Mnemonic City: Moving Streets
Part of the series Mnemonic City, Moving Streets is the latest exhibition of Magma Collective. Ridley Road Market has been the starting point for a three-month derive that ended up in a two-day exhibition and live performances at Doomed Gallery. The market has been the magnifier to explore relationships, trade, city spaces and the point...
Freshly Packed: call for artists
Is your performative practice exploring notions of the biological, corporeal, food, flesh, sustenance and mortality? If that is the case, you are ready to submit your work to Something Human! The international curator-collective, in collaboration with Brockspace, is seeking artists for the live performance FRESHLY PACKED / ALWAYS CHECK THE LABEL that will take...
Cloud Eye Control @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Los Angeles based theatre group Cloud Eye Control have developed 3 short theatre pieces that involve animation, motion graphics and innovative use of projection and shadow. This is the American troupes first trip to the UK and it is part of the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. The first performance...
Paper Cinema – The Odyssey -Theatre Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Paper Cinema create theatre that is absent of actors and dialogue. Instead the make use of live illustration, paper cut outs and comic book illustrations, augmented with a dazzling live soundtrack and creative foley sounds effects. Appearing as part of the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, the audience is told ...
I love ]performance s p a c e [ ! What about you?
]performance s p a c e [ is one of the most committed and bubbly London-based spaces dedicated to the live art and it is asking for our help. It's time to know more about this artist-led non-profit organisation! ]performance s p a c e [ is 'the UK’s only performance art specific studio & event...
MelloMello: Averted Closure?
MelloMello is a grassroots music venue and down-to-earth cafe located near the ropewalks of Liverpool city centre on the corner of Slater Street and Parr Street, nearby to Wolstenholme Square. In recent years it has become an increasingly important meeting point for Merseyside artists of all types and regularly presents high quality local, national and...
COUNCIL HOUSE MOVIE STAR – live arts installation
30 October to 11 November 12 noon until 5pm daily Camp & Furnace , Greenland Street, Liverpool, L1 0BY Council House Movie Star is an immersive live arts installation exploring themes of ageing and the non-heterosexual experience, created by Mark Edward (former contemporary dancer, current Senior Lecturer in Performance, Edge Hill University) in partnership with award winning...
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Birmingham ArtsFest 2012
ArtsFest is one of the biggest and most popular urban festivals in the UK, is the UK’s biggest free arts festival, and exists to celebrates the West Midland’s astounding wealth of creative talent. Usually, it is an eclectic mix of music and arts, poetry and dance, drama and crafts, from the traditional to the innovative...
What is Nothing? An interview with Li-E Chen
London-based independent artist and thinker Li-E Chen, is fascinated by art, performance and new media as a way to express independence, openness and incompleteness. Through her practice, she is investigating the meaning of Nothingness. In September you are going to start the One Year Durational Laboratory on ‘Nothing’. In the invitation we can read: WE...
