Matthew Cowan

Matthew Cowan has been working with the Company of Ringers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, and has produced a new film of their meeting and practice which will accompany a performance. The ringers operate the 13 bells of the Cathedral in the Bell Ringer's Chamber high in the West Tower of the Cathedral. The film is a record of the ritual of the practice of the ringing of the cathedral bells, in space that has been dedicated to such activity for nearly four hundred years.

Alongside the film will be a new live performance involving the repetitive ritual of bell ringing, the mechanism of the bell ropes, and the artist's own take on the physicality of campanology.
http://www.lincolnartprogramme.co.uk

The Company Mathew Cowan

Nightjar - The Labours

For 2011 Nightjar commissioned US based artists Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey to present The Labours: An Astronomical Dance on Summer Solstice. The Labours will involve an extensive cast of volunteer performers who will enact sequences of movement and text in constellations throughout Lincoln, creating a human celestial map across the city.

http://www.nightjar.info/

INVISIBLE DUST

Townley and Bradby

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The Bowthorpe Experiment - Norfolk and Norwich Festival

13th – 15th May 2011

Townley and Brady developed an evening cycle tour designed to see the future of Norwich. The Townley and Bradby bike tour left daily from Chapelfield Gardens, with a portable bike-powered cinema packed into a bike trailer (from Magnificent Revolution). The tour passed through sites where in the past, residents, planners and activists have responded to the challenges of collective urban living. The evening’s outing culminated on the western edge of the city where a short film was projected onto the side of a building, creating both a public event and prophetic vision of the future.

DARK MATERIAL

A stunning six storey red-brick medieval castle build by Ralph Cromwell, Lord Treasurer of England in 1434, will be part of the new 'Dark Materials' Programme – A month-long series of art commissions and events bringing together an unlikely alliance between devotees of the National Trust and the counter cultures of music and biker groups.
Tattershall Castle: 15th & 16th October, 11am-5pm
http://homeliveart.com/current-projects/145-avf

RADAR - This Is Not A Performance or a Lecture

RADAR
THIS IS NOT A PERFORMANCE OR A LECTURE!
17-18 June 2011

Janet Thomas
Frank Abbot
Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Janice Kerbel
Robin Deacon
Neal Swettenahm and Michael Pinchbeck
Jenny Hogarth and Kim Coleman

Radar presents two days of discussion and new commissions that begin a dialogue about the intersection between performance and visual practice.

JENNET THOMAS ECHO VS. GOWN

PHIL AND GALIA KOLLECTIV

EPIC SEA BATTLE AT NIGHT: A REVOLUTIONARY PLAY PERMEATED WITH THE ECONOMIC THINKING OF MILTON FRIEDMAN

NEAL SWETTENHAM AND MICHAEL PINCHBECK HOW TO WRITE A PLAY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DEEP TRANCE BEHAVIOR

ROBIN DEACON THE ARGUMENT AGAINST THE BODY

RUTH PROCTOR REPEAT, REHEARSE, REPLAY: A CONVERSATION

FRANK ABBOT MOOSE MEMORY
All photography by Julian Hughes

http://www.arts.lboro.ac.uk/radar/

RADAR - Folk Variations

FOLK VARIATIONS - Spring 2011

Folk Variations was a programme of four new artists’ commissions which explored how histories are both created and disseminated by and through people. Within individual and collective performances, the works told stories, provided behavioural examples and created historical reconstructions as a way of re-imaging our folk history.

OLIVIA PLENDER & PATRICK STAFF
LIFE IN THE WOODS

Olivia Plender and Patrick Staff created a video work which utilises the film making process as collective and social activity. Their initial starting point involved bringing a group of participants to live together at a woodland site, as an exercise in communal living, or free school in the forest, involving group discussion and workshops.

SERENA KORDA
TRAINING THROUGH PRODUCTION

Inspired by Loughborough University’s history of training through production and the Loughborough University archive material depicting images of mass movement; Serena Korda made a new work involving a mass movement choir.
http://arts.lboro.ac.uk/radar/programme_archive/folk_variations1/serena_korda/