This week is curated by Season Butler and Jessica Charlesworth
Friday 30 April and Saturday 1 May
Performances
What’s mine is yours
10.30pm, Corner Stage Area
Aerial piece by Georgiana Cavendish, Alex Dermatis and Zoe Payne
A sweet and disturbing double act on gender, romance and the art of getting undressed.
Zeibekiko
11.30pm, Corner Stage Area
Aerial performance by Alex Dermatis with the guidance of Shunt Artist Layla Rosa
A solo trapeze performance inspired by Zeibekiko, a folk improvisational dance from Greece with a rhythmic pattern of 9/8. The dance originated from the Zeybek warriors of Anatolia (Turkey) and was partly introduced to Greece after the 1923 population exchanges. Subsequently, the dance became naturalised in Greece and is now re-introduced in Turkey as a Greek dance.
Violence in Villenoir, A subterranean experiment
Durational, Institute
by Maurizio Vaccaro & Ottillie Parfitt
A murder...a mystery...a witness?
Watch your step as you search for clues, meandering through rain slicked alleyways catching glimpses inside the shadowy homes of curious critters.
Thanks to David Kett and Liam Doyle for lights (and shadows), Imven, Victoria, and Daniel for their voluntary performances.
Sound by Yen Pox (track Scorched Earth).
Flight of the Princess (taken from The Car Show)
Durational, Long Corridor
by Barney Heywood assisted by Alice Gibbs
Step inside our Daewoo Matiz where you and up to two friends will be treated to a short, immersive audio performance.
‘Flight of the Princess’ is brought to you by the Stand & Stare Collective, and is taken from their festival hit ‘The Car Show’. It promises a unique and bizarre narrative experience starring Princess Diana and David Graham (Thunder Birds, Dr Who).
www.standandstare.com
Slow Dance/ I Saw Her Again… (Saturday only)
9.15pm, Wake Space
Directed and devised by Amanda Castro
Written by Carly Halse, Vera Erenbourg, Amanda Castro and Hayley Kasperczyk
Performers: Vera Erenbourg and Marcus McCullum
Soundtrack: Jefferson Toal, Lowri James and Amanda Castro
One couple. Two hours. Four rules.
Rule 1: the couple must not lose eye contact at any time.
Rule 2: the couple must always be touching.
Rule 3: the couple must slow dance continuously.
Rule 4: as they dance, one of the couple must be 'killed off'.
Untitled: The time it takes to… (Saturday only)
9pm and 10pm, Long Corridor
by Mitch & Parry
This performance explores the body as material, its plain external surfaces and messy internal offerings. Mitch and Parry challenge notions of desire through a joining of bodies made of liquid. The body’s orifice as sanctuary this time, as vestibules for capturing translucent gifts – the body's holes as safe space, as desiring holes, the place of entry and exit. Time is measured in this piece through the time it takes to love – an intimate and single transfer of fluid that carefully keeps coming. One wonders how this exchange will end, if it will break, or if it will continue, always.
Duration 8-10min
Love Me, Nick Griffin (Saturday only)
11.45pm, Passage Space
by Season Butler
Have you ever changed for someone that you love? Or asked someone to change for you? A performative ode to delirious hallucinations of lovesickness. Ten minutes.
A Comedy is a Tragedy Postponed
1.30am, Passage Space
by Season Butler and Michael Ovaska
Can a rainy day wash away the artifice and reveal the truth? A three-minute visual performance on truth, post-colonialsim and transformation.
Stalled (Saturday only)
10pm - 12pm, Toilets
by Brian Lobel
He wants to take you into a toilet stall. We know what happens there. You consider if you'll play safe or if you'll play at all. You might end up laughing, angry or bewildered. You'll definitely end up wet. Wink at the boy to begin the performance.
Audiotherapy (Saturday only)
Long Corridor
by Arkem
Arkem is Doctor Henry Gorten, and you could be too.
The Dr. is an Audiotherapist and can diagnose your inner music and perhaps prescribe a balancing sound, or maybe engage you in a little creative play therapy...His surgery is open 9pm - 12pm.
Measuring Work No. 3 (Saturday only)
9.20pm and 11.15pm, Long Corridor
by Dori Deng and Meta Drcar
Performed by Kirsty Green
Measuring Work No. 3 is a part of on-going live performances, 'The Measuring Series' that explore the measurement of a space using body movement.
Breakdance Freestyle followed by Workshop (Friday only)
9.30pm, Passage Space
by MJ
Watch him perform and then learn the moves!
Installation
Slit / That's my colour
Entrance
by Lizzie Clachan
From a new project: 'Entrances'. First of series of installations investigating the Shunt entrance.
