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Frakture Quartet: Twilight # 5 for Up the Wall Festival Chester
Thursday 2nd – Saturday 4th October 2008
A happening at twilight
At twilight on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th October Chester Performs invites you on an autumnal evening promenade along Chester’s city walls, for a celebration of the walls in light, sound and art. Starting in Abbey Square follow the route through the Cathedral and along the walls.
Take as little or as much time as you need.
Links: http://www.chesterperforms.com/
http://chesterperforms.com/site/our-projects/key-projects/up-the-wall
The Frakture Quartet will perform Twi-light #5
Phil Lucking, Trumpets
Marion Leible, Voice
Phil Morton, Accidents & Treatments
Adam Webster, Cello
Frakture’s Twi-light piece starts in the evening light and ends in darkness. A “show” of sounds and music that drifts into “Twi-light” as it happens. Come: listen to close, quiet sounds; to distant thunder; feel the heartbeats of the living and the movements of animals and objects around. ...a trip to undiscovered places.
Tw-light was previously performed for the Listening Room @ the Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool
here an outline for the rest of the show :
Up The Wall
Artist’s Copy
Dinning Alone
Alice Robinson
An elegant dinner party for one... or at least that is the way that it starts. As the night draws in evidence of a dark and perplexing incident is exposed.
Alice Robinson is a physical performer with training in contemporary and circus performance. Her work is a responce to varied environments and physical impulses, drawn from an interest in creating moods that fuse contrasting realities. Alice specialises in making performance for indoor and outdoor settings, often incorporating interactivity and play.
Kaleidoscopia live
Andy McKeown
An interactive video installation where images of some of the Cathedrals key features are transformed into a stunning kaleidoscope.
(Andy could you please add correct instructions for the piece. Many thanks.)
Pick an image
Place it on the Collection box
Press x to create your own kaleidoscope
Much of Andy McKeown’s work relies on direct audience interaction which creates a dialogue between the viewer and technology to create still and moving images. Driven by a passion to fuse the worlds of computer programming with our everyday environments and objects Andy utilises images from personal and community derived collections.
www.andymckeown.com
Dress to Impress
Connexions Vale Royal Alternative Curriculum Group / Beth Barlow
An installation of dresses lit to enhance their appearance. The piece, titled Dress to Impress was created by Connexions Vale Royal Alternative Curriculum Group during a series of workshops led by Cheshire based artist, Beth Barlow. At the start of the project Beth asked the group to think about logos and self portraits which would impress.
Beth Barlow is a community artist who creates work inspired by the people she works alongside. Working in a wide range of mediums from film to textiles, her work is driven by topics usually related to some sociological or political issue. Beth often works with hard to reach young people who have not thrived in conventional education, aiming to engage them through art.
www.bethbarlow.com
Pots the Difference
Ceri Rimmer
“Every person is a cage of light”
Pots the Difference is a performance piece in which dance, physical theatre and installation are used to explore human beings and their collective individuality. The work delves into the principal character’s many human facets, emotionally and physically, with contrasting results.
Ceri is a dance and physical theatre practitioner heavily influenced by contemporary dance, sensory labyrinth theatre, somatic practise, art, instillation, individuality and music. At present she is creating and touring solo and company pieces.
In the long term Ceri is an Associate Director with Cynefin Theatre Company and is also working as a Dance Development Practitioner with Dawns I Bawb. Ceri also works in collaboration with two other artists as part of TwistedEyeLash SugarMushroom Pip & JellybeanToes Plz Dance Company.
Decorative mobiles
Chester Hub/ Deborah Whittaker
A series of mobiles that have been made by mothers in the local area, during workshops led by Deborah Whittaker. A variety of materials have been used in the creation of these mobiles, which take the shape of Stars, birds and chimes. Look out for these in a number of trees.
http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=92556
The Rambling Tramp Paladin Pete
Chris Ingram
Palendin Pete is a cockney rambling traveller moving from town to town, just a man and his dog. He spins a good yarn, sings a good song and recites original poetry, to any who will stop and listen. Just watch out for Harry and George, who may pop out when you least expect it!
