FREE BAR PERFORMANCES Fri 7 Nov • 7pm • FREE Enjoy a Friday evening in our bar and experience something completely different.
Working Net Jo Scott Taking material from networks, Scott mixes, merges and assembles them live, with the help of those present, into a ‘working net’ of image, sound, object and body. joanneemmascott.com
A weekend of performances, talks, installations, workshops and family events exploring networks and networked performance practices. Most events are FREE, so why not try something different. CURATED BY
Maria Chatzichristodoulou (aka Maria X) and Irini Papadimitriou
If You Go Away – Chapter One
Keeping in touch (with an unknown other) Annie Abrahams Streaming: Ivan Chabannaud mosaika.tv Sat 8 Nov, 5–7pm & Sun 9 Nov, 4–6pm Gallery • FREE Two people will create together an image of touch using webcams. Under the physical constraints of technology, which recalls those suffered by our bodies during daily computer use, two people touch in a vacuum.
Norah Lorway
bram.org
Live coding laptop performer, composer, programmer and pianist.
Stitch, Bitch and Make/Perform
norahlorway.com
LIVE EVENTS Fri 7 Nov, 6–9pm • Sat 8 Nov, 4–9pm Sun 9 Nov, 3–6pm • Entrance Patio • FREE
If You Go Away – Chapter One Invisible Flock Bring a charged 3G enabled smartphone or tablet or borrow one from our limited stock. Headphones are provided or you are welcome to bring your own. A game and live cinematic experience that tells the fantastical story of Olive. You will interact with a journey through her past, and the people who haunt the corners of her memory. invisibleflock.com
THEATRE PERFORMANCES Sat 8 Nov • 8–10pm • Theatre £12.50 for three performances OR £15 joint ticket with Symposium
Ring The Changes+ Chisato Minamimura in collaboration with Nick Rothwell and body>data>space A digital performance created by deaf dance artist Chisato Minamimura in collaboration with software artist Nick Rothwell and digital pioneers body>data>space. We invite you to experience a playful exploration of visual sound. chisato.h-and-c.jp • cassiel.com • bodydataspace.net
Camille Baker Sun 9 Nov • 2– 4.30pm Gallery • FREE A meet up of artistes and specialists in the new media world to explore wearable technologies, e-textiles and performance.
Hacking Choreography 2.0
Interzone Theatre: Chronomotive
blog.sicchio.com • cassiel.com
Joel Cahen Fri 7 – Sun 9 Nov Around Watermans – please see sign for starting point • FREE Requires smartphone running the free Android or iPhone app Interzone Theatre and a pair of closed-cup headphones. A rare disorder enables the protagonist to experience the place they’re in as a parallel reality.
NETWORKED BODIES SYMPOSIUM Sat 8 Nov • 2.30–6.30pm • Theatre £6 or £15 joint ticket with Networked Bodies Performances An afternoon of presentations, demonstrations and performances by artists and academics exploring: Telecollaborative practices; Connecting Senses; Networked Methods; Performing the Network. Ends with performances by Daniel Ploeger and Helen Varley Jamieson in collaboration with Christina Papagiannouli, Evi Stamatiou, Miljana Peri, Vicki Smith.’ interzonetheatre.com
Kate Sicchio and Nick Rothwell This dance performance combines creative concepts from choreography with the technical principles involved in computer programming.
FAMILY EVENTS
Misunderstood Monsters Half Moon Sun 9 Nov • 3pm Theatre • £6.50 Overcome your fear of all things creepy and crawly through the power of poetry and live music in this fast moving, out of this world adventure. Two monster catchers who use the latest digital gadgets and gizmos to battle vile beasts are on their most dangerous mission yet. But when earth is threatened by Scoodlefug aliens, these unstoppable heroes are forced to question who the real bad guys are, and need the audience to come to the rescue. Watch out for those monsters! At the end of the performance, audience members are invited to download an app on their phone and take part in an interactive digital adventure journey around the theatre halfmoon.org.uk
DC01 Fabio Lattanzi Antinori and Louise Ashcroft DC01 is a performance for mezzo soprano and financial data, featuring the language of classical Opera to narrate the tragedies and fortunes hidden beneath the diagrams of financial algo trading.
