Live Art Falmouth 08
The Live Art Falmouth Team would like to thank everyone involved in this and last years' event for helping us to sucessfully lay the foundations for an annual live art event in Falmouth that brings together practioners and students from all stages of their career; from pioneers to emergent and local to international, to a region of the country that holds a fresh audience for contemporary live and performative work.
Please visit us again soon as the site is constantly being updated, with documentation of all artists' work from LAF08 being uploaded daily! See below for the Archive for both LAF08 and LAF07 and information and documentation of all artists that have participated can be found in Artists
Archive from LAF08 Event
The following five videos of Live Art Falmouth 2008 were fimed by Linda Cleary, Rupert White & Nigel Ayers and are courtesy of artcornwall.org
Friday afternoon excerpts
In order: Andy Fung, Vana Gacina "TV-Violence", Bram Thomas Arnold "The Park Bench Reader: My Favourite Novel", Jemma Skidmore 'The Hidden Utopia' (video), Tina Bech "Mememe", Andy Fung, Mo Bottomly & Tim Newman "Bone Antenna", Ann Haycock, David Pringle "Cycle", Rob Boole "Untitled" (on monitor), Tom Walker "Untitled" (on monitor), Mark Leahy "Barbed Gadlyngs"
Friday evening excerpts
Lucy Cran"Mix-up", Mark Greenwood "Free Cell, Solitaire, Golf and Pyramids", Cornford & Appleby "Human Separation", Jessica Morris "Two Basic assumptions of this Theory", Cornford & Appleby, Mark Greenwood, Cornfold & Appleby
Saturday afternoon excerpts
Claire Blundell Jones "Kissing III" (Gyllyngvase Beach), Tim Crowley "Sounds of the Serengeti" (High Street), Katy Connor "Afterglow" (Chip shop), Andy Fung, Mark Greenwood , Sabine Oosterlynck "Immer Nur Saugen" (on monitor), Ken Turner & Jane Whitaker "This is Whatever - Live thought", Black Market International (screening), Kathy Rose "Kubikimenco" (video), Dani d'Emilia "Meatoo" (video)
Ken Turner & Jane Whitaker "This is Whatever - Live Thought", Birgit Sailing Hansen "Both and Or". Ula Dajerling, Kim Berry "Access Denied"
Saturday evening excerpts
Deborah Lewarne "Jelly and Ice Cream" Ewilina Kolaczek & Nelly Alfandari "Am I Good?" Richard Layzell "Key Notes"
Print Material Downloads (PDF)
Press Release
Live Art Falmouth 08- The largest scale festival of it's kind ever to happen in Cornwall
Following last year’s enormous success, Live Art Falmouth (LAF) is back on Friday 6 June and Saturday 7 June. The annual, two-day festival features an innovative program of live/performance art, interactive video installations, cutting edge technology, video screenings, sound/sonic art performances at at Wellington Terrace, Foundation Annex and at various sites around town.
More than 100 international, national, regional, and student artists (UCF and DCA) will contribute to this year’s live art platform with 75 pieces of work within two days.
Artists include Alex Hetherington, a new media artist and writer who has been awarded commissions by Channel 4 and MESH and creates work that references leading contemporary performance companies The Wooster Group and Goat Island; Birgit Salling Hansen, who employs her own poetic text pieces and ventures into performance, drawing, installation and video. She is currently working on publications for B-Beyond and is a member of Catalyst Arts, Belfast; Claire Blundell Jones; who has performed as in the Tate Liverpool and commissioned to produce a performance for the ANTI Festival, Finland and the Fresh Festival; Evangelia Basdekis; a live artist who has performed extensively in the UK, Greece, Czech Republic, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Tel Aviv, and Istanbul; Lynn Lu, who was awarded the Singapore National Arts Council International Touring Grants in 2007 and the National Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant for her work in 2006; Rachel Parry, is an Experimental Live Artist who works in a variety of media including site-specific installations, video, physical theatre, live interactive experiments, dance, intimate one on one performance pieces and stealthy interventions. She has performed at the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow; Jon Fawcett, who's selected solo exhibitions have been shown in Space Station Sixty Five Gallery; Bishopsgate; Birmingham City Centre, commissioned by Fierce Earth, 2005; Elastic Residence, 291 Gallery; and the ICA. His grants and residencies include Liveartmagazine New Works Bursary; Helsinki International Artists’ Programme Residency; and an Arts Council Grants for the arts research grant; Tom Marshman, who has been making performance work since 1998. He has toured nationally and is currently an associate artist of the Arnolfini as part of the Spaghetti Club.
