Autumn 2010 bulletin

RAJNI SHAH

MARK STOROR

BULLETIN GRAEME MILLER

BOBBY BAKER

AUTUMN/ WINTER 2010

ANNE BEAN

CURIOUS

ROSEMARY LEE

LA RIBOT

GERALDINE PILGRIM

ACKROYD & HARVEY

NOËMI LAKMAIER

ATHINA VAHLA

LEMN SISSAY

GARY STEVENS

ARTS ADMIN..................

WELCOME AUTUMN/ WINTER 2010 After a busy summer in East London, including the launch of the Town Hall Artworks, a Big Dance project with Lucy Cash, the first screening of Station House Opera’s Dominoes film and the runaway success of new associate artists You Me Bum Bum Train, we are embarking on several new projects by artists Geraldine Pilgrim, Anne Bean and Athina Vahla this autumn.

We’re also developing some exciting new projects for 2011 and beyond, many of which are currently looking for partners and venues. In September, Bobby Baker will show an exhibition of early research towards a new piece in Bath, and for the first time since 2006 we have a major new project planned with La Ribot.

We’re delighted to be able to announce the recipients of our 2010 bursary scheme, as well as a second series of our popular Weekender workshops for artists, taking place at our Toynbee Studios base. During the autumn Toynbee Studios will also host the launch of a publication documenting our Pass it On education project, as well as our regular Thursdays@Artsadmin.

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Please do get in touch if you’re interested in learning more about any of our projects.

Judith Knight and Gill Lloyd, Directors

OPENINGS GERALDINE PILGRIM NOT FORGOTTEN SEPTEMBER 9 .........................................................................................................................................................

DATES

Burnley_ 9 Sept to Sept 2011 Stratford-upon-Avon _ 6 & 7 Dec artsadmin.co.uk /geraldinepilgrim

Inspired by the distinctive 1601 portrait of Mary and John Towneley and their 14 children, Geraldine Pilgrim has created Not Forgotten, a year-long installation in the grounds and house of Towneley Hall, Burnley. Hanging in a quiet corner of the Towneley family home, the painting uniquely acknowledges the lives of the family’s seven daughters and seven sons as if they had all survived to adulthood, recognising the fragility of life in that period.

Not Forgotten has been commissioned by Mid Pennine Arts as part of Contemporary Heritage, a programme of site responsive commissions sited in seven historic venues across Pennine Lancashire.

In December Geraldine will recreate her 2009 participatory performance, Handbag, premiered at BAC, for the opening of the newly transformed Royal Shakespeare Theatre. With local volunteers performing alongside professional performers, Handbag at the RSC will bring a little bit of disco to Stratford-upon-Avon.

Uplifting. It made me want to dance the night away.

Audience member ( Handbag )

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OPENINGS continued

PHOTO BY CHRIS BISHOP

ANNE BEAN W ATER MUSIC 2010 /TAPS SEPTEMBER 11 .........................................................................................................................................................

DATES

London _11 & 12 September London _17 to 19 September annebean.net

Taking Handel’s Water Music as its inspiration, Water Music 2010 is an exploratory sound installation created by Anne Bean and Stephen Schiell for The Mayor’s Thames Festival, exploring how our relationship to the river has changed since the music was written.

Anne has made work on the Thames since the 1970s, including many pieces in collaboration with the late Paul Burwell, a pioneer of free improvisation fusing music, film, dance, poetry and performance art.

TAPS, presented by Matt’s Gallery at Dilston Grove in London, includes work by over eighty of Paul’s past collaborators, who have contributed film or audio work to this new collaboration.

Fragments of this material created for, about or with Burwell form a two-screen film interpreted and edited by Anne with an installation by sculptor Richard Wilson alongside performances and a publication.

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Water Music 2010 is commissioned by Home Live Art as part of A River Enquiry. TAPS is supported by a Legacy: Thinker in Residence award to Anne Bean from Live Art Development Agency and Tate Research.

