Events

Hannah Slogget and Wendy Hart from Stonehouse Action Group.

Stonehouse Action are a group of local residents volunteering together to celebrate and improve the local area through activities such as the annual Union Street Party.

Lizzie Lloyd is Associate Lecturer at the University of the West of England, and co-founder and convener of the Art Writing Writing Art research cluster at the University of Bristol. Her PhD enquiry is entitled ‘Subjectivity and Art Writing’.

A workshop with artists who bring forward ideas for the Syllabus III programme.

Syllabus III is a peer-led alternative learning programme supporting ten artists across ten months. Alongside staff and artists working with each of the partner organisations, the artists selected to participate brought forward ideas to the programme and actively contributed to its delivery.

Featuring: (Dogs) Dave, Zebadee, Lucy, Polly, Barny, Obi plus their counterparts James, Verena, Monica, Phaedra, Paul and Beth.

In partnership with the Live Art Development Agency, ‘Be Your Dog’ is a project that aims to transcend the hierarchies of pet and owner. The project sees humans and their dogs aim to demonstrate a connection with each other based on mirrored actions that demonstrate empathy and equality.

This public event is a result of workshops, and you may see pairs sitting or laying together, looking in each others eyes, or involved in small reciprocal actions. Of course this might not happen, as all are collaborators and the dogs will bring their own contribution to the work, but whatever happens you will see collaborating pairs being responsive in whatever way they deem right.

Live Immersive Visual Audio Jam at the IVT (Immersive Vision Theatre).

The IVT is a transdisciplinary instrument for the manifestation of material and imaginary worlds.

Collaboration between Eberhard Kranemann/Mathew Emmett + Mike Philips/Luke Christison explores poly sensory immersive reality for the fulldome architectural experience.

Kranemann and Emmett synthesise hybrid space through mixed reality performance.

Kranemann and Emmett act cooperatively to acculturate the audience’s perception of physical space by creating a multi-level immersive environment in which the performers and audience are encouraged to simultaneously occupy multiple points on the mixed reality continuum.

Among Remote Lost Objects is an acoustic installation that unsettles the relationships between our senses. A sound-deadening ‘room within a room’ occupies KARST, creating the feeling of being within and underneath. The inner surface of this chamber is made from recycled wool textiles, resonant with memory and primal association. The chamber oscillates between total darkness and light, unsettling and disorientating the viewer, yet surrounding them with warmth. Outside, KARST is flooded with echoing sound, light and air.

The blind opera singer Victoria Oruwari will perform a score written by composer John Matthias in response to this work. Andrews, Matthias and Oruwari have collaborated on a vocal score first generated in the anechoic chamber at UCL, exploring loss, resonance and non-resonance through voice and violin. Matthias has developed this piece through a ‘neurogranular sampler’, a digital processing programme that mimics the action of neurons in the brain to produce music rich in memory and texture.

Oruwari will perform with the work on the opening night and every afternoon on the half hour between 12.30 and 4.30 pm. The performance lasts approximately three minutes. At other times you are free to experience the chamber for as long as you wish, numbers permitting.

Among Remote Lost Objects was first built at ROOMartspace in London during May 2015.

Counter draws together artists, collectives and book works to make friends, sell books, buy books,share work, share knowledge, learn something new, start conversations, ask questions, try to find answers and exchange ideas.

Counter is run by an independent band of Plymouth based artists. We are keeners, fans, and D.I.Y enthusiasts.

The Counter Programme consists of:

Ladies of the Press are a London-based performative publishing duo, performing on and off the page. Past gigs include Tate Modern, ICA, Science Museum. LOTP* will be documenting the event with their Live Press and creating a zine which they will freely distribute at the end of the day.

AMBruno – an alliance of artists brought together by a common interest in the medium of the book in 2008. Previous exhibitions and fairs include Leeds Artists’ Book Fair 2015, Berliner Liste 2014 and NY Art Book Fair 2009. Marco Cali from AMBruno will present a performance lecture during Counter.

Maria White – independent artists’ book specialist, previously Chief Cataloguer and responsible for the artists’ book collection at Tate Library. Maria is presenting a small selection from her private collection of artists’ books and will talk about the works she’s brought to Counter and how she has developed her collection.

Please visit the website at: http://www.counterplymouth.com/

Showcasing a selection of international contemporary artist films

Developments in digital technology during the last decade, in particular, have greatly advanced the aesthetics, accessibility and distribution of artist film and video. In response to the subsequent surge of interest in the medium, the screening programme celebrates work by artists working with moving image. Films have been chosen by a panel of specialists, (Jordan Baseman (Artist, Filmmaker), Francis Gooding (Film Historian, Writer), Erika Balsom (Writer, Lecturer) and include a wide-range of single-screen films, including short films, performance, and artists video.

‘A Morphologic Journey (On the Borders of Our Bodies)’ Chapter 2

This durational performance takes James Joyce’s Ulysses as an inspiration; the protagonist’s journey and encounters with a variety of women. These staged meetings with archetypal characters explore the behavioural patterns of people on the run; men and women in search to forget, with a longing for union and permanence. The piece questions intimacy and trust in moments of solitude, fragility, exclusion and rejection.