Performing Rights Manifestations
Performances, Lectures and Special Events
Full programme details and bookings http://www.performingrightslibrary.org/
Performances, interventions, declarations, lectures, installations, residences, and special events.
Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 June
Great Hall, Arts Lecture Theatre, Drama Studio, Pinter Studio, Skeel Lecture Hall, and surroundings.
Chumpon Apisuk
Kumjing - an installation
Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 June
Drama Studio
From 18.30
Free with day Pass or conference ID.
Kumjing is an ongoing work in which Chumpon Apisuk transports dolls made by Burmese migrant workers internationally, and encourages audiences to adopt the dolls, which come with their own passports, and, in the process, to engage with the issues of immigration and displacement they raise.
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Chumpon Apisuk
Silence - a performance
Saturday 17 June
Pinter Studio
20.00
Free with day Pass or conference ID.
The government of Thailand is committing innumerable abusive actions against its own people: allowing officials to assassinate more than 3000 people in an anti drugs campaign, killing innocent youth in the southern Muslim provinces, and oppressing community leaders and human rights activists. Silence is dedicated to those who have been effected and abused by the government's power, and especially the Muslim human rights lawyer Somchai Nilapaijit who has been kidnapped by the Thai police since 2004.
Rabih Mroué
Looking for a Missing Employee
Thursday 15 June
Great Hall
19.30
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
Based on real events, Missing Employee centres on a notebook in which Mroué has collected everything published in local papers about the disappearance of a government employee in Beirut: an affair that started as a small announcement in the papers and ended, with the news of finding his body, on the front pages of every paper a few months later. The performance has been described as a 'surrealist saga' and an investigative performance in which the artist becomes a 'detective' interested in using actual documents to understand how rumours, public accusations, national political conflicts, and scandals act on the public sphere as shaped by print media. Performed by Rabih Mroué and Hatem Imam.
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Rabih Mroué
Three Posters: A Lecture
Saturday 17 June
Skeel Lecture Hall
21.00
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
Rabih Mroue presents a lecture about his acclaimed and controversial work in which one actor, one resistance fighter and one politician search in front of a camera for their "last" images before each one heads towards his own death. Three Posters, a performance by Elias Khoury and Rabih Mroue, represents a moment between fiction and truth by offering a voyeuristic view to the spectator of, on one hand a performance and on the other a real suffering, and questions the rhetoric of the role of the martyr within the context of the ideological disintegration of the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP).
Curious
(be)longing: a process in progress
Thursday 15 June
Skeel Lecture Hall
21.00
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
Curious present a showing of a process in progress of the (be)longing project, that is in part a film collaboration with sex workers and trafficked women in the east end of London and in part a performance of longing. Financially assisted by Arts Council, England, Awards for All, and The Women's Library. An Artsadmin Project.
People First and Powerhouse
A Mile in My Shoes
Thursday 15 and Friday 16 June
Pinter Studio
20.00
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
A collaboration between Ali Campbell (Queen Mary, University of London), Andrea Encinas-Meade (British Gospel Arts), and two leading Learning-Disabled groups, People First (Client-Led Advocacy) and Powerhouse (Learning-Disabled Women). In this interactive performance the collaborators celebrate their work in using performance and visual practice to train carers, staff, families and other Learning-Disabled people in Advocacy Awareness, which has had a profound impact in the field of Arts for Social Change.
Coco Fusco and Naeem Mohaiemen
A double bill of artist's talks
Friday 16 and Saturday 17 June
Arts Lecture Theatre
19.30
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
Fusco and Mohaiemen will talk about their respective current works. Fusco's new performances and video deal with the role of female interrogators in the War on Terror. Mohaiemen's work with the Visible Collective looks at hyphenated identities and loyalty tests in post 9/11 security panic.
Karen Finley
George & Martha: an affair between George Bush and Martha Stewart
Friday 16 June
Skeel Lecture Hall
21.00
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
A lecture performance about Finley's new illustrated novella George and Martha, a political satire about a mythic, illicit, sexual, love-hate, ongoing affair between George W. Bush and Martha Stewart. Finley will perform texts from the book and discuss issues raised by it in relation to the concept of parody , the ways in which America lives through the legends of George and Martha, and the appropriation of a collective knowledge for influencing critiques of a disastrous presidency. George and Martha is published by Verso, 2006.
Oreet Ashery
Welcome Home: a gathering for those who are not allowed to return.
Friday 16 June
Great Hall
From 19.30
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
The State of Israel was formed in 1948. Within fourteen months 369 Palestinian villages were eradicated and villagers dispersed as refugees mainly into the Middle East, where they are still denied the Right to Return to their homeland. Welcome Home is a gathering especially created for Performing Rights by Oreet Ashery to celebrate a symbolic home coming to all those who can not return home.
