Testing Grounds - Permanent Gallery
October 30th, 2007 by Orion
The YouTube Thing
September 23rd, 2007 by AliceOpen Phoenix Video Art Festival - Victoria Melody,videoclub and protoPLAY
Saturday 13th October 1pm-5pm
Sunday14th October 1pm- 4pm (repeated)
Videos from YouTube will be screened in the format of a video art presentation. YouTube has been approached as a gigantic reservoir for images and information, and the selection process as a linguistic act. Each video will form a sentence fragment, which has a meaning on its own, but also interestingly that belongs to a chain of signifier and signified, to eventually create a new entity.
These sentences or emergent forms are something that might be thought of as latent, waiting to be connected and activated by the viewer and yet rather than being something created by any one individual- are something which mutually arises in concert with the contemporary trends of cultural transformations. A manifestation of our global community’s unconscious thoughts?
Victoria Melody will be curating a programme from selected works that respond to the themes of Humour in Art, Performance for Camera, Extremes and Brighton Bred.
www.victoriamelody.co.uk
Videoclub presents ’society’ a showcase for artists pushing quality video, film and moving image practises. The programme contains work selected from international film festivals, as well as home grown artists.
www.videoclub.org.uk
protoPLAY and Permanent Gallery
July 30th, 2007 by Orion
Toomas Kuusing- Sheffield
July 10th, 2007 by AliceThe Workstation, 3rd to 28th of august 2007
Private view – featuring performance by artist Toomas Kuusing- 7PM
Co-curated by Jamie Wyld and Nadege Derderian
Toomas Kuusing’s paintings are recollections of performances. Instances, “drawing fundamental elements from the transient“, the paintings are for the most related and depict the collective performance work by artist group Non Grata, the imagination of the painter forming a kind of post-production on the video documentation work- which is also shown as part of this exhibition.
Experimental Funfair - Slovenia
July 5th, 2007 by AliceAnna Chocola and Thomas Michalak are performing at Sloveniarof, an Experimental Funfair organised in Slovenia. Dressed as butchers, they will challenge their audience to eat as much meat as they want, or can.
Dissipation
June 8th, 2007 by Alice
Just a quick one, Join Grant Newman for Dissipation, sound text radio environments, on Radio Reverb 97.2 FM (on line @ radioreverb.com) Mondays at Midnight. See his page on this site for contact details, where you can find out how to get involved.
ACE - 35% Cuts
May 28th, 2007 by OrionACT ON THIS INFORMATION
Arts Council England is about to make a massive 35% cut in their Grants for the Arts funding - which has helped protoPLAY in the past. If this cut goes ahead, it will mean that independent artists and many arts organisations (including yours truly) will often find it much more difficult to work and exist. We feel passionately about this and so to help in finding ways to protest, we recommend the following links:
Use this site to find and email your local MP. It’s a really effective way to get your voice heard, and the more voices the greater our chances of making a difference.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/lotteryolympics/
Use this site to sign the petition to 10 Downing Street opposing the funding cuts across Arts Council, Heritage Lottery, Big Lottery and Sport England, which are a direct result of Lottery money being used to plug the funding gap in the 2012 Olympics.