Portable Radio Podcast - NOW ONLINE

May 26, Portable Radio (Russell Martin and Sarah Thelwall) visits Bath to collaborate with Media Art Bath and talk to local artists, writers, curators, critics and members of the public about how the local art scene operates. Guests include: Bridget Crone (Media Art Bath), Elena Hill (contemporaryartprogramming), Arran Hodgson (Fringe Arts Bath), Lucy Sames (Media Art Bath) and Sarah Simmonds (Avebury World Heritage Site Officer).

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Portable Radio is a project by Russell Martin and Sarah Thelwall presented by Media Art Bath as part of the Fringe Arts Bath (FAB) programme 2009.

Lines Towards Another Century

Performed by L’ARSENALE
Parco delle Rimembranze, St Elena, VENICE
(vaporetto stop: St Elena, behind the Giardini)
Saturday 6 June, 16.00hrs

An immersive performance involving sound, movement and text

Andrew Byrne and Tom Nicholson's Lines Towards Another Century is an instruction-based performance featuring the Italian contemporary music ensemble, L’Arsenale. The work is structured around the intoning of a vast list of national boundaries created during the 20th century.  For the Venice manifestation of their collaboration, Byrne and Nicholson make use of recorded intonings of the list, disembodying the act of reading and using the recorded material as a kind of ordering system for the movement of the performers through the space of the Parco delle Rimembranze. Each performer remains silent, moving through the park, bearing the transmission of a recorded intoning, which orders, prompts and contains their movements, creating complex layers and accumulations of sound. Please see 'Current' for further information.

MAB Equipment Resource

Don't forget to take advantage of Media Art Bath's great rates on equipment hire for your projects this Spring- we have a range of production, exhibition and presentation equipment including miniDV cameras, projectors, screens and editing software available.

Media Art Bath supports artists by providing low-cost, high-spec equipment for the development of new work. Equipment is hired at £5-£10 per item per day.

For further information on MAB's hire service go here, and to book equipment go here.

More exciting projects coming in 2009...

Following the success of Media Art Bath's latest project, new and exciting things are now in development for 2009. Documentation of Gail Pickering's Brutalist Premolition (recently shown at Arnolfini, Bristol and ICA, London) is on the website now - check it out in the Projects section of the site. Here at MAB, we're pretty excited about the future - we'll be commissioning more high quality, experimental and challenging projects and bringing them to Bath and the South West. We look forward to you joining us.

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Gail Pickering - BRUTALIST PREMOLITION

A film and live performance – Tuesday 4 Nov, 20.00hrs
Tickets £5 / £3 / Free with valid NUS
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol.

Don't miss this exciting opportunity to see Gail Pickering's new work, BRUTALIST PREMOLITION, a film and live performance that takes place within a sculptural set that references the interior of a flat on the Robin Hood Gardens Estate, an example of 'New Brutalism' designed by Alison and Peter Smithson and imbued with their socially utopian ideals. Actors, Raji James and Babita Pohoomull (familar faces from British TV, film and theatre) inhabit the set as they repeat well-rehearsed scenes from their inventory of past roles, while within the film a resident family cast the actors to play themselves.

Before coming along to see BRUTALIST PREMOLITION (20.00hrs at the Arnolfini) pop down to our friends, Spike Island where at 18.00hrs Matt White, recipient of the Rootstein Hopkins Artist's Award 2008, will discuss his work with writer, curator and artist Paul O'Neill. Don't miss out on a great evening of contemporary art (and all free if you're a student)!

Lines Towards Another Century

The Elysian Quartet/Sunday 22 June/16.30hrs
Artist's talk/24 June/18.00hrs
Exhibition/24 June to 6 July 2008

Media Art Bath at The Holburne Museum

Media Art Bath is delighted to announce that it has invited Australian artist, Tom Nicholson and New York based composer, Andrew Byrne to collaborate on a work, commencing with a performance of the resulting work by The Elysian Quartet.

The work, Lines Towards Another Century, takes as its starting point, a list of the national boundaries created during the 20th Century. Nicholson and Byrne have collaborated on an instructional score for instrumental ensemble and voice, representing the framework of the list through the canon of minimalist art and music.

Hannah Rickards wins the MaxMara Art Prize for Women!

Media Art Bath is delighted to congratulate Hannah Rickards on winning this prestigous prize.

THUNDER Record by Hannah Rickards is available to buy from good bookshops and from Media Art Bath.

THUNDER record represents the sound installation THUNDER by Hannah Rickards. Rickards recorded a thunderclap, had it reinterpreted, performed by a small orchestra, then recorded and compressed to its original duration. THUNDER Record includes the musical interpretation prior to compression as well as the remastered, synthesised thunderclap. The sleeve is designed by Fraser Muggeridge Studio and includes a text by Dave Beech.

Click here for more information.

