11:00 – 11:45 Horsebridge Arts Centre
Live readings from Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby.
12:00 - 12.10 United Reform Church Hall
Wellcome – Shona Illingworth and Adam Chodzko
12.10 – 12.30 Tim Meacham
House as Material Envelope.
Tim Meacham will show and discuss his recent work which explores the house as object and vessel for practice.
12.30 – 13.10 Adam Chodzko
Adam Chodzko’s presentation will show, and then unpack aspects of a recent video work, Deep Above (2015), through mapping transitions between the emotional exchanges that rise up between artwork and artist, both during the process of its making, its practice as research, and its showing, in the moment, right here, right now.
13.10 – 14.00 Lunch will be provided
at the Horsebridge Long Table café.
14.00 – 14.20 Jan Hendrickse
Jan Hendrickse will be presenting some of the technical and conceptual development that lies behind a project called ‘Hidden Architectures’. This project is being developed jointly with choreographer Saffy Setohy. The work explores the resonance of the mouth cavity of the performer by connecting performers using a length of fishing line. This fishing line is amplified using contact microphones and is sent wirelessly to a speaker system. This arrangement means that the bodies of the performers act like the resonators of an instrument, with the tension on the string being determined by the proximity of the two performers. Jan will be describing the shifts in thinking that have taken place as they have come to terms with the idea that body and instrument are one system and that choreography and composition have become one process.
14.20 – 14.40 Shona Illingworth
‘I can’t look straight up at the sky’
John Tulloch, 216 Westbound
Shona Illingworth’s presentation will consider how her research practice engages traumatic experience of a bomb blast survivor, the expertise of a biophysicist and auditory neuroscientist, and an ongoing dialogue with a cognitive neuropsychologist in the development of her film 216 Westbound. She will discuss how this informs the work as it moves from fragmented memory and trauma trapped inside the body through the loss of agency and appropriation of voice to the further institution of State powers of constraint.
14.40 - 15.00 Duncan MacLeod
Beyond the Proscenium Arch
A continued area of focus for Duncan’s creative practice involves the use of space and blurring of spatial boundaries between performance platform and audience. His talk will look to introduce some projects that address these areas as well as exploring the notion of space as a parameter of music.
15.00 - 15.20 Amber Priestley
“Standing between musicians and music is notation.”
Some composers and musicians do not like to write out their ideas, and in contrast I have been called a score-maker, as the physical process of making scores by hand is central to my artistic practice, as is the visual aspect of the completed score, especially the play between notational markings and the simple but elegant staves in conjunction with the materiality of paper.
15.20 – 16.00 Sarah Turner
16.15 – 16.45 Sinéad Rushe and Gretchen Egolf
Polyphonic Characterisation and The Night Just Before the Forests
Sinéad Rushe and Gretchen Egolfwill experiment with the play text The Night Just Before the Forests (La Nuit juste avant les forêts) written in 1977 by the pathbreaking French theatre playwright Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989). This one-person play is written as a stream-of-consciousness appeal to an uncertain audience, delivered by an isolated young Arab man in a hostile city. Koltès said he wrote the play ‘like a Bach fugue’, less a linear progression leading to a resolution than the exploration of an increasingly dense and complex space created through variations of its motifs. Rushe and Egolf’s working hypothesis for a new production of Night is to stage the monologue as a fugue with multiple voices. In this presentation, they will explore the implications of a ‘stereophonic’ articulation of character, and whether it is possible to liberate ‘characterisation’ from its location at an identifiable and primary centre without losing its authenticity.
16.45 – 17.30 Discussion led by Steve Klee and Emily Rosamond
17.30 Drinks on the beach.
19.00 Horsebridge Arts Centre, Cinema
A special progress preview screening (2016, UK, 70 mins)
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