Art Gig - an experimental session
Date: 11 July 2018
Invitation to take part
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Art Gig - an experimental session
Conceived by the Royal College of Art Society but open to all creators. We propose there is a creative void between static art and continuous art.
The subject area is the transition between static works (painting, sculpture,..) and continuous works (performance, dance, film, music,..)
There is a progression from two dimensional painting, to 3D sculpture, then timed 4D based works, which is the subject area, before the transition into continuous and immersive media.
examples:
An extraordinary human body movement
A human interaction with an artefact in a wonderful way
A live selfie of a photographic selfie
A weird way to board a train
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A way of understanding is through prior work that gets closer to common acknowledgement through repeats:
Ai Weiwei: dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995
Mo Farah: performs the 'Mobot'
John Latham: One Second Drawings
Pete Townshend of The Who: destroys a guitar on stage, 1989
Monte Python: a silly walk
Jackson Pollock: performing a splash
Ismail Saray: Oxygen 1970
David Mach: Precious Light 2011 - https://vimeo.com/27872426
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Each of us can develop ideas with the necessary creative leap into something exceptional, powerful and thus memorable. For debate the area appears to transcend categorisation of creative people.
DEFINITION - current
Duration between 10 and 60 seconds typically
Definitive
Strong repeatability
Human not stand-alone machine
EXPERIMENTS - we are giving you the freedom to define your gig
Venue: AND Event Space, 10 Back Church Lane, London E1 1LX
Within a space work with with like minded creatives.
Spontaneous collaborations might occur.
Aim to repeat several times during the event.
This is a session with no audience.
Bring all that you might need.
It is in an uninhibited environment. However participating artists will respect the venue and ensure the venue is left in the same condition as they found it.
RSVP to david.sherriff@rcasociety.net
TIME LINE
There will be two recce pre-sessions of talking, seeing the space and trying some ideas.
Wednesday 1st August 7pm and Wednesday 5th September 7pm at the AND Event Space
Preferably email that you are coming.
Experimental testing will be on Saturday from 2pm on one or the following dates yet to be decided; 15th September, 29th September or even 6th October.
DOCUMENTATION
For discussion should recording be taken further than photography and video using evolving technologies of scanning and block-chain.
END
We have lift off.
Please rsvp… by email or phone
Best wishes,
David Sherriff MA(RCA)
(Secretary - RCA Society)
e: david.sheriff@rcasociety.net
m: 07584 576 395
SMALL PRINT
Being held in an experimental space no liabilities can be accepted by the owners for any eventualities.
Contact • Membership • Enquiries
tel/fax: 020 7481 9053
email: info@rcasociety.net
web: www.rcasociety.net
facebook: Royal College of Art Society
Comments
Join the ArtGIG conversation
Submitted by Jenni on Mon, 13/08/2018 - 10:06.
This space is for you to make comments to extend the proposed project. Whether you intend to participate in ArtGIG or not you can always add something to the conversation...
ArtGIG and meme
Submitted by Jenni on Mon, 13/08/2018 - 10:02.
Additional clarification from David:
Consider your repeating thing as a personal meme, in closed development, before reaching a wider audience as a meme.
meme definition - An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation
An image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.
One aspect is that of mundane or utility action of someone combined with a cultural element, such as the Queen waving.
Discrete also comes up in the sense of distinct and individual.
It should be human, but how far can this go towards computerised behaviour? Maybe it can be also be machine repeated. This is in debate.
Rather than manic attention to IP in the form of copyright and trademarks it is deemed worth considering:
a means of date stamped recording such as in a blockchain
a way of communicating a description through recording technologies like camera, video, words.
others developing someone's idea is still the subject person's thing