Hello ambit folk,
Please see below for details on this year's new territories. New
Media Scotland are participating in this year's programme. We have
co-commissioned Pernille Spence'swork, which promises to combine
interactivity, moving images and performance with striking intensity.
Also showing is a video programme which helps us to examine how
artists have responded to previous "new" media: Frame by Frame, a
retrospective of Croatian video art curated by Branko Franceschi.
Chris
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new territories
3 Feb - 15 March 2003 | Glasgow | Scotland
Scotland's second annual international festival of live arts takes
place between 3rd February and 15th March 2003.
Launched in 2002 out of the fusion of New Moves (Scotland's festival
of contemporary choreography) and the National Review of Live Art
(Europe's longest-running live arts festival), new territories is
dismantling boundaries between dance, installation, theatre, visual
art and new technology. In 2002 Artistic director Nikki Milican
received the International Theatre Institute's award for excellence
in international Theatre and Dance in recognition of an exceptional
festival programme.
new territories 2003 includes a mix of specially commissioned
performances and premieres by invited international artists and the
first new territories Winter School - a professional training and
development scheme for artists and tertiary students. Helen
Herbertson & Ben Cobham, Sarah Pearson & Patrik Widrig, Forkbeard
Fantasy and Goat Island will all be in residence at the festival,
presenting work and teaching on the Winter School.
new territories commissioned artists include: - Alastair MacDonald &
Sarah Rubidge, Geraldine Pilgrim, Ian Smith, Pernille Spence, Lisa
Watts and Aaron Williamson.
Many other invited artists present British premieres and unique
site-specific projects. Some of the highlights include:
- The return to Scotland of the renowned Chicago-based performance
group GOAT ISLAND with an informal showing of new work + It's An
Earthquake In My Heart.
- One of the big hits of New Moves Australia 2000 with the company
name Delirium, HELEN HERBERTSON & BEN COBHAM return with the European
Premiere of Morphia Series, a special boutique event with exotic
food, text, images and performance for an audience of 12.
- Sensuous Geographies, a new work by composer and Creative Scotland
Award winner ALISTAIR MACDONALD and choreographer turned digital
installation artist SARAH RUBIDGE in which the actions of visitors
generate and influence musical layers and projected imagery in an
interactive/reactive sound and image environment.
- HOTEL MODERN with The Great War, a live animation film where the
performers are puppeteers, camera-operators, sound engineers and
editors who manipulate little soldiers, toy tanks and a miniature
landscape to create a truly inventive performance.
- A living installation event made by participants in the new
territories Winter School working with FORKBEARD FANTASY - expect a
unique mix of comic theatre, film, animated sets, gadgets, cartoon
and visual trickery suitable or audiences of all ages.
- An intense and technically demanding work from renowned Canadian
choreographer PAUL-ANDR� FORTIER, that combines dance with new visual
and sound technologies to stunning effect. Supremely vulnerable and
infinitely powerful in equal measure.
- The NATIONAL REVIEW OF LIVE ART (19-23 February) where invited
artists from across the world appear alongside the brightest new
talent from across the UK and Ireland, chosen from a nation-wide
selection process hosted by venues and colleges in collaboration with
the NRLA and the Live Art Development Agency. The NRLA strand of new
territories takes place over just five days with each day packed with
an exciting mix of performances, installations, exhibitions,
screenings, workshops, talks and surprise events. Invited artists
include the inimitable STELARC, renowned Belgian choreographer
MICH�LE NOIRET, housewife superstar BOBBY BAKER as well as: - ANNE
BEAN, BODIES IN FLIGHT, MARIA COOL & FABIO BALDUCCI, EVE DENT,
RICHARD DEDOMINICI, FORCED ENTERTAINMENT, RAIMUND HOGHE, IONA KEWNEY
& EAVESDROPPER, THE KIPPER KIDS, JOHAN LORBEER, LONE TWIN, MICHAEL
MAYHEW, GRAHAM MILLER, ANGELIKA OEI & R.A VEROUDEN, BOB OSTERTAG &
PIERRE H�BERT, �INE PHILLIPS, GERALDINE PILGRIM, PLAN B, HIDEYUKI
SAWAYANAGI, IAN SMITH, PERNILLE SPENCE LISA WATTS, AARON WILLIAMSON,
STEVIE WISHART. A screening programme includes works by: - MARINA
ABRAMOVIC. LYNNE MARSH, GUILLERMO GOMEZ PE�A & GUSTAVO VAZQUEZ, NEW
MEDIA SCOTLAND, PASIFIKA DIVAS, ANNE SEAGRAVE.
THE 2003 Platform artists include: - MATT COOK, YARA ELSHERBINI, JON
FAWCETT, G.A.L, GARETH KENNEDY, KENNY McBRIDE, ILANA MITCHELL, MARK
PALMER, LEE PETTERSON, SARAH JANE PELL, TOPSY QUR'ET, THE SPECIAL
GUESTS, KATE STANNARD, TRANSPHOBIA, MARK TRAYNOR, ROSIE WARD.
Full details of the programme linked with artist's websites can be
found on http://www.newmoves.co.uk/newterritories/ntindex.htm
Ticket information 0901 022 0300 - a limited number of apex tickets
are available at just �5 A limited edition catalogue will be
available from The Arches box office
new territories is produced by New Moves International, PO Box
25262, Glasgow G1 1YW, and receives support as a core funded
organisation of the Scottish Arts Council and Glasgow City Council.
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