Blast Theory
Blast Theory make interactive art online, on the street and on the phone. The group’s work has been shown at Tate Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, ICC in Tokyo and the Royal Opera House. The group has been nominated for four BAFTAs and has won the Prix Ars Electronica. Formed in 1991, the group is based in Brighton.
Annual Jocelyn Herbert lecture
October 20, 2011 Ultz gives second Annual Jocelyn Herbert lecture Tuesday 29 November, 6pm, National Theatre Lyttelton Ultz, award-winning stage designer and director, explores British theatre design since the 1950s in the second Annual Jocelyn Herbert Lecture. Set up by University of the Arts London to raise the profile and stimulate debate about the often [...]
Antonioni Project at Barbican
Toneelgroep Amsterdam 1 – 5 February 2011 / 19:00, 19:45 Barbican Theatre Tickets: £16 – 32 subject to availability Love affairs, isolation, heartache. Internationally renowned theatre director Ivo van Hove leads his powerful ensemble in an exploration of award-winning, Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni’s groundbreaking 1960s film trilogy (L’Avventura, La Notte, L’Eclisse), in this epic [...]
Book Now : On and Off Stage
Experimental Theatre and Visual Art Performance 21 April 2011 Cinema 2 Tickets: £8 online/£10 on the door Time: 7.30pm subject to availability Hear insights from some of the most interesting practitioners and thinkers across theatre and visual art performance. With Forced Entertainment’s Tim Etchells, Tate Curator of Contemporary Art/Performance Catherine Wood, sculptor and performance maker [...]
3 day Devouted and Disgruntled
Do you love theatre? Do you find it frustrating? Do you wish it were different? Are you looking to change things? Devoted & Disgruntled 6 Singing in the Dark times: What are we going to do about theatre and the performing arts now? This invitation is addressed to… The company that has lost its funding. [...]
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites
Peachy has no voice in his head. This is the shocking thing that he disclosed at the place where he lives when I went there to interview him about his work as a text and image entertainment next week in the location that I put below. First I will set the scene: Peachy, in a [...]
A Dog’s Heart at Eno
Simon McBurney, one of the UK’s most acclaimed theatre directors, makes his ENO debut in this major new collaboration with Complicite. The production features all the trademark elements that have made Complicite’s two decades of international hit shows so memorable. A Dog’s Heart also marks the return to ENO of master puppeteers Blind Summit Theatre, [...]
Laurie Anderson and Trisha Brown at Barbican
Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s 3 March 2011 – 22 May 2011 Barbican Art Gallery Concs £7 online/£8 on the door Performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson, choreographer Trisha Brown and artist Gordon Matta-Clark were friends and active participants in the New York art community, working fluidly between visual art and performance. [...]
Lepage’s Blue Dragon at Bite
Robert Lepage superbly performs in this sequel to his 1985 breakthrough masterpiece The Dragons’ Trilogy , marking the return of that play’s central figure – artist Pierre Lamontagne – who resurfaces in Shanghai 20 years later. Set in the effervescent paradox that is modern China, this new instalment focuses on Lamontagne’s encounters with a former [...]
Blasted at Lyric Hammersmith
If you have never seen a Sarah Kane piece, I recommend seeing this at it hasn’t been given a proper revival since its premiere in 1995. For those not familiar with her writing it was an exceptional first play. Rather interesting that it was derided in ’95 by the same critics who now call her [...]
Symposium with Richard Foreman
ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM: ‘A MAKE BELIEVE WORLD’ – CHELSEA THEATRE, LONDON
SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER, 9.30AM – 9.15PM
THE PROGRAMME WILL FEATURE: A DISCUSSION WITH RICHARD FOREMAN (ONTOLOGICAL-HYSTERIC THEATER);
Chris Marclay at the White Cube
from Marclay’s Video Quartet Artist page’s on White Cube site 15 Oct—13 Nov 2010 Mason’s Yard WHITE CUBE PRESENTS CONTINUOUS THURSDAY – SATURDAY VIEWINGS OF CHRISTIAN MARCLAY’S 24-HOUR VIDEO “THE CLOCK” From 10am on Thursday 28 October until 6pm on Saturday 30 October From 10am on Thursday 4 November until 6pm on Saturday 6 November [...]
Mime Festival
The return of the Mime Fest. link to Festival 2011 The emphasis has of lately been to appeal to a wider audience. Less edgey work than in years past. Much of the work is clown, physical or circus pieces. Though I have to say from a design point of view Du Goudron et des Plumes [...]
Forkbeard Fantasy: “The colour of Nonsense” at Riverside Studios
-RIVERSIDE STUDIO THEATER Forkbeard Fantasy presents ‘The Colour of Nonsense’ filled with Forkbeard’s famed mix of film, cartoon and glorious visual trickery, is an exuberant satire on an art and theatre world always in search of the New. Forkbeard Fantasy is a British multi-media theatre company, - a company of artists whose work goes beyond [...]
Devoted and Disgruntled
Improbable’s Monthly Devoted and Disgruntled Satellite Would you like a bigger slice of pie? Or is that little one enough? Please come and join us at Battersea Arts Centre on 10 th November for discussions around the topic of Women in Theatre. Facilitated by Improbable and guest hosted by Moira Buffini. Devoted and Disgruntled is an [...]
Abromovic Exhibitions
Upcoming Event and Exhibition on the work of Marina Abromovic Lison Gallery Exhibition Oct. 13-Nov 13 Lisson Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition by Marina Abramovic, the first show of Abramovic’s work at Lisson Gallery. Comprised of new and key past works in the mediums of video, photographs and sculpture, the show will [...]
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