Toy hacking workshop
fabiolattanziantinori.com louiseashcroft.com
Ring The Changes+ Photo: Roswitha Chesher
Exploring Senses CIC Sun 9 Nov • 1–3pm Riverside Gallery • FREE Have you ever watched Toy Story and thought the mutant hybrid toy creations were kinda cool? This is your chance to make your own Toy Hack creation out of toys destined for landfill. This FREE family workshop will take place at 1–3pm (drop-in) on Sunday 9th November. Suitable for age 5+ with parent/guardian supervision.
GALLERY EXHIBITION Fri 7 – Sun 9 Nov • FREE
The Anatomy of Human Breath Kasia Molga & Adrian Godwin An interactive experience in which you can examine your breath and look at the chemical composition of exhaled breath as a response to the air quality in the immediate surroundings. kasiamolga.net • worldwilderlab.net
Installations by Garrett Lynch The Distinction Between Here and There, Now and Then Sandwich Board A Network of People Who Attended an Exhibition and Contributed to the Creation of this Work Lynch’s work explores networks (in their most open sense) within an artistic context and the spaces between artist, artworks and audience. asquare.org
me and my shadow / Documentation film Joseph Hyde with Phill Tew and body>data>space In this film, you will see the deeply immersive experience of a multisite telepresence installation that connects participants through a shared online environment. bodydataspace.net/projects/meandmyshadow
OTHER INSTALLATIONS Fri 7 – Sun 9 Nov • FREE
Alex May Studio 1 A video sculpture that uses found media and real-time information to construct a profile of GCHQ. alexmayarts.co.uk
exploringsenses.moonfruit.com
Dancing with Drones
Timescapes
Jennifer Lyn Morone™ Inc Studio 2 A reconstruction of the artist’s environment, the compilation of her data is projected in the space, captured and displayed in real-time. jenniferlynmorone.com
Ka Fai Choy Can we design future memories for the body? Is the body itself the apparatus for remembering cultural processes? Prospectus for a Future Body studies body movement in dance and proposes new perspectives on how the body remembers.
Room 40
Syncronicity Stanza How will big data empower the system and does this added value allow more freedom or does it seek a more subversive form of control? Commissioned by Watermans, Synchronicity manipulates real time transport data to re-interpret the city fabric as an organic pattern based system.
Exploring Senses CIC Riverside Gallery The ongoing ‘CommuniToy’ Toy Hacking newpop Surrealist art project involves the reuse of toys destined for landfill to make new hybrid creations. These processes raise questions about ownership, identity, and authenticity. Are people still unique, or are we now all replaceable?
Prospectus for a Future Body
ka5.info
Guerilla Toy Hacking
Nina Kov in collaboration with COLLMOT Robotic Research Group directed by Pr Tamas Vicsek, Dept of Biological Physics of the Eotvos University of Budapest Box Office Foyer Dancing with Drones explores the peaceful, civil and creative applications of drones, and the possibilities opened up by collaborations between scientists and artists. ninakov.com
Stanza Download free on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ timescapes/id702843826?mt=8 Commissioned by Watermans, Timescapes mixes CCTV feeds over time and allows different results to be made depending on use of the interface. stanza.co.uk
DIGITAL PERFORMANCE WEEKENDER
Fri 7 – Sun 9 November 2014
A weekend of performances, installations, workshops and family events.
How to get here
stanza.co.uk
Prospectus for a Future Body
Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford, TW8 0DS Watermans is on the river at the corner of Brentford High Street and South Ealing Road, opposite McDonald’s. Bus: 65, 237, 267 stop outside. Train: Overground from Hounslow or Chiswick to Kew Bridge and seven-minute walk. Car: On-site car park (1st hour free). Blue Badge holders park for free. Cycle: Secure bicycle park.
Watermans is managed by Hounslow Arts Trust Ltd (No. 1164904). Registered as a charity (No. 267426) VAT No. 422352977
box office 020 8232 1010 www.watermans.org.uk Ring The Changes+ Photo: Roswitha Chesher