Hi everyone - just to let you know of the events and performances
happening in Plymouth this weekend as part of The Pigs of Today are
the Hams of Tomorrow. All performances are free.
Best Helen
The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow
Live Performances
At The Slaughterhouse, Royal William Yard, Plymouth
Free entry
Friday 22 January 2010, 5 – 9pm
Saturday 23 January 2010, 5 – 9pm
Sunday 24 January 2010, 2– 6pm
Performance Market
At Plymouth City Market
22 – 23 January, 8.30am – 4.30pm.
Followed by an exhibition at Plymouth Arts Centre documenting the
performances
38 Looe Street, Plymouth PL4 0EB
26 January – 21 March 2010
www.plymouthartscentre.org
01752 206 114
Plymouth Arts Centre presents The Pigs of Today are the Hams of
Tomorrow, a curatorial collaboration with the Marina Abramović
Institute for Preservation of Performance Art. The Pigs of Today are
the Hams of Tomorrow will stage, document and discuss groundbreaking
international performance art in order to examine and sustain the
future of the medium. The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow
takes place over three days at Royal William Yard with performances
by six renowned artists and artist-collectives.
This is the first curatorial project of the Marina Abramović
Institute. Marina Abramović has pioneered performance art for over
four decades on an international scale. Her major retrospective at
the Museum of Modern Art, New York, opens in March 2010.
The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow is a translation of the
title of a conceptual piece of writing by Georg Jappe published by
KunstForum International in 1978 on the contemporary state of art
practice in relation to global political agendas.
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Artists
Live Performances
The Turin-born artist Davide Balliano takes inspiration from a poem
by Cesare Pavese, Death Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes,
found on the Italian writer’s desk following his suicide in 1950.
Balliano stands facing the corner of a room where two mirrors
converge, sharpening knives.
Snezana Golubović, a member of Marina Abramovic’s former
Independent Performance Group, re-enacts her performance/
installation LOVE STEPS, 2007, first presented at the group
exhibition Body & Eros at the 5th International Dance Festival at
the Venice Biennale. The artist moves through the space, wearing
each pair of shoes and creating what she describes as a dance that
memorialises the personal experiences of each pair’s owner.
Helsinki-based artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-
Kalleinen construct situations for interaction, participation and
collaboration. Since 2005 the artists have initiated Complaints
Choirs in cities around the world, including St Petersburg,
Singapore, Chicago, Melbourne and Jerusalem. A group of volunteers,
led by musical director Nicholas Grew and producer Lucy Walker, sing
their personal and collective complaints. The Complaints Choir
Plymouth perform live here for the first time.
Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. www.0100101110101101.org) are pioneers
in the Internet-based net.art movement. For the exhibition, the
artists stage what they term Synthetic Performances in the virtual
world of Second Life. Through their avatars, the Italian-born
artists will ‘remix’ and freely reinterpret famous works from the
performance-art canon, including Yves Klein’s Leap into the Void
(1960).
Directly engaging with the issue of preservation, the Performance Re-
enactment Society with Hugo Glendinning form an archive of
recollections of live art events. On the final day of the symposium
the Society re-stage these memories to create a photographic
installation and an exhibition tour of remembered works.
Francesca Steele is a British artist based in Plymouth whose work
uses her own body — physical, psychological and biological
— to articulate what cannot be said in words. Her performance
Routine develops her recent practice of bodybuilding, which has
transformed her physique. Over three days of endurance, she performs
the compulsory poses required for competitive bodybuilding, in
proximity to the viewer.
Performance Market at Plymouth City Market, 22 – 23 January, 8.30am
– 4.30pm. Performance Market supports emerging artists from Devon
and Cornwall to create new performance work in a supportive
environment, alongside a programme of international artists.
Performances are taking place at Plymouth City Market, Frankfort
Gate, amongst the shoppers and traders. Selected by Marina
Abramović, artists Ania Bas, Alexandria Felicitas & Lina Hermsdorf,
I Lien Ho, Mark Leahy, Nicky Thompson, Bill Wroath, Paul Carter and
Alexandra Zierle were invited to respond to the market’s activities
and its context as a historic focal point.
