Performance Events Programme

 

Thursday 15 June

The Library of Performing Rights
10am–10pm
The Octagon
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes
Open access resources, research facilities, digital and web based interactions

A Manifesto Room
The Octagon
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes
A space for issue-based discussions, practice-based presentations, informal performances and displays, with specially curated strands by John Jordan and The Otolith Group.
10–11am

The Long Table
A long table with space for sitting and talking or standing and listening where participants can gather for informal conversations on serious topics.

11am–1pm

Discussion on the place of performance in enhancing international exchanges and dialogues.
Contributors include Ali Zaidi (motiroti), Guillermo Gómez-Peña

2–3pm

Artist Talks
With David A Bailey
Remember Saro-Wiwa – The Living Memorial
Curator David A Bailey and artist James Marriott of PLATFORM talk about a unique public art project dedicated to writer and activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and his eight colleagues who were executed by the Nigerian government in 1995 because of their campaign against the devastation caused by the international oil industry in the Niger Delta. In recognition of this struggle , PLATFORM created the project 'Remember Saro-Wiwa' in 2004 - an initiative to commemorate their lives, and to continue questioning the issues around (un)ethical practices, and corporate responsibility. This presentation will explore the issues behind the project, particularly the interrelation between ethics, art, and political change.

3–4pm

Artist Talks
With Aldo Milohnic
How to Do Things with Performative Actions: On artistic and activist practices in Slovenia
Author Aldo Milohnic will talk about possible meeting points of human rights and performative actions, by referencing the most outstanding texts published in the last few issues of the Maska performing arts journal, and presenting illustrations of direct performative actions in the Balkans and some of Maska's own artistic projects dealing with human rights issues.

4–5.30pm

Open Manifestos
A space for impromptu response and last minute performance hosted by Dr Peggy Shaw

6–8pm

Curated Manifestos
'Outlining the climate of collapse' hosted by John Jordan
A presentation mixing biography, violin playing, film and hard science by guest Aubrey Meyer, an accomplished musician and composer before he immersed himself in ecological campaigning and became a leading figure in the global negotiations on climate change with his unique campaign of Contraction and Convergence.

8–10pm

Curated Manifestos
'Images Sometimes Tremble: Video-Essays In The Age Of Telepolitics' hosted by The Otolith Group
In a contemporary context characterised by the resurgence in activist documentary and the turn towards documentary in contemporary artists moving image practice, Images Sometimes Tremble proposes an encounter with a more elusive tendency, one that exists within the domains of archive and poetics and between the zones of historicity and fabulation: the essay-film. Strangely overlooked by critics, this interstitial, tangential tendency has retained a persistent popularity with generations of artists across the world. Each work is accompanied by a presentation by theorists Kodwo Eshun, Nicole Wolf, Brian Holmes and Chris Berry that situate the work in a series of theoretical contexts that allow multiple entry points for discussion.
Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar of The Otolith Group present a rare opportunity to see Videogramme einer Revolution (Videogrammes of a Revolution, Germany/Romania, 1992)by renowned essay- film maker Harun Farocki and media philosopher Andrei Ujica. The directors have assembled their account of the 1989 Romanian revolution from TV and amateur video footage of the events Videogramme reflects upon the emergence of a telepolitics in which the camera does not merely report but instead catalyses and participates in the production of a new political space that comes into existence before our ears and eyes.

Performances
The Great Hall, Boiler Room, Arts Lecture Theatre, The Chapel, Drama Studio, Pinter Studio, The Skeel Lecture Theatre, Arts Pavilion and surroundings
10am–10pm

Artists in Residence
Stacy Makishi, Richard Dedomenici, Bobby Baker and Adrien Sina

Various sites across campus
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes

1–2pm

Declarations
Rightsrepeated, Monica Ross

The Chapel
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes

6.30–8.30pm

'Kumjing': an installation, Chumpon Apisuk
People's Palace Drama Studio, The People's Palace
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes
In 'Kumjing' Chumpon Apisuk uses dolls made by Burmese migrant workers to engage with the issues of immigration and displacement they raise.

