TESTING GROUNDS, LIVE ART & MUSIC: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Testing Grounds is now accepting applications from artists forSouth Hill Park (Bracknell).
Testing Grounds is a performance platform and development programme for artists actively exploring Live Art or Music. Testing Grounds is an experimental meeting place for artists, audiences and ideas and aims to be an environment supportive of artistic risk.
Applicants must commit to develop and present a new piece of work, or take past work in a new direction. Testing Grounds aims to be a supportive opportunity to test new ideas rather than reproducing a set performance.
We offer a fee and production support.
The event at South Hill Park is happening on the 31st of October.
The deadline to apply is on the 13th of July. Please note that for this event we are looking for proposed new works with a strong crossover between Live Art and music or sound, in form, in content, in context, or structure. Contact nadegederderian@hotmail.com for more information, or download the application and information pack here: TG SouthHillPark application pack 2009
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.
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.”
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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DOCUMENTATION
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.
