2013 AUTUMN
ARTS ADMIN.
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2013 AUTUMN This Autumn we have some fantastic events taking place at home and abroad. Rosemary Lee’s new commission for Derry~Londonderry City of Culture can be seen there until October and around the UK you can see Caroline Wright, Amy Sharrocks, Stacy Makishi and Chris Dobrowolski. Further afield, Graeme Miller and Zineb Sedira present projects in Germany and the USA. We’ve got new events designed to support artists, including an evening focussing on the thorny subject of fundraising, the first in a new series of Weekenders and the return of our popular Sweatshops. We’re delighted to have commissioned a new site-specific performance by Geraldine Pilgrim for our Toynbee Studios home, which premieres in December. Toynbee Studios will also host performances from associates, tenants and friends, including Sarah Woods, GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN and Franko B. We hope you’ll be able to join us for some of these events. Judith Knight and Gill Lloyd Directors
..................................... COVER: WITHOUT BY ROSEMARY LEE. PHOTO BY LIVING WITNESS PHOTOGRAPHY.
ARTISTS’ PROJECTS CAROLINE WRIGHT PILOT 7 & 8 September, Brightlingsea, Essex
ROSEMARY LEE WITHOUT Until 6 October, Echo Echo, City Wall, Derry~Londonderry Over the past year Rosemary has been working with Derry~Londonderry based dance company Echo-Echo to create a large-scale video installation capturing a magical and panoramic view of the city as its inhabitants dance and move through the streets. Featuring over 350 local people – from tea-dancers to skateboarders and school children to cyclists – they danced, moved, glided and reclaimed the streets regardless of real and imagined boundaries. The resulting seven-screen video projection with specially commissioned sound score by Graeme Miller captures a spectacular view and intimate portrait of the city and its inhabitants.
PILOT is a new, free, live and visual arts festival taking place in various locations around the seaside town of Brightlingsea in Essex. The festival features newly commissioned work made in response to Brightlingsea’s unique sense of time and place by Caroline Wright, Richard DeDomenici, Amy Sharrocks, Jackie Chettur, Wayne Burrows, Sidelong and Briony Clarke including a mass swim in the lido, a musical work composed using soundings from the river and a chance to eat candy floss clouds. Curated by Caroline Wright, supported using public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and by Escalator Live Art, Essex County Council and the Outdoor Swimming Society. Presented in partnership with Colchester Arts Centre.
photo by TONY MILLINGS
photo by LIVING WITNESS PHOTOGRAPHY
Commissioned by Echo Echo Dance Company with support from UK City of Culture.
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AMY SHARROCKS MUSEUM OF WATER 7 & 8 September, PILOT Festival, Brightlingsea, Essex 3 October, National Poetry Day Live, Southbank Centre, London Choose some water that is precious to you. Find a bottle to put it in. Tell us why you chose this water. We will keep it for you. Museum of Water is a collection of publicly donated water and accompanying stories. Accumulating over two years in different sites worldwide, Museum of Water is an invitation to ponder our precious liquid and how we use it.
photo by AMY SHARROCKS
As part of the PILOT festival, Amy will be working with Brightlingsea Museum to collect and archive water from the people of Essex. For National Poetry Day Live, you can make your own donation to the museum, respond to the theme of Water Water Everywhere, and see some of the existing collection. At both events, you can raise a glass at a free pop-up bar serving only tap water.
STACY MAKISHI THE FALSETTOS 17 October, The Basement, Brighton 19 October, Arnolfini, Bristol 13 November, Colchester Arts Centre 29 November, Z Arts, Manchester Stacy Makishi’s new solo show, The Falsettos, is a deftly woven mix of text, movement and stand-up. An honest and hilarious display of Stacy’s intimate reflections on murder, mortality and mid-life crisis, The Falsettos splices together influences from American popular culture including The Sopranos, Barbra Streisand and E.T. With mobs, midlife, lowlife and taboo getting the Stacy Makishi treatment, this is a show for our times – uncompromising, compassionate and joyously absurd.