Chris is a poet, writer and musician, and has been writing and performing poetry for the last five years. He has also produced and edited Silicone Fish, a local arts and culture magazine. Chris is currently studying a creative writing Masters at the University of Chester.
www.myspace.com/siliconefishboy
Hand in Hand We Wished Upon the Stars
Chris Williams
Artist Chris Williams invites passers by to write their hopes and dreams upon a star, participants are then encouraged to attatch their star at a choosen location along the Up The Wall route. Hand in Hand We Wished Upon the Stars asks the question, what happens when we make our hopes and dreams public, writing our wishes down for others to read?
Chris Williams is a performance artist and founding member of Drunken Chorus Arts Collective. His recent work has focused on site-specific, solo projects, including portraits of an invisible city, which was performed as part of Chester Perform’s Roam the Rows event in August. Work with Drunken Chorus has taken Chris to a number of key theatres including Manchester’s Greenroom, Leeds Met Studio Theatre, ArtsDepot in London and The Nuffield in Lancaster. Chris is also currrently studying for an MA in Professional Contemporary Arts Practice at Lancaster University.
www.drunkenchorus.co.uk
HysSS
Dan Fox
HysSS is a mobile directional audio installation created by Dan Fox. Using ultrasonic speaker technology a directional beam of sound creates virtual speakers and whispers in your ear. For Up The Wall, HysSS will be playing choral and solo vocal works in Chester Cathedral, bouncing sound off the architecture of the building.
Dan Fox has 20 years experience as a freelance musician, street performer, instrument maker, composer and teacher. He grew up on the road with the seminal Welfare State International, founded Boneshaker stilt drummers, Anglo-Dutch quartet Salt The Band and the creative music company Hands On Rhythm. Dan has also worked with International performance group Dogtroep (NL).
Twi-Light
Frakture
Frakture’s Twi-light piece starts in the evening light and ends in darkness. A “show” of sounds and music that drifts into “Twi-light” as it happens. Come: listen to close, quiet sounds; to distant thunder; feel the heartbeats of the living and the movements of animals and objects around. ...a trip to undiscovered places.
Liverpool based, Frakture promote exciting and risk taking new music and performance across the North West, using free-improvisation as a starting point. Established in 1997 Frakture has delivered over 500 events.
Frakture is a network of musicians within a framework of an artist led organisation, developing artist’s personal practice by supporting their work and providing opportunity for collaboration and exploration into discovering a new context in which to perform.
www.frakture.org
Ghostly happenings...
Frolicked
A 19 th Century ghostly lady who bides her time interacting with those who pass by. ...but don't be too afraid – she'll be haunting you in the most formal and polite way possible!
Frolicked is an outdoor puppet orientated theatre company based in Yorkshire. They like to perform in unusual and interesting spaces and operate small – medium sized puppets which are handmade in their studio from sourced, found and recycled materials.
www.frolicked.co.uk
Be Horizontal
Gemma Briers (VJ Germ)
An interactive video installation designed to create an environment of consciousness. Artist Gemma Briers invites you to lie amongst the rugs and cushions and look up... to a video installation evoking feelings of tranquility and encompassing moments of consciousness. Lie down, observe, and enjoy.
Gemma is a visual artist and VJ as well as a lecturer in Performance and New Media at the University of Chester. Her practice is based around creating interactive and video installations.
Entrapment
Hayley Wood
Entrapment is a creation of an intimate moment between the confined artist and spectator. Whilst enclosed in a space within a space, performance artist, Hayley Wood, invites the audience to come a little closer as she physically and emotionally struggles with her surroundings. It may look all sweetness and light, but nothing is quite as it seems.
As well as a performance and new media artist Hayley is currently studying for an MA in Performance Practice at the University of Chester. She also works with local community performance group, Cutting Edge.
Bell-Ringer
Heather Williams
Bell-Ringer can be heard before she is seen, as she jingles and jangles around. But will you catch a quick flash of her, before she is gone?
Bell–Ringer is a character and costume exploring the aural sense rather than the visual, the audience hearing what would normally be seen.
Heather Williams is a playful visual communicator who works with a range of mediums to explore the creation of characters and identities. Audience participation is always key in her work, either through direct involvement or using humour to engage and provoke a reaction.
www.mynameisheather.co.uk
Cathedral Choir Table Tennis Club
Huw Williams
A light hearted speculation about what the Chester Cathedral Choir get up to in their spare time...
