The Comet is approaching!!!
The spectacle Pages from the Book of… directed by Teresa and Andrzej Welminski and performed by the Cricot 2 Theatre artists (Andrzej Wełminski, Teresa Wełminski, Andrzej Kowalczyk) together with the international 3 Arangement group, inspired by the works of Bruno Schulz will be presented at the festivals in Moldova and Romania.
June 5th
{Sunday}
The spectacle to be presented within the scope of the International Festival of Scenic Arts BITEI - 2016 Edition XII in Chisinau, Moldova – stage of the ,,A. P. Cehov" Drama Theatre, 16.00 hrs
June 8th
{Wednesday}
The spectacle to be presented within the scope of the International Festival BABEL F.A.S.T. 2016 in Tony Bulandra Theatre in Targoviste, Romania; 19.00 hrs.
June 10th & 11th
{Friday - Saturday}
Pages from the Book of… to be presented twice during the International Theatre Festival in Sibiu, Romania. Gong Theatre, on Friday at 16.00 hrs & on Saturday at 18.00 hrs.
Against Nothingness or 3 cm Above an Empty Headat
Edinburgh Festival FRINGE
SUMMERHALL - Old Lab
Mon 18th – Sun 24th August 2014
Reviews:
http://edfringereview.com/r/U8k4u7a8TsCbZBrgXDx6yg
LONDYN Rose Bruford College 2014
Ontological spectacle in three acts with a prologue and an epilogue tableau, inspired by life and works of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.
„Though anything could have not existed and me neither – and I would have never emerged on this world out of nothingness - but still the stranger is an assumption that the world could have existed without myself...”
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, The Only Way Out
Our group of 11 European Theatre Arts and 1 Lighting Designer students returned yesterday from a week in Bratislava where they participated in the International Festival of Theatre Schools 'Istropolitana Projekt' with the performance Pages From The Book Of...
The performance was directed by Andrzej and Teresa Welminski as part of the ETA curriculum and was presented at the College in February and during the College Symposium in April with a full cast of 48 students.
For our participation in Bratislava, the performance was re-worked with a cast of 11 who succeeded in impressing a full house in Bratislava, getting a standing ovation, receiving 4 and 5 star reviews and return back home with two main awards!
The Jury Award for Outstanding Achievementent
and
The Student Jury Award for the Best Theatre Production
Festival Istropolitana Project is absolutely unique among all festivals in the Middle Europe and provides a special opportunity for young theater artists to be involved in an international confrontation of their work, opinion and production. It creates space for future theater professionals to meet with eminent theatre scholars, their audience and their colleagues.
Project takes place every second year and provides continuous mutual confrontation between young artists and broad audience. The festival with its competition part is significant event in the context of Slovak culture and theater education system in the Middle-European region and is the only one of its kind within Slovakia.
The project’s target is to hold a creative meeting of the youngest generation of theater artists from national and international schools and to present various approaches and poetics towards theater staging and interpretation.
free frame
Guy Gormley, Tom Lovelace, Aaron Murphy & Andrzej Welminski
Private view Friday 24 February 2012 [SLAM Last Friday]
Exhibition 25 February - 31 March
As our visual experiences and memories expand indefinitely our ability to arrange and order information is tested. Layering and sequencing, in this exhibition seen in Andrzej Welminski's photo-chemical drawings, Aaron Murphy's photo-montages, Tom Lovelace's light affected readymades and with Guy Gormley's lo-grade digital images, are formal consequences of a desire to deal with this issue: compiling or refining amounts of visual information into confined spaces in a dynamic and porous manner.
In 'free frame', then, the artwork itself, or series of artworks, become by necessity an inter-active experience: the impression is of images gliding together and fixing, often temporarily, before moving apart again. This movement is described by sequences and layers, by careful editing or subtle effects of light and tonality. What is not included is as significant as what is included: Whether by the photo-chemical stains obscuring Welminski's drawings, the negative traces on Lovelace's readymades, the concealing passpartout on Murphy's montages or the selective sequencing in Gormley's narratives.
Images: top, Andrzej Welminski, detail from 'In Ruins'; bottom, Tom Lovelace, detail from 'Sun Panel'
Guy Gormley presents a series of images made from lo-grade digital files, their materiality exposed as they rest unmounted in wide perspex sleeves. His work is often imbued with a keen sensuality, worked from subjects that allude to the hidden and private, like close-ups of the body or surveys of landscapes. In a text written recently for the South London Gallery's Conch series Michael Grieve describes, "...the wonderful conversation between the form and the subject matter of Gormley's photographs, the pixelated BB [blackberry] prints return to the pictorialism of the want to be art photographers during Alfred Steiglitz's day in the early 20th century. Those photographers produced work that echoed painting and so made impressionistic like photographs. Gormley's pictures break up the object, fragmenting it but not in a brutal way but neither in the naïve romantic style of those pictorialists. This work knows itself, with every aspect thought through; the relationship between the limitations of the technology and how it manifests and what this means in relation to the subject, how does it change the way we perceive what is photographed?"
Tom Lovelace describes his works as 'sun objects' or 'photographic sculptures'. These pictures, found shop display boards, have been raised to a revered level of contemplation by a careful choice of framing. By this act Lovelace expresses a need for us to disengage from the traumas of work and instead to admire work done by imperceptible forces, the suns rays, and to be sensitive to what already exists. In a recent essay on labour Liam Gillick writes, "It is a continual flow between states of engagement and disengagement that provides potential and allows us to understand the why of production as opposed to the what." Other series by Lovelace, including 'Machine Studies', a group of fake, apparently useless machines, and 'Preparation for the Real', involving raw building materials used as plinths on which the artist stands, his body disappearing out of the picture frame, also address questions of usefulness, work and beauty.
Aaron Murphy exhibits works from his 'Silence' series, photo-montages which incorporate found as well as new imagery. Currently writing a Practice-led PhD on metaphor, narrative, rhythm and landscape, Murphy's work is noted for its looping and suggestive content as well as a highly skilled manipulation of photographs. He describes the pictures: "The palette of these prints is simple and monochromatic; each one beginning with a sheet of blue airmail paper, and cut with a window to hold an aging vernacular photograph – the majority of which came from the same album of family photographs. ...After scanning these blue sheets, I masked the people of the photographs with traces of other scanned surfaces: random and dusty pieces of darkroom paper, or cut-outs from other prints. The effect of these surfaces is similar to screenprinting, with each patch of additional texture containing a singular colour. This screening has a theatrical quality, with the blue window becoming a stage and the extra surfaces acting as curtains and background. A setting has been built over the faces in these old photographs, creating an unusual silence from playful and theatrical staging."
Andrzej Welminski lives and works in Poland, since 1973 as a member of Tadeusz Kantor's Cricot 2 theatre company and in close relationship with the Foksal Gallery. His art evokes universal themes about life and death, entrapment and escape, and our relationship to individual and collective histories. In the triptych on display, 'In Ruins', he develops parts of photographs on found paper and paints with photo-sensitive emulsion, allowing it to congeal in wells and cracks in the page. The work addresses the history of his native country, particularly in relation to the censorship and devastation inflicted on its people and culture by foreign occupation. On the floor of the gallery stands a receptacle on a stool with gas taps, a sculpture and object used in performances, Welminski also used this object as an alchemical device: putting drawings inside and flushing photo chemicals through it to affect the surfaces.
Opening hours: Friday - Saturday 12:00 tp 18:00
For more information please contact Guy Robertson: [email protected] / 0044 7735 459614