photo by NIKKI TOMLINSON
Commissioned by Chelsea Theatre, Colchester Arts Centre and The Basement supported by The Roddick Foundation. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
CHRIS DOBROWOLSKI ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME 7 November, Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex Chris has lovingly repaired his family Triumph Herald Estate so that he can drive it from his childhood home in Braintree to Rome via Turin where this quintessentially English car was designed. Part investigation into his father’s time as a Polish soldier in the Italian Campaign and part muse on consumerism, All Roads Lead to Rome brings together car mechanics, a road trip, dictators and the fetishisation of possessions in a solo performance using old photos, new film and surprising mechanical objects. “A simple, effective and intellectual piece, told with warmth and a twinkle.” Fringe Review
photo by DAVID GUTTRIDGE
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GERALDINE PILGRIM TOYNBEE 10-15 December, Toynbee Studios, London Having created magical projects across the country over the past ten years, in December 2013 Geraldine Pilgrim brings a new site-specific performance to Artsadmin’s Toynbee Studios home. TOYNBEE will be an evocative journey around two historic buildings, celebrating the social, political and artistic significance of Toynbee Hall and Studios. Not only is “the past a foreign country…” but so is the future. These different worlds are united within the two buildings as TOYNBEE delivers the past to the present and the future to the past. Within a landscape of live music, image and performance, unexpected fragments of the past wait to be revealed. Traces of lives are glimpsed out of windows, at the end of corridors and the turn of a stair, whilst footsteps echo to the sound of the different voices of the contemporary East End. An Artsadmin commission produced in partnership with Spitalfields Music and Toynbee Hall. Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund and using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. “Geraldine Pilgrim is a visual magician who has been creating site sympathetic shows long before such work became fashionable.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
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AND MORE...
LIGHTHOUSE IN THE SEA OF TIME, SCREEN GRAB BY THE ARTIST
Graeme Miller | Beheld 21 September – 17 November, University of Jena Beheld connects its audience with the disturbing phenomenon of people who fell from the sky. Ten glass vessels are charged with 180° images taken at locations where the bodies of stowaways have fallen from aircraft. On lifting the bowls they resonate with the sound of their location. Showing as part of BrandSchutz, a multi-arts programme by the University of Jena on the subject of immigration and intolerance. Zineb Sedira | Lighthouse in the Sea of Time 5 October – 17 December, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston Commissioned by Folkestone Triennial, this multi-screen film/sound installation explores two historic lighthouses in Algeria, built during French rule in the late 19th-early 20th century, capturing these imposing and exquisitely historic, architectural and political landmarks, and including interviews with the lighthouse keepers, who reminisce about life inside these isolated towers.
Frank Bock | Mentoring the Work or Mentoring the Artist? 28 October, Sadlers Wells, London Following on from themes touched upon in the what_now Festival at Siobhan Davies Studios earlier this year, Independent Dance curator Frank Bock will be joined by other artists as he explores the issues around mentoring. This timely discussion will include Caroline Miller (Director, Dance UK), Kate Coyne (Producer, Frieze Foundation) and Deb Barnard (Trainer, Facilitator and Coach). Graeme Miller | Linked Ongoing, East London Stretching along the route of the M11 Link Road, Linked broadcasts the voices, testimonies and memories of those who once lived and worked where the motorway now runs.
BEHELD, photo by THE ARTIST
See artsadmin.co.uk/events for full details of all our events.
ARTISTS’ SUPPORT
SWEATSHOP 12 September, 17 October, 21 November, 2.30-6pm (free), Toynbee Studios Calling all overworked, overwhelmed and underpaid artists!
ADVICE AND MENTORING Artsadmin’s advisory service is open throughout the year to all practicing artists working in live art or interdisciplinary performance. We offer free one-hour sessions, individually or in small groups, as well as advice and information by email and phone/Skype. These sessions take their cue from artists and the concerns they bring, with topics often including project development, contexts for presenting work, fundraising, marketing, documentation, representation, collaboration and critical discussion around the work itself. Artsadmin can also offer tailored long-term mentoring to artists and producers. We have recently worked with artists including Ira Brand and schemes and organisations such as the Clore Leadership Programme, Unlimited, Creative Partnerships and Fierce. To book an advisory session or discuss longer term mentoring, please contact advisoryservice@artsadmin.co.uk.
Sweatshops are informal, hands-on afternoon sessions designed to demystify some of the more baffling administrative aspects of being an artist. Each Sweatshop is a free open session for a maximum of 12 artists, facilitated by the Artsadmin team. This season we’re running some of our most popular Sweatshops tackling the new Grants For The Arts application (12 September), best practices for participatory work (17 October) and marketing (21 November). Sweatshops are free, but booking is essential. To book, contact advisoryservice@artsadmin.co.uk or 020 7247 5102 stating which Sweatshop you’d like to attend and why. Please only book if you know for certain that you are available to attend.