Further artists include Charlotte Eatock, Dorte Strehlow and Christiane Obermayr, gilbertandgrape, Jeff Cloke and Mike McInerney, John Dummett, Katherine Hymers, Kathy Rose, Ken Turner and Jane Whitaker, Misha Horacek, Nathan Walker, People in Pieces, Rachel Gomme, Rupert White, Stephen Cornford and Matthew Appleby, Tine Bech, and Vana Gacina.
Guest artist Richard Layzell will present ‘Key Notes’, a work first performed at this year’s National Review of Live Art (NRLA) in Glasgow. His work encompasses many approaches to art production and audience. In 1989 he adopted the persona of a self-promoting businessman for several weeks, and gained a lot of media attention. He's been called "one of the best artists working in Britain today" and has worked extensively in galleries, museums, the street, and recently as an artist in industry, in the role of 'visionaire'. There will also be a special launch event of CREAM PAGES, the brand new publication by Tania Koswycz and Richard Layzell, incorporating a live dialogue specifically created for Live Art Falmouth.
This unique artists’ document contains a global tapestry of dialogues from New York to Bangkok , from Penzance to Wagga Wagga, encompassing five years of debate, discourse, disagreement and dynamism.
Edited by Joshua Sofaer, published by ResCen and designed by legendary typographer Phil Baines, Cream Pages speaks volumes about the artistic struggles in us all.
“Make no mistake, this book is totally stand alone.” Tania Koswycz
Join us for the after show 'party' at the womens institute in Falmouth From 11pm till late/early for performance games with The End of the Line.
LAF08 closes with an open discussion for artists, curators and members of the public Sunday 8th at 2pm.
The exhibitions at Wellington Terrace are open to the public on Friday from 10am to 11pm, Saturday from 11am to 10pm and Sunday from 2pm to 5pm. Admission is free.
Main Venue: Wellington Terrace Foundation Studios Annex, Wellington Terrace, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3BN, UK Cornwall, TR11 3BN, UK
Other Venues: Market and Church Street, Gyllyngvase Beach, the Moor, The Prince of Wales Pier, Falmouth Town Library
For further information about LAF08 visit www.liveartfalmouth.com, email info@liveartfalmouth.com or telephone Paul Carter and Alexandra Zierle on 01326 313636.
LAF08 is supported by University College Falmouth (UCF) and Dartington College of Arts (DCA) and is project managed by Alexandra Zierle and Paul Carter, live/performance artists and freelance curators
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The LAF08 Team
Alexandra Zierle, Alice Kemp, Amy Thomas, Anna Clawson, Becky Scott, Bill Leslie, Bram Arnold, Camilla Tagliavini, Catherine Mccabe, Charlie Wilkins, Charlotte Bean, Chloe Reynolds, Christina Jensen, Deborah Lewarne, Diana Pilcher, Emily Houston, Emily Rose Croneher, Emma Bennett, Fran Morris, Gillian Wylde, Helen Pritchard, Hilmare Hotz, Holly Bodmer, Jay Harper, Jeff Hellyer, Jemma Skidmore, Jessica Morris, Julia Donnelly, Katy Connor, Kayleigh O’Keefe, Kelly Rose Chesters, Kim Berry, Lucy Cran, Lydia Eyland, Maddy Pethick, Mark Greenwood, Mark Leahy, Mark Walker, Matthew Jones, Megan Chapman, Mo Bottomley, Nathan Walker, Nicolas Galeazzi, Nicole Ward, Oliver Irvine, Paul Carter, Pipa Rubery, Rachel Martin, Rebecca Upton, Roger Bourke, Rowan Smith, Sally Robinson, Samia Saidi, Sarah Howard, Sarah Matthews, Sarah Williams, Sophie Utting, Stephanie Senior, Stephen Cornford, Susan Morris, Tasha Stevens, Tim Dollimore, Ula Dajerling, and Vera Edwards
Live Art Falmouth 07
On June 8th and 9th 2007, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, more than 35 international, regional, and student artists contributed to an innovative programme of live and performance art, including interactive video installation, cutting edge technology, live VJ-ing, video screening of performance based video work, sound/sonic art performances and an artist led discussion. This two-day platform featured artists ranging from the emerging to the mature, those working locally to internationally, including University College Falmouth student artists and alumni.
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Audience and artist's quotes
“The Live Art extravaganza”, Rebecca Weeks
“performances were happening simultaneously in different areas of the building that helped give it energy”, Rupert White
“an emergent space of artistic cross-fertilisation that seems to have a certain frisson of excitement about it”, Kate Southworth
The following two videos of Live Art Falmouth 2007 are courtesy of artcornwall.org
> Live Art Falmouth (Friday)
Live Art Falmouth (Saturday)