DATES

London _12 October to 9 Jan 2011 Modena _15 & 16 October Bergen _ 21 & 22 October Valparaiso, Montevideo, Buenos Aires _ 26 October to 9 Nov Lisbon _12 & 13 November London _ 26 November Porto _10 December Viseu _11 December Alamada _15 December

PHOTO BY RARES DONCA

LA RIBOT WALK THE CHAIR OCTOBER 12 ......................................................................................................................................................... laribot.com

La Ribot opens a new installation, Walk the Chair, in London in October as part of Move: Art and Dance since the Sixties at Southbank Centre. In late November there will also be a special London presentation of her performance, Llámame Mariachi, which combines a film with a soundtrack by Atom and performances by Marie-Caroline Hominal, La Ribot and Delphine Rosay.

Gustavia, Laughing Hole and Llámame Mariachi also continue to tour worldwide throughout the autumn.

Artsadmin is working with La Ribot on a new project for 2011. PARAdistinguidas is a development of her previous Distinguished Pieces project, which comprised 34 solos each lasting under seven minutes. PARAdistinguidas will premiere in Geneva in May 2011. Marking a move back into theatre spaces, this new series will involve solos by La Ribot and three other performers together with a local cast of extras.

The project will be co-produced by la Comédie de Genève, le Pôle Sud, Strasbourg and le Festival d’Automne and Centre Pompidou in Paris. We are currently looking for additional partners for the project. Contact Nicky Childs (nicky@artsadmin.co.uk ) for further information.

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OPENINGS continued

PHOTO BY OWEN BYANT

BOBBY BAKER MAD GYMS AND KITCHENS NOVEMBER 10 .........................................................................................................................................................

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Galway _ 4 to 29 October Ghent _ 8 October to 27 Jan 2011 Durham _ 23 October Bath _ 10 November to 28 Jan 2011 bobbybakersdailylife.com

Bobby Baker has been collaborating with sculptor Charlie Whittuck on a new performance, during a residency at ICIA, University of Bath. Mad Gyms and Kitchens, based on Bobby’s experience of recovery from serious physical and mental ill health, is planned as a small-scale touring show for 2011.

During the residency Bobby and Charlie created designs for fantastical machines and equipment to assist Bobby in her quest to ‘demonstrate to the world her rigorous regime of daily activities for achieving ultimate health, wealth and happiness’.

An exhibition of the drawings and models created during the residency will open in November and on 1 December Bobby will be in conversation with Professor Bas Verplanken, Head of Psychology at Bath University and Simone Lewis, Sports Science Support Manager, Team Bath in a discussion chaired

by Dr Daniel Hinchcliffe, ICIA.

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Diary Drawings, Mental Illness and Me, 1997– 2008 also continues to tour, opening in Ghent and Galway in October, and Bobby will discuss her book of the drawings as part of panel at Durham Book Festival.

PHOTO BY ANGELOS ZIMARAS

ATHINA VAHLA T HE SPLINTER IN THE FLESH NOVEMBER 24 .........................................................................................................................................................

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Birmingham _ 30 & 31 October Athens _ 24 to 30 November athinavahla.com

This autumn Athina Vahla will premiere The Splinter in the Flesh in Athens, a large-scale dance-theatre performance choreographed for the Hellenic Dance Company. The piece takes as a starting point Julia Kristeva’s philosophical treatise, Strangers to Ourselves, asking whether the things we most fear in strangers could be the very qualities we don’t want to recognise in ourselves.

Continuing the work begun last year with Repton Boys Boxing Club, Athina presents In Preparation this October as part of the IADMS conference in Birmingham. Developed in collaboration with dancer and dance scientist Emma Redding, In Preparation will test the performer’s endurance to its limits in a solo laboratory based work.

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OPENINGS continued

FILM STILL BY BEN RIVERS

ONGOING CURIOUS T HE MOMENT I SAW YOU... .........................................................................................................................................................

