Monday 30 July 2012

OPEN PLATFORM_1 27 July 2012 at Access Space

OPEN PLATFORM/The Garlic of Performance Art
Photo: Susanne Palzer
RAP(s) - Technology without Technology

Thanks to all the performers who took up the challenge of performing the digital without using anything digital and for taking part in the final Performance Test of the Random Process Experiment! It was a great evening of randomness and made this closing event a very special one!

Thanks to everyone at Access Space for all their help and support of RAM/RAR/RAA+RAP(s)!






Here is a little taster - Liz Hall's poem about video editing - more to come soon!


OPEN PLATFORM/RAP: Liz Hall/Edit
Photo: Susanne Palzer

Edit

Static spits from the bright faced screen.
Cursor picks up tiny mountains,
specks of birds. I drag and drop into the timeline,

clipping and cutting, till I can tell the stories
of spring migration, struggle for territory,
the flush to summer plumage.

I try to still a wind-shaken forest but
the image will not stabilise and
crashing ravens jump and flap against the sky,

and as the time bar creeps its binary track,
caterpillars crawl out from between
the keys, trail their clipping path

across my hands. Cables thicken
into tree snakes, shed plastic skin, curl
scaled bodies around the legs of furniture.

The hard drive hum transitions into a chorus of cicadas
which purr and crop at leaves of paper.
A flock of cranes circling across the screen,

breaks free from behind glass and zooms screaming
past me, knocking reels from shelves,
as they head for the cloud that gathers at my ceiling.

Spools bounce and spill onto a carpet of grass
and waves of brown tape cascade into rapids,
white rivers waterfall down stairways

of sparkling granite. As the water swirls
around my feet, I let go command, control, feel
my skin dissolve into pixels of twinkling light,

pin points of colour. I am rendered
ineffectual, compressed
into the memory of atoms. I am


surrounded by the breathing
of a million different creatures,
so that I have no beginning,

no end, one endless loop of life,
no in-point, no out-point.
I am static.


Liz Hall July ‘12







Thursday 26 July 2012

OPEN PLATFORM/RAM/RAR/RAR/RAP(s) Closing Event

Friday, 27 July 2012, 6-8pm at Access Space

After two months of random process, research and experimentation I have offered a platform to anyone interested in taking part in the final Performance Test of the project. Following an Open Call to experiment, perform, express, dance, present, sing, rap, read or to just tell us about your digital work without using anything digital we look forward to an evening of 'the serious to the ridiculous'!

Performances will be 1-10 minutes in duration and will take place on a wooden platform (65cmx95cm).

Performers so far

Richard Bolam
Eddy Dreadnought
Sunshine Gray
Liz Hall
Jake Harries
John X. Moseley
Susanne Palzer
James Price

We look forward to seeing you at OPEN PLATFORM!

Access Space, Unit 1, AVEC Building, 3-7 Sidney Street, Sheffield, S1 4RG

For further in formation:

Susanne Palzer
Jake Harries

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Photo: Susanne Palzer

Friday 13 July 2012

Open Call for contributions: OPEN PLATFORM - "Technology without Technology"

For the closing event of RAM/RAR/RAA+RAP(s) you are invited to contribute and take part in OPEN PLATFORM.

After two months of random process, research and experimentation I will be offering a platform to anyone interested in taking part in the final Performance Test of the project.

Experiment, perform, express, dance, present, sing, rap, read or just tell us about your digital project or work - but without using anything digital!

Anything goes as long as it is about or related to digital technology, 1 to 10 minutes in duration and happening on a wooden platform (65x90cm).

Please let us know in advance if you are going to perform but if you do turn up on the night and feel like joining in you may still be able to!

To register or for further information email:

Susanne arandomprocessexperiment@gmail.com or
Jake jake@access-space.org

We look forward to seeing you at

OPEN PLATFORM/RAM/RAR/RAA+RAP(s) Closing event
Friday, 27 July 2012, 6-8pm at Access Space

Access Space
Unit 1, AVEC Building
3-7 Sidney Street
Sheffield
S1 4RG