Presented as part of Project 50, a season of work celebrating 50 years of Project Arts Centre
Wednesday 30 November – Sunday 4 December 2016
Following phenomenally popular previous festivals, Live Collision is set to set return to Dublin for the seventh time growing from a small start up to a significant event in the cultural calendar with audiences growing year-on-year with fully sold out festivals. This year’s festival is from Friday 30 November to Sunday 4 December as part of Project 50, a season of work celebrating 50 years of Project Arts Centre. Live Collision is an annual curated international festival of Live Art, featuring exceptional artists across and between art-forms. Aiming to blur the lines between audience and performance by facilitating engagement between the two, Live Collision carves a space to redefine the ways artists can create, engage & collidethrough live performance & digital platforms, and generate fresh new experiences for audiences.
Live Collision’s SPECIAL EDITION programme is a curated programme of work with the value of artists and audiences, and the processes in which they converge, held central to the festival. Live Collision prioritises the artistic rigour and trajectory of artists and their work over time (days, months, years and decades) while celebrating the moments live performance becomes realised in various shapes and forms. The meeting of the live performance with audiences is pinnacle to the moments they hold most valuable. They are keen for audiences to witness and meet liveperformance from a number of points across time, proximity and art-form.
For this year’s festival Live Collision has co-produced two large scale works, both with seminal artists from Ireland and the UK, the first of which will have its world premiere at the festival before touring in the UK & Europe – An Anatomy Act by Anna Furse. The second is Time Over Distance Over Time by Liz Roche that has premiered and toured internationally in the early part of 2016 and Live Collision welcomes the work back home, inviting audiences to experience a dance work originally performed across two continents which otherwise cannot be re-presented. Instead they ask audiences to witness the evidence of this work and what remains through a live performance installation.
Alongside this sits some of the most daring and beautiful work for our time with exceptional live performances and provocations in their DOUBLE BILLS and OFF-SITE work; each work boldly asking us (the festival audience) to consider our place in the culture, in society, the world, in the grand scheme of things. From seismic questions on race, gender and identity with gentle agitations and rip roaring energy in equal measure.
Once again they reposition BITE SIZE SCRATCH performances where artists articulate and present a germ of an idea, and audiences are asked to critically engage with the proposition of the work to build further works that will grow and develop through 2017 and beyond. LIVE ART SALONS and initiatives WHY LIVE ART, WHY NOW and TRANS LIVE ART SALON generate the space for dialogue, exploration and discussion while being indicative of the value the festival holds in live practice and the spaces live performance carves for activism, consciousness-raising and visibility with a view to writing back against the conventional narrative and coming together around our individual and collective selves.
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PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
DOUBLE BILLS + OFF-SITE + INITIATIVES / SALON + RESIDENCY
DOUBLE BILL #1
Festival Dates: Wednesday 30 Nov
Performance: An Anatomy Act PREVIEW
Artist: Anna Furse (Artist) company Athletes of the Heart
Space: Cube, Project Arts Centre
Duration: 1 hrs
Festival Dates: Preview 30th Nov and Open 1st Dec
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Screening: Just Like A Woman screenings as part of the TRANS LIVE ART SALON
Artist: TRANS LIVE ART SALON is a shared initiative of Robyn McQuaid-O’Dwyer (Artist) nd Live Collision.
Space: Cube, Project Arts Centre
Duration: 1 hrs
Ticket price: €16/14
DOUBLE BILL start time: 8pm
AN ANATOMY ACT: A Show and Tell
Anna Furse
Conflating her roles as a theatre director, writer, and Professor, this unique event has urse giving a vivid animated lecture on Anatomy, accompanied by haunting saw playing and illuminating video. The Anatomy Theatres of Renaissance Europe were the horror movies of their day – full of blood, guts, morality and human drama. The public gawped in fear and fascination at the criminal cadaver being doubly punished before their eyes. Furse takes this idea and runs with it, taking us on a journey of discovery to contemplate our bodies, dead or alive, as she segues from personal loss to the circulation of the blood, from Elizabeth 1 to Lady Gaga. This performance wants to make us think about the meaning of life, why we fear death, and invites us to spend a little time to reflect on our heart and souls – and assert exactly where our liver is.