DATES

Wisconsin _ 4 to 12 December placelessness.com

From September to December, Curious have been awarded an artist residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. As part of the residency, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris will curate Inside Story, a festival looking at autobiography and the body in performance, and show their acclaimed work On the Scent alongside their most recent work the moment I saw you I knew I could love you.

The three year Autobiology project will culminate in an atmospheric new film about gut feelings made in collaboration with filmmaker Andrew Kötting, composer Graeme Miller and cinematographer Ben Rivers. Sea Swallow’d will be screened at UK and international film festivals.

There is something immensely wistful about a piece that demonstrates that we are merely chemical compounds, and yet also shows us how to discover equilibrium. At the end, we are paired up and dance, an apple balanced between our foreheads. Like every second of this show, it is fragile and intangible.

The Guardian ( the moment I saw you I knew I could love you )

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PHOTO BY SIMON WEIR

ROSEMARY LEE COMMON DANCE .........................................................................................................................................................

DATES

London _ 23 October

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A film of Rosemary Lee’s acclaimed 2009 project, Common Dance, will be screened this autumn as part of Dance Umbrella.

Shot and edited by Roswitha Chesher, the film offers another chance to see this poignant work which brought together over 50 dancers from across generations alongside a choir of 70 young people from Finchley Children’s Music Group singing a specially commissioned score by Terry Mann. Commissioned and presented by Dance Umbrella and Greenwich Dance Agency, the performance was one of the highlights of Dance Umbrella 2009, playing to sell out audiences every night.

Rosemary is currently developing a new outdoor performance for Dance Umbrella 2011.

DATES

UK ( Radio 3 ) _ 9 October Johannesburg _ 26 Oct to 28 Nov lemnsissay.com

LEMN SISSAY

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Lemn Sissay recently recorded a radio adaptation of his solo performance, Why I Don’t Hate White People, to be broadcast in October on Radio 3’s new writing slot, The Wire.

Lemn also continues to tour his earlier work, Something Dark, and in October he returns to South Africa for a five-week run at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. The show will also tour to Holland in January 2011.

Lemn is now an associate artist at Southbank Centre, and also received a 2010 Travelling Scholarship from the Society of Authors to support travel and keeping in touch with literary colleagues abroad.

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ONGOING continued

PHOTO BY ANDREW WHITTUCK

GARY STEVENS NOT TONY .........................................................................................................................................................

DATES

Porto _ 30 September

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After a weeklong workshop with emerging artists as part of Mugatxoan 2010 at the Fundaçao Serralves in Porto, Portugal, Gary Stevens will present a one-off performance of his solo Not Tony.

Standing behind a table and with the aid of a number of props, Gary establishes the layout of a house and a series of characters that inhabit it. In what looks like a faltering comedy, a quick-change hat routine, ambiguities and misunderstandings arise as an elaborate game develops of exchanging objects as tokens of the different people and places.

Gary is planning to develop and tour Island, an ensemble piece for five performers, which he presented as part of BAC’s Scratch Festival in London earlier this year. As a sense of recognition leads five apparent strangers to either invent or recall relationships, a witty web of connections begins to emerge. They reluctantly adopt names given to them and retaliate by inflicting a role on one of the others. An increasingly complex network grows up between them until it collapses back into isolation and anonymity.

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PHOTO BY THE ARTIST

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GRAEME MILLER TRACK .........................................................................................................................................................

London _ Ongoing Dijon _ 4 to 5 September

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Following a successful first outing at The Shimmy, Graeme Miller’s Track will be presented at the Entre Cour et Jardins festival in Dijon in early September and will be available in the future for outdoor festivals and events.

An animation, halfway between ride and installation, Track invites individual audience members to lie on a moving dolly and be transported on a 10-minute ‘tracking shot’ along a 100 metre stretch of track looking upwards through the branches of the trees above them, sliding inexorably forward into the vanishing point.

A chance to embrace a vivid re-orientation, to look up and wonder at our earth-bound clumsiness.

