ONE ON ONE

I'm a liar.
I've always been a liar. Mainly to myself, denying my own feelings and thoughts, and I analyse the lie with -why? Why am I insisting on not being truthful. It's the most frustrating thing I deal with. 


I'm too closed off, in classes I say that I'm not nervous, today I was truthful, acting out a pice from a book in front of one man, and clearly I was nervous. There was no where to hide. I sped through the piece, and i felt nothing, I felt nothing of when acting out this piece. Chris drew the truth from me, I'm nervous and unwilling to give my all, I want to I just won't go to a place that makes and audience believe in me. I have ability, I just won't give my best, all of me.


I must give something of myself, no one will believe in me, I must believe myself, open up.


Talking about the past and releasing parts of myself to a stranger felt good, it was a weight lifted from my shoulders.


I won't be good enough being this guarded. I can be whoever I want to be in this class. I can stop being laid back Kieran, I can be open and make a change in me.

Lost and Found

Contact, Manchester are looking for artists to submit ideas for Lost & Found a new upcoming event in June. 

From Monday, June 6th to Saturday the 11th Contact will host the very first Lost & Found Festival 2011!  With this invitation we would like you to tell us how you would like to get involved with the festival, whether that be through a  one-to-one performance, an interactive installation, anything!

LOST & FOUND 2011

Lost & Found is a festival which examines the idea that art and inspiration is found in unusual situations, locations and interactions.  We are looking to curate pieces which allow audiences to stumble across art in everyday situations; lose themselves in a piece, in a place and may allow people to find that they are part of the performance.

This intricate and inspiring event will be layered with a pick-and-mix of pop up performances, taking place in various locations around the centre of Manchester throughout the week.   The festival culminates in a final day of performances and art works which take place in the Contact building, having been inspired or created from collected images, stories and data from the outside world and from the subsequent week of creating around the city. 

The festival will essentially take the form of two parts:

Part I

Monday - Friday Lost & Found will be staged around the city-centre at various outdoor venues:

Piccadilly Gardens

A Northern Quarter Cafe

St. Peters Square

A Metrolink Tram

MediaCityUK

Part II

Day-long event at Contact throughout the entire building.

So with this in mind we would like you (although it is not absolutely required) to come up with a two part idea.  One to take place outside of Contact, and the other to take place inside Contact.  These can act as companion piece or as one being a response to the other.

Creative works may cross the boundaries between theatre, art, photography and digital media and in the process opening new creative opportunities and collaborations.

The idea of ‘Lost and Found’ is not only used as a curatorial theme and a spring board for discussion, but also a tactile image and framework for the event – an event which is like a lost and found box of hidden treasures. We would really like you to take this idea and run with it.

For this submission process we will be taking your ideas via e-mail until the closing date of Friday, March 18th.  From there, we will have a Pitch Party at Contact on Tuesday, March 29th at 7pm @ Contact in Space 2.

If you have any questions about the festival, the submission process or any other inquiries feel free to ask. 

You can reach the festival team at LostAndFound@contact-theatre.org

The members of Contact's premier young producing and programming scheme Re:Con are the creators and organizers of Lost & Found.

Thank You, Good Luck and Start Pitching!

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Tumblr account

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Augusto Boal

"Art re-creates the creative principle of created things"

Reading list

The Man in the High Castle
Theatre of the Oppressed
The Artist's Body
The Corner
American gods
Dreams from my Father
Motion Picture and Video Lighting
Trainspotting
The Illiad

QUOTE

“Me too. I want to know God, and I want Him to know me. I want Him to know that I'm still here. That I'm still stuck in this place.”

Flickr account

http://www.flickr.com/photos/-4-/

Contagion project/ Acting class 6

Contagion piece. Performing in front of camera using the techniques learnt during my sixth acting class. Experiments.


Chris is a great teacher.


I always knew from writing to acting that you should go within to produce you're best work. 
Chris though really gave me the impetus to internalise my acting and be truthful. He told us to stop externalising, to stop acting in a sense tell the truth.
We were involved in an exercise, sitting in a chair, each of us looking away from one and other; closing our eye's and going back to a place in our past that had significance that we had strong feelings of. I won't say where I went but Chris took us through it, how we felt, who was there, the details of our surroundings. We sent what felt like an hour, internalising, going back to the truth.


Coming out of it I felt feelings, to strong to explain, I was sharp and I cold tackle acting truthfully, really truthfully.


Contagion can begin.

Studio space

I require a couple of magazine file's and sticky pads for my space. Need to turn my space in an office of my choosing. Large print out of piece as poster.

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

This is bigger than us....this is life

CONTAGION

How do you eradicate it ?
Is it inside you, or a group ?
Is it physical ?
What is the contagion ?
I there a cure ?
Procedures to contain contagion ?


Performance project
_It's a disease that make's me love you_
_Black can't love white_

Film

I've been thinking that the issues and the voice I'm searching for is in the films I know and love. I should look to their voice's and internalise them. 

_Blackandwhite_

_Relationships_

This is bigger than us....this is life.

THIS IS BIGGER THAN US....THIS IS LIFE.

This is bigger than us....this is life.

Marina ABRAMOVIC

BALKAN BAROQUE 1997

balkan-baroque-135325_0x440.jpg


The center piece of an epic performance, Abramovic sat on a pile of 1,500 beef bones, cleaning  everyone of them everyday for six hours for five days. She sang folk song's from here childhood. This extreme performance would take it's toll on the artist, citing dedication to the theatrical and real nature of the piece. She did so to shed the tragedy of war and the internal conflicts of herself as a right of passage. I could not find the video of this to realise the potential power of the work. The scale and deeply personal fixation of the work is why I choose to recognise the work, I'm trying to look deeper in myself, but I'm finding it difficult to get a fixed position on my internal feelings. What is my agenda? 

IMPORTANT READING LIST

Barack Obama - Dreams from my father

Günter BRUS

SELF PAINTING

Self-mutilation 1965

'Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience.'  

-Gunter Brus, quoted in Le Marais. Sonderheft Günter Brus, 1965

The black stripe is self mutilation, a symbol. He walked through Vienna like this and was eventually arrested for being potentially disturbing to the people. The body is centre of the painting.

http://blogdrop.posterous.com/artists-i-love-gunter-brus

Giuseppe PENONE

ROVESCIARE I PROPRI OCCHI (TO ONE'S EYES) 1970

'Mirrored lenses, when placed over my eyes, indicate the point that separates me from that which surrounds me. They are like a skin, a border element, the interruption of a channel of information ....By blocking my vision I eliminate data necessary for my subsequent behaviour.'
-Giuseppe Penone. Artist's statement. 1977


Taken from
The Artist's Body, Edited By Tracey Warp, Survey by Amelia Jone

Stuart BRISLEY

OPPOSITE
Moments of Decision and Indecision 1975

This piece took place in one room fro six days. Everyday the artist would cover himself in white and black paint, to a point that he could not see  or move, thus creating sensory deprivation. Trying to climb the wall would only compact the isolation, in the audience feelings of helplessness and frustration set in. 




Taken from
The Artist's Body, Edited By Tracey Warp, Survey by Amelia Jone

ACTING CLASS WEEK 4 or 5

I turned up late so I didn't have the time to shake of the outside world, and focus on the room for two hours, focus on the job.


This was the only piece I did yesterday, yesterday was my weakest session, well scratch that, my most challenging. I couldn't be truthful and really add subtext, my responses felt flat and lacked conviction. This was disappointing because I was pretty good last week.