The Reading Room at The Brewhouse, Royal William Yard, is just round
the corner from the performances at The Slaughterhouse. This
resource space has books, journals, catalogues, video and online
resources relevant to the events, artists and speakers at the Live
Laboratory Symposium. The area also hosts the Live Documentation Lab
with students from University College Falmouth (incorporating
Dartington College of Art) editing documentation of performances and
discussions. Ideas for the Institute are mapped in The Reading Room
by Transmedia art students Brussels, Sven Goyvaerts & Filip Daniels.
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Live Laboratory Symposium
The Brewhouse, Royal William Yard, Plymouth
22 - 24 January 2010
Advanced booking essential, tickets £75 (£45)
Speakers: Marina Abramović, artists from the performances, Ron
Athey, Maria Balshaw, Paul Clarke, Helen Cole, Geoff Cox, Adrian
Heathfield, Tehching Hsieh, Dominic Johnson, Nick Kaye, Lois Keidan,
Alastair MacLennan, Lee Miller, Andrew Mitchelson, Roberta Mock,
Hayley Newman, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paula Orrell, Kira O’Reilly,
Helen Pritchard, Jovana Sokić, André Stitt and Lois Weaver.
Three days of international speakers debating the past, present and
future of live art, alongside the performances at The
Slaughterhouse. The Live Laboratory Symposium will set the premise
for the new Marina Abramović Institute for Preservation of
Performance Art. The symposium is a progressive space in which to
imagine and conceptualise the future of the medium. The Symposium
has been developed in collaboration with Roberta Mock and Lee
Miller, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth
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Publication
Marina Abramovic + The Future of Performance Art
Edited by Paula Orrell, £29
Plymouth Arts Centre has worked with publisher Prestel to produce:
Marina Abramović + the Future of Performance Art, edited by Paula
Orrell, Curator at Plymouth Arts Centre. This book, on the latest in
contemporary performance art, features the work of world-renowned
artist Marina Abramović and showcases eighteen international artists.
An interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Abramović outlines the
challenges and goals of her new project. The publication features
documentation of Marina Abramović Presents…which took place at the
Whitworth Art Gallery as part of Manchester International Festival.
ISBN 978-3-7913-5028-8. Available from the The Slaughterhouse, Royal
William Yard and the Box Office at Plymouth Arts Centre 01752 206 114.
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Press enquiries: Contact Hannah Prothero, Marketing & Communications
Manager, Plymouth Arts Centre, phone: 01752 206 114, email:[email protected]
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Images: Francesca Steele, Routine, 2007, photo: Simon Keitch
Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG Re-enactment of
Marina Abramovic and Ulay’s Imponderabilia, Synthetic Performance
in Second Life, 2007, courtesy Postmasters Gallery, New York.
Philip Harris, The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow,
illustration, 2009.
The Live Laboratory Symposium has been developed with Lee Miller and
Roberta Mock, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth. The
Performance Re-enactment Society for this project is Clare Thornton,
Paul Clarke, Tom Marshman and Hugo Glendinning. Performance Market
is presented in collaboration with the Live Art Development Agency
and devised by Helen Pritchard and Caroline Mawdsley. The Reading
Room is presented in collaboration with University College Falmouth
(incorporating Dartington College of Art), supported by the Live Art
Development Agency and developed with Beth Emily Richards. Recent
graduate Philip Harris from the University of Plymouth has been
commissioned to illustrate the title The Pigs of Today are the Hams
of Tomorrow. Complaints Choir Plymouth is produced by Lucy Walker
and directed by musician Nicholas Grew. This project is part of the
Anti-bodies programme, directed by Zoë Shearman, Relational and has
been granted the Inspire mark as part of the Cultural Olympiad.
Thanks also to Geoff Cox, Arnolfini for his support. The Live
Documentation Lab is led by artists and lecturers Tim Dollimore,
Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley, Gillian Wylde and Siobhan Mckeown. Thank
you to all staff, volunteers and participants.
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