Experimentica's notoriety was cemented last year with the worldwide media frenzy that followed Japanese artist AntiCool's restrained and politically apposite performance "Allurements of Mass Media". With masterly skill and control she hit a topical nerve with her satirical comments on consumer culture and binge drinking.This year's line-up is also guaranteed to hit the headlines with essential new work from Wales’ most daring minds alongside a selection of international innovators. If you go and see one premiere experimental arts festival showcasing the best in new Welsh and intenational performance, dance, film, music and installation this year - make it this one This year's performances are: The Sherman Thomas Archive A cross-media collaboration between Steepways Productions and auralab studying a character unable to separate his own and other peoples’ memories. Anushiye Yarnell: Animal Love Project A performance and presentation marking the start of a new project from cardiff-based dance artist Anushiye Yarnell. Kathe Izzo: Sea of Love In a steady stream of transatlantic love transmission and epic poetic communiqués, love artist Kathe Izzo continues her ongoing mission of loving the world one person at a time. Megan Broadmeadow: Telyn A chance to help create, craft and play a unique harp. Marc Jones: Just Like Flying An interactive installation which studies out-of-body experiences. Marcia Levi (Brazil): Imagem Marcela Levi creates graceful, provocative and visceral performance art playfully transforming images and perceptions of the female form. People in Pieces: Of Haloes and Subsuns A collaborative performance where weather is created as you look on from a specially created den and you experience twilight, darkness and tempests. Luke Collins A video installation and performance from Glasgow-based Luke Collins studying ideas of impossible narratives. Rebecca Spooner Super 8 film is projected on glass objects and drawings to create a colourful and kaleidoscopic diffusion of moving light. Kristel Trow: Two Routes in Penarth A performance/interactive installation by a mother and daughter who play a duet on an adapted piano and reassess image and sound. The Threatmantics A welcome return from Cardiff’s favourite art-rock trio. Neil Davies: Monument A performance and installation work examining the relationships between preservation and purification, beauty and horror, hope and containment. Fern Thomas: Creation Stories Inspired by creation myths from around the world, this dynamic video installation uses everyday objects and symbols to perform simple actions where the outcome is both creative and destructive. Beth Greenhalgh: Bloody Poetry A series of short actions that creates a live image from a piece of text. The image is still for seconds and then disappears. Sam Hasler “Real life stories, lies, exaggerations, make believe, dreams, fights. I love the mess.” Simon Whitehead: Noctamble Simon presents Noctamble, a video based on his Walks to Illuminate project, where items of wearable light sculpture illuminate invited participants while they walk in the dark. What's Welsh for Performance? | Beth yw 'Performance' yn Gymraeg? The launch of a two-year series of events devoted to key artists who have shaped the development of performance art in Wales since 1968. Tim Bromage: Jam {N.S.R.V} A performance project exploring notions of grief and penance, drawing biblical imagery and the industrial working environment. Mr & Mrs Clark: Pants Committee Met someone you like in the bar? Unsure about your pants? Stéfanie Seguin (France): Geopolitic does not fit yet on carte postale/take 3 An experimantal performance exploring language, politics and the blank spaces between moments. Silke Mansholt (Germany): In memoriam of nature A last attempt of reanimation or resurrection, a linking back to our lost animality, this performance aims to make the potentialities in the substances of nature visible. Watson, Bowers and Finch: Botanising on the asphalt An exploration of themes relating to the modern city through a process of digital and analogue sound and video projection. Karl Price: Dance With Me A series of actions that ask what is public and what is private, and how this affects the audience and the artist. Goodcopbadcop: Restricted Access Very soon it’ll be time to panic. It’s closer than you think. B l e n d e r David Patrick Myers and John Collingswood form a fresh alliance with Frank Naughton (rocketgoldstar) and Felix Otaola (imperial pigs). |
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