‘Studio Chess’ Performance, 2-3pm
Gerald presents a new performance investigating the idea of reclusive studio artists, using a vocabulary of actions and phrases of work commonly found among the studio environment. Gerald is an artist working in performance, exploring the uses of language and their impact on our perceptions of our everyday environment. He has previously performed on Resonance FM, at the RCA and has most recently shown part of his new targets' series as part of East Pop Red. William Kherbeck is a writer and critic, semi-recovered musician (post-punk/proto-silence) and occasional performer.
Studio Chess
Two participants are required to sit at a table in order to play. Sessions last one hour, timed. One participant is charged with making actions and another is given the task of interfering with the person who tries to complete the actions. The actions and interferences can be defined like so:
Actions Interferences
making tea - unplug kettle
drinking tea - knocking plastic cups over
placing plastic cup on table - out out water container
eating food - spill water
drawing - crush cups
writing - hide food
walking - throw food
sitting - erase drawing
speaking * - break pencils
erasing work - pulling away chair
body gestures*1 - impede movement
- stand on chair
- sit in chair
- move chair
- break./throw
- hit
- talk louder
- interrupt
- take objects/items
- redraw
- block with hand/object
* The person committing actions has a scripted number of requests that s/he must adhere to. This list is:
shall I put the kettle on?
want a beer?
how does that look?
do you know where the steps are?
I don't think this is resolved
do you think this is resolved?
Can I borrow some [list item(s)]?
have you seen my [list item(s)]?
*1 studio body gestures include: scratching of limbs and facial features, foot tapping, finger tapping, yawning.
Items for play
table, two chairs, drawing materials, paper, kettle, radio, plastic cups, snacks, water, tea bags, plastic spoons.
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Frog Morris
‘Deptford Poetry’ Performance, 2011, 4pm
Frog Morris will perform a collection of poems he has written inspired by Deptford. Let him guide you through a world of pie shops, pubs, giant african snails, cafe-galleries, secondhand videos and any-scoop-a-pound vegetables.
Frog Morris is an artist, poet and performer. His work celebrates those moments of British culture that leave us unsure whether to laugh or cry.
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Matthew Bamber
Live Streaming
‘Box 3’ consists of a sealed cardboard structure (1220mm x 1020mm x 890mm), an internal camera and a monitor. Only the monitor is displayed within Hatch Space. The cardboard structure and its camera are located in Bamber's studio in Manchester. The monitor displays the interior physical environment of “Box 3” as recorded by its camera and streamed live via the internet to Hatch Space.
‘Box 3’ explores perceptions of interior space (real or imagined), enclosure and physical distance. In both its locations, the interior of “Box 3” is sealed physically from the “actual” world. Screened off from “real” space, the interior is accessible but only as a “virtual” space.
About Matthew Bamber –
“The function of the studio is the making of a work of art for an ideal place, a work which may be endlessly manipulated.” Daniel Buren.
Matthew's practice involves the collection of data from experimental projects and spaces.
He is interested in recording time spent in the studio, what it means to make art in a studio space, and in making the everyday strange.
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