Welcome Home includes Memorial Service 369 Villages, a voice and video performance by Oreet Ashery and Mikhail Karikis conceived as a commemoration of the villages and an imagining of the return of their inhabitants; and Palestinian Folk Dancing by the London based Al Zaytouna, Group who perform Dabke, the national dance of Palestinians since 1948 that is strongly linked to a sense of Palestinian identity and prevalent in refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank. Welcome Home is also an opportunity to see a selection of contemporary film and video works curated by Reem Fadda, Director of the Palestinian Association for Contemporary Art, Ramallah, including Annemarie Jacir and Nassim Amaouche's Quelques Miettes Pour les Oiseaux; Nahed Awwad's Lions, Sharif Waked's Chic Point, Ayreen Anastas' Pasolini Pa* Palestine, and Ahmad Habash's Coming Back - films by Palestinian artists and filmmakers who go beyond the realm of the merely territorial to question the basic issue of rights and freedoms, of war, and of the right for an extended free cultural and actual existence. All this and music, drinks, party decorations, refreshments, and interactions.
Produced in association with London Artists Projects. R&D financially assisted by Arts Council, England.
Go Loko!
Touch and let yourself be touched!
Saturday 17 June
Great Hall
From 19.30
Tickets £12 (£10 concessions)
Celebrating Peoples Palace's long-lasting collaborations with Brazil and the exciting exchanges between artists and activists between Brazil and UK in recent years, Performing Rights presents a special night of performances, presentations, music and videos. And dancing! Go Loko! is an invitation to get to know part of the contemporary panorama of Brazilian Performance and Live Art - to discover, to dialogue and to dance in a celebratory festa tropicalista.
Gustavo Ciriaco presents An Imaginary Lecture on my whereabouts. Out of private memories and popular clichés, a dancer invites his audience to follow him on a journey through a foreigner's view on Brazil. Nayse Lopez and Lia Rodrigues present a video lecture about performance art on the frontiers of Rio's divided city. They represent a new initiative by Brazilian artists not simply to speak about the marginalized sections of Brazilian society, but to mobilize themselves to locate the creation and production of their work on the urban peripheries. In his performance O Samba do Crioulo Doido [The Samba of the Crazy 'Nigger'], Luiz de Abreu contemplates the objectification of the "black body" in Brazilian culture through the constitutive stereotypes of samba, carnival and eroticism, and embodies the resistance of the black population throughout Brazilian history.
Tetine take us into the night with their electro/rap/psychedelic creations, alongside graffiti banners on ideas of human rights created by local young people, and visuals by Gringo Cardia from Afroreggae's recent UK tour, From the Favela to the World.
Co-ordinated by João André da Rocha [People's Palace] in collaboration with Eduardo Bonito of Panorama Festival/Rio de Janeiro and the British Council/Rio de Janeiro. Graffiti banners project developed in partnership with the Shoreditch Trust.
Performing Rights
Closing Plenary
Sunday 18 June
Great Hall
11.00
Free with day Pass or conference ID.
If you can imagine something you can make it. If you can make something, you can make it change. Artists help us imagine the future and Live Artists remind us of what it mean to be alive in the present. Performing Rights Artistic Director Lois Weaver and Karen Finley, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Chumpon Apisuk, Monica Ross, Oreet Ashery and other participating artists perform manifestos of what it means to be alive and present in contemporary political and creative environments.
Guillermo Gomez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes of La Pocha Nostra
Mapa-Corpo: Oppositional Rites for a Borderless Society
Sunday 18 June
Great Hall
19.00
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes, in collaboration with local artists and audiences create a poetic interactive ritual that explores the post-9/11 "body politic." Amongst a series of tableaux vivants, audiences are invited to participate in the colonization and decolonization of a body with 40 acupuncture needles, each representing a nation of the 'coalition forces'.
Yara El-Sherbini
Rights and Wrongs. A Pub Quiz
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Performing Rights Closing Party
Sunday 18 June
See daily announcements for venue
21.00
Free with day Pass or conference ID.
A conference is what type of fruit? Name one movie in which an Arab was not shown as either a bomber, a belly dancer, or billionaire? Join the quizmaster, test your knowledge and win a prize in this entertaining and irreverent pub quiz specially devised for Performing Rights.
The Performing Rights closing party features Bobby Baker's Mad Meringues, a special performance by Richard Dedomenici's Fame Asylum vocal harmony boyband, and other special guests.
Tickets:
• Day Passes: £10
• Performance tickets: £8 (£6 concessions)
• Go Loko! Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions)
Please note: The Manifesto Room, Library of Performing Rights, Gallery of Utopias, Conference Plenary sessions, and all installations and daytime performances are free with a Day Pass or with a conference registration ID. Conference registration and Day Passes do not include performance tickets which must be booked and paid for separately.
Bookings www.psi12.qmul.ac.uk
