Wednesday
QUEER NOTIONS - it's almost here
QUEER NOTIONS 2010 from THISISPOPBABY on Vimeo.
THISISPOPBABY bring you Queer Notions
If you are in Dublin and you miss this festival...you're missing the best curated programme of Queer Art to hit these shores>>>don't miss it!
Viral video by TuMe Tues
MARC REGAS - nyc
Marc Regas - talented photographer, dear friend, beautiful person..Marc posts to his blog some of the images that he has taken but won't get to use on whatever given job..it's a visual treat...feast away.
My new favourite editorial - TWIN
So looking forward to my delivery of TWIN issues I & III...a much better read over the Christmas holidays then any pull out magazine or the RTE guide..yuck!
Fashion editor one of the brightest lights in London and my gorgeous friend Celestine Cooney, even better reason to order.
My new favourite online shop - JAGUAR SHOES
It was my favourite place to meet for drinks but now it will have to be my fav online store etc etc..check out t-shirts, artwork and general news about recent events.
Tuesday
LIVE COLLISION - Beautiful & Beguiling
DATE: 13 - 15 Sept inclusive
TIME: 6.30PM
PRICE:
€10/€8: for individual shows
€10/€8: for individual shows
€25: ALL THREE SHOWS
CALL BOX OFFICE:
1850 374 643
1850 374 643
Tickets available at:
Live Collision comes back to fringe with a bang! After a successful first outing in the festival in 2009, Live Collision brings more exciting radical work to Ireland from three diverse international artists. International companies perform by night and collaborate with their Irish counterparts by day, exploring a cross pollination of ideas, art forms and cultural landscapes.
“The sleeper hit last year’s festival” Róise Goan, Festival Director.
Live Collision is a programme of work that provides a platform for international artists/theatre makers to present their work in Ireland while also introducing them to other Irish artists who they have the opportunity to collaborate with. Each of the international artists will present their work by night and they will work in residence with an Irish artist they have been teamed with in daytime rehearsals. They will then present the new work and seeds of ideas worked on with their Irish counterparts in an invitation only sharing/’Scratch’ performance on 16th August Sept at The LAB, Foley Street. Dublin 1.
Lynnette Moran, the founder and producer of Live Collision is supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation (UK) to explore new models of making and showing work in Ireland. Lynnette has become the first Irish based producer/artist to receive support from the foundation outside of the UK for the second year running. Live Collision’s primary objective is to open an active engagement where artists can share an understanding of Ireland‘s cultural landscape and provide a creative space for cross-cultural conversation amongst the visiting and resident artists taking part.
MONDAY 13 Sept
My Body Travels by Matthew Morris
TUESDAY 14 Sept
There's A Hole In My Heart That Goes All The Way To China by Stacy Makishi
WEDNESDAY 15 Sept
My Husband Is A Spaceman by Kazuko Hohki
“The sleeper hit last year’s festival” Róise Goan, Festival Director.
Live Collision is a programme of work that provides a platform for international artists/theatre makers to present their work in Ireland while also introducing them to other Irish artists who they have the opportunity to collaborate with. Each of the international artists will present their work by night and they will work in residence with an Irish artist they have been teamed with in daytime rehearsals. They will then present the new work and seeds of ideas worked on with their Irish counterparts in an invitation only sharing/’Scratch’ performance on 16th August Sept at The LAB, Foley Street. Dublin 1.
Lynnette Moran, the founder and producer of Live Collision is supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation (UK) to explore new models of making and showing work in Ireland. Lynnette has become the first Irish based producer/artist to receive support from the foundation outside of the UK for the second year running. Live Collision’s primary objective is to open an active engagement where artists can share an understanding of Ireland‘s cultural landscape and provide a creative space for cross-cultural conversation amongst the visiting and resident artists taking part.
MONDAY 13 Sept
My Body Travels by Matthew Morris
TUESDAY 14 Sept
There's A Hole In My Heart That Goes All The Way To China by Stacy Makishi
WEDNESDAY 15 Sept
My Husband Is A Spaceman by Kazuko Hohki
LIVE COLLISION - Kazuko Hohki - My Husband Is A Spaceman
A multi-media solo show, this is the third part of an absorbing trilogy from an incredible live artist. A Japanese office lady is content with her single lifestyle until she encounters Robin, an English University fellow, in Tokyo. They fall in love, get married, and move to England. But married life is not what Robin expects and the eccentric Englishman takes to locking himself in a room upstairs every night. Derived from an old Japanese folk tale of love between a peasant and a crane, this is a love story loosely based on Kazuko’s experience of a cross-cultural relationship, loneliness and how to survive it.
