thomas Michalak, Victoria Melody.

protoPLAY artists: Bea Pentney, Grant Newman, Harry Neve, Magnus Williams, Orion Maxted, Pablo Perez, Richard Pryn, Rick Leach, Steven Grainger.

‘Musical Instruments’, (15 minutes) musical performance by Magnus Williams.

‘Re-Enactement‘,(25 minutes) a Live performance by Hary Neve and Orion Maxted

A Deconstruction/Reconstruction of Victoria Melody’s ‘Enactment‘.

‘Chuck‘ (20 min), by Rick Leach, Orion Maxted, Victoria Melody, Pablo Perez and Harry Neve

A Deconstruction/Reconstruction of Liz Murray ‘Rogue‘

More info to come….

Interactive performance at The Permanent Gallery- 90 minutes, Brighton, 2006.

protoPLAY engineered to make a performance/installation with 96 hours notice of its theme.

The theme, provided by The Permanent Gallery was:

“Meet a stranger, who knows neither protoPLAY nor The Permanent Gallery. This Encounter will provide the catalyst for your performance.”

The event was thus based on this idea of encounter. We disguised all of the audience, so that they could be permanently strangers. We used a wireless camera/audio link to get the audience in the gallery to invite new people from the street into the gallery to meet - who would then invite new people and so on and so on, unril the whole gallery was filled with complete strangers who hadn’t been expecting this , or even to go to a gallery - who were finding new ways to engage with each other and other strangers on the street.
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