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.
AND NEWS..! protoPLAY have developed 2(two) in Estonia in April 2009 at the Diverse Universe Festival organised by Non Grata in Estonia, as well as a new performance, working title: ‘When Ideas Become Objects, Then Objects Are Ideas’. Details coming soon.
2 (Two): The work is informed by protoPLAY’s ongoing investigation into collaboration and issues around notions authorship contemporary society the problematics of individual identity, and strategies for group creative space.
Audience put their head through holes under a raised platform, on which the performance is taking place. Underneath other audience members would see headless bodies, and above, disembodied heads would surround the performance area. 2 clearly destabilises the clear split or boundary which traditional structure of the spectacle makes between the audience and the performance. Whereas traditionally the passive subject is emphasized by watching actions made subjects and objects from a far, in 2 the head, the actual priviledged seat of the subject is made into an object (separated from body) on the floor, which is then plays an intrinsic part within the performance space. y]
For Highlights and Previews on Friday 13th March 2009, protoPLAY is presenting an eclectic selection of Live/performance artists from the UK and Estonia.
Each of the performances opens up a transformation in the imagination by which aspects of the world, usually oblique and inscrutable, unfold to reveal hidden possibilities for exploration and understanding.
The works are incredibly diverse in their approach and tone. But we hope that the real diversity will be inside YOU: That the nexus – that point of connection in your body which meets the work, through which one’s imagination is opened, and filled with a sense of possibility – might move around inside you, resonating from head to toe:
From the lucid reflection in the intellect as Augusto Corrieri draws attention to the latent possibilities in the conventions of performance and Orions Maxted’s Dada-esque values, minimal actions and consistent-illogic; to the playful mind-popping of protoPLAY’s interdisciplinary work; to the visceral reactions of your senses and emotions to Non Grata’s and Tajana Kristall’s post-primitivism; or to the physical interactions of your booty getting it on as drummers AK/DK driven yet falling apart music brings the evening to a climax.
All Fours, Shunt Vaults: Four days, four stages, over forty artists.
Beatabet collective invades the sprawling spaces beneath London Bridge station for four days of absorbing and chaotic Live Art, gigs and installations. A landscape architect joins a troupe of performers in a culinary feast, a trapeze artist meets a solo cellist who plays music with her dress.
protoPLAY will be making a group performance 2 (Two), over four evenings, as well as curating a series of solo pieces and installations.
Artists include: Orion Maxted, Anonymous Boh, Horsecow, Beth Greenhagh, Samuel Hasler, Rufus Orsborne, Bryony Henderson, Harry Neve, Holly Bodders, Yoko Ishiguro, Simon Whetham, Daniel Pryde-Jarman, Sara Popova.
The venue is located under London Bridge Station. Hurry! It’s one of the last opportunity to come and see art before the building is turned into a lorry park!
Wednesday 4rth– Thursday 5th: 7-11pm (£5 entrance)
Friday 6th – Saturday 7th: 7- late (£10 entrance)
http://www.shunt.co.uk/
http://www.beatabet.net/
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Article about protoPLAY’s group performance, 2(two) at Shunt on Axis website by Anna Dimitriu:
AND NEWS..! protoPLAY have developed 2(two) in Estonia in April 2009 at the Diverse Universe Festival organised by Non Grata in Estonia, as well as a new performance, working title: ‘When Ideas Become Objects, Then Objects Are Ideas’. Documentation coming soon.