One of the most personal and affecting performers you are ever likely to see.
Kazuko Hohki is a Duckie Associate Artist
LIVE COLLISION - Stacy Makishi - There's A Whole In My Heart That Goes All The Way To China
Mining the mysterious caverns of the human heart, this is an extraordinary live art multimedia piece. Combining visuals, movement and text, it is made up of many parts about holes that ultimately leaves one feeling whole. Carl Jung said, “I would rather be whole than be good”. This work digs down deep into the depths of loneliness and shame, but even in its darkest moments, the canary still sings.
Stacy Makishi is an Artsadmin Associate Artist.
LIVE COLLISION - Matthew Morris - My Body Travels
Matthew P. Morris is exploring a new adventure. He’s hitching his heels high and daring to redress his first solo piece. A ‘he’ who transforms to ‘she’ in order to walk the wild side of a lopsided reality of assumed identity, he’s treading bare a silent world of desirable loneliness before finally surrendering to the natural order of serenity. A cycle of events; moments in time unravel unexpectedly to reveal where paths cross and people change our lives, often unsettling the ground beneath us.
Shake it like a milkshake, moves that’ll groove … all creamy and dreamy. A song might be sung. The dance will be danced. And please for a moment let there be quiet…
VIRTUAL JUKEBOX - mouth to mouth
Globally dispersed performers (mouth to mouth) separated by time zones, land and sea come together to dance to a unique playlist made up entirely of personal dedications.
mouth to mouth invite the audience to select songs from the playlist they would like to listen and dance to – triggering both virtual and real performers and revealing personal dedications. It’s a chance for all involved to jump in and share a moment in time.
Members of mouth to mouth | international performance collective, through a live web link, will take part in an intimate dance off; gestures and dance moves will be shared, embodied, and passed on in both live and virtual spaces.
CALL BOX OFFICE
1850 374 643
mouth to mouth invite the audience to select songs from the playlist they would like to listen and dance to – triggering both virtual and real performers and revealing personal dedications. It’s a chance for all involved to jump in and share a moment in time.
Members of mouth to mouth | international performance collective, through a live web link, will take part in an intimate dance off; gestures and dance moves will be shared, embodied, and passed on in both live and virtual spaces.
Without a trained dancer in sight, this is more about random responses and endurance rather than skill.
Virtual Jukebox was originally performed as part of Now and Then at Gallery North (UK) as part of the Wunderbar Festival.
Directed by Kate Craddock and Lynnette Moran
1850 374 643
SCRATCH IT...Live Scratch
Live Scratch brings you works in progress, seeds of ideas and fresh collaborations.
It’s a moment in time, a testing ground, a chance to fire it up or stomp it out.
Like a train passing through the station, there is only one chance to jump on before it’s gone.
Artists will include an international line-up of – Greg McLaren, Anna Mendes and Patrizia Paolini.
Produced & curated by Lynnette Moran
Sunday
SOMETHINGS I'VE SEEN IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS - Princess Julia
Princess Julia original Blitz Kid, legendary DJ, club princess extraordinaire - 50 and beautiful - style icon - co-publisher for music paper/fanzine The P.i.X - contributes to fashion website KCTV.co.uk - music editor for iD magazine
Monday
Kunstenfestivaldesarts 010
I am one of 30 young international producers selected for SPACE - Supporting Performing Arts Circulation in Europe organised by ONDA in Paris and supported by the European Commission.
One of the festivals I have attended this summer is the Kunstenfestival des Arts 010.
The Kunstenfestivaldesarts' audiences are keen followers of contemporary, inspiring and atypical artistic offerings. The range of artistic creations in the international programme - both from more established artists and still fairly unknown talents - awakened people's curiosity and generated debate.
A large number of new works saw the light at this year's festival, for the most part initiated and co-produced by the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, and many of them held wonderful surprises in store for their audiences. Highlights include the premiere of the new work by Germany's Christoph Schlingensief, which proved a revelation for many, as well as the provocative new project from the Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó. There were also excellent creations from Belgian artists this year, such as Inne Goris, Etienne Guilloteau, Sarah Vanagt and Claude Schmitz: projects that have often allowed them to assert their artistic language and introduce it to a wider audience.
This 010 festival was also an opportunity for opening up reflection on the city and the people who live there, through artistic projects by Lotte van den Berg, Sarah Vanagt and ZimmerFrei for example, but also in a series of initiatives such as workshops, debates and a travelling theatre for children (the Kamishibai project) which have taken the festival to people who do not normally access the city's cultural offerings.
