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FORGETTING EVERYTHING YOU EVER TAUGHT ME.

Forgetting everything you ever taught me is a two-hour dance piece that attempts to undo and turn back time on the conventions that have trapped us in our current social constructs. Drawing on traditional cultural rituals and a desire to gain a more physical existence, Forgetting asks us to let go of past love, to dance through anger and loss, to re -connect with primal bonds and our fluid, more gender-neutral selves and to ultimately become more than individuals, orbiting and avoiding.

For Vivid Live’s Collaborasaurus: Friday 2nd of November, 6-8 at Vivid Projects, Birmingham. 

*Image by Eliza Hearsum and Marcus Keating.

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Internal Eclipse feat: Liz Ord and Marcus Keating.

So, I feel like newnewmoon has become an entity that I now collaborate with, rather than a collaborator for. I loved ten years ago, when every album that came out had in excess of twelve collaborators. Every song featured someone not registered as an official band member.

Internal Eclipse was made for another show at Vivid, for another collab. group called Lumen (https://www.lumenstudios.co.uk/) they’re really nice folks and make super interesting work. So, they put out an open call for Black Hole Club members and I put together this swinging disc work. It featured Liz and I in many shades of drag, morphing and melting into one another. The video was projected onto five suspended discs and had a slowed down conversation between the two of us about particle physics and how it connects us. 

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Getting To Know You

GTKY was made for Vivid’s Black Hole Club as a way of introducing newnewmoon to the 2018 BLACK HOLE CLUB cohort, run by Antonio Roberts.

The audio was streamed via mobile phones using a QR code and consisted of an tour of the exhibition by way of formal art reading. I dressed as a gallery usher and invited people to hold my hand as we explored the exhibition together and discussed the work in a similar way to the video. Participants then got a scratch and sniff (Bergamot/ Orange and Vetiver) sticker for their participation!

https://vimeo.com/257712538

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Proximal Orbit / Intimate Placeholder install and performance pics.

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Closed-Eye-Gazing for  Proximal Orbit / Intimate Placeholder.

Like watching someone sleep in a non-creepy way, looking at someone else's face is easier when they can't look at yours. A closed window. An internal moment. How much do we communicate through our eyes? How necessary are they for sharing what we are thinking, feeling? Closed-Eye-Gazing is a range of newnewmoon's collaborators, who have shared a moment where their eyes are not open, or able to communicate with you. Their moment is a closed eye gaze, just under the surface, touching you with their minds.

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PROXIMAL ORBIT / INTIMATE PLACEHOLDER press release

Proximal Orbit / Intimate Placeholder newnewmoon

Artefact Projects. LAUNCH Friday 9th of Feb. 2018 7-9pm, with performance at 7:30 Proximal Orbit / Intimate Placeholder is a series of collaborations, performances and sculptures that look at the variety of ways we create intimate connections with one another. Throughout February Artefact will lay host to newnewmoon’s video works, workshops, wall-based collages and speed dating activities that will enhance brief periods of bonding between people who are relative strangers. newnewmoon are a collaborative collective who use a range of different mediums, spaces and bodies to connect with others, each other, architecture, the spiritual realm and the cosmos. They are particularly interested in using movement, music and other universal languages to communicate shared moments. For Proximal Orbit / Intimate Placeholder, newnewmoon feature collaborative artworks by: Emily Scarrott, Psychedelic Dance Collective, Sound Interventions and members of the LGBTIQ community.

Programme of events: Wednesday 7th February 7-9pm PLACEHOLDER Working with members of the LGBTIQ community, newnewmoon will be creating a series of fabric flags for emotional spaces. Using a range of materials and some basic limitations, participants will design and make flags that will represent an aspect of who they are as individuals, whilst exhibiting as part of a whole. FREE. Materials supplied. Booking essential. Spaces limited to eight.

https://www.facebook.com/events/175758749690264/

Friday 9th February Proximal Orbit/ Intimate Placeholder LAUNCH 7pm-9 (with performance at 7:30pm) Proximal Orbit/ Intimate Placeholder will launch with a performance of their catalogue text. Four members of the public will be invited to read aloud from the catalogue which is written in play-form. newnewmoon will then invite you to join us in creating sacred spaces through the powerful medium of disco. FREE, no booking needed.

https://www.facebook.com/events/144610259663579/

Friday 16th February 6-8 / Friday 23rd February 6-8 ORBIT A bit like speed dating, ORBIT is four tables with four activities. Each activity is on a ten minute cycle and will focus on creating and blurring intimate moments between performer and participant. Using drawing, music making and conversation, ORBIT will feature on two successive Fridays. FREE, no booking needed.

https://www.facebook.com/events/164252241015930/

Saturday 24th February 8-11 ORBIT/ CLOSING A last chance to connect with some strangers through some table-based intimate moments, before Proximal Orbit/ Intimate Placeholder transforms into a disco graveyard for newnewmoon’s closing number. Free, no booking needed.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1997172487192087/

Email [email protected] , or visit www.newnewmoon.tumblr.com for more information.

Image credit: newnewmoon feat. April Phillips and Trent Matthews. 2018.

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April Phillips’ crush worthy objects for the poster...

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PROXIMAL

So, Jonny and Dale of sculptural collab duo Hipkiss and Graney came to see the Raising The Dead Bingo Seance performance and then invited us to put together a show for Jonny Graney’s space-Artefact Projects in Feb. 

The Temporary Medium show was really good in that it uncovered a real desire to continue looking at contact and communication between people, rather than spaces. Different ideas about connecting and what it can look, or feel like. So after many cross planetary discussions, with new and old newnewmoon collaborators, we settled on creating a series of speed-dating encounters, which also made sense as the gallery is situated at the back of a cafe. The idea of being proximal is central to the premise of the speed dating idea,close enough, sort of, nearly there, almost and so on. Proximal.

Proximal encounters, proximal orbiting, proximal discussions. We’re almost there, but not entirely.

So, creating bonds and sharing intimate moments takes lots of forms, some are between two painters communicating via a series of parameters and learning about each other through the process of making. Other bonds are formed through shared minority roles and experiences of persecution. Flag making. Flag waving. Flag symbolism.

A bit like a mix-tape, a lot like a mix-tape actually. Everything is featuring.

There will be some video, some live performance, sculpture and of course smoke and disco. 

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PROXIMAL ORBIT / INTIMATE PLACE HOLDER

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Didn’t pick yourself up a catalogue? Never mind, here is on from the ether...

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SPEAKING IN TONGUES concludes the TEMPORARY MEDIUM exorcism of The Wig artist-run space in Birmingham. It was a two hour closed performance involving Psychadelic Dance Collective, who use the sculptures and costumes to bring new energy into the space and vanquish any remaining dark matter.

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RAISING THE DEAD BINGO SÉANCE. The MEDIUM channelled the energies of the other side to bring back messages for us all. It was spiritual babes.

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During the HEAL workshop, we looked at and talked about the things we do to heal ourselves. We shared and danced and whispered. Told stories, confessed, stretched and moved in a myriad of ways throughout The Wig. Thanks to the incredible and brave participants, whose particles have merged with the space as well as each other. #temporarymedium #thewig #newnewmoon #heal

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The HEALER takes over to begin to CLEANSE any unwanted energies and shake off cobwebs.

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SEARCH

newnewmoon begins their exorcism of the Artist-Run Project space The Wig in Birmingham. THE MEDIUM searches for energy in all the right places.

Exorcise your rights...

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newnewmoon begins their exorcism of the Artist-Run Project space The Wig in Birmingham. THE MEDIUM searches for energy in all the right places.

Exorcise your rights...

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#draghealer, #temporarymedium