Hi marc- it's on Friday (14th) I'll try to make it
dave On 9 January 2011 22:19, marc garrett <marc.garr...@furtherfield.org> wrote: > '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 > i...@theshowroom.org. > > 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 
produced by > Aksioma Institute For Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana and is Supported by the > Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana > and the Arts Council England > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