Cathedral Choir Table Tennis Club is an ongoing work by freelance sound engineer and recording artist Huw Williams.
Inflation
Ian Thorley
A science-fiction style performance installation in which the artist inflates a mass of vivid blue ‘pillows’.
Ian Thorley is primarily a performance/video artist however his practice often crosses over into sculpture and installation. Since completing an MA Fine Art at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Ian’s practice has taken a number of directions, from running workshops on a deprived housing scheme to undertaking commissioned performance works that have enabled him to realise some of his own artistic concepts.
Dude – where’s my army??
Interact Wales
Two Roman soldiers managed somehow to sleep through the decamping and departure of 49,998 colleagues! They have spent the intervening centuries looking for them – have YOU seen them anywhere and which way did they go??
InterAct (Wales) is part of Mold Drama Works, a Community Performance group from Flintshire. The group specialise in short devised performances around current or historical themes.
Wish Not want Knot
Jacqueline McCormick
Young maiden in her wedding dress,
Making a wish at the foot of the steps
Holding her breath so the wish comes true,
Aspiring to wedlock what about you?
A solo dancer takes an emotional and physical journey of indecision on the wishing steps. Raw energy and power combined with intimate delicacies of sadness. Perhaps Mr. Right is in the audience. She tosses her bouquet at the end of each performance, will you be next?
International Dance Artist Jacqueline McCormick has been making dances and performing for over twenty years throughout the US and Europe. Jacqueline’s work is greatly influenced by her research into improvisation, particularly contact improvisation. She directs and performs with her company DanceAbout, who create works that take a dancing journey through the outback of the self. Her recent solo work Settle, a dance film shot in the wild Breitenbush river in Detroit, Oregon featured in Chester Performs’ Deva Shorts programme during Screen Deva in June. Jacqueline is currently Dance Director for Cheshire Dance.
www.cheshiredance.org
So What’s Next For Neomagus?
4Dance Co. vs Triphazard
So What’s Next For Neomagus? is a discovery of Chester’s history and its future using the mediums of recorded film and live and improvised music and movement. Contributions are made by Jennifer Stokes, Stephannie Stokes, Alison Webb (4Dance Co.) and Mark Dutch and Paul Dutch (Triphazard) at intermittent times during the performance.
Jennifer Stokes is a Community Dance Artist who performs, choreographs and delivers performing arts/dance workshops mainly in the North West England region. Alison Webb and Jennifer Stokes set up 4Dance Co. in 2006 which is a dance education initiative that performs and delivers dance workshops to mainly youths in the local area.
Jennifer Stokes is also a member of Triphazard who are a local Pop Rock band who write original songs which are played in venues mainly across the North West England region.
www.freewebs.com/jennistokes , www.myspace.com/triphazardmusic
Cactus Handbag
Jo Ashbridge
'Cactus Handbag' is a solo work of live art based around dreams, the subconscious and surrealism. The Artist uses structured improvisation incorporating dance, movement, live action, play, sound and objects to create the dreamlike world in which she lives.
Jo Ashbridge graduated in 2006 from Liverpool John Moores University with a BA honours degree in Dance/Physical Theatre, and has since worked freelance leading community workshops and creating work for performance. Jo began working with live art in 2008 and has recently been creating pieces of dance & physical theatre with more of an influence from live art.
www.myspace.com/joashbridgedance
Sugar and Spice
Laura Moy
In dishevelled party dresses two mischevious girls skulk around the trees, dancing and playing together, flying from branches, bringing back memories of games played and forgotten.
Laura Moy and Rosalind Brooks have worked together since 2006, working on physical theatre, performance and circus performances. They enjoy audience interaction, and fuse their dance background with circus skills, producing a new movement language.
The Ocean Misses A Beat
Laurence Kaye
‘The Ocean Misses A Beat’ is an intriguing and dramatic sound installation using recordings of sea and waves, recorded by sound artist Laurence Kaye at Heybrook Bay, Devon, close to where the he grew up. The material is transformed in to an aquatic soundscape that gradually transforms over the course of an hour. Scientists, surfers and artists all describe the sea as having a rhythm; the piece emphasizes this by editing, repeating and pattern making. The work is both a celebration and a warning- the compositional intervention in the sound world mirroring human intervention in the environment.
