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Each week, we have been using i-ching readings to pick two random books from The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey, and creating a new performance score from them. This is inspired by the cut-up technique of William Burroughs, and also relates to our interest in the connection between performance scores and ritual protocols.
We have been writing these on a blackboard by the book collection, and inviting people to interpret the scores for themselves. Click here to see the different instructions created over the weeks, and try them out yourself.
During the book fair on the 27th November 2010, we spent the whole day with visitors, trying different methods of generating new performance instructions. To randomise the texts we used dice, pulled words out of a bag, and threw coins.
Then, as everyone was packing up, we presented some performances based on the scores made on the day
Click the following images to see videos:
first uk film festival day
the first uk disability film festival day takes place at 22 locations around britain on friday 3rd december. (check it out at http://www.disabilityfilmfestival.eu/). my short experimental film turn the book around forms part of the screenings. if you cant get to a venue you can still view / download it online as follows.
turn the book around. 1′ 42”. rev 2009. http://vimeo.com/10239180
too many victims, and not just historically – go silent no longer, the book of your lives unread, instead turn the book around. this film, like the rest of my work is about giving voice, allowing the silent/silenced to speak and giving voice to these these creative alternatives, these strategies for survival. this work is no abstraction about the holocaust, disabled through long-term mental illness i am another of those hitler tried exterminating – something we must remember as many hatreds are again on the rise. (in memory of disabled victims of the nazis t4 aktion campaign)
Voice Your Vision – Turning Point
On Monday 8 November 2010, more than 70 visual arts professionals, artists and curators gathered at The New Art Gallery Walsall to celebrate the strengths of the visual arts in the West Midlands and debate the priorities and challenges for the future following the government’s recent budget cut announcements.
West Midlands enjoy a thriving, vibrant, highly active and promising visual arts scene with many galleries, public or private, showcasing the best of modern and contemporary art in the region and artists, artist-led organisations and collectives creating work of high standard that represent the region nationally and abroad and contribute towards its creative industries. The aim of the event was to find ways of strengthening the visual arts in the region, advocate for the significance of the sector in the cultural, social and economic life of the region by working in partnership in order to maximise resources and foster further creativity.
Voice Your Vision is a Turning Point West Midlands event. Turning Point is a national network set up to deliver a shared vision for growth in the visual arts and is supported by Arts Council England. This event was part of developing a strategy for the visual arts in the West Midlands.
For the feedback notes from the day go to http://www.tpwestmidlands.org.uk
The TPWM network will be developing some of the priorities identified.
TPWM is putting in place an Artists Opportunities Bulletin on its website – at http://www.tpwestmidlands.org.uk/opportunities.
It will list Funding, Commissions, Calls for Work, Courses & Workshops, Job, Residency and Internship opportunities that people tell us about.
To subscribe to the Bulletin or submit details of an opportunity, please email: artistsnews&opportunitiestpwm@bcu.ac.uk
Images by Ming de Nasty.
Send us your Dedications
Send us your dedications!
Throughout The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey we’ll be asking you to help us activate some of the artworks contained in the books on display.
Have you got a special song that you would like to dedicate to a loved one? Tell us the title, artist, name of the person you are dedicating it to and why, and we’ll do our best to play them during our Artists’ Books Fair on Saturday 27th November.
Hope you can join us and help to create a great playlist!
This activity is based on Paul Rooney’s book Dedication which can be found in the exhibition.
uk’s first disability film festival day.
really proud to have had my short experimental film – turn the book around – selected for the uk’s first disability film festival day. this is a unique and new event with screenings of a wide body of films on disability taking place simultaneously in 22 venues around britain throughout the dayon december 3rd. see http://www.disabilityfilmfestival.eu/Pages/venues.html for full details
of the film – turn the book around – this is what i have said:
too many victims, and not just historically – go silent no longer, the book of your lives unread, instead turn the book around. this film, like the rest of my work is about giving voice, allowing the silent/silenced to speak and giving voice to these these creative alternatives, these strategies for survival. this work is no abstraction about the holocaust, disabled through long-term mental illness i am another of those hitler tried exterminating – something we must remember as many hatreds are again on the rise. (in memory of disabled victims of the nazis t4 aktion campaign)
a.a.s. instruct you to…
a.a.s. have been busily creating new instructions for visitors to follow based on the books in our exhibition The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey. .
You can see them each week on the balck board in the exhibition and on Saturday 27th November you’ll have the opportunity to act some of them out with the artists. Drop into the artists studio or contact them on aas@aasgroup.net if you’d like to join in.
Here’s a few they’ve come up with already…
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