Louise Gray, critic & writer Graeme’s outdoor installation Moth Theatre was the winner of the first Latitude Contemporary Art Award when it was presented at the Festival in July.

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CALENDAR AUTUMN/ WINTER 2010

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AT TOYNBEE STUDIOS ARTSADMIN EVENTS ASSOCIATED EVENTS

ONGOING Ongoing

GRAEME MILLER Linked

Leyton, Leyonstone and Wanstead, London/UK

Until 26 Sept

ZINEB SEDIRA Photography as a Process of Identity

Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels/Belgium

SEPTEMBER 4 & 5

GRAEME MILLER Track

Entre Cour et Jardins, Dijon/France

9

9 ( to Sept 2011)

ROBIN DEACON GERALDINE PILGRIM Not Forgotten

Kings Place Festival, London/UK Towneley Hall, Burnley/UK

11 & 12

ANNE BEAN Water Music 2010

Thames Festival, London/UK

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15 ( to Oct 11 ) 16

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Pass it On publication launch

Toynbee Studios, London/UK

ACKROYD & HARVEY Shroud

Museo d’Arte, Napoli/Italy

WHITE RABBIT Are you Sitting Comfortably? Toynbee Studios, London/UK

17 – 19

ANNE BEAN TAPS

Dilston Grove, London/UK

18 ( to Nov 28 )

HAROLD OFFEH Peckham’s Futurama

Peckham Space, London/UK

19 ( to Nov 7 )

ZINEB SEDIRA Under the Sky and over the Sea

Umeå University, Umeå/Sweden

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RAJNI SHAH Glorious Launch Party

Toynbee Studios, London/UK

24 – 26

JULIA BARDSLEY Fami-Liar

Deptford X, London/UK

25 & 26 T

JULIAN MAYNARD SMITH Artsadmin Weekender

Toynbee Studios, London/UK

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CHRIS GOODE Unsettling Scores

Whitechapel Gallery, London/UK

30

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GARY STEVENS Not Tony David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nite

Fundaçao Serralves, Porto/Portugal Toynbee Studios, London/UK

23

OCTOBER 1– 3

JULIA BARDSLEY Fami-liar

Deptford X, London/UK

2 2–9 T

ACKROYD & HARVEY In Conversation VARIOUS ARTISTS Performing Idea

Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival, Surrey/UK Toynbee Studios, London/UK

4 – 29

BOBBY BAKER Diary Drawings

The University of Art Gallery, NUI, Galway/Ireland

8 ( to Jan 2011 )

BOBBY BAKER Diary Drawings

Dr Guislain Museum, Ghent/Belgium

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LEMN SISSAY Why I Don’t Hate White People BBC Radio 3

12 ( to Jan 2011 )

LA RIBOT Walk the Chair

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15 15 & 16

Hayward Gallery, London/UK

WHITE RABBIT Are you Sitting Comfortably? Toynbee Studios, London/UK STATION HOUSE OPERA Mind Out LA RIBOT Gustavia

Shanghai & Hang-Zhou/China VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival, Modena/Italy

ONGOING continued

PHOTO BY JONAS JACQUEL

STATION HOUSE OPERA MIND OUT .........................................................................................................................................................

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Shanghai, Hang-Zhou _15 to 20 Nov Saint Etienne _16 & 17 Dec stationhouseopera.com

Station House Opera continues to work on a number of projects. Mind Out, a playful exploration of mindfulness and mindlessness, will tour to China in November and will be presented for the first time in France at the Comédie de SaintEtienne as part of Backstage: Made in Britain, a festival of contemporary work from the UK. Following the scratch performance of Backwards at BAC in May, Station House Opera is developing the idea as a large scale, participatory ‘backwards’ project for city centres, for which we are currently looking for partners.

We’re also delighted at the continued interest in Dominoes; the company’s 2009 commission which involved over 500 volunteers and over 10,000 concrete blocks in an extraordinary moving sculpture in East London. A new version was created in Dijon in July for the opening of the festival Diese, commissioned by Entre Cour et Jardins, and a film of the London project is now available, having premiered at the Rio Cinema, London in July.