Staging Sound

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 7 - 8.30pm
BRLSI, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, £3/£2
Presented by Contemporary Art Talks programme

This forum asks a panel to consider what it is that makes sound so appealing to artists and audiences? Is it the immediacy of sound and the way in which it is connected to the present moment (of hearing/listening)? Or is it the different ways in which sound can access audiences that is its special appeal? Its potential for shared authorship and audience participation? And finally, has the spread of interactive gaming and digital technologies opened up more of a freeform attitude to making music / sound / noise?

_{The Contemporary Art Talks programme is supported by: Media Art Bath, Bath Area Network for Artists, Contemporary Art Programming, The Porter Cellar Bar, Arts Council England, South West and Bath & North East Somerset Council.}

The Sensible Stage

PRESENTED AS PART OF NEW WORK UK

The Sensible Stage explores the idea of staging, the staging of the self and staging as a theatrical device. The Sensible Stage explores the idea of the ‘stage of the sensible'; that is, the staging of a common ‘moment'. Using the real and metaphorical frames of the stage and the camera, The Sensible Stage treads the ground between the possibility and impossibility of this ‘common moment'. Blurring the frame of the stage and the frame of the camera opens up questions around participation and spectatorship as the immediacy of the live experience is restaged.

Presented by Whitechapel in collaboration with Lux.

NEW TELEPHONE NUMBER

PLEASE TAKE NOTE!

Our telephone number is a-changing.

Media Art Bath's telephone number is now:

01225 442 591

All other details remain the same.

THAT'S 01225 442 591.

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Pil & Galia Kollectiv – Better Future, Quad-Shaped

19.00hrs Sunday 28 October
Cube Microplex, Bristol
(£4 includes Cube lifetime membership)

With a programme of films by Die Tödliche Doris (The Deadly Doris)

A short performance that pays homage to the square. Better Future, Quad-Shaped is a square dance routine based on a Samuel Beckett's television plays Quad I and II, Bruce Nauman's Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square (Square Dance) and industrial German band Die Tödliche Doris' Tanz im Quadrat.

The Deadly Doris's contribution to the 1980s Berlin punk scene and beyond has spanned many forms from music, film and performance. Programme selected by the band's founder Wolfgang Müller.

Open improv follows Staging Sound

Porter Cellar Bar / 8.30pm
14 George Street /Bath

Matt Davies, Nick Rothwell and Adrian Smith will kick off the evening…

Following the Staging Sound forum will be an informal open jam session at the Porter Cellar Bar with an emphasis on the improvisational and experimental. We would like to invite sound artists, musicians and all other music/sound/noise makers to participate in this one-off event. It can be as relaxed and informal as you like, we are simply looking for some enthusiastic and confident participants used to working experimentally and collaboratively! This session will draw out some of the ideas under discussion in the forum and give people the chance to continue the dialogue in a sociable and relaxed atmosphere.

_{The Contemporary Art Talks programme is supported by: Media Art Bath, Bath Area Network for Artists, Contemporary Art Programming, The Porter Cellar Bar, Arts Council England, South West and Bath & North East Somerset Council.}

Speakers biographies

David Cunningham is an artist and musician who has created a continuing series of installation works based on real time exploration of acoustics. He is Senior Research Fellow at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London.

Lina Dzuverovic is the co-founder and Director of Electra, a London based contemporary art agency established in 2003. She has worked with artists and musicians including: Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, Tony Oursler, Daria Martin, Hayley Newman, Christian Marclay, Kaffe Matthews, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Jacob Kirkegaard.

Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. As well as producing compositions and audio CDs, his diverse body of work includes soundtracks for films, performances, radio, and site-specific multimedia installations.

_{The Contemporary Art Talks programme is supported by: Media Art Bath, Bath Area Network for Artists, Contemporary Art Programming, The Porter Cellar Bar, Arts Council England, South West and Bath & North East Somerset Council.}

Website Update!

If you couldn't make it to the performances or want to re-live them, then take a look under ‘Projects' where you'll find photographs and films of the performances by artists Lucienne Cole, Melanie Gilligan and Pil and Galia Kollectiv.

In the same section you will also find Media Art Bath's project archive where you can see our previous exciting projects.

Melanie Gilligan - The Miner's Object

16.30hrs Sunday 4 November
The Holburne Museum, Bath

The Miner's Object is a parable about experience and knowledge. Staged in the Holburne Museum of Art (after presentation at Tate Britain in September) the choice of site teases out a connection with late 18th century Bath as a place of both sensuous pleasures and an egalitarianism of learning.

The Miner’s Object is a storytelling performance in which a miner discovers a strange, unknown object, a discovery that unfolds a debate about the social and material qualities of knowledge.

Presented as part of THE SENSIBLE STAGE, a programme of three discrete performance works.

Pil and Galia Kollectiv – Better Future, Quad-Shaped
19.00hrs Sunday 28 October, Cube Microplex, Bristol
With a programme of films by Die Tödliche Doris

Melanie Gilligan – The Miner’s Object
16.30hrs Sunday 4 November, The Holburne Museum, Bath

Lucienne Cole – Hi Fidelity Hi
20.00hrs Sunday 4 November, Widcombe Social Club, Bath