Conceived, written, directed and performed by Anna Furse in collaboration with both UK and Irish team: lead collaborator David Coulter – http://www.davidcoulter.co.uk
AN ANATOMY ACT is funded by Arts Council England with a residency commission by Create – the national development agency for collaborative arts in Ireland and CAPP (Collaborative Art Partnership Programme) a transnational programme co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union with additional support from Live Collision. It is an Athletes of the Heart production with the Centre of the Body at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Screenings
Just Like A Woman screenings as part of the TRANS LIVE ART SALON
Screening of works by international live practitioners who took part in the Just Like A Woman programme (London and New York editions). A three day programme looking at the performance of identity curated by LADA (Live Art Development Agency).
TRANS LIVE ART SALON is a shared initiative of Robyn McQuaid-O’Dwyer (Artist) and Live Collision. Screened works are co-curated for LiveCollision by Robyn McQuaid-O’Dwyer.
TRANS LIVE ART SALON is a festival residency opportunity for self-identified non-cisgender (e.g. trans, gender fluid, non-binary, non-cis intersex) [hereafter, trans] individuals and practitioners of all generations (18+ ), who are interested to spend one full weekend seeing all of the work programmed in LIVE COLLISION INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL // SPECIAL EDITION 2016. Participants will attend all of the work presented as part of the festival, meet the festival team, meet festival artists and take-part in festival dialogues; to critically engage with the role Live Art and risk-based practice has to play in the visibility of trans and gender-nonconforming art and trans archives.
Not a double bill sold as two separate things
Festival Dates: Thursday 01 Dec
Performance: An Anatomy Act PREMIER
Artist: Anna Furse (Artist) company Athletes of the Heart
Space: Cube, Project Arts Centre
Duration: 1 hr
Ticket price: €8/7
Start time: 8pm
AN ANATOMY ACT: A Show and Tell PREMIER
Anna Furse
as above
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Performance: BITE SIZE // SCRATCH
Space: Cube, Project Arts Centre
Duration: 60 mins
Ticket price: €8/7
Start time: 9.30pm
BITE SIZE // SCRATCH is a ‘curated’ fast and furious look at the current new blood / next generation artists who are making dynamic new work in Ireland. Irish artists and companies have limited opportunities to *Scratch live work, and Irish audiences have limited opportunities to engage in live processes ahead of final works. Therefore, Live Collision has curated a selection of companies to present as part of BITE SIZE // SCRATCH.
We are excited to see this work sit alongside the rich and varied programme of the festival which is a truly intergenerational programme of livework across disciplines. And a festival programme that evidences artists practice both before and after ‘shows’ happen. Live Collision audiences are critically engaged and we look forward to welcoming them to this new work.
Artists include: Seán Kennedy (maker of BOY), Isadora Epstein with The Vision Cycle and MALAPROP a Dublin-based collective of emerging theatre makers. Winners of the 2015 Spirit of Fringe Award for LOVE+.
*footnote: Scratch was invented at Battersea Arts Centre 16 years ago. Scratch is a way for artists to share ideas and unfinished shows with audiences at an early stage and to get feedback. Battersea Arts Centre’s Scratch events derive from a rich history of experimentation and audience collaboration.
In January 2000, then Artistic Director of BAC Tom Morris (now Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic) and BAC Development Producer David Jubb (now Artistic Director of BAC) programmed and presented the first BAC Scratch Night.
From that, the principles of showing work to the public before it was finished and trying to find out how the work should grow from that experience became part of the general practice at BAC.
Live Collision’s Festival Director, Lynnette Moran cut-her-teeth at BAC under the leadership of David Jubb (as Artistic Director). Becoming one of a new breed of ‘Creative Producers’, a term founded by Jubb, of which this small group of trainee’s formed the first iteration of the role defining its meaning and establishing the role it would play in future art making. From this moment forward the priority of artists presenting work early in the pieces development, and audiences meeting that work with a critical role to play, has been a vital part of the programme priorities of LiveCollision.
Kazuko Hohki (Artist) was the person who aptly named this platform idea Scratch.
