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.

The next event will be the “Learning from Glasgow” seminar event at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. This event will see representatives from key organisations in Glasgow talking about the processes and changes that have turned Glasgow into a world renowned centre for contemporary art and culture, and how they have been involved in this process. The event is at 2.00pm on 19 November, and is Free for all to attend.

The following week will see the close of conjunction 10, and we will be celebrating this with a fantastic Live Art Event at various venues around Stoke-on-Trent City Centre. The event will see work from Adam James, Emily Candella, Katie Shipley, Yoke and Zoom, Nathaniel Pitt, and Juneau Projects. Have a look in the events section for a running order of the day, but the day starts at 11.00am on the 27th at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.

For the last week of this year’s conjunction biennial, The Exchange will become the venue for an event by Adam James and other artists as part of a closing Live Art event for the 2010 programme of exhibitions and events. The space will then run for a further six months with an exciting programme of events and activities.

The Live art event will take place on the 27 November, across multiple venues.

For conjunction 10 the first public exhibition is to be held in the space, featuring the work of Phil Collins, Adam James and Paul Rooney. It is hoped that this is the start of an exciting programme of exhibitions to be held in the space, and is a fantastic opportunity for students at the university to see internationally renowned artists on their doorstep.

The show runs Wednesday to Friday 12.00 – 4.oo 10th to the 26th November.

Open 12.00pm – 4.00pm Wednesday – Friday

This is the inaugural exhibition of a new gallery space attached to staffordshire university’s, fine art studios.

The Exhibition features work by Phil Collins and Adam James with a multiple artwork by Paul Rooney. Phil Collins’ video hero turns tables on a New York journalist who, like so many other ‘lifestyle’ columnists, found himself having to cover the reality of the lives of those caught in the aftermath of 9/11. Every so often Collins’ arm enters the frame with a mug of whisky, from which the genial hack is obliged to drink, like some terrible reality TV forfeit or an endurance piece of performance art. In the background we can intermittently hear an instrumental version of the Mariah Carey 9/11 hit Hero. Oddly, what begins as an inchoate ramble becomes more cogent as the video proceeds, since segments of the footage have been reassembled in reverse order. In hero the techniques commonly used by the media to manipulate interviewees and viewers becomes the work’s content, along with the journalist’s soliloquy: the off-screen loosening of an interviewee’s tongue with alcohol, the colouring of the sentiments of a story through soundtrack and the strategic distortion of a sequence of events through the editing process.Text by Alex Farquharson. Adam James’ ‘Paris Vagabonds’ pick up on the distinctness of the outsider in the city. City tramps are noticed in their particularity – their micro-performative gestures, and specific clothing is exaggerated and transformed to celebrate their individuality. This is a continuation of the work on show at AirSpace Gallery and features a new video work featuring the vagabond characters. Paul Rooney’s multiple piece if artwork takes the form of a bookmark on which is written a self contained story, a modern parable of a librarian who discovers a bookmark which has extraordinary powers, one of which is that it is able to stop time itself. The librarian does not use it’s powers ‘correctly’, however, and suffers the consequences. The lessons to be learnt from the parable are not clear and offer no obvious moral guidance.

Following the talk the audience were invited to airspace gallery to witness the first of two live performances by Juneau Projects…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/stoke/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_9113000/9113566.stm

Make sure you get hold of one of these as there is only a limited number available…