Laurence Kaye is a composer, musical director and teacher. His music has been heard all the way from Nashville, Tennessee, to Okinawa, Japan. He is currently working with Horse + Bamboo Theatre, Trestle Theatre, Danish mask company Thalias Tjenere and Salford University. Inspired by his work in theatre Laurence’s explorations in sound merge the rhythms of the natural world and composed music, crossing the boundaries of composition, sound design and installation.
www.lozkaye.com
Imagine a World made of Wool…
Save the Family / Lindsay Evans
‘Imagine a world made of wool’ is based on a bizarre, bright and ‘wooltastic’ world. Audiences are welcome to join in with the ‘Woolly’ songs or simply stand back and watch the ‘Woolly’ performance. Go on…let your mind wander… and try to imagine a world made of wool…
Lindsay Evans is a Chester Based artist & Youth worker for ‘Save the Family’. She creates installations, sculptures & paintings for exhibitions & commissions, usually creating ‘tactile’ objects. The group Lindsay works with are really enthusiastic and love drama performances & the ‘arts’, together they have created a surreal world for everyone to enjoy!
Save the Family is a charity which provides sheltered accommodation for local homeless families in the North-west of England and North Wales. The charity has a Adult Centre which gives educational courses to help the adults gain employment, Children’s Centre for the kids aged 8 and below, and The Joan Boswell Hall which is aimed at children aged 8+ doing art activities, sports and learning.
http://lindsayevans-artist.blogspot.com/
http://www.savethefamily.uk.com/
This is No Ordinary Twig
Save the Family / Lindsay Evans
This is no Ordinary twig... is an outdoor installation made by children from Save the Family aged 8 - 16. The children used their imagination, by decorating a 'white twig' with various craft materials. In a one hour session these white twig transformed...and turned into real life kings, motorbikes, pixies, Rave sticks, Gold detectors, magic wands, microphone, Ice pick etc... Each exhibit has a story attached to it which explains its purpose!!!
Lindsay Evans is a Chester Based artist & Youth worker for ‘Save the Family’. She creates installations, sculptures & paintings for exhibitions & commissions, usually creating ‘tactile’ objects. The group Lindsay works with are really enthusiastic and love drama performances & the ‘arts’, together they have created a surreal world for everyone to enjoy!
Save the Family is a charity which provides sheltered accommodation for local homeless families in the North-west of England and North Wales. The charity has a Adult Centre which gives educational courses to help the adults gain employment, Children’s Centre for the kids aged 8 and below, and The Joan Boswell Hall which is aimed at children aged 8+ doing art activities, sports and learning.
http://lindsayevans-artist.blogspot.com/
http://www.savethefamily.uk.com/
PANArt Hang performances
Michael Colley / In2nation
The Hang is a new musical instrument developed by Swiss creators Felix Rohner and Sabina Shaerer of PANArt. It heralds an enormous advancement in the control of the acoustical possibilities of metal. These beautiful and magical instruments are very rare. Musician Michael Colley skilfully plays infectious grooves and mystical melodies in this uplifting performance.
Michael Colley is the founding member of In2nation, a business that focuses on education and performance, using creative art forms such as junk music workshops, stencil graffiti art and PANArt HANG performances. With diverse clients including private, mainstream and special schools, prisons and prolific offender projects as well as performances, showcases and festivals such as Liverpool 08 capital of culture launch, Liverpool the musical and Colourscape.
www.xtrax.org.uk/in2nation www.youtube.com/in2nation
The Werburgoose
Mole Hill
A short mixed media animation based on the legend of St Werburgh and the resurrection of a goose. Mole Hill has created this animation specifically for Up the Wall.
Mole Hill is an independent animator living in Cheshire. He has worked on short films, commercials, Children’s series and tiltles – and is now keen to explore animation as video art.
www.molehill.moonfruit.com
Suspend 3
Rachel Gomme
Suspend 3 is an archive of held breaths, gathering a precious commodity, preserving presence through the intimate sound of the moment between inhalation and exhalation.
Visitors are invited to add their own breath to the archive.
Working in performance and installation, artist Rachel Gomme focuses on the embodied experience of being, often examining everyday spaces and phenomena conventionally perceived in terms of absence or lack (silence, stillness, waiting). She seeks to engage the viewer by actively articulating a shared space or experience between performer and viewer, acknowledging and celebrating presence and embodiment.
