Performing Rights Manifestations
Declarations

 

Full programme details and bookings www.psi12.qmul.ac.uk

 

Artists respond to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 June
Free with Day Pass or Conference ID.
Chapel
From 13.00 daily

 

Thursday 15 June
Monica Ross
rightsrepeated

A recitation of the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The General Assembly of the United Nations; Resolution 217 A (111) 10 December 1948, as an act of memory. The work was prompted by events in London in July 2005 and is the artist's attempt, despite flaws and gaps in her recall, to both physically internalise the Declaration as part of her own consciousness, and respond to the largely unheeded first call of the Declaration. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be found at www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

 

Friday 16 June
Rebecca Louise Collins
Untitled

One performer. 3 hours. 30 Articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A collection of objects related to the 30 articles from the Declaration of Human Rights. An open invitation to the audience to do as they desire.

 

Saturday 17 June
Leibniz
The Book of Blood: Human Writes

A participatory performance installation exploring the status of human rights in relation to the realities, constraints and pressures experienced by the displaced and marginalised in the UK.  Around a central mise en scene, and amongst a montage of performances, audiences will be received by a nurse and a scribe and invited to donate a drop of blood, which is used to write one letter from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in a thick, leather-bound book. Throughout the performance the text progresses drop by drop and letter by letter.

 

Sunday 18 June
The Clod Ensemble
Red Ladies

Announcing their arrival at PSi by singing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights dressed in identical red scarves, trenchcoats, sunglasses and vanity cases, the Red Ladies will be keeping an eye on Performing Rights - watching, witnessing, circulating, gathering information; monitoring how people interact with each other, what they wear, how they move; locating the people with the power; recording speech patterns; decoding cryptic languages; counting surveillance cameras. They will regroup on the final day before making an emergency exit. Produced by Fuel and funded by Arts Council England, PRSF, Awards for All, The Hinrichsen Trust and Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust.

 

Day Passes: £10 (allows access to The Manifesto Room, Library of Performing Rights, Gallery of Utopias, Conference Plenary sessions, and all installations and daytime performances).

Please note: Day Passes do not include performance tickets which must be booked and paid for separately.