Live Art Almanac - Vol. 2

Call for recommendations and submissions for The Live Art Almanac - Vol. 2 An international publication of writing on and around Live Art

Deadline: 31 December 2009

The Live Art Almanac Vol. 2 is a publication produced and published by the Live Art Development Agency (London, UK) in partnership with Live Art UK, Performance Space 122 (New York, USA), and Performance Space (Sydney, Australia).

The Live Art Almanac Vol. 2 will be published in 2010 and will draw together recent writings about and around Live Art* – from reviews, interviews and news stories, to cultural commentaries and “private” communications. It aims to be both a useful resource and a good read for artists, writers, students and others interested in Live Art.

Recommendations for, and submissions to, The Live Art Almanac Vol. 2 may be any length up to 5,000 words. The material must be engaging, provocative, and thoughtful writing on and around the contemporary cultural landscape in which Live Art practice sits and must shed light on the various debates and ideas in circulation within that landscape. You may submit your own writing but we really want you to tell us about interesting material you have read. The submission must have been written between July 2008 and December 2009.

The first Live Art Almanac primarily contained material about and by British-based artists and writers. The Live Art Almanac Vol. 2 will be published in English, but encourages international submissions as well as texts in translation previously published in other languages.

Details of the first Live Art Almanac >>>here<<<<

For more detailed information on this call for recommendations and submissions visit www.thisisLiveArt.co.uk

Recommendations should be emailed to contact@thisisLiveArt.co.uk with ‘Almanac’ in the subject line. The deadline for all recommendations is 31 December 2009.

Please also contact contact@thisisLiveArt.co.uk if you have any questions.

The (first) Live Art Almanac is available to purchase from Unbound - www.thisisUnbound.co.uk - for only £5.00.

*The term Live Art is not a description of an artform or discipline, but a cultural strategy to include experimental processes and experiential practices that might otherwise be excluded from established curatorial, cultural and critical frameworks. Live Art is a framing device for a catalogue of approaches to the possibilities of liveness by artists who chose to work across, in between, and at the edges of more traditional artistic forms.

Please also refer to “What is Live Art?”: www.thisisliveart.co.uk/about_us/what_is_live_art.html

CALL OUT FOR UK WRITING LIVE ARTISTS

Are you an artist, performer or writer engaged in live and interdisciplinary art?

Are you interested in collaborative and experimental approaches to writing? Would you like to be part of a trans-Atlantic art writing community?

If so, you could be part of Writing Live UK.....



ABOUT WRITING LIVE

Writing Live is a trans-Atlantic contemporary critical writing programme developed by Open Dialogues, Performa09 and the Space Between Words. The programme launches in New York during Performa 09 and moves to the UK in 2010.
Writing Live is an equal community of peers who understand the importance of intergenerational dialogue, artist communities, collaborative process and unknown product

US Based Writing Live Fellows are Rebecca Armstrong, Rachel Lois Clapham, Tyler Coburn, Patricia Milder, Mary Paterson, Ryan Tracy, Kenny Ulloa and Peter Walsh. As a group they will participate in workshops, develop work together in order to put pressure on how to critically compose, punctuate and re-write performance and Performa 09.

Please read more about Writing Live programme here http://open-dialogues.blogspot.com/2009/09/writing-live-launch.html.

GETTING INVOLVED

We are currently looking for expressions of interest from 8 UK based art writers to join the Writing Live community for an experiment in trans-Atlantic working for Stage One of Writing Live. UK writers will share work with the US based Writing Live Fellows and take part in task based writing commissions during Performa09. By inviting people to test this relationship we want to collaboratively explore how Writing Live can develop in the UK in 2010.

The a UK Writing Live artist you will;

- Gain access to the work of Writing Live
- Become part of a Trans-Atlantic art writing community of peers
- Participate in a series of creative task based writing commissions in November
- Be instrumental in shaping Writing Live UK 2010
- Take an active role in Writing Live UK 2010 (meetings, publishing, public symposia)


We are looking for 8 experienced UK based art/writing practitioners; artists with portfolios that include critical/creative art writing projects, skilled collaborators with a proven knowledge of performance, Live Art and its history.

To participate, you will need to be able to:

- Inspire the Writing Live Community
- Commit to the overall aims of Writing Live
- Dedicate time to sustaining relationships and developing new task based textual work with other members of the Writing Live Community
- Document and upload any work in progress onto the Writing live website.
- Commit to being an active member of the constituency for Writing Live in the UK in 2010, alongside Performa, Open Dialogues and Space Between Words

Being a UK member of Writing Live is a long term collaborative commitment, your participation will help us shape what Writing Live might be in the UK in 2010. As such, it is not possible to predict exactly what will happen in the long run, or how much time you will need. But for now, we need UK Writing Live artists to dedicate a few hours thinking and writing time to Writing Live every week over the month of November.

TO APPLY

To apply, please send no more than one A4 page biography (not CV). Include links to and/or samples of your art writing projects to opendialogues@gmail.com by 26 October 10am.

