'Closed Circuit' - new live piece of work next week with the Showroom gallery. London/UK.
Hi all, going to this event on Thursday. If you are also, see you there :-) wishing you well. marc -----------> Sent by Rod roddickinson. As places are a bit limited for the performance it is definitely best to book – either let me know if you are definitely coming or the Showroom [email protected]. The piece is called 'Closed Circuit' and was made in collaboration with Steve Rushton. It explores the rhetoric of political speeches and government press briefings and their use as long-established tools for the management of crises, emergencies and conflict in democratic societies. Whether used as a mechanism propagating government policy or for raising a nation’s morale, the speech and press briefing are tried-and-trusted strategies from which politics is staged. Since the beginning of the televisual age, the government briefing has become locked into the circuitry of television and real time media. Just as the crisis is always in the present, the live-ness of television calls the present forward and this in turn shapes political and social reality. 'Closed Circuit' explores this looping, modular logic with a 25 minute performance set in a meticulously constructed press briefing environment and performed by actors Albert Welling and Bill Neenan. TIME: 7pm, 14th January PLACE: The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8. (the performance will take place in the Cockpit theatre round the corner from the gallery but will be preceded by a talk by Richard Hornsey in the gallery). The performance is part of ‘Signal:Noise’ a 4 day series of events at the Showroom that includes talks by: Charlie Gere ‘La Cybernétique or Dark Cybernetics and the End of the Human’, Steve Rushton: ‘How Media Masters Reality’ and Richard Hornsey 'The Cybernetic Londoner: A Prehistory'. ‘Signal:Noise’ aims to explore the influence of cybernetics and information theory on contemporary cultural life by testing out its central idiom, ‘feedback’. As you can see from this brief synopsis the whole programme promises to be pretty fascinating – and I hope you’ll come to some of it. Rod http://www.theshowroom.org/research.html?id=161,363 ‘Closed Circuit’ was originally commissioned and 
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