TV SWANSONG LIVE WEBCAST www.swansong.tv <www.swansong.tv> 20th March, 3.45 - 9.00pm CCA 5 CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glagsow Free Admission
TV SWANSONG is a cross-media art project commissioning 8 new works which reflect on the current state of flux in television with idiosyncratic responses to its past, present and future. The projects will take place in rural and urban sites across the country and will be broadcast in a unique webcast on Wednesday 20th March 2002 via the website www.swansong.tv <www.swansong.tv> TV swansong artists are: Jordan Baseman <http://www.swansong.tv/jordanbaseman/index.htm> , Graham Fagen <http://www.swansong.tv/grahamfagen/index.htm> , Rory Hamilton & Jon Rogers <http://www.swansong.tv/hamiltonrogers/index.htm> , Chris Helson <http://www.swansong.tv/chrishelson/index.htm> , Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie <http://www.swansong.tv/popeguthrie/index.htm> , Giorgio Sadotti <http://www.swansong.tv/giorgiosadotti/index.htm> , Jessica Voorsanger <http://www.swansong.tv/jessicavoorsanger/index.htm> and Zo� Walker & Neil Bromwich <http://www.swansong.tv/walkerbromwich/index.htm> . TV SWANSONG PANEL DISCUSSION Monday 25 March 6pm CCA 4 �3/�2 CCA Box Office: 0141 352 4900 The panel will include contributions from TV Swansong artists: JORDAN BASEMAN GRAHAM FAGAN ZOE WALKER and chaired by NINA POPE and KAREN GUTHRIE TV Swansong Information: Giorgio Sadotti - Virtual Bootleg Sadotti invites professional ballroom dancers to perform in public with a live orchestra at the legendary Blackpool Tower. Through tiny cameras and microphones attached to the dancers' bodies, Virtual Bootleg will webcast an unfamiliar - bootleg - version of this nostalgic entertainment. Graham Fagen - Radio Roselle >From a ship mid-Atlantic, the 'Owner of Broadcasting' DJs a live set from the Radio Roselle studios. Fagen has selected reggae and Robert Burns recordings which produce a narrative about Scotland and Jamaica, looking at comparative issues such as emigration, poverty, escape, imperialism, slavery, landscape, culture and love. Chris Helson - The Act Just hours before the TV swansong webcast, Helson travels to the latest site chosen as the top story' by international rolling news networks. In this soon-to-be-famous place, Helson will use satellite phone technology to respond to the media circus evolving around him. Jessica Voorsanger - Jessica Voorsanger meets SMart Voorsanger has worked with SMart, the CBBC children's television art programme, encouraging them to use her life and work to inspire the young audience and initiating an on-line competition on www.swansong.tv/kids <www.swansong.tv/kids> . Her SMart programme was broadcast on CBBC1 in Nov. 2001 and Voorsanger's live webcast will take place from the Leytonstone Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA), London, where works by the competition winners will be shown. Jordan Baseman - The Last Broadcast Based on the 1976 film Network and its central character Howard Beale, Baseman rewrites, recasts and reshoots the suicidal newscaster's maniacal plea to humanity in order to comment on our increasingly awkward relationship with the boundaries of entertainment, information, truth and the media. Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie - Pope & Guthrie's Recommended Dose Pope & Guthrie pitch a new 'show' to Patientline, the bedside hospital phone, TV & Internet channel: working with comedy writers Fay Rusling & Oriane Messina, they track two London hospital radio stations on the run up to Christmas... Zo� Walker & Neil Bromwich - In Search of a Small Planet Walker and Bromwich journey into their childhood landscapes in search of the lost territory between their home landscapes and TV icons - The Clangers and The Dukes of Hazard respectively. Celebrating the areas they grew up in - Dunbartonshire and Lincolnshire - their escapist re-enactments will be bought together in a single video work to be projected at a live public event on the day of the webcast. Their work will be accompanied by the Sutton-on-TV extravaganza, organised with the Meridale Youth Club at the Meridale Youth and Community Centre, Sutton-on-Sea. Rory Hamilton & Jon Rogers - Generic Sci-Fi Quarry A working Oxfordshire quarry is brought to life for 3 public live performances: inspired by special effects of 70's sci-fi shows, digital projections and sound on a grand scale turn the quarry's futuristic landscape into an immersive artwork. Music by Mark Ayres, Brian Hodgson, Peter Howell and Paddy Kingsland, formerly of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The event is a tribute to Delia Derbyshire. Rebecca Shatwell Education Programmer CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD www.cca-glasgow.com <www.cca-glasgow.com> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 00 44 (0)141 332 7521 (reception) Tel: 00 44 (0)141 352 4912 (direct line) intY (www.inty.com) has automatically scanned this email using Sophos Anti-Virus ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