BACKGROUND

Open Dialogues

Open Dialogues is a UK based writing collaboration, founded by Rachel Lois Clapham and Mary Paterson, that produces critical writing on contemporary art. www.opendialogues.com

Space Between Words

Founded by Claire MacDonald, Space Between Words is an international collaborative network engaging with writing across the expanded field of literature, art and performance – including visual and language poetry, digital writing, performance, theatre, film, music and dance. http://www.thespacebetweenwords.org/

Performa

Performa, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization established by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004, is dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century.

Writing Live Background

Writing Live brings together an international group of young critics, curators and artists to generate writing material related to PERFORMA07. Writing Live is a continuation of the ongoing Not For Sale public education series, which features artists, authors, and critics discussing the current issues in performance and new media, and the related task of writing about and art and artists whose work encompasses several disciplines at once. Writing Live develops previous Not For Sale activities including Writing on Performance and New Media - a two part symposium during PERFORMA05 and the PERFORMA Summer Workshops of 2006. Directed: RoseLee Goldberg & Defne Ayas. Co-ordinated by: Rachel Lois Clapham (Writing Live Fellow), Rebecca May Marston (Writing Live Fellow) and Mary Paterson (Writing Live Fellow). Writing Live 2007 was part funded by Arts Council England.

Writing Live 2009: US Director Defne Ayas (Performa), Associate Patricia Milder. Curators Rachel Lois Clapham and Mary Paterson in association with Claire MacDonald.

Writing Live 2009 is hosted by Cooper Union University and The Bronx Museum and is supported by Arts Council of England

AN ASSEMBLING #1

AN ASSEMBLING #1 is now available for free PDF download at www.scribd.com/ESSAYINGESSAYS

AN ASSEMBLING #1 featuring experiments in essaying from:

David Berridge; Rachel Lois Clapham; Emma Cocker; Alex Eisenberg; Fiona Fullam; Alex Hardy; Éilis Kirby; Jenny Lawson; Patricia Lyons; Pete McPartian; John Pinder.

Assembled by David Berridge as part of ESSAYING ESSAYS: A TEMPORARY COLLECTIVE OF READERS, one of seven projects by the FREE PRESS collective exploring economies of ideas and alternative modes of dissemination and exchange.

Proposals, provocations, projects, scores and ________ for the always to be emerging, shifting constellation(s) of future ASSEMBLING's are welcome, inparticular proposals which come with their own form and method of distribution.

Contact essayingessays@gmail.com

ESSAYING ESSAYS IS A >>>FREE PRESS<<< case study

10 PERFORMANCES

Image; Sto Theatro, courtesy 10 Performances

26 November 2009, 12:00 p.m., Jubilee Theatre, Roehampton University, London

10 PERFORMANCES is a text-based performance project that explored the nature of performative writing and its relation to the staged event of performance. 10 artists will contribute one written work each. Sharing a concern with language “not as a text, but, as an event”, as Tim Etchells*, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, has aptly noted, the project explored the notion of writing as a way of performing as well as the ways that performance is being elaborated through linguistic and writing processes. The main aim of the artists participating in the project is therefore to expand the forms and ways that one can “make writing perform” (Della Pollock, 1998:75).

The day consisted of 10 text performances by;

Mark Caffrey (Queen's University, Belfast, practice-led research student)
Barbara Campbell (Australian based visual and performance artist)
Robin Deacon (UK based performance artist, writer and filmmaker)
Matthew Goulish (USA based artist, funder member of Goat Island company)
Akillas Karazisis (Greece based director, writer and actor)
Johanna Linsley (Queen Mary University of London research student)
Cathy Naden (UK based performance artist, funder member of Forced Entertainment company)
Tamarin Norwood (Goldsmiths University of London, MFA student Art Writing)
Theron Schmidt (QMUL research student)
Danae Theodoridou (Roehampton University research student)

+1 live response by Rachel Lois Clapham (Writer and Co-Director Open Dialogues) and performer Alex Eisenberg.

See our +1 performance here


Also here



And on Scribble Live here


10 Performances is curated by DanaeTheodoridou and Justin Hunt
[AHRC Beyond Text Student-led Initiative Grant] www.beyondtext.ac.uk. To view the scripts of all the live works click here.

WRITING LIVE LAUNCH

Question

What is the future of experimental critical writing and how is it being informed by its past?

How might the practices of different generations – from avant-garde pioneers to recent graduates – be brought into contact?

How might live/visual/textual practitioners, artist scholars experimenting with writing’s forms, and artists working with text come together?

Response
Writing Live...


ABOUT WRITING LIVE

Writing Live is a Performa education project produced by Performa, Open Dialogues and thespacebetweenwords in connection with Performa 09.

Writing Live is an equal community of peers working in the intersection between art, writing and performance, focussed on international and intergenerational cultural exchange.

Writing Live launched at Performa09, where 8 US based Writing Live Fellows participated in workshops, worked with Performa09 artists, and contributed to a curated platform of experimental critical writing in collaboration with Performa09.