7.30pm Looking for a Missing Employee, Rabih Mroué
Great Hall, The People's Palace
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
Based on real events, Missing Employee centres on a notebook in which Mroué has collected everything published in local papers about the disappearance of a government employee in Beirut, in which the artist becomes a 'detective' interested in using actual documents to understand how rumours, public accusations, national political conflicts, and scandals act on the public sphere as shaped by print media.
8pm A Mile In My Shoes, Powerhouse and People First
Pinter Studio, The Arts Building
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
This interactive performance celebrates the work of two leading learning-disabled groups in using performance and visual practice to train carers, staff, families and other learning-disabled people in Advocacy Awareness, which has had a profound impact in the field of Arts for Social Change.
9pm (be)longing: a process in progress, Curious
Skeel Lecture Theatre, The People's Palace
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
Curious present a showing of a process in progress of the (be)longing project,  that is in part a film collaboration with sex workers and trafficked women in the east end of London and in part a performance of longing.

 

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Friday 16 June

The Library of Performing Rights
10am–10pm
The Octagon
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes
Open access resources, research facilities, digital and web based interactions

A Manifesto Room
The Octagon
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes
A space for issue-based discussions, practice-based presentations, informal performances and displays, with specially curated strands by John Jordan and The Otolith Group.
10–11am

The Long Table
A long table with space for sitting and talking or standing and listening where participants can gather for informal conversations on serious topics.

11am–1pm

Discussion on the place of performance in war zones, contested sites and areas of conflict. With James Thompson, University of Manchester and Ruth Holdsworth, Arnolfini/Bristol University

2–3pm

Artist Talks
With Paul Heritage
Artist curator Paul Heritage and curator João André da Rocha ask a series of questions about performance strategies and human rights within peripheral spaces, with reference to a series of projects in Brazil.

3–4pm

Artist Talks
With Daniela Labra
Performance, Human Rights and Young Contemporary Visual Artists In Brazil.
Curator Daniela Labra gives presentation on the range of artistic activities in Brazilian metropolis concerning human rights and social manifestations since 2000. Supported by the British Council, Rio de Janeiro.

4–5.30pm

Open Manifestos
A space for impromptu response and last minute performance hosted by Dr Peggy Shaw

6–8pm

Curated Manifestos
'After the Carnival?' hosted by John Jordan
Are carnivalesque forms of resistance still relevant given the present social and ecological emergency?
Brian Holmes, Larry Bogad, James Leadbitter and Hilary Ramsden, theorists and art activist practitioners from different generations and at the forefront of many creative resistance movements, discuss whether new tactics are needed within this new cycle of struggle, or whether is there even more need for pleasure to be injected into radical politics in these dark and difficult times?

8–10pm

Curated Manifestos
'Images Sometimes Tremble: Video-Essays In The Age Of Telepolitics' hosted by The Otolith Group
Screenings of Amar Kanwar's A Season Outside (India, 1998) and To Remember (India, 2003) followed by lecture and discussion led by Nicole Wolf. Amar Kanwar achieved recognition when A Season Outside was screened at Documenta XI in 2002 to major acclaim. The film is a meditation on the poetics and politics of non-violence prompted by Kanwar's question: Can non-violence prevail in a context of persistent, intractable atrocity? Navigating between legends, anecdotes, memories of Partition in 1947 and government inquiries into Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of Satyagraha, this visual essay refuses to propose easy solutions. To Remember is a portrait of Birla House, the site of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination on January 30, 1948. Located in Delhi, Birla House has become a gallery and shrine attracting hundreds of visitors daily. This short silent film is an homage to Gandhi as well as the visitors who embody the spirit of his pacifist teachings. Against the backdrop of a surge in militant, Hindu nationalism, Kanwar's work is particularly telling. Clearly, the historical turn of events from non-violence to nuclear armament, suggest a deep ambivalence about Mahatma Gandhi's legacy.

Performances
The Great Hall, Boiler Room, Arts Lecture Theatre, The Chapel, Drama Studio, Pinter Studio, The Skeel Lecture Theatre, Arts Pavilion and surroundings
10am–10pm

Artists in Residence
Stacy Makishi, Richard Dedomenici, Bobby Baker and Adrien Sina

Various sites across campus
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes

1–2pm

Declarations
Untitled, Rebecca Louise Collins

The Chapel
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes

1–8pm

Gallery of Utopias
Graeme Miller, Chris Johnston, Lois Weaver, Yara El-Shebini, Wrights & Sites
Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination

The Arts Pavilion, Mile End Park
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes

6.30–8.30pm

'Kumjing': an installation, Chumpon Apisuk
People's Palace Drama Studio, The People's Palace
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes
In 'Kumjing' Chumpon Apisuk uses dolls made by Burmese migrant workers to engage with the issues of immigration and displacement they raise.