DOUBLE BILL #2
Festival Dates: Friday 02 Dec
Performance (Dance): YAYAYA AYAYAY by Ultimate Dancer aka Louise Ahl
Space: Cube, Project Arts Centre
Duration: 25 – 30mins
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Performance (Music & Live Theatre): Live Concept Album (Recovery) written by Zoe Ni Riordain in collaboration with Maud Ni Riordain
Space: Cube, Project Arts Centre
Duration: 1 hr
Ticket price: €16/14
DOUBLE BILL start time: 8.30pm
YAYAYA AYAYAY
by Ultimate Dancer aka Louise Ahl
The new solo performance YAYAYA AYAYAY is a choreographic and multi-sensory journey into the complex nature of both emotional and physical darkness. In 2015, Louise went into a darkness retreat for five days – a purpose-built room isolated from all light and sound. Ceremonial darkness as a shamanic tool is a classical method for accessing vibrant unconscious and super-conscious states. The experience was deeply transformative; at times hallucinogenic, emotionally moving, physically painful and has thoroughly inspired the creation of YAYAYA AYAYAY.
Choreography is generally understood to rely on the rules of time and space. YAYAYA AYAYAY will challenge and exhibit how our perceptions of time, space and choreography shift when in contact with sensory overload and deprivation. For Live Collision, Ultimate Dancer is presenting an active experiment with a local sound artist of this piece in development.
Created and performed by: Ultimate Dancer
Developed with the support from: Dance Base (Edinburgh) and Movement Research (New York) presented at Judson Church.
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Live Concept Album (Recovery)
written by Zoe Ni Riordain in collaboration with Maud Ni Riordain.
Recovery is a show about family and letting go told through song.
Using the frame of an album to tell a story, the performers are attempting to connect with you. From the banal to the poetic, the audience are invited into the world of this family, who are dealing with the past in the present tense.
Stop cooking that will you?
It’s going to burn.
You’re going to burn it
Jesus.
The album will not be recorded. You have to be here
“Insane. Electrifying. Intense”.
-RECOVERY review, Pure Mzine
“…a painstaking work given startling execution”
-Peter Crawley **** review of The Well Rested Terrorist (directed by Zoe Ni Riordain)
“Presenting music in a theatre with little dialogue is always going to be an abstract task, but there’s something captivating about an album unfolding on stage.”
-Una Mullally review of The Well Rested Terrorist
Cast: Peter Coonan, Maud Ni Riordain, Aoife Spratt, Stephen Quinn
DOUBLE BILL #3
Festival Dates: Sat 03 Dec
Performance (Dance): i Ride in Colour and Soft Focus, no longer anywhere by Last Yearz Interesting Negro, aka Jamila Johnson-Small
Space: Cube, Project Arts Centre
Duration: 30 mins
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Performance: Often Onstage by Figs in Wigs
Space: Cube, Project Arts Centre
Duration: 50 mins
Ticket price: €16/14
DOUBLE BILL start time: 8.30pm
i Ride in Colour and Soft Focus, no longer anywhere
by Last Yearz Interesting Negro, aka Jamila Johnson-Small
Last Yearz Interesting Negro, aka Jamila Johnson-Small, is one of the new generation of British dance provocateurs working with an instinct for the offbeat, a feeling for the friction that lies between things, and an insistence on putting pleasure over doing things right.
In her latest choreography i Ride in Colour and Soft Focus, no longer anywhere, she engages the idea of multiple voices and conversations existing in one body. These physical, visual and audio stories are constantly forming and reforming in a dense hybrid narrative that re-imagines what it is to be present.
The piece had its first outing in Dance Umbrella Oct 2016.
“Agile, fast, strong – a fierce pleasure to watch” – Diva Magazine (about Project O)
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Often Onstage
by Figs in Wigs
All-female comedy group Figs in Wigs newest work.
Here they’ve created a show based entirely around how many entrances and exits they can include – playing on one of the oldest theatre ‘traditions’. They’ve also worked in a look at their on and off-stage lives and how they find a balance.
They’ve been compared to Smack The Pony in their style – very silly, very funny and high energy.
DURATIONAL WORK
Ref: Evidence of a Piece that Happened – Time Over Distance Over Time by Liz Roche Company
Location: Live Collision International Festival, Dublin IRE
Space: Cube, Project Arts Centre
Duration: 3 hr
Festival Dates: Sat 03 Dec 2016
Ticket price: FREE
Start time: 12noon – 3pm tbc with PAC team
Evidence of a Piece that Happened – Time Over Distance Over Time
by Liz Roche Company
Time Over Distance Over Time was presented by Liz Roche Company at Dublin Dance Festival 2016. The piece was created with a cast and creative team living between Australia and Ireland and sought to capture experiences of emigration and the sense of fragmentation it causes as the full physicality of a loved one is often reduced to a voice down the phone or image on a screen.