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IN DEVELOPMENT MEM MORRISON ......................................................................................................................................................... artsadmin.co.uk/memmorrison

Mem Morrison is developing a number of projects for the future as well as continuing to explore opportunities for his sitespecific celebratory performance, Ringside, following his recent tour across the UK and to venues in Singapore and Australia.

Mem is currently developing an outdoor version of the project for 2011.

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SIMON VINCENZI

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Simon Vincenzi continues to develop a series of performances and installations featuring, in various forms, a mutating line-up of the fictional ‘Troupe Mabuse’ cast from his previous piece, The Infinite Pleasures of the Great Unknown. He is now planning a further research period to develop the third in the series, King Real, which takes as its starting point the storm scene from Shakespeare’s King Lear.

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ZINEB SEDIRA

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Zineb Sedira has been commissioned by Folkestone Triennial and is working on a project which will explore the Cap Caxine lighthouse, built in 1868 by the French, near the capital Algiers, an important landmark in the maritime history of the Mediterranean.

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PHOTO BY THE ARTISTS

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ASSOCIATED PROJECTS

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ACKROYD & HARVEY

Napoli _ 15 September to 11 Oct Dorking _ 1 to 14 October Milan _ 20 October to June 2011

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Over the coming months Ackroyd and Harvey will present new commissions as part of two major group shows in Italy.

Shroud, recently commissioned for Trasparenze, Art for Renewable Energy at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Rome, will tour to Naples. They will also be growing one of their renowned grass photographs, Testament, a monumental image of an ageing face imprinted within thousands of blades of growing grass for the group show Terre Vulnerabili, at Hangar Bicocca, Milan opening in October.

Ackroyd and Harvey are simultaneously working on Fuse, a new permanent slate installation for the William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University and will also be artists-inresidence during the Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival, in their hometown of Dorking, showing new works in early October.

Following this they will continue a residency as part of a three year Cape Farewell/Eden Project collaboration, working on Writhe, an animated short film recording a plant responding to the effects of a lethal weed killer.

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The artists are in discussion with the National Trust Contemporary Art Programme about temporary placement of the 300 saplings, as part of their ongoing Beuys’ Acorns project, in a Trust property for the next five years.

DATES

London _ 24 September to 3 Oct London _ 26 & 27 October juliabardsley.com

JULIA BARDSLEY FAMI-LIAR

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Having recently returned from a six-week residency split between Teresina and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and hosted

by Panoramix Festival, Julia and collaborator, composer Andrew Poppy, will take part in the Deptford X Festival in late September. They will be artists in residence at Chelsea Theatre throughout the autumn where they will present a new show, Almost The Same, as part of the Sacred Festival in late October.

DATES

Liverpool _16 to 28 November unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk

MARK STOROR FOR THE BEST

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Artsadmin is supporting associate producer Anna Ledgard, working with Mark Storor in the autumn on of a new version of For the Best.

PHOTO BY ANDREW WHITTUCK

Originally created with children on dialysis, For the Best is a site-specific production in central Liverpool created over five months with adults and families attending Royal Liverpool University Hospital, artists and performers. Moving between images of home and hospital, For the Best is an imaginative journey through a family’s experience of living with chronic illness.

A devastating theatrical journey. ***** The Guardian Commissioned by Culture Liverpool on behalf of Liverpool City Council for Liverpool’s Year of Health and Wellbeing.

Created in partnership with Liverpool City Council through Culture Liverpool, The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Unity Theatre and Liverpool Primary Care Trust. Funded by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award, Liverpool City Council through Culture Liverpool, Arts Council England and Liverpool Primary Care Trust. First presented at the Unicorn Theatre.

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AT TOYNBEE STUDIOS DATES

London _ 23 September rajnishah.com

RAJNI SHAH GLORIOUS LAUNCH PARTY

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Associate artist Rajni Shah and her company launch their new production, Glorious, in the Arts Bar & Café as part of our Thursdays@Artsadmin season.