7.30–11pm Welcome Home: A gathering for those not allowed to return, Oreet Ashery
Great Hall, The People's Palace
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)

Welcome Home is a an event especially created for Performing Rights by Oreet Ashery, which incorporates commemorative performance, folk-dance, film and documentaries, reflecting the ways that contemporary artists from Israel and Palestine are responding to those who are not allowed to return.
Produced in association with London Artists Projects. R&D financially assisted by Arts Council, England.

7.30–9pm Illustrated Artist Talks, Coco Fusco and Naeem Mohaiemen
Arts Lecture Theatre, The Arts Building
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
Fusco and Mohaiemen will speak about their respective current works. Fusco's new performances and video deal with the role of female interrogators in the War on Terror. Mohaiemen's work with the Visible Collective addresses the situation of the detainees in the United States post 9/11.
8pm A Mile In My Shoes, Powerhouse and People First
Pinter Studio, The Arts Building
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
This interactive performance celebrates the work of two leading learning-disabled groups in using performance and visual practice to train carers, staff, families and other learning-disabled people in Advocacy Awareness, which has had a profound impact in the field of Arts for Social Change.
9pm

George & Martha, Karen Finley
Skeel Lecture Theatre, The People's Palace
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
A lecture performance about Finley's new illustrated, novella George and Martha, a political satire about a mythic, illicit, sexual, love-hate, ongoing affair between George W Bush and Martha Stewart (published by Verso, 2006)

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Saturday 17 June

The Library of Performing Rights
10am–10pm
The Octagon
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes
Open access resources, research facilities, digital and web based interactions

A Manifesto Room
The Octagon
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes
A space for issue-based discussions, practice-based presentations, informal performances and displays, with specially curated strands by John Jordan and The Otolith Group.
10–11am

The Long Table
A long table with space for sitting and talking or standing and listening where participants can gather for informal conversations on serious topics.

11am–1pm

Discussion on the place of performance in communicating the experiences of exile, immigration and displacement. Contributors include Almir Koldzic (Refugee Week), Nela Milic (Refugees in the Arts Initiative) and Milan Kohout (Artist)

2–3pm

Artist Talks
With David Williams
Performing Citizenship: version 1.0's recent explorations into the sweaty armpits of the Australian body politic.
Artist David Williams presents a talk on the theory and practice of version 1.0, the Sydney-based performance group whose work not only investigates, but also enacts, participatory democracy. Their work has, in recent years, taken as its starting points a range of defiantly non-theatrical public documents, with concerns ranging from refugee policy and governmental accountability, to the rhetoric of 'freedom' of 'democracy' used in the selling of the war on Iraq, to recent ideological re-imaginings of national identity and 'Australian values'.

3–4pm

Artist Talks
With Karen C Faith
Performing Among A People: serving communities in public ritual
Artist Karen Faith talks about making public work in service to specific communities, while inviting the viewers to create a community of themselves. Faith will focus on her own work with survivors; open up a discussion on cultural and social languages, ritual and ceremony as a point of spiritual connection and healing, and obstacles to communication in culturally and socially specific public work; and lead a small closing ceremony created collectively by those in attendance.

4–5.30pm

Open Manifestos
A space for impromptu response and last minute performance hosted by Dr Peggy Shaw

6–8pm

Curated Manifestos
'The art of building lifeboats' hosted by John Jordan
The art of building lifeboats
Should our creativity be focused on creating models of sustainable living and surviving in a post collapse world? Creative pranksters Kayle and Heath from irrational.org have been experimenting with ways to survive in a time of collapse, ranging from finding free food, surviving in the wilderness, and developing a series of manuals and buried survival pods. They present a workshop on the art of living lightly, and how they see the developing of survival tactics as part of their creative practice.

