Monday 5th NovemberAberystwyth Arts Centre Upstairs Bar 7.30pm and after in the Great Hall. Axis Magazine presents ‘Café Artistique in Wales’, giving the opportunity to take part in discussions about contemporary art. Guest speaker, performance artist Lucienne Cole (‘I love the Smiths. It’s not intended to be ironic at all’ – on her tap dancing performance ‘Dance to Music, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’) will introduce her work and talk about her work in and with the public. After the discussion there will be a performance by artists-in-residence Miranda Whall, Ashley Wallington and Tom Payne, who all live and work in Aberystwyth. Miranda Whall is a visual artist and lecturer in fine art at the School of Art Aberystwyth, University Wales. Ashley Wallington and Tom Payne are both artists-in-performance and lecture in performance at Coleg Ceredigion. Together they will perform 'The Proposal': A series of three meetings have taken place over the course of a month in three different locations; the three homes of the artists. The meetings have taken place around dining and coffee tables. The meetings have been accompanied by food and wine; popcorn and southern comfort, apple pie and red wine, cheese, grapes, wine and brandy respectively. The purpose of the meetings was to discuss how to respond to performance artist Lucienne Cole's visit to Aberystwyth's Arts Centre . 'The Proposal' will be a live performance by all three artists. It will be about responding and not responding, it will be about discussing how to respond. It won't be a response, they have already responded. It will be about the disagreement in the way in which they respond, and the agreements. It will be a culmination or distillation of elements from all three meetings. It will incorporate sound recordings, notes, debris from the meetings, tables, chairs, lap tops, table lamps etc. 'The Proposal' is an exercise in the unrehearsable, focusing on what happens in the live event and in the meeting between audience and performers. 'The Proposal' has not been rehearsed. Using the fragments, debris and recordings of the previous meetings, the performers will meet again. New meanings will emerge as conversations are unpicked. Sometimes there will be agreement. Sometimes there will be collision. |
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