Through the Heart - Works on Love, Life & Laughter

Through our current work we are investigating the role love plays in our daily lives and how does it influence our decisions and shape our actions? We are looking at the multitude of expressions of love, definitions, associations and belief structures. The project is ultimately anchored in an exploration of what love is and what it is not, exploring what actions people take in order to move from a place of ‘non love’ to a place of love.

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We are very happy to be featured on 200 R ONE, a global creative movement striving for unity, equality, and peace through worldwide artistic expression and collaboration. This is a great project, we're thrilled be involved and to support it! Check them out and get involved at https://artists.200rone.com/

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Zierle & Carter - Charred Territories - In Search of the Other from Alexandra Zierle & Paul Carter on Vimeo.

Through their embodied research on sense of belonging and its opposites between 2012 and 2014, Zierle & Carter have explored the essence of burnt toast in various intimate and immersive ways. For CREATurE Live Art Festival 2014 in Kaunas Lithuania, Zierle & Carter explored new terrain. The blackened toast through its harsh and unforgiving nature has taught the artists about experiences of isolation and violation, a state of resistance to love and nurture. Charred Territories - In Search of the Other explores what it personally feels like to experience these psychological places of resistance and how to move and reach out from states of self-imprisonment and disconnection to a place that speaks of being in the world once more. Navigating their journey encased in blackness, the artists explored their internal landscape, questioning where do we belong when home and connections have to be reinvented and rebuilt again.

For more information visit zierlecarterliveart.com or creatureliveart.lt/

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Zierle & Carter Head to Head - Pushing Territories from Alexandra Zierle & Paul Carter on Vimeo.

'Head to Head - Pushing Territories' performance by Zierle & Carter for Priority Route - this years CIPAF Cyprus International Performance Art Festival, organised and curated by Christina Georgiou and her team.

Filmed by Anna Papachristodoulou and edited by Christina Georgiou.

About 'Head to Head - Pushing Territories':

Zierle & Carter’s site specific durational performance ‘Head to Head – Pushing Territories’ is a sightless exploration of unknown spaces and encounters. The artists’ heads are covered with a surreal contraption that keeps both heads at one fixed distance and position to each other, constantly facing each other without being able to see or get any closer or apart from each other. This sets the framework for a territorial game where the rules get constantly broken and reinvented. Emotions push to the foreground, mental states are expressed, at times gentle and sensitive, at others raw and uncompromised, the pushing and pulling creates an absurd dance between two opposing forces that echo some of the not so distant history of the site, as well as embodying the universal nature of relationship dynamics. Trying to find a resolution seems to be futile and yet the performance is carried by the intent to embody harmony through conflict.

A full text description of the performance is available at cipafestival.tumblr.com/reviews-reflections

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'Between the Lines' by Zierle & Carter from Alexandra Zierle & Paul Carter on Vimeo.

'Between the Lines' performance by Zierle & Carter, the opening performance of this years CIPAF Cyprus International Performance Art Festival, organised and curated by Christina Georgiou and her team.

Filmed by Anna Papachristodoulou and edited by Christina Georgiou.

Text description of the performance is available at cipafestival.tumblr.com/reviews-reflections

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Between Lands and Longings: Reflections from Alexandra Zierle & Paul Carter on Vimeo.

Between Lands and Longings: Reflections (2014), 26:19 mins Zierle & Carter (Alexandra Zierle and Paul Carter)

About the work: Between Lands and Longings: Reflections is a new twenty six minute sound piece (anchored with accompanying visuals) that reflects on Zierle & Carter’s Between Lands and Longings Living Room Opera performance; an immersive, multi-sensory, site-specific ‘live art opera’ made for living rooms and domestic environments that revolves around, and delves into questions of cultural identity, home, and notions of place.

“… Arriving on new lands, yet reaching back to touch the old, lingering for a moment, before the old crumbles away between our hands. The loss keeps pushing us forward - eyes wide open…”

Titled as a reflection, Between Lands and Longings: Reflections provides the essence of the live performance on screen, providing an edited selection of the audio element of the final two-hour performance manifestation on a farm in Melbourne, Australia. Mixed to stereo, this twenty six minute version was edited from twenty eight hours of conversations/interview material, which was recorded in Australia in 2012 and meticulously edited for the various Living Room Opera performance manifestations, arriving at a two hour edit that was panned to thirty speakers embedded within furniture and domestic/working environments across the farm.

To accompany the sound, the artists have selected images from the research phase of their two year Arts Council England funded project Between Lands: A Sense of Belonging Enquiry, as well as images from the final Between Lands and Longings performances.