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29 October, 7.30pm (free), Toynbee Studios Artsadmin and Live Art Development Agency present Money Talks, an event focussing on the sticky subject of raising money. Three artists will offer insights into their own experiences of raising finance through crowd-funding, individual giving and corporate social responsibility avenues, followed by a group discussion exploring ethical and practical concerns. Money Talks is a Talking Shop initiative putting artists’ experiences and reflections at the heart of a two-year research project by Artsadmin, Live Art Development Agency and Home Live Art funded by Arts Council England’s Catalyst scheme. To reserve a space please contact Mary Osborn on mary@artsadmin.co.uk / 020 7247 5102.
HOW TO SCREAM YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY: FRANKO B WEEKENDER 23 & 24 November, 10.30am-5.30pm (£60), Toynbee Studios Includes ticket for Because of Love volume 1 at Toynbee Studios (28/29 Nov). Artsadmin’s Weekenders are led by international artists renowned for their approach to creating performance, collaboration and participation. Our next Weekender is with Franko B, an artist who has been making work for over 20 years encompassing visual art, live art, painting, sculpture, photography, video and sound. How To Scream Your Autobiography will use ‘voice’ and personal responses as a starting point for creativity, experimenting in playing with sound / music, singing and building confidence in using your voice and starting work from a personal place. 2014 Weekenders will be led by Gob Squad, Lois Weaver and Marcus Coates.
PHOTO BY HUGO GLENDINNING
MONEY TALKS
ASSOCIATE ARTISTS Our associate artists receive support and advice from Artsadmin, as well as being promoted through our website and newsletters. Our associate artists for 2013/14 are: Katherine Araniello | DV8 | Rebecca Davies | Richard DeDomenici | Yara El Sherbini | Encounters | GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN | Richard Houguez | Hunt and Darton | Mamoru Iriguchi | Stacy Makishi | Sinead O’Donnell | Robyn Orlin | Florence Peake | La Ribot | Emma Smith | Tim Spooner | straybird | the vacuum cleaner For more details on all of them visit artsadmin.co.uk/artists.
COMING UP... At Toynbee Studios At Toynbee Studios this Autumn we’re hosting events including Richard DeDomenici’s New Work Network Posthumous AGM, a new work by GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN, Emma Smith’s The Eterphilous Society and solo performance Mental by the vacuum cleaner. See following pages for details. In Dance Umbrella 2013 danceumbrella.co.uk As part of Dance Umbrella 2013 Robyn Orlin presents a raucous and entertaining celebration of the beauty of Africa with African dance company Moving Into Dance Mophatong.
straybird, photo by lucy cash
ROBYN ORLIN, PHOTO BY JOHN HOGG
Also in the festival, straybird present a compelling mobile installation exploring movement and choreography across a collection of screen-based works by UK choreographers and artists.
AT TOYNBEE STUDIOS ARTSADMIN: WORK EXPERIENCE
WHITE RABBIT: ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY?
26 September, 7.30pm (£5)
13 September & 22 November, 7.30pm (£8) Are You Sitting Comfortably? is a unique storytelling event that provides writers with the opportunity to have their stories read aloud by performers and published by Ether books. September’s theme is Animals, focusing on our furry friends and featuring pin the tail on the werewolf. In November White Rabbit will be celebrating their fifth birthday at Toynbee Studios. Expect presents, surprises and jelly and ice-cream. Each event is accompanied by a complimentary spread and a menu of cocktails in teapots.
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LEE CAMPBELL & MEL JORDAN: HECKLER 19 September, 7.30pm (£5) Artists Lee Campbell and Mel Jordan explore the potential of the heckler as a speaker that can offer a revised understanding of social exchanges within contemporary debates on participation, linguistics, ethics and communication, by arguing that the heckler, a person who disrupts performances, speeches and public addresses should be considered as a metaphorical figurehead of impoliteness.
Hey artists! Are you tired of endless submissions, applications, contracts and tax returns? Well, no fear! Artsadmin’s Work Experience is back...Which means it’s time to put the ART back into Emerging Cultural Entrepreneurism. Work Experience is a platform for artists to creatively respond to the more administrative side of being an artist. This year we’re focussing on the new Grants For The Arts funding application from Arts Council England. Expect an ACE night of new work that will be publicly participatory, constantly evaluated and sufficiently reliant on in-kind support.
