Live Art Event: 27 November

The end of this year’s biennial will see a fantastic extravaganza of Live Art events taking place at venues throughout the city centre. Making this a not to be missed event.

2.00pm (prompt) – 6.00pm

For the tour: Register at Potteries Museum & Art Gallery 1.45pm – 2pm

Live Art Event begins at 2pm prompt – and will tour all four of the Conjunction Venues in the City Centre.

Events for the Day…

Katie Shipley ‘Journey’                                    2.00pm – Onwards

Katie Shipley will invite the people attending the live art event to make the journey from The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery entrance to AirSpace Gallery carrying bright orange objects. This will create a moving line of colour between the two spaces, highlighting the journey to passers by.

Yoke and Zoom             ‘Micro Ale House’            2.15pm – Onwards

Yoke and Zoom’s Micro-Ale House is a bike-pulled Tudoresque mobile sculpture, that will distribute free beer, touring the conjunction venues giving out beer donated to the artists by Malvern Hills Brewery (a micro-brewery based half a mile from Yoke and Zoom’s home)

Nathaniel Pitt/Paul Johnson AKA Various Artists            Motel Kandinski – ‘Fire ESCAPE’  2.30pm

Using the AirSpace Gallery Fire Escape as a site ‘Fire Escape’ relates to the fact that Kandinski was a synesthete. Each of Various Artist’s events try to induce a dream like trance upon the audience and play with the idea of the mixing the senses.

An audio piece called the ‘Tinnitus fire alarm’ is played which talks about the inescapable torture of the condition Synesthesia.

Emily Candela   ‘Bleed’ 3.00pm – 3. 30pm

In ‘Bleed’ a punk band performs in a confined space inside a gallery. During their performance, band members’ body parts, instruments, and sound escape the frame constraining them. Bleed addresses the Romantic desire to transcend the boundary separating artist and audience, and the cultural sphere of the art world itself.

Adam James ‘A Beggars Belief’             3.45pm – onwards

Lead Artist Adam James Performance Artists: boyleANDshaw, Will Eden, Tim Stevens, Stacey Norris, Peter Holmes, Patrick Heath, Dorothy Cortvriend. Musicians: Biscuit and Christopher Patrick VJ: David Orwell

“Centering around a room piled with excesses of unwanted clothes and rejected wares, a group of miscreants are locked in an irresolvable conflict.  Their feral existence is riddled with the guilt and anxieties of being confronted with their own failures as fallen heroes. Banished from their once glorious home now squatting in a theatre of gross antics, bodily fluids, betrayal and gossip The discarded food and waste putrefying under the artificial amber lights of the pit they now call home.

Crippled by gout, poisoned liver and excesses of the mind, the cast of the Gods have long since toppled from their Olympian home in the clouds. Any sense of regal or heavenly self has rotted away, leaving them lost in a perilous world of their own making. Like a grossly fatigued family, suffering under the strains of jealousy, bitterness and self-flagellation, something keeps them bound to their squabbling soap opera existence. Living in a grotto resembling a back alley dump, strewn with empty cans and detritus lives this family of argumentative, conceited, sorry drunks, fighting over their ever dwindling supply of booze, honey, oats, cheese, ambrosia and meat.”

Juneau Projects  ‘Echo Boom’      5.00pm – 6.00pm

Juneau Projects’ recent work has focused upon the relationship between music, performance art and sculpture, questioning the positions of the artist and audience within these fields. The work for Conjunction intends to push this further and to look at the role of the space within this area of enquiry.