New Works New Worlds Festival 2010
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Tickets: £22/£18 for a festival pass (all shows)
£10/£8 for a day pass
please specify shows on booking
Box Office: 0141 565 1000
or book online at www.thearches.co.uk
Kieron Maguire & The Cabinet of Living Cinema present
Cinema of Diaspora
Friday 2nd & Saturday 3rd July
8.45pm (1hr 20mins)
A live cinema and crafted audio work exploring themes of flight, migration, and the fluid nature of identity in a world of fluid borders.
Semi-improvised live scores are performed to 20th century animation and surrealism by migrant artists as well as work by contemporary filmmakers. A crafted audio piece blends interviews with migrant workers and the sounds of the European cities where they live with live sound effects and live music.
Dreamy, haunting sounds. Kieron Maguires music catapults cinema into another place. Fabien Riggall, Director Future Shorts, April 2009.
Fragile and beautiful sinister and enchanting wonderful music gives the whole thing the feel of a quirky silent movie. ****
(Lyn Gardner, Guardian. August, 2008 on Night Flyer)
www.kieronmaguire.com
White Horse Collective
Institute for Matters of the Heart: Locus Amönus
Ongoing Interactive Experience: Wed 30th June - Sat 3rd July
The Institute for Matters of the Heart invites you to listen to a carefully selected compilation of love declarations.
Amsterdam based White Horse Collective founded the Institute for Matters of the Heart as an act of political resistance in the face of the imminent crisis. Volunteers were asked to make a love declaration in all its possible meanings: a love declaration to oneself, to another person, a thing, a place or an idea. The voices were recorded and archived in order to disseminate them in future times when the crisis is at its peak.
For the recording the volunteer was alone in an intimate niche of the Locus Amönus. The Locus Amönus has travelled to far and distant places in order to record love declarations of the last true romantics. Voices were collected at the Something Raw in Amsterdam, on the shores of lake Geneva, in front of the Sacré Coeur in Paris, in Fjords of Trondheim, at the 100Festival in Berlin, at a karaoke bar in Tokyo, in Bassano del Grappa, at the Karlsbrunnen in Vienna, at Springdance in Utrecht, in Dartmoor England, at a Tantra Fair in Aachen and in the streets of Stockholm. So far more than 700 love declarations are stored in the archive.
The Institute's mission: It is our mission to protect our most intimate and tender emotions from being overrun and undermined by rising standards in professionalism and efficiency. In the face of financial and social insecurities it is crucial that we focus on the matters closest to our heart! By bringing public attention to our cause we hope to remind people of the fragile beauty of their innermost feelings.
http://whitehorsecollective.wordpress.com/
Over Your Head
Richard DeDomenici
Wed 30th June - 3rd July
Ongoing Participatory Experience
Collect audio at the Arches box office
Having spent months of his life in the Arches over the past decade, Richard DeDomenici would like to finally find out what is directly above him, and share this knowledge with others.
The work will be a psychogeographical experiment in augmented reality, and its envisaged that experiencing it will be akin to an out-of-body experience.
Richard DeDomenici is one of the most fascinating artists to have emerged from the British performance art scene in the past decade
Mark Brown, The Herald (on Plane Food Café, New Works New Worlds 2009)
Interesting and pertinent to contemporary society, Richard DeDomenici is a performance artist whose artwork is cerebral, accessible and subversive.
David Stevenson, The List
www.dedomenici.co.uk
STAY
Devised and Performed by
Lucy Gaizely
Fri 2nd & Sat 3rd July
7.30pm
(1hr)
If we dont do it together societies newest family might leave us to loneliness and abandonment. How grotesque! Or they might kill us first.
You might not want to reproduce the species but do you have to engage with people that do?
This is an exploration into nurture and collective responsibilty. Getting it right and fearing the consequences of it all going wrong.
Gaizely always was a wonderfully uncompromising viceral performer **** Herald
The Black and White Minstrel Show
created and performed by
Vex & Burn (Tam Dean Burn and Linda Duru)
Wed 30th June at 9.45pm & Thurs 1st July at 9pm (45mins)
The digital-agit-punk-soul kabaret kombo of Linda Duru and Tam Dean Burn make their debut at NWNW 2010.
"Racy stuff at the fag-end of the Tobacco Merchants Slave Labour Party."
The Black & White Minstrel Show puts the V-sign in Variety into aspects of race in Scottish history, including the golliwog collection of Robertsons Jam, founded in Paisley in 1864.
http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/tharmas/http://vimeo.com/tharmas
We Are Animals
devised and performed by
amplifier
(Nick Anderson and Rosana Cade)
Wed 30th June at 8.15pm & Sat 3rd July at 6pm
(1hr 20mins)
- Do you want to go for a pint?
- Yeah.
- Shall we go here?
- Yeah I'm skint. It's cheap.
- Cool.
- I've only got my last twenty and I don't really want to break it.
- Don't worry, I'll get these. What do you want?
- Carling is £2.50.
- Alright mate, wicked.
This is a conversation between a man and a woman.
This is a dialogue between a lesbian and a heterosexual man.
This is a debate between a human and a human.
This is a dance between two friends.
This is a discourse of feminism and masculinism.
This is a moment between you and I.