PHOTO BY LUCY CASH

DATES

London _ 2 to 9 October thisisperformancematters.co.uk

Glorious is a musical extravaganza that changes as it tours to ten locations over the next two years, created by Rajni with collaborators Lucille Acevedo-Jones, Lucy Cash, Karen Christopher, Sheila Ghelani, Suzie Shrubb, Mary Paterson, Ben and Max Ringham, Helena Suarez and Steve Wald.

This is a chance to have a drink, see glimpses of early film, sound and costume ideas and meet the company before they begin touring to Bristol, Nottingham, London, Newcastle and beyond.

PERFORMING IDEA OCTOBER 2010

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Performing Idea is a series of events exploring the shifting relations between performance practice and discourse, event and writing, through a public programme of workshops, presentations, discussions, and screenings taking place across Toynbee Studios and Whitechapel Gallery.

With contributions from Janine Antoni, Anne Bean, Wafaa Bilal, Maaike Bleeker, Silvia Bottiroli, Jonathan Burrows, Rose English, Tim Etchells, Matthew Goulish, Hannah Hurtzig, Shannon Jackson, Janez Jan_a, Joe Kelleher, Ong Keng Sen, Bojana Kunst, Boyan Manchev, Fred Moten, Rabih Mroué, Giulia Palladini, Peggy Phelan, Heike Roms, Lara Shalson, Julie Tolentino and many others.

Performing Idea is a collaboration between the Live Art Development Agency, Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance at Roehampton University. Funded

by Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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ARTIST DEVELOPMENT To book a session contact advisoryservice@artsadmin.co.uk

ADVISORY AND MENTORING SERVICES

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The free advisory service is open to artists working in live art and performance. Artsadmin also offers tailored long-term mentoring on a fee basis to artists and producers.

ARTISTS’ COMMISSIONS TOWN HALL HOTEL & APARTMENTS

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ZOË MENDELSON, BY ANGUS MILL PHOTOGRAPHY

The permanent installations created in the newly opened Town Hall Hotel & Apartments were launched on 1 July as part of CREATE10. Emerging East London artists Bálint Bolygó, Debbie Lawson, Peter Liversidge, Claire Morgan, Zoë Mendelson and walkwalkwalk have created a series of site-specific works that express a pleasure and presence with a lightness of touch, wonder, humour and contemplation.

Guided tours of the artworks will be available in the autumn.

Please contact Cat Harrison at cat@artsadmin.co.uk for further details.

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NOËMI LAKMAIER, PHOTO BY HANNAH FACEY

ARTISTS’ BURSARY SCHEME 2010

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We are delighted to announce the recipients of this years’ bursary scheme, which supports artistic experiment, speculation and play and offers mentoring and development opportunities to strong emerging artists. From 230 applications, the selection panel awarded bursaries to seven artists.

Katherine Araniello’s live and screen-based work challenges representations and stereotypes of physical disability.

Claire Cunningham will use the bursary to research new work into landmines through photography, installation and film, while Noemi Lakmaier’s work explores notions of the ‘Other’, ranging from the physical to the philosophical.

Sinéad O’Donnell creates performance and installation work investigating the politics of place, most recently focussing on notions of distance and borders. Steven Ounanian’s practice veers across science, religion, automata, environmentalism and ritual, through collaborative experiments and public interventions, while Emma Smith’s participatory work looks at the psychological impact of a site’s history on contemporary human understanding and behaviour.

Tim Spooner will use the bursary to continue developing his playful look at the meaning of meaning itself through his eclectic language of objects.

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See the website for more details on the individual artists and their work.

DATES

1 8 November, 6 – 9pm

TALKING SHOP

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Now a regular feature, Talking Shop offers information, advice surgeries and networking led by Live Art Advisory Network (LAAN) and is a free event for final year students, recent graduates and early career artists working in the areas of live art and interdisciplinary performance practices.

