Friday 31 Dec 2010

at The Nightingale Theatre

8pm - 1am - performances start 9pm

After an exciting debut at Coachwerks, Fresh from the oven celebrates the opening of 2011 and a new run of events at The Nightingale Theatre. We will offer our customary blend of live performances and installations adapted to the unique characteristics of the hosting space - with a party twist on this special evening!

Share a bottle of sparkling wine and get ready for the first night of the year!

£10 entry with the option of sharing a bottle of sparkling wine (£9 / bottle for 3 people), snacks included.

Places are limited to 50, so pre-book at freshfto@gmail.com if you know you want to come, pay on the door. There you will also be able to get your share of sparkly. The downstairs pub will be open through the night.

www.freshfto.blogspot.com/ for more + images of past events

Artists:

Mamoru Iriguchi

Simon Wilkinson

Inconvenient Spoof

Flying Eye

Laboratoro

Michail Mavronas & Iain Douglas

Touched Theatre

Linda Remahl

& Dr. Bramwell

+

surprise DJ

Fresh from the oven curators and artists:

Yael Karavan, Sara Popowa, Tamar Daly,

Marion Deprez, Rachel Champion

The Nightingale Theatre is situated above The Grand Central Bar, opposite Brighton train station.

map

Welcome!

Some documentation from residency at TAO Liverpool

.. see more photos here ..

Liverpool day 1

We arrived to TAO Liverpool tonight and it seem none of the darkish forecasts we had before coming here had much power - it feels great to be here, very welcoming, exciting and very abundant space, and several opportunities to show work as it seems :)

We all felt pretty content tonight after checking the spaces out, taking some heart time and pasta dinner.. ready to see what our first real day on this TAO residency, tomorrow, will birth!

Blackbird, pic and artificial grass

All of next week I will be at a residency at TAO (The Arts Organisation) Liverpool, as part of their S.Q.U.A.T programme (part of Liverpool Biennial). I'm going up there with friends Tamar Daly and Marina Tsartsara, both dance/performance artists (or whatever you may call us!) to mash our latest works together and come up with something new, collaborative and exciting for us. We'll be showing the fruits of our labour Sat 13th in the International Gallery.

Latest news are that things at TAO have become more unorganised than we first thought - including zero heating in the gallery space (International Gallery) and not great support from the Biennial - they were apparently keen on bringing TAO in as part of their programme .. but now are not even including them in their publicity?? So apparently numbers are not great but we will do our best! Generally there's a sense of going up there with an open mind and a pair of dungarees (with tools sticking out of the pockets) and thermals, and see where it'll take us. The main thing for me right now is to be working away from Brighton, in a focused mood, with friends and collaborators who I know well.

September's Fresh from the oven, coming up!

OK it may not rain EVERY day this September.... but even if it does, on Saturday the 25th you can warm yourself with baked performances and hot food at Fresh from the oven - Live at Coachwerks!

Exciting acts are coming together... to be announced soon.

See you there!

Vid from our launch of Fresh from the oven, our event at Coachwerks last month - next one is next week Saturday - 28th Aug!

The launch's involuntary theme of technical melt-down turned into an applauded feature in Tamar's performance, and into a huge element of distress in my own. People seemed to have appreciated what I was doing, but AHhh - the photos which people took of the scene/me through the window, with the cameras mounted to the glass were supposed to be printed out, one by one, reducing the window's cover of photo-paper and gradually revealing what's behind/inside - making a physical transfer of the audience's view (the photo) back to its source (ME!).

Well, the printer died completely after the second print.... and there I was, lost concept and turned into a sort of arty peep-show. All about the flesh as I was covering myself with the (very unprinted) white photo-papers, and in a very bad mood.

Friends tell me to take it as an experience, learn from it - yes what i learned is that I hate making a show which i don't get anything out of apart from stress, and in this case, no, I didn't. I felt objectified and simplified, and contrary to the sort of objectification I would impose on myself as part of the work, this was forced upon me by that one inflexible thing - 'technology'.

Take it to your bosom, make love to it and then get totally stressed out by it when it doesn't work...

Fresh from the oven - Live at Coachwerks,

a new monthly event of live performance, installation, poetry, music & food at Coachwerks, Brighton.

Launch night this coming Saturday 31st July, from 7.30pm.

My performance will be a site-responsive live installation, building on elements from 'Of Photography' and recent work developed at Nightingale Theatre. Technical assistant: Michail Mavronas.