PARTICIPATION/ EVENT
SCOTLAND + VENICE 2012
BANCHETTO : A PLAY IN THREE ACTS Participation
bringing people together Consultation Creative Engagement Event
Pidgin Perfect were proud to be selected, alongside Do Architecture, GRAS Studio, Stone Opera as the Scottish delegation to the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 to showcase the cutting edge ideas and innovative approaches to architecture practice that have emerged in recent years in Scotland. ‘Critical Dialogues’, directed by Jonathan Charley, played with popular themes of alternative urban practice: the politics of community engagement; the ludic dimensions of architecture; the celebration of the architecture of everyday life, and; the investigation of different ways of seeing and mapping. ‘Banchetto: A Play in Three Acts’ was driven by Pidgin Perfect’s commitment to engaging communities normally excluded from the design process. Act One - a tour of the Biennale Giardini site for a group of local residents who discussed their opinions and ideas whilst viewing the pavilions. Act Two - Pidgin Perfect held a ‘theatrical’ open air dinner in the Castello neighbourhood where local residents, artists, architects, curators and activists ate , drank and talked architecture. Act Three - Exposition with screenings of edited footage and documentation. documentation of the weeks actions and events.
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INSTALLED : GIRL WALK // ALL DAY, GLASGOW Pidgin Perfect collaborated with Glasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF) to produce a ‘pop up cinema’ on a site located on the embankment of the River Clyde as part of the 2013 GYFF programme, working with the GYFF Youth Team to co-ordinate and deliver small elements of project. Participation
bringing people together Consultation Creative Engagement Event
The key aim of the project was to produce an interactive screening of ‘Girl Walk // All Day’, a 90 minute short film music video set in New York City. To do this, Pidgin Perfect worked with three dance organisations based in Glasgow. Working with Dance House to produce a flash mob like ‘Dance Walk’ which danced its way through the city from the Glasgow Film Theatre to the pop up cinema site gathering an public audience along the way and working with DanceHQ and 1 Blud Crew to choreograph an interactive dance routine to accompany the energy of Girl Walk // All Day and encourage audience participation. The dramatic transformation of the redundant and grey stalled space site into an inspiring and engaging performance theatre for one night only brought a new energy and audience to the site, changing the public perception of the purpose and potential uses of the site.
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SASA 2010 : POP UP CINEMA AT THE BARRAS Pop Up Cinéma Matinée was a unique and free cinema event for communities in the East End of Glasgow which took place in the courtyard of ‘The Barra’s Centre’ on Friday 20th August from 11.30am - 1pm. Participation
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The event was commissioned by RockDCM and aimed to create a discussion on the ‘collective urban identity’ of Glasgow and look at the current shape of regeneration taking place in the city through the showing of a series of original short films which deal with issues of identity, community and memory in Glasgow’s changing urban landscape. Pop Up Cinéma Matinée saw various artists from the city come together to show their work in a collective presentation and in an unexpected ‘pop up’ environment to new and old audiences. Providing an opportunity for artists within the city to meet, share, understand and appreciate their work with not only one another but the general everyday public and the city. Pop Up Cinéma Matinée was also intended as a celebration of ‘Paddy’s Market’, an historical flea market in Glasgow City Centre, which closed in the May of 2009. Short films which focused on Paddy’s Market were shown by local Glasgow artists Chris Leslie and Sijle Eirin Aure. Edinburgh based artist Lindsay Perth was also invited to screen some short films which dealt with high rise living within Glasgow.
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