Elaine Kordys
The Principle of Non-Resistance
Participate or Observe Wed 30th June 1-8pm
Installation Sat 3rd July 7.30-10pm
If you would like to particiapte on Wed 30th please contact Elaine on ekordys_googlemail.com
Two individuals are invited to negotiate a defence and attack together. The interaction explores the territory and motivations behind both states. What can you learn from your opponent, can you work together, is it ever as clear cut as Attacker V Victim? These live interactions will be filmed and presented within the Festival.
With a training in visual art and continuing practice in life drawing Elaine is skilled in observing, framing and recording bodies and movement. In addition, her ongoing practice in Authentic Movement and Dance and Movement Therapy has trained her to consider the psychological implications behind all movement and physiology. Her films to date have been portraits and studies using of individual movements. As a movement and film practitioner it is the 'real' happenings of the body as opposed to choreographed movements that continue to fascinate her. Elaine has always had an interest in martial arts and has been studying Ki Aikido since April 09.
www.elainekordys.blogspot.com
The Heart We Bring
Jodie Wilkinson
Wed 30th June & Thurs 1st July at 7.15pm (45mins)
A woman is going to stand up and show her hand.
A woman requests to trace the lines that brought her to this moment
A woman is going to invest her time, lick her lips and feel her tongue.
Jodie has been collaborating with a starling, Alfred Hitchcock, laughing at herself, her family, Beyonce, shedding a tear and a desire to lick the mixing bowl clean to create a collage of live images which unfold memories, hopes and realisations whilst always coming back to where and how her female heart is.
Sometimes she is seated at a table, sometimes she is on the phone. Sometimes she likes to partake in a bit of DIY.
Jodie never thought it possible but there has been tremendous joy after the birds took flight.
Jodie Wilkinson is a performance artist based in Glasgow. Her experience spans working with various performance companies and artists; Black Market International, Grace Surman, Fish and Game and Nic Green. She is currently on a UK tour with Nic Greens Trilogy (Herald Angel Award winner 2009)
Sometimes you see a piece of theatre that makes your heart sing... Nic Greens Trilogy is such a work ***** The Guardian
Fit For A King
by Phil Spencer
directed by Amanda Gaughan
Wed 30th June 7.30pm
Thurs 1st July 6.30 & 7.30pm
Fri 2nd July 5.50 & 7.30pm
(20mins)
A dark room. A plate of food. A quick game.
Phil studied Theatre at the University of Glasgow. There he co-founded F.W.A.M. Theatre collective, a company dedicated to creating devised performance. Since graduating in 2007 Phil has worked professionally as a writer, actor and director. He is currently living and working in Sydney (Australia) where is Associate Artistic Director of Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre Company. Phil is currently developing Boxing Day with director Scarlet McGlynn, a new work due to be completed late 2010 and tour Australia and the U.K in 2011.
As Part of New Works In Progress 2010
(Un)known Unknowns
by Philippa Mannion
directed by Katherine Nesbitt
Sat 3rd July at 6pm (30mins)
With the disconcerting result of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, and with greenhouse gases increasing in concentration faster than projected, is it time to acknowledge that reducing emissions is unfeasible? Should we look beyond mitigation and adaptation to counteract global warming? Have we reached a tipping point where we should harness our intellect and implement new technologies as the route to addressing climate change?
(Un)known Unknowns offers an insight into the personal and collective challenges of climate change, focusing on the darker sides of the future. It questions whether new technologies can bring us a sense of hope in the devastation of global climatic change.
stop... breathe... remember...
Fiona Johnston
Wed 30th June - Sat 3rd July
Ongoing participatory experience
Take a moment. Find the one place where you can lock the door, and pause, alone.
Listen.
stop... breathe... remember... is a soundscape, an aural chimera that questions the nature of memory, and whether it really matters if you remember it, or if I do. What is our place in the recollections of this space, embedded as they are in the wall, foundations, the village below, the forest before.
Fi Johnston is a sound designer/artist, whose previous work is predominantly in theatre, treating plays as specific narrative installations. Her personal work is very inspired by memories and monsters, in their many incarnations.
Nothing Ever Held You Like Me
created and preformed by
Maxwell McCarthy & Kevin Wratten
Thurs 1st at 8.15pm & Fri 2nd July at 6.30pm
(35mins)
I used to sometimes worry about him killing me. Not really. But actually, yes. He could fall asleep reading about Ed Geen and says he can sympathize with the serial killer Charlize Theron plays in the movie Monster. I imagine things are twisted, skewed in his mind, in a way that he sees things revolve around him rather than with him, or as part of him. And in these moments he loses track of time, of space, and relishes this disorientation.
In Nothing Ever Held You Like Me, Kevin and Max have been immersed in a pursuit in which neither is held liable for anything they may do. Together, rules are broken and deliberately confused to the point where their game is ready to be destroyed.
The Individual Throw Project
by Natalie Feather
Ongoing installation & participatory experience
The Individual Throw is a live art project where by participants are invited to take part in the throwing of white chalk filled balls. These balls are thrown at a large black wall, each ball creates its own unique pattern; these patterns are reminiscent of finger prints; the indexical mark, which allows participants to reflect on the consequences of our actions on the world as a whole.
The patterns are explosive and from a distance appear like imagery of distant planets. The important part of the work is the taking part, allowing touch, consequence and erosion to form in peoples minds.
www.nataliefeather.com
www.theglasgowcollective.com
www.daviddalegalleryandstudios.com
