Events
From North to South to East to West and Back
25 November 2010 - 25 November 2010
Event 1
The first in our series of six events taking place across the region, which launched the Compass project
Helen Pritchard: Spirit Rally 3: The event is you
SPIRIT RALLY 3 was a distributed performance event, a cheerleading rehearsal, a celebration of conversation and a temporary community of practice. Based upon emerging models of crowd-sourcing, the event aimed to explore how we might share a sonic language in order to facilitate individual thinking to a collective level.
Helen invited those attending to take a seat at the Spirit Rally committee table and fill the art space with speech. Listeners were also welcome. The rally was an invitation to become part of a temporary committee, to reclaim the act of co-participation and contribute to a live collective sonic experiment. The work forms part of the artist's ongoing research in the relationships between communities of practice and natural, human & social collective capital. The work was first presented in June 2010 as part of Sonic Peripheries in Bremen, Germany.
Helen Pritchard is an artist and researcher who makes transdisciplinary projects. Central to her work are ideas of co-research, co-production and co-operation. Her work often takes the form of collaborative events, videos, performance, texts and radio work. Her projects explore ideas of individual and collective agency within systems.
In 2010 Helen was the project curator for Performance Market in collaboration with Plymouth Arts Centre, Marina Abramovic Foundation and The Live Arts Development Agency. In 2009 Helen launched the project Drawing Exercises on SoundArt Radio, which was recently broadcast on the RADIA network and was artist in residence as part of Project Club at Spacex. In 2008 she was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation bursary (for excellence in visual art) to attend the Digital Arts Residency at the Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Florida USA. Helen has shown work internationally including Transmodern Festival Baltimore, (USA), Teak (Fin), UKS Oslo, (N), RKS Stavanger (N), Spacex (UK), Conical Gallery (Aus), ACA Florida, (USA) and National Review of Live Art (UK).
Links:
Helen Pritchard
www.helenpritchard.info/about.html
sonicperipheries.wordpress.com/about/
Graeme Murrell: Over Here Over There: Talking the Walk
On 17 October, as part of East Street Arts’ Autumn/Winter Project, Over Yonder, Graeme led a group of wanderers between Leeds and Huddersfield by following a superimposed road route between Dortmund and Unna in the Ruhr Valley. Inscribing the 'over there' path by real time GPS transmission during their journey 'over here'. Describing in tweets and photographs the attractions of the terrain and the encounters as their adventure unfolded. Comparing over here actualities with over there possibilities. Merging layers, folding in dual impressions, cutting and splicing between here and there to produce a third recombinant landscape online where others could follow their progress, talk to participants, and add observations of their own. People were able to follow and interact with the wanderers through Flicker, Twitter and a Blog. To see documentation and comments about the walk please go to: http://www.overhereoverthere.co.uk
On 25 November the artist presented the second part of the project, Over Here Over There: Talking the Walk, bringing the experience back in the form of a performance lecture for both the original and new audiences. A 15 minute performance lecture about the 15 mile Over Here Over There walk. 0: The body in movement, gesticulating, walking, taking its pleasure; or, the derive. 3: Over here. 6; Over there. 9: Over here over there. 12: The floor. 15: Finit.
Graeme Murrell is an artist based in Huddersfield. His interest is mostly connected to experimental multimedia works involving urban spaces, text, sound and performance. Since the 1990s he has been involved with several publication projects such as Frontal Lobe, a small press magazine of poetry, scurrilous writing and other rants and Electric Dogs, an unpublished novel. He has also been a member of avant-jazz band Trump and later the freeform music group the F*ks and the duo The Importance Of... He is the editor of the website Monocular Times which curates Situationist and other writing, and hosts the site of pressure group Huddersfield Gem who are dedicated to the preservation of Huddersfield's Queensgate Market. He is a member of the Sedentary Committee for the Consideration of Gradual Change and continues to curate the Institute for the Preservation of Bad Art, which is dedicated to saving poorly executed artworks from landfill.