8–10pm

Curated Manifestos
'Images Sometimes Tremble: Video-Essays In The Age Of Telepolitics' hosted by The Otolith Group
A screening of Coco Fusco's Operation Atropos (2006) followed by lecture by Brian Holmes. The British debut of artists and critic Coco Fusco's latest video-work Operation Atropos promises to be a special event. With eager art students in tow, Fusco signs up for an intensive field course in U.S. military interrogation techniques. This demanding program involves an immersive simulation of the POW experience that makes for uneasy watching and raises difficult questions about the changing relations between femininity, militarization and the privatisation of torture.

Performances
The Great Hall, Boiler Room, Arts Lecture Theatre, The Chapel, Drama Studio, Pinter Studio, The Skeel Lecture Theatre, Arts Pavilion and surroundings
10am–10pm

Artists in Residence
Various sites across campus
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes

1–4pm

Declarations
The Book of Blood, Leibniz

The Chapel
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes

1–8pm

Gallery of Utopias
Graeme Miller, Chris Johnston, Lois Weaver, Yara El-Shebini, Wrights & Sites, Lisa Wesley and Andrew Blackwood
Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination

The Arts Pavilion, Mile End Park
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes

6.30–8.30pm

'Kumjing': an installation, Chumpon Apisuk
People's Palace Drama Studio, The People's Palace
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes
In 'Kumjing' Chumpon Apisuk uses dolls made by Burmese migrant workers to engage with the issues of immigration and displacement they raise.

7.30–11pm

Go Loko, with Luiz de Abreu and Gustavo Ciriaco, Nayse Lopez, Lia Rodrigues; coordinated by Eduardo Bonito and João André da Rocha with music by Tetine and visuals by Gringo
Great Hall, The People's Palace
Tickets £12 (£10 concessions)
Celebrating People's Palace's long-lasting collaborations with Brazil and the exciting exchanges between artists and activists between Brazil and UK in recent years, PSi: #12 presents a special night of performances, presentations, music and videos.

7.30–9pm

Illustrated Artist Talk, Coco Fusco and Naeem Mohaiemen
Arts Lecture Theatre, The Arts Building
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
Fusco and Mohaiemen will speak about their respective current works. Fusco's new performances and video deal with the role of female interrogators in the War on Terror. Mohaiemen's work with the Visible Collective addresses the situation of the detainees in the United States post 9/11.

8pm

Silence, Chumpon Apisuk
Pinter Studio, The Arts Building
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
The Government of Thailand is committing innumerable abusive actions against its own people: allowing officials to assassinate more than 3000 people in an anti drugs campaign, killing innocent youth in the southern Muslim provinces, and oppressing community leaders and human rights activists. Silence is dedicated to those who have been effected and abused by the government's power, and especially the Muslim human rights lawyer Somchai Nilapaijit who has been kidnapped by the Thai police since 2004.

9pm

Three Posters: a lecture, Rabih Mroue
Skeel Lecture Theatre, The People's Palace
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
A lecture and a performance by Elias Khoury and Rabih Mroue, representing a moment between fiction and truth by offering a voyeuristic view to the spectator of - on one hand a performance and on the other a real suffering - and questioning the rhetoric of the role of the martyr. A lecture about his controversial work in which one actor, one resistance fighter and one politician search in front of a camera for their 'last' images before each one heads towards his own death.

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Sunday 18 June

The Library of Performing Rights
10am–10pm
The Octagon
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes
Open access resources, research facilities, digital and web based interactions

11am

Closing Plenary
Great Hall, The People's Palace
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes
If you can imagine something you can make it. If you can make something, you can make it change. Artists help us imagine the future and Live Artists remind us of what it mean to be alive in the present. Performing Rights Artistic Director Lois Weaver and Karen Finley, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Chumpon Apisuk, Monica Ross, Oreet Ashery and other participating artists perform manifestos of what it means to be alive and present in contemporary political and creative environments.

A Manifesto Room
The Octagon
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes
A space for issue-based discussions, practice-based presentations, informal performances and displays, with specially curated strands by John Jordan and The Otolith Group.
2–3pm

Artist Talks
With Sara Raza
Contested Territories: The Built, Un-Built and the Un-Buildable
Curator Sara Raza talks about violation, trauma and dislocation of urban spaces in relation to performance and live art practices from the Middle East and Central Asia. Sara will be joined by Iranian artist Shahram Entekhabi.

3–4pm

Artist Talks
With Adrien Sina
Performance, War, Politics, Ethics and Eroticism
Curator and artist Adrien Sina talks about the continuing political resonance of the extraordinary women artists Valentine de Saint-Point (1875-1953), Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793), and Aspasia ( - 469 BC).