My personal highlight was in the form of Lotte van den Berg's piece - Het verdwalen in kaart
Dutch director Lotte founded OMSK when she moved to Dordrecht and set herself up in the Energiehuis. In order to get to know the city and its inhabitants, she invited them to create a show. A total of 72 residents, young and old, accepted her invitation, and Het verdwalen in kaart is the generous result. The sense of belonging, of individuality and of knowing oneself secure in a group is the red thread running through the silent performance. Lotte uses powerful, silently fading images to suggest extremes of joy and distress.
It is moving and extraordinary while being perfectly ordinary. A simple act of creating and destroying, doing & undoing. A gentle nudge to the edge of your seat, while all the time the very question of belonging is challenged again and again.
My new favourite online shop - needsupply
This online store seems to have more then enough delightful items to keep me interested, good sale on too. Worth flicking through - click on title above for link - bookmarked
My new favourite shop - Tokyo Bike
Tokyo Bike has a new pop up shop at Spitalfields Market - the shop & the bikes are just super pleasing to the eye, with minimal design aesthetics applied to both the bikes and the shop...it makes you just want to indulge in the cr-mo steel framed bikes, in block colours with tan leather seats, straight handlebars and 650mm wheels.
They look good - check them out -
They look good - check them out -
Sunday
SOME THINGS I'VE SEEN IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS - Best Before by Rimini Protokoll
Cork Mid Summer Festival was a great success bringing together a combination of commissioned and programmed work, there was a strawberry ripple of international companies through a programme of homegrown work. I was only there for two days each of the weekends, so I missed other festival highlights like Jérôme Bel and Mike Daisy.
But I had my own two highlights, the first of which was Rimini Prokoll’s, Best Before.
I am a fan of their work ordinarily and this show was no let down.
Best Before pulls the multi-player video game out of the virtual realm and plugs it into an intimate theatre setting. Each audience member navigates an anonymous avatar, interacting with a panel of on-stage experts – an electronic artist, a game tester, a lobbyist and a traffic flagger. A simulated city, Best-Land, gradually develops as each audience member adds their personal touch with game controller in hand. Taking its inspiration from Vancouver’s gaming industry, Best Land evolves and devolves as the audience clashes and collaborates while making personal, social and political decisions.
The show, decisions and outcomes percolated through my brain for many a day after.
Next up was Superflex – Check them out – Click link below
SUPERFLEX is a Danish art collective, founded in 1993 whose interventionist practice deals with economic markets, power structures, self-organisation and environmentalism. They understand their artistic practice as a set of tools, or as an invitation to positive action and participation rather than in terms of discrete works of art. Viewers often become co-producers, shifting the focus away from objects to relationships where the artworks can be redefined and modified by users.
More recently Superflex have been working with legal contracts, challenging public and private copyright laws which led to complex legal negotiations. By investigating the function of a contract, Superflex has created new works that are statements and proposals and can be understood as political acts redefining particular contexts and situations.
SOME THINGS I'VE SEEN IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS - STK
World Cup Final at Stoke Newington International Airport was a
The flurry and excitement of the match was accentuated by the twirling ‘loading’ sign of the internet connection swirling around trying desperately to keep up with the pace of play.
None the less it was a split crowd and when Spain rose to victory there was a modest celebration and a mass exodus of Holland fans. But I was very happy, I was delighted to see Spain win and I thought of all my lovely Spanish friends celebrating with much joy.
SOME THINGS I'VE SEEN IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS - After the Dance
First staged in 1939, After the Dance by Terence Rattigan offers a subtle, witty unmasking of the hedonistic 20s generation and a devastating study of repression and the human heart. Directed by Thea Sharrock this is an exquisite production, with impeccable detail and application of ideas. Benedict Cumberbatch plays David Scott-Fowler so wonderfully.
There was a point in the 3rd hour of the show that I thought to myself – I haven’t for one second questioned anything I have seen, utterly convincing and brilliantly done.
Stunning!
National Theatre, Lyttelton Theatre on until 11th Aug
Saturday
SOME THINGS I'VE SEEN IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS - starting with this
Ok so here is the deal ACT ART 8 - Censored included 100 Artists two of which were the wonderful Mr.Shaw and Mr.Schnabl.
Alex Shaw's film Jeannie Dee - The Pensioner Tranny DJ was a roaring success, beautifully shot with a dark hint of contemplation. Martin was a ball of fire locked away in an intimate space where he performed as the Human Jukebox, mixing up live songs with humour and serious vocals.
The night overall was a mish mash of the brilliant to the not so great, but the highlights for SURE were Scottee and Johnny Woo…brilliant, talented, political and down right trashy.
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