Live Collision have invited the company to present elements of the piece and the process involved in making a work of this nature as part of LIVECOLLISION INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL // SPECIAL EDITION.
Liz Roche working with collaborating artists, videographer Luca Truffarelli and interactive visual designer Jared Donovan and dancers including Justine Cooper and Kevin Coquelard will present these re-imagined elements over three hours inviting the audience to experience and participate in the work as it is now; abstracted from its original version while maintaining its essence.
Time Over Distance Over Time – A co-production between Liz Roche Company and Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane with presenting partners Dublin Dance Festival and Live Collision. The piece also performed at Dance Bites Festival Sydney and Brisbane Powerhouse as part of the Culture Ireland I am Ireland Centenary Programme 2016.
Original cast and creative team: Choreography by Liz Roche in collaboration with performers Grant McLay, Jenny Roche, Simone Litchfield, Henry Montes, Rahel Vonmoos with Film and Sound by Luca Truffarelli.
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Ref: ALIBI by Mark Durkan
Location: Live Collision International Festival, Dublin IRE
Space: participants will be supplied with details
Duration: 2 hr workshop followed by 2 hour live event
Festival Dates: Sat 03 Dec 2016
Ticket price: €8
Start time: 4pm
ALIBI by Mark Durkan
Mark Durkan will bring together an exciting team of artists, larpers, a writer, theatremaker and filmmaker to deliver an ALIBI to a Dublin public. ALIBI is an immersive reality-fiction experience that combines elements of nordic live action roleplay and longform improv as a form of social-publishing. Participants will be invited to roleplay fictional characters and interact with each other in real-time to explore a narrative, set in a fictional private party in a Dublin bar. It is expected that participants will consume alcohol during this experience but it is not essential and will in no way diminish your experience should you choose not to.
OFF-SITE
Ref: RACE CARD by Selina Thompson
Location: Live Collision International Festival, Dublin IRE
Space: Gallery of Photography tbc
Duration: 2.5 wks
Festival Dates: opening Thur 01 Dec 2016
Ticket price: Free
Start time: n/a
RACE CARD
by Selina Thompson
A room containing 1000 questions about race, written by Selina Thompson in three sittings across 24 hours one weekend in Edinburgh. You’re invited to answer one of them.
65. Are you black, or are you ‘new black’?
170. What is the long term psychological impact of white supremacy on people of colour?
220. My mum does not talk about race anymore. It makes her uncomfortable, tired. Will this happen to me?
307. Why do people assume that racism will just passively die out if we wait long enough?
440. Are you angry?
541. What ever happened to Kony 2012?
660. Who is more problematic – famous racist Nigel Farage, or the liberal journalist politely asking him questions?
720. When does it all end?
‘thoughtful, generous, brave and unspeakably brilliant.’ – Maddy Costa
Supported by Buzzcut, Forest Fringe and Fierce FWD. Seed commissioned by Camden People’s Theatre and Leeds Library through Room 700.
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Ref: VICKEY CURTIS ISN’T SORRY
Location: Live Collision International Festival, Dublin IRE
Space: Off-site Vickey’s House D8
Duration: 30mins
Festival Dates: Wed 30 Nov + Thur 01 Dec 2016
Ticket price: €8
Start time: 6.30PM
VICKEY CURTIS ISN’T SORRY
by Vickey Curtis
At what point does “sorry” creep into our vocabulary? And how can we stop saying it? This performance explores the distance between a three-year-old constantly asking “why”, to a 33-year-old always saying “sorry”. How do we say sorry and what spaces do we say it in? When does it lose all meaning? What happen when we keep apologising for ourselves and what happens when we stop saying sorry. Vickey Curtis isn’t sorry for her presence anymore and either should you be.
INITIATIVES / SALON
TRANS LIVE ART SALON is a shared initiative of Robyn McQuaid-O’Dwyer (Artist) and Live Collision.Screened works are co-curated for LiveCollision by Robyn McQuaid-O’Dwyer.
TRANS LIVE ART SALON is a festival residency opportunity for self-identified non-cisgender (e.g. trans, gender fluid, non-binary, non-cis intersex) [hereafter, trans] individuals and practitioners of all generations (18+ ), who are interested to spend one full weekend seeing all of the work programmed in LIVE COLLISION INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL // SPECIAL EDITION 2016. Participants will attend all of the work presented as part of the festival, meet the festival team, meet festival artists and take-part in festival dialogues.