Similar to the way the initial conversations Zierle & Carter had on belonging with people in Australia were structured, the audio in Between Lands and Longings: Reflections begins with an initial exploration of sense of belonging through definitions, moves through the five senses and beyond, delves into the opposite of belonging, and finishes the journey with what actions do you take to move from a place of non-belonging back to a place of belonging.

Further contextual information: Between Lands: A Sense of Belonging Enquiry began in 2012 with an Arts Council England grant for a six weeks research and development residency in Australia with Chamber Made Opera, marking the launch of Zierle & Carter’s latest enquiry into sense of belonging and specifically investigating facets and expressions of cultural identity through the lens and context of Australia. Working in the community, the artists connected with various people from different ethnic backgrounds through discussions and informal interviews, exploring the intricacies of Australia’s native people and the long history of migrant settlers and refugees, bringing to question notions of ‘home’. From this research they created their version of a 'Living Room Opera' for Chamber Made Opera's ongoing series.

Marking new terrain for the artists in terms of scale and production, Between Lands and Longings weaves together personal stories and definitions of sense of belonging into a rich fabric of actions, images, and sounds. A stream of embedded voices in a homely environment echo stories of migration and peoples’ search for a sense of home, as they are torn between lands and longings.

To date, Between Lands and Longings has been presented in homes in Bristol for its world premiere at IBT13, in Cornwall in collaboration with Falmouth University, and on a farm in the Macedon Ranges just outside Melbourne as part of a weekend series of Living Room Operas, where audiences were taken on a performance journey at dusk from a lake, to a hunting lodge, horse stables and finally into a shearing shed.

Between Lands and Longings has been co-commissioned and produced by In Between Time and Chamber Made Opera. The research, development and presentation to date of Between Lands and Longings has been kindly supported by Arts Council England, Chamber Made Opera, In Between Time and Falmouth University.

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Artsadmin Showreel 01 from Alexandra Zierle & Paul Carter on Vimeo.

'At The Edge', at Kynance Cove, Cornwall, in collaboration with Manuel Vason, 2011, was created through spontaneous play and quickly moved into a highly symbolic act of urgency.

'Between Lands and Longings: The Rat and the Milk', Melbourne, 2013, a film made by The Public Studio in response to our Living Room Opera performance on a sheep farm outside Melbourne. This footage shows our approach to material led processes anchoring strong metaphors derived from interview material gathered.

'Waiting for your Promise' at The Venice International Performance Art Week, 2012 fundamentally explores the precarious balance of interdependency in relationships.

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Artsadmin Showreel 01 from Alexandra Zierle & Paul Carter on Vimeo.

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Into The Distance from Alexandra Zierle & Paul Carter on Vimeo.

Into the Distance is a video work documenting one interaction from a durational participatory performance by Zierle & Carter titled Into the Distance, the performance challenges conventions of human behavior and intimate encounters between two strangers in the public arena of a busy shopping arcade.

The performance is an invitation to venture into spaces of the unheard and spoken, to explore different modes of communication. Simple in its aesthetic and structure, yet complex in its social and cultural commentary, this performance is anchored in an exploration of the intangible, invisible, the unseen, the personal and the collective.

Passer-by’s are simply invited to participate in a social experiment which explores intimacy in public space, contextualised by elaborating that in our everyday lives, intimacy is often expressed between two people familiar with each other, in an enclosed environment, in private, and often in close proximity. This ‘experiment’ aims to explore how an intimate interaction can occur between two strangers, outside in public, over a distance. Participants are explained that the interaction lasts as long as they want it to and there is no right or wrong way of doing it. The instruction is to simply hold the untied balloon that will be given to you for as long as you can hold the lady’s gaze. Participants can interpret the holding of the gaze as they wish.

Directly challenging societal codes of intimacy, the work opens dialogue around notions of exchange, of giving and receiving, and notions of connection through bridging/connecting people and spaces. Into the Distance opens space in which parameters can be shifted and the limitations of space re-envisioned through redirecting focus. This simple interaction in the shopping arcade seeks to bring the focus back to the experience of another human being through the body and beyond.

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Dear friends and colleagues, WE NEED YOUR HELP! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zierlecarter/between-lands-and-longings-living-room-opera-in-au  

Please help us to get to Australia to present our new sense of belonging themed 'Living Room Opera'.

Join others in supporting our Kickstarter Crowdfunding Campaign with a donation (however large or small) and get very special limited edition gifts from our project in Australia in return!!! This is your chance to collect some Zierle & Carter performance relics, photographic prints, free tickets, daily project updates, limited edition postcards, a credit on the project website and more... gifts are limited, so check it out now.

