DIY 6: 2009 - call for participants

 

DIY 6 is an opportunity for artists working in Live Art to take part in unusual training and professional development projects conceived and run BY artists FOR artists.

 

All projects will take place in August and September 2009.

 

LOW PROFILE – Rachel Dobbs and Hannah Jones
What do you do with the leftovers?
Sat 5 September, Sun 6 September and Sat 19 September
Plymouth
This workshop provides participants with the opportunity to take the time to examine, re-trace, take stock of, and realise the potential of the ‘stuff’ that is leftover from the artistic process of making. Participants will think about the by-products of their practice - the tangents, the unrealised ideas and the leftovers - questioning how to turn the things that have been forgotten about, shelved, or disregarded, into the starting point of new artistic projects, artworks, artefacts, artists’ ephemera.
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Helena Hunter
Practice-based Research for Emerging Artists
Sat 15, Sun 16, Mon 17 August
and Fri 21, Sat 22, Sun 23 August
London
What is practice-based research? What place does research have in performance/live art practice? What guidance and support exists for emerging artists around the subject of practice-based research? What facilities and resources are available to support artistic research? Practice-based Research for Emerging Artists tackles these questions head-on and creates an environment where artists can share, facilitate, and practically discover new and innovative ways to approach research and develop artistic practice.
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Tim Jeeves
Know Thyselves
From 9:30am on Sat 22 August through until 10:00am the next day
Brighton
Taking place over 24 consecutive hours of skill share, storytelling and unconventional networking, Know Thyselves will be an experience by turns intense, meditative and ridiculous. Ostensibly an opportunity for information exchange and problem solving, the workshop positions that undertaking as background to a broader range of activities. Participants will address issues in new ways, tackling them from new directions and in less confrontational circumstances than if addressed head-on.
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Brian Lobel
Camp Live Art
Mon-Wed 21-23 September
Colchester
Camp Live Art focuses on the generation of interactive performance material by exploring group activities, camp games and the idea of audience as community. It aims to enhance the participants’ consciousness around playing with, in and around audiences and utilizes games from classic summer camp playbooks alongside contemporary theories of audience, community and interactivity. During the workshop, participants (Campers) will learn both individually and collectively.
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Caitlin Newton-Broad & Howard Matthew
Live Art for Children
Sat 8 & Sun 9 August
London
A weekend workshop for live/visual/performance artists and their children. This workshop welcomes the widest definition of parents, including artists who are closely involved in a child’s well being, Grandparents, step-parents, etc.. Two parallel rooms will be set up for participants to play, make and think about how our parent/child relationship challenges and fuels our creative work. In the imaginary realm of the parent/child bond are embedded some deep myths and rich personal experiences we find hard to name. Questions, memories and images will be explored practically, making 3-4 short works using artists’ preferred mediums.

The children don't need to respond to the weekend’s work unless they would like to collaborate on one of the scratch projects. There will be one childcare worker running a playroom and also access to a Library and big Victorian park for supervised play. Picnic lunch each day in grounds.
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Steven Levon Ounanian
Ritualride: A 30 day 1,000 mile ecological pilgrimage by bicycle
July 27 – August 23
Nationwide
www.ritualride.com
Ritualride is a ridiculous journey into the outer limits of Great Britain. It will visit farms, solar panelled mosques, micro-climates, motorways, and McDonalds, to name a few. At each location, Steven and participants will ask the people involved in the “ecological site” to tell a story, and participants will be encouraged to tell stories and myths of their own, creating new narratives to be embedded into the environment. Participants are invited join on any leg of the journey -- you may ride your own bicycle, or have a seat on the tandem! The journey will move clockwise around Britain, the first leg being a trip from London to Canterbury.

This project is in association with PLATFORM's season "The Next 25" on climate justice at Arnolfini, Bristol (Oct - Nov 09).
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Lorena Rivero De Beer
Exercises to Activate the Political Imagination of the City Wanderer
Wed-Sun 23-27 September
Liverpool
A collaborative workshop for artists who are interested in cultural politics and critical thinking to research and respond creatively to the city’s public sculptures. Participants will explore ways to develop outdoor work of a political nature, discover the underlying meanings and repressed histories that lie beneath the city’s sculptures, and find creative ways to respond to them. The intention is to make visible alternative histories of the city and its citizens. The workshop will finish with a day of creative interventions beside the chosen sculptures.
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Rajni Shah
Not Knowing
Wed-Fri 26-28 August
London
A workshop about the act of not knowing, and about the value in not having the answers. A choreographed series of encounters and spaces for reflection in the city of London. For two days participants will wander collectively; on the third and final day, each participant will undertake a randomly selected solo activity or encounter in a public space, followed by a shared meal prepared by Rajni and presented in a surprise London location. Participants will come in knowing nothing about the journey they are about to undertake except that it will throw them into a space of not knowing, of journeying and finding a new way of looking at the world.
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If you require further information about any of these projects or artists, please contact the Live Art Development Agency on info@thisisLiveArt.co.uk.

DIY 6 is a Live Art Development Agency initiative developed in collaboration with Artsadmin, New Work Network, The Basement, Colchester Arts Centre, Nuffield Theatre & LANWest, and PLATFORM.