One-to-one advice sessions are offered on a first come first served basis to artists who want to discuss their practice with an advisor, as well as small group sessions and discussions on subjects such as promoting work, funding opportunities, maintaining your practice, developing peer support structures.

LAAN is a partnership between Artsadmin, Live Art Development Agency and New Work Network.

WEEKENDERS

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Artsadmin’s Weekenders continue for a second year, with intensive performance labs led by international artists renowned for their approaches to making, facilitation and participation. Open to all adult practitioners regardless of level of experience; all that is required is an openness to meet, play, collaborate and perform. Each Weekender operates as a stand-alone, while the series as a whole offers an opportunity to work with an outstanding range of artists.

25 & 26 September Julian Maynard Smith 1 3 & 14 November Simon Vincenzi 1 1 & 12 December Kira O’Reilly 1 2 & 13 February Oreet Ashery 1 2 & 13 March João Fiadeiro 1 6 & 17 April Karen Christoper

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KIRA O’REILLY, UNTITLED (FOR YOU BELOVED), 2008.

BY DEBBIE KERMODE

PHOTO BY JOANNE MATTHEWS

YOUNG PEOPLE’S PROJECTS DATES

London _13 September

PASS IT ON

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In December 2009 Artsadmin selected twelve talented young practitioners to take part in an inspiring and transformational project. Each was given time, space, funding, training and mentoring to devise, develop and deliver their first piece of socially engaged work. The outcomes were huge and varied, ranging from exotic fruit taste testing in Day Centres through to “What’s in the Doctor’s Pocket?” a series of interactive quizzes and broadcasts on a London Hospital Radio.

Hundreds of people attended and took part in these projects and in September we will celebrate their achievements with the launch of a publication at Toynbee Studios. Highlighting the lessons learned from the process and participants, the publication will look at how this approach to artist development, working with young people and socially engaged work can impact not only the arts but a wider community within London.

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ARTSADMIN CURRENT PROJECTS Bobby Baker Anne Bean Curious Rosemary Lee Graeme Miller Mem Morrison Geraldine Pilgrim La Ribot Zineb Sedira Lemn Sissay Station House Opera Gary Stevens Athina Vahla Simon Vincenzi ASSOCIATED ARTISTS AND PROJECTS Ackroyd & Harvey Artmusic Julia Bardsley Lucy Cash Richard DeDomenici DV8 Physical Theatre Encounters Robin Deacon Lorrice Douglas Yara El-Sherbini Chris Goode Wendy Houstoun Lucia King Stacy Makishi Ursula Martinez Mzwakhe Mbuli Harold Offeh Cindy Oswin Rajni Shah The Vacuum Cleaner You Me Bum Bum Train

Stephanie Allen_ Artists’ Producer Manuel Barroso_ Bar Assistant Nicky Childs_ Senior Artists’ Producer Chief Dawethi_ Assistant Building Manager Steve Ehrlicher_ Finance Manager Attila Gabor_ Kitchen Porter Alessio Garau _ Chef Mark Godber _ Artists’ Producer Manick Govinda _ Head of Artists’ Advisory Services Cat Harrison _ Trainee Liz Holmes _ Admin & Studios Manager Judith Knight _ Director Emma Leach _ Projects’ Assistant, Daily Life Ltd Gill Lloyd _ Director Heidi Mace_ Admin & Marketing Assistant Mwiza Mkandawire_ Finance Officer Bill Pearson_Building Manager Cheryl Pierce _ Artists’ Producer Samantha Scott Wood _ Marketing & Development Manager David Titmuss_Finance Administrator Nikki Tomlinson _ Artists’ Advisor Sam Trotman_ Education Producer Charan Vyrdee_Head of Finance Rebecca Head, James Alabaster, Katie Howe_ Future Jobs Fund trainees Bill Gee_ Associate Producer Anna Ledgard _ Associate Producer

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Artsadmin also offers various support services for artists, including a free advisory service, mentoring and development programmes and a number of bursary schemes.

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