SARAH WOODS: THE EMPATHY ROADSHOW
TATTENBAUM / DELUCA: AN EVENING OF POWER PLAY
17 October, 7.30pm (£5) We’ve recently discovered that we’re hard-wired for empathy – but what actually IS empathy? How do we know we’re feeling it, and what good does it do?
THE VACUUM CLEANER: MENTAL
From interviewing a neuroscientist in Amsterdam to getting her hair cut by an empathic hairdresser, playwright and activist Sarah Woods has spent the last six months trying to find the answers. The Empathy Roadshow, an interactive, multi- media, one-woman performance, is Sarah’s response to her research.
24 October – 2 November, Weds-Fri 7.30pm, Sat 5pm (£12/£8) The Metropolitan Police call him a Domestic Extremist. The NHS have described him as ‘highly disturbed’ and labelled him with Borderline Personality Disorder. He prefers the term Mental.
Commissioned by People United and Kent County Council.
PHOTO BY SOPHIE NATHAN
After ten years of being an outlaw and inpatient, artist activist the vacuum cleaner presents an autobiographical performance told through his psychiatric records, police intelligence files and corporate injunctions collected through the Data Protection Act.
24 October, 7.30pm (£5 advance / £6 door) Do you sit front row or centre-middle? Do you take part in activity games or prefer tuning in to someone else’s creation? Do you want artists to make work in their garret or via their twitter feed? Tattenbaum/deluca invite you to a programmed evening of entertainment and debate featuring invited artists, performances, activities and an open panel discussion to make the case for and against performer / audience interactivity. Expect thoughtful provocations, humorous interventions and the perfect level of hosting facilitation to meet your personal audience preferences.
PENNED IN THE MARGINS: ENEMIES 25 October, 7pm (free)
PENNED IN THE MARGINS TRIPLE LAUNCH
GETINTHEBACK OFTHEVAN: NUMBER 1, THE PLAZA
14 November, 7.30pm (free)
15 November, 8pm (£12/£8)
Three of the UK’s most exciting voices launch new collections in a night of cutting-edge poetry from indy publisher Penned in the Margins, joined by special guest poets.
Associate artists GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN present a new work, Number 1, The Plaza, which sees them clawing their way back to a time they’ve heard was fresher than now. They’ve spent all day cleaning and putting things back where they belong, they’ve taken the phone off the hook and the trash out to the garden. Now, dear neighbours, it’s time to be generous and throw open the doors to their show home.
Join independent poetry publisher Penned in the Margins for the launch of SJ Fowler’s groundbreaking multi-disciplinary collection; the result of collaborations with over thirty artists, photographers and writers – each imbued with the energy, innovation and generosity of spirit that has become Fowler’s calling card as a poet.
Melissa Lee-Houghton reads from her second book, Beautiful Girls: a raw and powerful account of mental illness.
Fowler’s texts walk the high-wire between reason and madness, the individual and the collective, human and animal.
Hannah Silva, widely acclaimed for her innovative vocal performances, launches her debut collection Forms of Protest.
PHOTO BY EILEEN LONG
In Siddhartha Bose’s Digital Monsoon, dreams trigger extraordinary visions of an apocalyptic London populated by the ghosts of a multicultural city.
PHTO BY Ludovic des Cognets
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ALICE TATGE & THERESE STEELE: DYAD 21 November, 6.30pm (£5) A collaboration between choreographer/ installation artist Tatge and dramaturge Steele developed in Istanbul during the recent largescale unrest. Dyad is a work on duality observed from the perspective of two opposing female experiences, an investigation into micro / macro struggles on sexuality violence and power, the elasticity of boundaries and the overlapping of identities. Supported by Arts Council England, European Culture Foundation, Freud Museum London, Salt Galata Istanbul, MauMau Istanbul and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Istanbul, Spazio K Prato Italy.
EMMA SMITH: THE ETERPHILOUS SOCIETY 21 November, 7.30pm (£5) Founded in 2013 to study the discipline of Eterphilogy (the study of intimacy), The Eterphilous Society (TES) invites you to explore the conditions and space for intimacy, with performance work by artist Emma Smith in collaboration with curator Lucia Garavaglia. Inspired by two secret collections; the Witt Collection at the British Museum and the Gabinetto Segreto at the Museum of Naples, the society takes its name from an evolution of Old Irish, a cognate of Latin and Sanskrit and meaning the interrelation of love. TES has been developed following a series of gatherings between June and October 2013, exploring the private and invisible language of intimacy.