4–5.30pm

Open Manifestos
A space for impromptu response and last minute performance hosted by Dr Peggy Shaw

6–8pm

Curated Manifestos
'Crude Interventions' hosted by John Jordan
A practical workshop to brainstorm an audacious act of creative resistance to the causes of climate change.
Mark Brown from climate justice direct action group London Rising Tide, and participants will look at a cultural event sponsored by a major oil company, and brainstorm different forms of intervention that could take place during it - the ideas generated from the workshop will be carried out later in the month. This workshop is part of London Rising Tide's Art Not Oil project.

8–10pm

Curated Manifestos
'Images Sometimes Tremble: Video-Essays In The Age Of Telepolitics' hosted by The Otolith Group
A screening of Zhou Hongxiang's The Red Flag Flies, followed by lecture by Chris Berry. A rare opportunity to see Zhou HongXiang's extraordinary video-essay screened here in its full 70 minute version. The Red Flag Flies restages the Maoist tropes of the Cultural Revolution as a theatre of provocation. Maoist poems, slogans and icons are reworked as incongruous tableaux that move across time and place with dazzling iconoclasm. Neither narrative nor documentary, The Red Flag Flies is a series of rhythmically arranged episodes whose cumulative effect is defiantly singular.

Performances
The Great Hall, Boiler Room, Arts Lecture Theatre, The Chapel, Drama Studio, Pinter Studio, The Skeel Lecture Theatre, Arts Pavilion and surroundings
10am–10pm

Artists in Residence
Various sites across campus
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes

1–2pm

Declarations
Red Ladies

commencing in The Great Hall
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes

1–8pm

Gallery of Utopias
Graeme Miller, Chris Johnston, Lois Weaver, Yara El-Shebini, Wrights & Sites, Lisa Wesley and Andrew Blackwood
Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination

The Arts Pavilion, Mile End Park
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes

6.30–8.30pm

'Kumjing': an installation, Chumpon Apisuk
People's Palace Drama Studio, The People's Palace
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes
In 'Kumjing' Chumpon Apisuk uses dolls made by Burmese migrant workers to engage with the issues of immigration and displacement they raise.

7.30–9pm

Mapa-Corpo, Guillermo Gomez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes of La Pocha Nostra
Great Hall, The People's Palace
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)
In Mapo-Corpo: Interactive rituals for the new millennium, Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes, in collaboration with local artists and audiences create a poetic interactive ritual that explores the post-9/11 'body politic' through a literal and symbolic 'mapping' of the human body.

9pm

Rights and Wrongs: a pub quiz, Yara El-Sherbini
Bar Med
Free with Conference ID or Day Passes

A conference is what type of fruit? Name one movie in which an Arab was not shown as a bomber, a belly dancer, or billionaire? Join the quizmaster, test your knowledge and win a prize in the Performing Rights pub quiz specially devised for the conference by El-Sherbini.

Followed by closing party with debut performances by the Fame Asylum boyband and other special guests

 

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Attendance

All performances will take place at Queen Mary, University of London, at the Mile End Campus. Spaces vary so some capacity will be limited.

Tickets can now be purchased online.

The Conference Plenaries, The Library of Performing Rights, the Manifesto Room , the Gallery of Utopias, and various other daytime performances and installations will be free with a Day Pass or with conference registration ID.

Day passes are £10 and can be purchased with our online booking agent (see below) or on the day at Queen Mary, University of London Box Office, Arts Building, Mile End Road.

The Box Office for Day passes opens 8.30am.

Tickets for evening performances can be purchased online (see below) and where available on the day at the Queen Mary Box Office from 5pm.

Please note that conference registration does not include performance tickets which must be booked and paid for separately.

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Booking tickets

You can book and pay for tickets online at www.drillhall.co.uk [new window], our offsite ticket agent. Please follow the online booking instructions and find PSi #12 performances listed in the June 2006 calendar.

Alternatively you may book by telephone:

Tel: +44 (0)20 7307 5060
10am-9.30pm (BST), Monday to Saturday
10am-6pm (BST) Sundays

You will receive an email confirmation of your purchase if booking via the website and be able to pick up tickets at the conference box office at Queen Mary, Mile End when you arrive.

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