Performing Rights Manifestations
Gallery of Utopias
Full programme details and bookings www.psi12.qmul.ac.uk
Artists imagine different ways of seeing the places and spaces around us.
Friday 16 to Sunday 18 June
Free with Day Pass or Conference ID
Arts Pavilion, Mile End Park
13.00 to 20.00 daily
Lisa Wesley and Andrew Blackwood
The Project
(Saturday and Sunday only)
A live durational installation mixing storytelling and architecture to produce a narrative on modern urban life. The artists will be in residence constructing a monumental model of a dystopian, frozen landscape which is partly imaginary, partly based upon memories of places, upon the failure of town planning, upon the clash of old and new. This culture-clash city will constantly evolve, each overhaul mirroring shifts in society. The Project was commissioned by The National Review of Live Art 2006, and was partly developed from White Settlers, a Bonington Gallery / Now Festival Commission.
Wrights & Sites
A Mis-Guide to Anywhere
Three years in the making, A Mis-Guide to Anywhere is like no other guide you have ever used before. Rather than telling you where to go and what to see, it gives you the ways to see your city or environment that no one else has found yet. It suggests a series of walks and points of observation and contemplation, and provides provocations for reader-walkers to make their own exploratory journeys in whatever environment they choose: metropolis, home town, countryside, holiday destination... anywhere. Unlike an ordinary guide book, it is guided by the practice of mythogeography, which places the fictional, fanciful, fragile and personal on equal terms with 'factual', municipal history. Author and walker become partners in ascribing significance to place. Financially supported by Arts Council England.
Graeme Miller
Held (an extract)
For two years Graeme Miller has captured photographs of places around the world where people have fallen from the sky - stowaways who have hidden in the wheel bays of commercial airlines. Held is an installation of fragile, glass bowls of sky, each representing a lost life and acknowledging the political and social significance of their death. Held is not is a static and monumental memorial. By the act of lifting the bowls we reach through our finger-tips to another persons life, acknowledging the political and social significance of their death. The exhibition, Held is an Artsadmin project, jointly presented with Cafe Gallery Projects at Dilston Grove, London, 4 June to 16 July.
Yara El-Sherbini
A Demonstration
A performance to video in which El-Sherbini playfully considers ideas around authorship and the production values of the artwork, through the making of a visual pun.
Chris Johnston and Saul Hewish of Rideout
The Creative Prison
An animated film describing the interior of an imagined prison that works from the premise that creativity and learning are essential to the development of the human. Working with a group of prisoners, prison staff and the architect Will Alsop, the project asks what would a prison look like if it was built to primarily rehabilitate rather than primarily punish?
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
Utopia is in you (Graffiti, Oxford, Spring 2006)
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (lab of ii) is an ephemeral network of socially engaged artists and activists who believe that playful forms of cultural intervention in everyday life and the development of free convivial spaces that enable participants to cultivate full confidence in their own creative capacity are fundamental tools for social change. For the Lab of ii, Utopia is not an elsewhere or fictitious nowhere, it isn't a plan or blueprint for the future but a way of working in the here and now, a way of radically changing patterns of social and ecological relationship in the way we work and play together. the Lab of ii sees every one of its experiments as the creation of temporary moments of imperfect yet beautiful Utopias.
Lois Weaver
Domestic Terrorism
Lois Weaver commits acts of domestic terrorism by hanging laundry in public. Women spend their time washing and hanging laundry worldwide - a domestic act with universal resonance. This installation offers small domestic details for public consideration and provides the screens on which to project messages of urgency and visions of utopia. Domestic Terrorism includes Trouble with My Sheets, Video No. 1, created by Lois Weaver and Eleanor Savage.
See daily announcements for other Gallery of Utopias events.
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.
