[mf2012] moving forest- release - going out this friday

Wed Jun 6 11:33:20 CEST 2012

Tom it would be good if you could join us in the insurgency - as you
know YoHa and co will be using the pneumatic contraptions so you
could band together with us - hope the marriage went well.

H

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 10:14 +0100, Tom Keene wrote:
> Hi List,
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> I've a quick proposal for the insurgency - I'm in the early stages of
> a project working with a voice recognition system and have a mobile
> platform (a small hand cart) with a primitive broad frequency (spark
> gap) transmitter. The system receives radio transmissions which it
> automatically interprets, then responds to with the transmission of a
> signal that interferes with all wireless communications within a short
> range. As I said, i'm in the early stages, but it would be great to
> work with these elements in a live environment.
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> Tom
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> On 5 Jun 2012, at 16:39, shu lea cheang wrote:
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> > dear forest
> > 
> > 
> > we are trying to gather more sign on of project proposals for
> > insurgency act (act 4)
> > and during the prelude. We are reworking the website...
> > here is a release that goes out friday... want to pass on here
> > first.
> > and do let us know if you want to propose a project to be included.
> > or later during the prelude, we will prepare a website where you can
> > upload
> > your activities....
> > 
> > 
> > very soon
> > sl
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> > 
> > MOVING FOREST
> > 2012 London
> > presented by
> > AKA the CASTLE
> > 
> > A twelve day prelude moving across the city; a twelve-hour sound art
> > opera of betrayal and rebellion culminating in a spectacular series
> > of disturbing performances in Chelsea College of Art Parade Ground;
> > a one-day coda of debate.
> >  
> > http://www.movingforest.net
> > now at movingforest.net
> > 
> > Moving Forest expands the last 12 minute of Kurosawa's adaptation of
> > Shakespeare's Macbeth, 'Throne of Blood' (1957), into a sonic
> > performance saga with a prelude of 12 days, a durational performance
> > of 6 acts in 12 hours and a closing Coda for the sake of argument.
> > 
> > First presented at Transmediale.08. Berlin 2008, Moving Forest
> > London maps an imaginary castle and a camouflaged forest revolt onto
> > the hyper-playground of the London metropolis on the eve of Olympics
> > 2012.  Presented by a temporarily assembled troupe AKA the castle,
> > Moving Forest brings together diverse
> > visual/sonic/electronic/digital/ performance artists along with
> > writers, walkers, coders, hackers, mobile agents, twitters,
> > networkers and the general public to realize a contemporary version
> > of a classic play.  Making use of all media, the acts elaborate
> > operatic manoeuvres into an escalating scheme of conspiracy and its
> > contemporaneous political manifestations. The camouflage tree
> > branches of Birnam Wood are electronically updated with contemporary
> > forms of stealth and insurrection. Armed with signals and slogans,
> > the Moving Forest forces an entry into the Castle.  A final merging
> > of forest and castle occurs during a moment of downfall, jubilation
> > and loss.
> > 
> > June 22 - July 3 ,  12 day prelude (London citywide and on the net -
> > see http://www.movingforest.net/ for details)
> > 
> > July 4,   6 acts 12 hour performance
> > [act0 - omen]  9-11am (Furtherfield, Finsbury Park)
> > [act1 - remorse]  11am-1pm (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of
> > Art)
> > [act2- betrayal]  1pm-3pm (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art)
> > [act3- overthrow]  3pm-5pm (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of
> > Art)
> > [act4 - insurgency] 5pm-8pm (Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art)
> > [act5 - eternal return] 8pm-9pm (Parade Ground, Chelsea College of
> > Art)
> > 
> > July 5, 12 - 6pm , workshop/coda (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College
> > of Art)
> > 
> > Moving Forest 2012 London
> > AKA the castle (in formation)
> > 
> > With:
> > The Militant City (Isaac Marrero-Guillamón), MzTEK, labofii (John
> > Jordan), street training (Lottie Child), Paper Tiger(Omar
> > El-Khairy), Marc Widmer, Jonas Öhrström, Patric Kaufmann, The
> > Hexists, Laura Oldfield Ford, Marco Donnarumma , Linda Dement,
> > Valentina Vuksic, Olsen Wolf, Kaffe Matthews, xname, Ewa Justka,
> > Anat Ben-David, Bioni samp, Vasco Alves, Graham Harwood, Clifford
> > Hammett, Alexandra Sofie Joensson, AUDiNT (Toby Heys and Steve
> > Goodman).
> > 
> > Organized by
> > TAKE2030 (Ilze Black and Shu Lea Cheang)
> > Matthew Fuller (Center for Cultural studies, Goldsmiths College)
> > Graham Harwood (MA Interactive Media, Goldsmiths College)
> > Rachel Baker (irational.org)
> > 
> > Moving Forest workshop/coda
> > organized by
> > David Garcia , Dean of CCW Graduate School
> > Matthew Fuller, Reader in Digital Media, Goldsmiths College,
> > Josephine Berry Slater, editor of Mute magazine
> > John Cunningham, 56A InfoShop
> > 
> > Organization associates:
> > Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
> > Interactive Media Lab, Goldsmiths, University of London
> > Furtherfield
> > SPACE
> > Graduate School, CCW, University of the Arts London
> > Wimbledon College of Art
> > Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
> > 
> > Main location addresses:
> > 
> > Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London, N4
> > 2NQ
> > 
> > Parade Ground and Triangle Gallery, Chelsea School of Art & Design,
> > Millbank, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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