CUE POSITIONS: A SYMPOSIUM BY BELLYFLOP 22 November, 10am – 5.30pm (£7) Cue Positions is a two-day event that (BELLY)flips the usual organisation of a symposium. Instead of presentations that precede shorter discussions, we offer a series of long-form conversations in unusual modes that are punctuated, interrupted or embellished with carefully chosen, short interventions, selected from offers gathered through an open call. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. The second day takes place at Chisenhale Dance Space.
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FRANKO B: BECAUSE OF LOVE VOLUME 1 28 & 29 November, 7.30pm (£10 / £8) Franko B presents his new multi-disciplinary live performance, Because of Love volume 1. The piece represents a major departure in Franko’s practice, moving away from the gallery based tableaux vivants of his previous work. Drawing on memories of vivid moments and experiences of art, film and dance from different stages in his life, this piece is about life, childhood, humanity, inhumanity, love and grief. Intimate connections are made between personal memories and lived experiences… experiences that can be mediated by someone else’s voice or art form, or appropriated to become one’s own.
PHOTO BY HUGO GLENDINNING
Franko will also be leading a Weekender in November (see page 11).
RICHARD DEDOMENICI: NEW WORK NETWORK POSTHUMOUS AGM 6 December, 6pm (free) For those still reeling from the closure of New Work Network last autumn, Richard DeDomenici invites you to the organisation’s first posthumous Annual General Meeting, where we will approve a fictitious annual report and set of accounts, and vote new members to a non-existent board, before getting down to the important business of arm wrestling, hulahooping, karaoke and cocktails.
ARTSADMIN AUTUMN 2013 A Produced by Artsadmin
ONGOING Until 6 Oct
A ROSEMARY LEE Without
Echo Echo, City Wall, Derry~Londonderry
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Ongoing
A GRAEME MILLER Linked
East London
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7&8
A CAROLINE WRIGHT Pilot A AMY SHARROCKS Museum of Water
Brightlingsea, Essex PILOT Festival, Brightlingsea, Essex
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A Sweatshop, Grants for the Arts
Toynbee Studios
SEPTEMBER
p10
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WHITE RABBIT Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Toynbee Studios
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LEE CAMPBELL & MEL JORDAN Heckler
Toynbee Studios
p13
21 (until 17 Nov) A GRAEME MILLER Beheld
University of Jena (Germany)
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A Work Experience
Toynbee Studios
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A AMY SHARROCKS Museum of Water
National Poetry Day Live, Southbank Centre, London
p5
5 (until 17 Dec)
A ZINEB SEDIRA Lighthouse in the Sea of Time
Blaffer Art Museum Houston (USA)
p9
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A STACY MAKISHI The Falsettos A Sweatshop, Participatory work SARAH WOODS The Empathy Roadshow
The Basement, Brighton Toynbee Studios Toynbee Studios
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A STACY MAKISHI The Falsettos
Arnolfini, Bristol
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OCTOBER
24 (until 2 Nov)
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THE VACUUM CLEANER Mental TATTENBAUM/DELUCA An Evening of Power Play
Toynbee Studios Toynbee Studios
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PENNED IN THE MARGINS Enemies
Toynbee Studios
p15
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A FRANK BOCK Mentoring the Work or Mentoring the Artist?
Sadlers Wells, London
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A Money Talks
Toynbee Studios
p9 p11
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NOVEMBER 7
A CHRIS DOBROWOLSKI All Roads Lead...
Lakeside Theatre, Essex
p6
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A STACY MAKISHI The Falsettos
Colchester Arts Centre
p6
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PENNED IN THE MARGINS Triple Launch
Toynbee Studios
p15
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GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN Number 1, The Plaza
Toynbee Studios
p15
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A Sweatshop, Marketing ALICE TATGE & THERESE STEELE Dyad EMMA SMITH The Eterphilous Society
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BELLYFLOP Cue Positions Symposium WHITE RABBIT Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Toynbee Studios Toynbee Studios
p16 p13
Toynbee Studios
p11
Toynbee Studios
p17
23 & 24 28 & 29 29
A Weekender: Franko B FRANKO B Because of Love volume 1 A STACY MAKISHI The Falsettos
Z Arts, Manchester
p6
DECEMBER 6 10-15
RICHARD DEDOMENICI New Work Network Posthumous AGM A GERALDINE PILGRIM TOYNBEE
Toynbee Studios
p17
Toynbee Studios
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