From alexandrazierle at hotmail.com Sat Jul 7 10:13:15 2012 From: alexandrazierle at hotmail.com (Alexandra Zierle and Paul Carter) Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 07:13:15 +0000 Subject: [Yasmin_an] Final Reminder: DIY9: 2012 - Call for Participants In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Friends and colleaguesHere is a reminder about the Cornwall DIY Workshop we are running from the 4th till the 8th of August in the UK. The deadline is approaching this Monday 9th July. We look forward to hearing from you and hopefully working with you in Cornwall. Please feel free to forward this on to any people or networks you think appropriate. Please note the addition of the 'Further Details' section for information on costs. Zierle & Carter At the edge of the land, of practice, and of knowing West Penwith, Cornwall, UK DIY 9: 2012 - Call for Participants Application deadline: Monday 9 July 2012 Taking flight or the fall? Exploring ?the edge? as departure point to the not yet known. Project summary: This three full day (four nights) intensive workshop will explore, in a sensorial and experiential way, what it is like to be out at the very periphery of a ?bleak and rugged land? ? where historically experimentation, innovation, pioneering, radicality and alternative methods/philosophies have emerged strongly and are embedded in an ancient, seemingly ?untouched? landscape. Working site and context specific, we will be mapping the psycho-geographical landscape through our bodies and actions, trying to find our inner edge through exploring the outer edges, stepping into the spaces in-between land and water. Through body centred and material-led exercises/experimentations at sites along the West Penwith coastline, the workshop?s activities respond to the complex context and multiple realities revealed by being at the edge. Inhabiting a different space/site each day, the intention is to ?get under the skin? of what Cornwall ?means?, ?what it is?, and what its legacies are today; reflecting on its long industrial history, rich with processes of extracting, breaking down and filtering out, melting down and transforming. With a guided walk by the National Trust, an opportunity to ?go underground? and contextualising talks/presentations by local experts and residents, we will be working with the post-industrial legacy (disused mining sites), introducing durational processes ? embedding and ?anchoring? actions back into the contemporary narrative of the landscape. We will adopt a peer support and skill sharing approach. Dates, times and location: Evening of Saturday 4 to Morning of Wednesday 8 August, 2012 10am ? 9pm daily (on the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday). At various sites of historical/contextual significance around West Penwith, Cornwall. Based from our accommodation at Carnyorth Environmental Educational Centre, daily site visits will be made by foot and by minibus. Nearest Train Station: Penzance (the ?end of the line?), Cornwall. Application procedure: Applications welcome from practitioners from all levels of experience working within contemporary performance/cross interdisciplinary artforms. Please submit a short statement (approx. 500 words) that includes a description of your practice, an indication of a strong interest in the location and context specificity of the workshop and/or in durational, site-specific, process based and/or material-led enquiries, as well as how you feel you could contribute to the group. Include any relevant websites/links to your work and your email address and phone number. Send up to five related or representative images (no larger than 2MB each) with your statement to info at zierlecarterliveart.com (cc?d to diy at thisisliveart.co.uk) with ?DIY 9? in the subject line. For videos/sound please send as links in your application. There are 12 places available, with six places allocated for Southwest based practitioners. Further details: Transport to and from Penzance will need to payed by the artists. We have arranged cheap accommodation for the group in hostel stye accommodation at ?18 per night (4 nights in total). There will be some material costs available for each artist from the project budget and we will have group meals to keep costs low for everybody. Application deadline: Monday 9 July 2012. The artist: Zierle & Carter are experienced workshop leaders, lecturers and project managers. As artists, they critically examine different modes of communication and what it means to be human, addressing notions of belonging, dynamics within relationships, and the transformation of limitations. Their work sites an embodied investigation into human interactions and encounters, acting as an invitation to venture into the spaces in-between the external and internal, permanent and transient, spoken and unheard. The work fundamentally explores society?s conventions, traditions and rituals, often flipping them on their head, reversing orders and disrupting the norm. Working internationally, their site-specific work takes on many guises and has been shown in galleries, in cupboards, empty cinemas, busy shopping areas, city parks, in libraries, tunnels, World War 2 bunkers, and created from working nomadically in wilderness ? on snow covered mountain plateaus, at craters of volcanoes, and on the edge of a stormy cliff. For further info see http://www.zierlecarterliveart.com or http://throughtheheartperformances.tumblr.com Contact information: Please feel free to contact us on info at zierlecarterliveart.com with any questions you might have about the workshop. This DIY project is supported by The Works, Dance and Theatre Cornwall. This project was a response to the DIY 9 Call for Proposals DIY 9 is a Live Art Development Agency initiative developed in collaboration with Abandon Normal Devices (North West), Artsadmin (national), Colchester Arts Centre (East), Fierce (West Midlands), Live at LICA (North West), The Performance Centre at University College Falmouth (South West), PLATFORM (national), Sound and Music (National), Whitstable Biennale (South East), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Yorkshire), and The Works, Dance and Theatre Cornwall (South West). Warmest regardsAlexandra & Paul http://www.zierlecarterliveart.com http://throughtheheartperformances.tumblr.com Zierle & Carter - Alexandra Zierle & Paul Carter Live Artists, Curators & Lecturers Inbetween Time Associate Artists Wysing Arts Centre Escalator Artists Members of OUTPOST Members of the NSA Lecturers at University College Falmouth 26 Queen Street, St Just, Penzance, Cornwall, UK TR19 7JW Tel: +44 (0)1736 786298 Mob: +44 (0)7800640888 E-mail: alexandrazierle at hotmail.com info at zierlecarterliveart.com http://www.zierlecarterliveart.com "You could think of them as Marina and Ulay with a contemporary sense of theatricality and props, but it might be more exquisite to forget that historical precedent entirely and concentrate instead on Zierle and Carter?s ability to create a surrealistic situation out of nothing more than a bunch of red balloons?, Lori Waxman, Art Critic