From: "New Moves International" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Winter School Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 08:34:17
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NEW MOVES INTERNATIONAL | WINTER SCHOOL 2004 |
www.newmoves.co.uk/winterschool
new territories - an
international festival of live art - 16 Feb - 21 March
2004, Glasgow
New Moves International invites artists working in
Live Art and related practices to take part in its second
Winter School, a series of professional skills development
projects. These opportunities are open to both emergent and
experienced practitioners, to independent artists and
students in tertiary education.
More detailed information on these courses and
application forms are available on our website.
Closing date for receipt of applications 23rd
January 2004.
GERALDINE PILGRIM WITH CHAHINE YAVROYAN | OBJECTS
AND ATMOSPHERES
Course size 12 participants Dates
Monday 16 February to Saturday 28
February Venue Tramway Registration Fee:
�50
A two week course that aims for each participant to
experience an individual journey within a group process,
exploring devising work through creating atmospheres and
environments, using objects and ways of developing
narratives that are inspired by site.
The course will be based in Tramway, specifically
using Tramway 3 and 4. However, we will also be creating
interventions in environments outside of Tramway e.g.
shopping malls, museums, stations, streets and parks. In
the second week we will explore the use of lighting and
sound in the creation of site-specific environments.
The course is for participants who are
interested in exploring, developing and creating
site-specific environments as well as developing and
creating narrative, often non- verbally through working
with objects and atmospheres.
As the workshop will be situated not only in
Tramway but also sites around Glasgow and the surrounding
areas, participants should be prepared to travel.
Some starting points in the workshop could
include:
Memories of Water We often sit and look at water-
the seafront, the lake edge, the aquarium. What is it we
see, what do we remember? All water has memory contained
within each cell. What does it remember and how are the two
images linked? Using visits to aquariums, swimming pools,
rivers, lochs, the sea etc., the workshop will explore
creating atmospheres and environments through our
relationships to water as site.
Places to Sit Where and how we sit can create an
image, an atmosphere and suggests a narrative; using
different seating images, which will include armchairs,
dining room chairs, sofas, memorial park benches, stools,
waiting room chairs etc., the workshop will explore
creating narrative and environments through the simple act
of sitting down.
RICHARD LAYZELL | DEPRIVATION AND OVERLOAD
Course size 15 participants
Dates Monday 16 February to Saturday 21
February Venue Tron Theatre, Changing
House, Trongate, Glasgow and outdoor spaces Registration
Fee: �30
A unique course that aims to give/ share/ experience
ways of working / surviving / perceiving / thinking /
organising / selling as a live artist in today's culture.
Deprivation and Overload will be a six-day experience
divided between sensory awareness, receptivity, location,
information-sharing and mentoring. A secondary aim of the
course is to build a strong group identity over the period,
leading to the possibility of ongoing contact and support
between participants into the future.
How do ideas develop? How to operate with or
without a studio. Pushing yourself to the edge, putting
yourself on the spot, getting the mind in gear, taking
time, taking stock.
We will cover visual and sensory overload -
travelling to locations and meetings across Glasgow, with
occasional verbal deprivation (one day spent in silence).
We will meet invited non-art guests (e.g. from industry,
education, architecture), raising issues about the place of
live art in their worlds. The final days will be
information-pooling, pulling the stands together, and
individual and group mentoring.
Eligibility: Participants should feel their
work is located within the areas of Live Art, visual art or
performance and be prepared to spend a day in silence.
GEORGE SKALKOGIANNIS (Qu�bec) | CAREER
DEVELOPMENT IN THE PERFORMING ARTS
Course size 30 participants Dates
Monday 23 & Tuesday 24 February (two-day
intensive). Followed by one-on-one sessions Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, by appointment. These sessions are for
dealing with specific individual concerns. Venue
Tron Theatre, Changing House, Trongate,
Glasgow Registration Fee �30
This short, intensive course will centre on career
development in the arts for administrators and artists
alike. The following is a summary of the topics that will
be addressed and assist in finding solutions pertinent to
the specific needs of artists and arts organization:
: identify artist product : evaluate past
and present status and resources : identify potential
market(s) : develop the marketing strategy needed to enter
the market(s) identified : develop the tools needed to
execute the strategy determined : create a working process
which will assist in selecting priorities that will be
crucial in organizing and focusing resources needed to
succeed : discuss sociological and technological trends
that affect the artists : and most importantly, explore the
difference between hard knowledge and soft knowledge and
their impact on the development of working teams that can
creatively deal with the obstacles that are facing our
landscape.
LIZ AGGISS & BILLY COWIE | A ONE-WEEK
PERFORMANCE LABORATORY
Course size 20 participants Dates
Monday 1 to Saturday 6 March Venue
Tramway, Albert Drive, Glasgow
Registration Fee �30
This will commence with a lecture presentation and
discussion of Aggiss/Cowie's work, focussing on questions
around hybrid performance languages, performance as
content, process and the fluidity between reality and
illusion, apocryphal performance and the distinct solo
voice, offsetting viewing habits by playing with site,
reviewing time in a climate where speed has become the
agency of value.
The morning sessions led by Liz and Billy will
focus on physical performance skills, fast tasking crisp
thinking and the creation of one-minute wonders with
language that explores hybridity, engaging the physical,
textual and filmic. Participants are requested to bring a
digital video camera. During the afternoon sessions,
participants will be invited to show their work for
critical feedback and mentoring; this could be live or
screen based.
This workshop is open to practitioners who make
work and want a space to discuss and develop. This workshop
is open to performance practitioners whose work belies
category and who delight in crossing disciplines.
MARY BRENNAN | CRITICAL WRITING
Course size 12 participants Dates
Monday 8 to Saturday 13 March Venue
The Lighthouse, Mitchell Street, Glasgow
Registration Fee �30
A programme of critical writing workshops, led by
the Herald's dance & performance critic, Mary Brennan.
These will examine the theory and practice of
writing about live art for different types of publication -
specialist magazines/ newspapers/ programme notes - with an
emphasis on developing an appropriate vocabulary for each.
Workshops are open to arts practitioners who would
like to take on the role of commentator as well as trainee
journalists/ students with an interest in live art. If
possible participants should bring a laptop.
new moves international ltd, po box 25262,
glasgow g1 1YW | Tel 0141 564 5552