We are very passionate about making this unique project happen... all the funding for the rest of the production is in place accept for the money needed for our flights. We really don't need a lot and so with a little bit of help from everyone we can make this happen.

Click the link to see our profile video and project info for more details on the cause and the limited edition gifts on offer. Please also feel free to share this link to anyone who might be interested.

Thanks for your time,

All our warmest thanks

Alexandra Zierle & Paul Carter - Zierle & Carter 

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Dear friends and colleagues, WE NEED YOUR HELP!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zierlecarter/between-lands-and-longings-living-room-opera-in-au

Please help us to get to Australia to present our new sense of belonging themed 'Living Room Opera'.

Join others in supporting our Kickstarter Crowdfunding Campaign with a donation (however large or small) and get very special limited edition gifts from our project in Australia in return!!! This is your chance to collect some Zierle & Carter performance relics, photographic prints, free tickets, daily project updates, limited edition postcards, a credit on the project website and more... gifts are limited, so check it out now.

We are very passionate about making this unique project happen... all the funding for the rest of the production is in place accept for the money needed for our flights. We really don't need a lot and so with a little bit of help from everyone we can make this happen.

Click the link to see our profile video and project info for more details on the cause and the limited edition gifts on offer. Please also feel free to share this link to anyone who might be interested.

Thanks for your time,

All our warmest thanks

Alexandra Zierle & Paul Carter - Zierle & Carter 

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Performed by Zierle & Carter (ZierleCarter) at Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast for the 2013 Arts Council Northern Ireland funded DUO DAYS performance art event, 'Waiting for your promise' fundamentally explores relationship dynamics. Bound tight together, blinded to each other by the material that confines them, this process based material led performance unfolds, slowly unraveling its layers. The work brings to the surface issues surrounding co-dependency, limited projections of the other, tension, conflict, balance, and the 45min durational gradual act of burning the attachments free, to reconcile by bringing both glowing singed ends together to cinder, smoke and be transformed. Video filmed and edited by Emmanuelle Negre. This event was organised by BBeyond and curated by Hugh O'Donnell and Anne Quail. For more information on Zierle & Carter's collaborative practice, visit zierlecarterliveart.com or contact them at [email protected]

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Performed by Zierle & Carter at Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast for the 2013 Arts Council Northern Ireland funded DUO DAYS performance art event, 'Waiting for your promise' fundamentally explores relationship dynamics. Bound tight together, blinded to each other by the material that confines them, this process based material led performance unfolds, slowly unraveling its layers. The work brings to the surface issues surrounding co-dependency, limited projections of the other, tension, conflict, balance, and the 45min durational gradual act of burning the attachments free, to reconcile by bringing both glowing singed ends together to cinder, smoke and be transformed. Video filmed and edited by Emmanuelle Negre. This event was organised by BBeyond and curated by Hugh O'Donnell and Anne Quail. For more information on Zierle & Carter's collaborative practice, visit www.zierlecarterliveart.com or contact them at [email protected]

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Venice International Performance Art Week

Interview by A.E.Zimmer

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THE EXPERIENCE AND PERCEPTION OF TIME. 


A conversation with the artists Helena Goldwater, Weeks & Whitford, Snezana Golubovic, BBB Johannes Deimling and Zierle&Carter creators of the week-long series of LIVE DURATIONAL PERFORMANCES at the Art Week.

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COME LA NEBBIA. Cronaca sentimentale di un primo ultimo giorno.

Fa particolarmente freddo nel Palazzo, le luci si stanno per abbassare, la gente comincia ad affluire nelle sale, mentre noi siamo qui,  concentrati nella nostra scrittura, come al solito. Ma non è una giornata come le altre, si attende il gran finale, siamo tutti sottilmente emozionati, come dei ragazzini che aspettano l’inizio di una festa, come un sabato sera di diversi anni fa.  

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BUONA FORTUNA VENEZIA PERFORMANCE ART.

On December 21, 2012, the 5,000-year-old Mayan Calendar ended. We seem to have survived. On October 19, 1960 Yves Klein pretended to leap out of a window. We never landed. On January 17, 1963, Robert Filliou proposed that Art began one million years ago, when someone dropped a sponge into a bucket of water. We have been partying ever since. From December 8 to 15, 2012, the first edition of Venice Performance Art Week again redefined performance art. There is a fresh whiff in the breeze.

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I’ve been noticing some amazing images from the durational performance portion at the Venice International Performance Art Week. Here is a sampling or some of the artists I both know and have never heard of until now, all of whom I am very impressed and inspired by:

Zierle &...