You've Only Known The Dark
The Games Room
by Libby Todd
This installation explores the character of Myrrha, a girl who has lived her whole life underground. Her only link to the world above is a dictionary. This is how she knows the sky is blue, how she knows what a tree looks like. In the darkness she builds her imagined reality, hoping to escape from her underground existence.
H M-E (The Catalogue of the Library for Hypothetical Micro-Ethics) (Saturday only)
Reading Room
by Johanna Linsley
Participants contribute to a comprehensive catalogue of Hypothetical Micro-Ethics, drawing on a broad collection of the substance. Follow a few simple instructions to generate a classification code, select a filing environment, and give your bit of substance a place in the broader scheme of things
Durational, open 8pm - 12pm
Four Clowns
by Jessica Charlesworth
Hidden somewhere in the back of the Shunt Vaults
www.jessicacharlesworth.co.uk
Balloon Bash
Red Room
by Susana Sanromán
Balloon bash is a recreational installation where a room is filled with two layers of balloons. The top layer simulating a cloudy sky made out of floating white balloons, whereas the bottom layer is filled with multicoloured ones.
BOUNCE
10.30pm onwards, Passage Space
Something large awaits....
With thanks to www.bchire.com
Presentation 2010
by Adelle Havard
A presentation of found images with lighting design by Liam Doyle and musical accompaniment from The Sans Pareil.
Fine Arts
Unisex
Penthouse
Prints by Susana Sanromán
Piece one: Hut
Piece two: Idle on An Empty Day
Long Corridor
by Jessie Makinson
"Up to the pale fields of the moon, where an endless storeroom preserves in phials placed in rows, the stories that men do not live, the thoughts that knock once at the threshold of awareness and vanish forever, the particles of the possible discarded in the game of combinations, the solutions that could be reached but are never reached..."
Italo Calvino
Mecca?
Long Corridor
by Ashley Loxton
These pieces are part of an ongoing project built from personal experience. The painting and photographs are an illustration of various moments lifted from a two year journal.
Villas of My Dreams
The Old Bar
by Kentaro Poteliakhoff
Kentaro has been drawing imaginary buildings for sixteen years. He is often found drawing on the bus, train or tube; but never in cars as it makes him feel sick. This is not art to him, just something he has to do and cannot stop.
The Virgin Suicides
Long Corridor
by Natasha Faith
A story of wasted lives on recycled paper.
Natasha Faith plays with literal thinking and instructions using universal systems and knowledge as subject matter.
Poodle
by Jessica Charlesworth
Film (Airplane Cinema)
Portraits
by Eray Hussein & Kathryn Azgard
Film-maker Eray and Illustrator Kathryn exhibit two of a series of short films made whilst at The University of the Arts London.
We get a touching insight to these quirky and wonderful characters while learning of their intriguing hobbies.
Bathroom
by Thomas Blyth
Format: Animation (HDV720p) Length: 4min
Bathroom is a fantastical interpretation of a childhood memory in the form of a four minute animation.
www.tomblyth.com
Mamie
by Thomas Blyth
Format: Video (HDV720p) Length: 6min
A five minute documentary film, Mamie follows a day of an elderly woman. The aim of this project being to capture the beauty in the mundanity of a daily routine.
www.tomblyth.com
Sleeping and Dreaming of Food (Att Sova och Drömma om Mat)
by Eva-Marie Elg
Eva-Marie Elg has adapted Kolbeinn Karlsson's strange comic into an - if possible - even more bizarre film. Accompanied by Kallioinia's mystical score the static comic book images comes to life in a dreamy perspective.
Happy Endings Productions Ltd
www.happyendingsproductions.co.uk
Live Music
Friday
Handshake
11.30pm, Main Stage
BETH sings. BOB sings too and plays guitar, banjo and harmonica. DONNIE does accordion. ZOE is amazing at the fiddle. KEZIAH plays a bass and a bodhran. MAZIN is the drummer.
www.myspace.com/handshakemusicuk
Cozmik Onion Field - Live Set
1am, Main Stage
The most amazingly shit horrible band. You should miss them.
www.myspace.com/cozmikonionfield
DJ Taishi (Cozmik Onion Field)
Throughout the evening
www.myspace.com/cozmikonionfield
Saturday
Sculpture
00.30am, Main Stage
Music and animation duo, Sculpture, use zoetrope record decks, tape loops, cassettes, samples, and lo-fi electronic noise, cross-fertilizing analogue and digital techniques to generate vivid sonic and visual collages. Live performances explore intuitive possibilities and unforseen permutations. Influenced equally by avant-garde film and Looney Tunes, DIY musique concrete and dancefloor dynamics, the result is unique and irrepressible.
www.tapebox.co.uk
vovov
Throughout the evening
K.O. soundscapes defunct to the Volcanic Exotic.. electric and spice all very nice.
Entry £10,
Click here to prebook online
Limited entrance also available on the door
