MEANTIME Live!
Sept 14-16 2007

‘a list of things worth doing’

Peering into and around the space between live art and filmed actions, MEANTIME presents an evening of screenings, discussion, and performance.

Paula Davy

(Lower Space, performance from 7pm)
‘Shall I Be Mother?’
This work looks in detail at the dysfunctional relationship, the absence of communication, and the mutual feelings of resentment between Paula The Disappointment and Mom. It explores Paula The Disappointment's misguided attempts to make this relationship work or be “normal”. The work attempts to create the mother daughter relationship that Paula The Disappointment so desperately requires through the deconstruction of the same.

Oogoo Maia

(Upper Space, performance 7.30pm and 8.30pm)
‘UN’
Part A 21 minutes, quiet.
Part B 15 minutes, loud.

Jessica Rost

(Upper Space, performance 8pm)
‘Gasping Goldie’
We are all drowning all the time…in life. One person’s comfort zone is another’s anxiety. We may be innocent in purpose but how often do we really understand one another? Gasping Goldie is, on one level, about human ignorance, our inability to understand truly a situation before we react. But on another level it is the story of a creative struggle, a soul gasping to survive unnoticed. There is more than one way to drown.

SarahB and Martin Wooster

(Downstairs Office, whenever)
In Conversation
Circumnavigating ideas concerning live and filmed performance, this discussion will be a roving, undefinitive interrogation of the Real, truth, authenticity, and mediation. Etc. Participation welcomed.

Wojciech Kosma

(Upper Space, screening, and performance 9pm)
REDEYES/LEE FORREST FERGUSON/LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND MEMBRANE/AIR CONDITION/FOUR/DEAD FILM/VICTORY SQUARE/VOLUME
Wojciech Kosma will perform a new laptop work.
Wojciech lives in London and works as an artist and composer, creating sonic, spatial and interactive/poetic artworks and performances. In the last three years he has performed, exhibited and undertaken residencies in a wide variety of institutions and arts organizations, as well as informal networks, in Asia, Americas and Europe, and has recently been a visiting lecturer at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and University of California San Diego. www.wojciechkosma.com

Katrina Horne

(Downstairs Office, monitor; Upper Space, screening)
Weightlessness
Sub/merged
Katrina Horne is a visual artist working with installation, video and movement. Her practice includes collaborative and curatorial projects. Weightlessness was recently shortlisted for the Darbyshire Art Prize. Commissions include the Art Institute of Chicago, US and in the UK Arnolfini & Watershed, Bristol and Chapter, Cardiff.  She has received awards from the British Council, Illinois Arts Council and Arts Council England.

Dominic Thomas

(Upper Space, screening)
On the path of the Mother of the Ridge
Ten Days That Shook The World
Spiritual Centre
Drinking Music
Retreat
These works represent solo and collaborative, often improvised, micro performances for video. They usually related directly to site and/or context and may form part of larger projects. In these works I consciously explore the unstable territory between performance and documentation. The camera may be the only ‘live’ witness and the editing process is often integral to the understanding of the work. But whilst the manipulation of the documentation may be a crucial part of its reception, the live, lived experience is the always the essential core of the work.

Cynthia Whelan

(Upper Space, screening)
‘Everyday’
‘Merienda’
‘Difference’
“Whelan shows how everyday acts such as drinking tea, office work or applying make-up can be invested with a kind of ritual significance.”

a.group

(Upper Space, screening)
‘24/24hr’
For this project a.group consisted of Sarah B, Rupert Howe, and Dominic Thomas. In June this year they embarked on a road trip – there and back again to a Live Art event at Falmouth Art College. The idea was to document 24 actions over 24 hours, the notional duration of the trip, the results of which would be collated at the event. The actions were to engage with ideas of connections and networks, and negotiation, the first principles of the project. This slideshow is an edited version of the one put together and presented live at the event in Falmouth, an expansive, multi-directional document of time and place, necessity and action.

Amy Freeman

(Upper Space, screening)
‘Climbing’
Filmed in the Alps, 2002