Testing Grounds – 18 July
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.
This is the first out of a series of 3 Testing Grounds at Permanent Gallery for the Testing Grounds 6-part programme to be held in venues in the South East of England until March 2010.
Testing Grounds is financially assisted by the Arts Council England South East. This event also benefit from the support of Jane Quinn, who is kindly sponsoring Joan Casellas performance.
Image: Sian Robinson Davies, photo Simon Stephen.
www.permanentgallery.com www.testinggrounds.org.uk
Don’t forget, Testing Grounds is Currently open to artist’s applications to make work for forthcoming events. See ‘Opportunities‘ for further info.
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