To see  a partial Writing Live 09 archive on the Performa website go to :

http://performa-arts.org/blog/what-we-do/biennials/performa-09/scoring-performa/

http://performa-arts.org/blog/what-we-do/biennials/performa-09/the-community/

http://performa-arts.org/blog/what-we-do/biennials/performa-09/writing-encounters/

http://performa-arts.org/blog/what-we-do/biennials/performa-09/writing-machine/

http://performa-arts.org/blog/what-we-do/biennials/performa-09/diary/

Contact Open Dialogues for full programme content.

Writing Live 09 Symposium





ABOUT

Open Dialogues

Open Dialogues is a UK based writing collaboration, founded by Rachel Lois Clapham and Mary Paterson, that produces critical writing on contemporary art. www.opendialogues.com

Space Between Words

Founded by Claire MacDonald, Space Between Words is an international collaborative network engaging with writing across the expanded field of literature, art and performance – including visual and language poetry, digital writing, performance, theatre, film, music and dance. http://www.thespacebetweenwords.org/

Performa

Performa, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization established by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004, is dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century.

Writing Live Background

Writing Live brings together an international group of young critics, curators and artists to generate writing material related to PERFORMA07. Writing Live is a continuation of the ongoing Not For Sale public education series, which features artists, authors, and critics discussing the current issues in performance and new media, and the related task of writing about and art and artists whose work encompasses several disciplines at once. Writing Live develops previous Not For Sale activities including Writing on Performance and New Media - a two part symposium during PERFORMA05 and the PERFORMA Summer Workshops of 2006. Directed: RoseLee Goldberg & Defne Ayas. Co-ordinated by: Rachel Lois Clapham (Writing Live Fellow), Rebecca May Marston (Writing Live Fellow) and Mary Paterson (Writing Live Fellow). Writing Live 2007 was part funded by Arts Council England.

Writing Live 2009: US Director Defne Ayas (Performa), Associate Patricia Milder. Curators Rachel Lois Clapham and Mary Paterson in association with Claire MacDonald.


Writing Live 2009 is hosted by Cooper Union University and The Bronx Museum and is supported by Arts Council of England

Notes on NOTES- Scoring Notes on a Return

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Notes on NOTES was a writing residency in which writers Rachel Lois Clapham, John Dummett and Matthew Hearne worked in the Laing Gallery from 4-5th September to make notes in response to the Laing’s Notes on a Return exhibition.

Each note was a live, public and imperfect fiction of Notes on a Return that explored how to notate, house and return to the live. The public interacted with the writers in several drop in sessions and the residency ended with a live session entitled ‘The Final Word’



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Scoring Notes on a Return, a project for Notes on NOTES by Rachel Lois Clapham

Ultimately speculative, a score lies in between action and object, performance and document; it is a singular record of action past or imagined and a call to future performances.

Over the two days of Notes on NOTES I worked on how to compose or punctuate performance by re-arranging objects and visuals in the space and collecting prompts from audience members in order to collectively develop a score for Notes on a Return.

‘The Final Word’ was an electric fan which blew into the space, automatically deciding the final arrangement of the score.

The score currently remains as a collectively authored blueprint for future writing on Notes on a Return.



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For more details of Notes on Notes and Matthew and John’s work please see http://open-dialogues.blogspot.com/2009/07/notes-on-notes-on-return.html

Seeds and Bridges

Announcing the 2009 season of 'seeds & bridges'. All the events explore ideas of space and sound / architecture and sonic structures.


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Saturday 3rd October
@ RED gallery, Osborne street (behind Primark), Hull
7pm, free entry

John Grzinich (Estonia)
Max Shentelevs (Latvia)
Simon Whetham (Bristol)

*3 artists working with sound, finding interesting things in our daily spaces and places, combining field recordings with everyday objects and small instruments and even a laptop !. Their work has appeared on various labels and in galleries and concerts all over the world*


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Saturday 7th November
@ Holy Trinity Church, marketplace, Hull
12 noon to 4pm
free entry

Patrick Farmer (percussion, stones)
Sarah Hughes (zither, stones, drawing)
Shayla Reynolds (installations)
Jez riley French (surface vibrations, stones, small objects & instruments)

*an afternoon exploration of the sound and spaces of Holy Trinity Church, including installation & sound + a performance of Christian Wolff's seminal text score 'stones' + a new score by Jez riley French*



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Saturday 12th December
@ Ferens Art Gallery, Victoria Square, Hull
2.30pm, free entry

Philip Thomas (piano)

*a rare solo recital in Hull from one of Europe's leading interpreters of contemporary piano works. Philip is senior lecturer in performance at Huddersfield University and for this special performance he will perform graphic scores by Cage, Wolff, Cardew & also one of the four specially commissioned photographic scores for seeds & bridges 2009 by Jez riley french*

visit: http://seedsandbridges.blogspot.com/ for more information.