If Walls Could Talk
Richard Molony
New media artist Richard Molony has created a series of soundscapes inspired by the cloisters of Chester Cathedral. Richard invites the audience to engage with and look at the space in a new way...
Richard Malony is a new media artist currently completing an MA in Performance Practice at the University of Chester. His work focuses on the exploration of self, others and the nature of reality.
Life in Stone
Richard Ramchurn
A moving living painting that grows and reacts to the public over the course of three evenings.
The 'painting' will consist of live sketches and animations of the audience mixed with live and pre recorded video footage.
Visual artist AlbinoMosquito's working practice is varied, from music videos and VJing to theatre and instillation design. His ethos is of using existing technology in new and expressive ways.
www.youtube.com/albinomosquitofilms
Sculpture lanterns
Russell Kirk
A series of 3D sculptural forms created by artist, Russell Kirk, decorate the Up The Wall route. The light structures, made from wire, willow and latex impregnated paper were inspired by the structures made by insects and bugs.
Russell Kirk is a Chester based artist who creates sculptures in steel, wood, willow and other natural materials. Russell also creates mosaics and large scale parade/theatre items such as puppets, floats, structures.
Cinetaxis
SDNA
Cinetaxis is a site-specific, large scale video projection, which has been specially created for Up The Wall by Internationally renowned artists SDNA. Cinetaxis is i nspired by the artists research into moths and phototaxis, moths’ automatic reaction to light sources. The peice also explores the same reaction in human, both real and metaphorical.
SDNA produce distinctive digital artwork and unusual presentation media to create immersive environments. Their main objective is to explore techniques of interaction with public spaces in order to reach a much broader and more diverse audience. By using innovative technologies and creating artwork “in situ” they aim to expand the development of digital art, integrating it into live performances and site-specific installations.
In the past five years SDNA have developed and presented digital art and theatrical productions for museums, fashion labels, city councils, musicians and many more. Their work varies from audio visual installation and performance to interactive architectural large scale video projections. Previous projects took place internationally from Russia to Tahiti, in London venues have included the V & A Museum, the ICA and the Whitechapel Gallery.
www.sdna.tv
Elevations
Thor Brown
Elevations is a representation of a physical journey along Chester’s City walls and beyond. It is the story of a journey, represented through a mixture of mediums.
Thor is an artist and musician, who is a local resident of the Chester area.
Tonefloat
Accidental Associates
”It's some kind of music box, some kind of robot, some kind of machine...”
Tonefloat is a full-fat sonic spectacle based on a mutant musical 'milkfloat' - featuring a computer-controlled percussion battery of tuned milkbottles, D.I.Y sound devices & interactive pop-mechanika, delivering sounds from gentle, abstract minimalism through to mash-up exotica and dadaist dancehall.
Accidental Associates are a team of makers, engineers and performers based in central Manchester, who create audio-kinetic devices.
www.backtothetrees.org/tonefloat
Chester Processional
Fife n' Drum
Fife n' Drum play the Chester Processional, a march specially composed for Up The Wall. The peice which will be processed along the route will be performed on electric guitar and tenor drum.
Fife n' Drum are musicians of excellence and experience who play what they call ‘moditional’ music, their 21 st century electric/acoustic continuation of the English folk tradition.
W. Terry Fox is a writer, lecturer, composer and the current Cheshire Poet Laureate. Lynda Fox is a sculptor with a host of exhibitions and commissions to her name. Terry and Lynda have played folk music for many years with bands such as Oatcake Billy, the Canalsiders, Heymaker, Alf Alfa, the Woodlanders, as well as gigging as duo Fife n' Drum.
Lantern Songs
Wibke Hott with Hoole Singers, Raw Singers and On The Beat
Lantern Songs brings together the fabulous sound of harmonious voices ringing through the night and the tranquil beauty of colourful lanterns glowing in the dark. Like an old fashioned lantern walk the audience is invited to join in and shape their own experience of sound and light up the wall.
Everybody can sing! In Wibke’s work with singing groups and community choirs, she encourages people to (re)discover the voice they always knew they had! Together they sing songs, chants and rounds from all over the world and experience community in sound, harmony and voice in a fun and open atmosphere. Come and join them!
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