tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77248719067183145852024-03-13T23:51:42.393-07:00You and Your Work 5You and Your Workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18376634620351752687noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7724871906718314585.post-6376763727878223672008-09-04T03:06:00.000-07:002009-07-19T08:07:53.081-07:003rd and 4th October 2008, Easton Community Centre, Bristol<span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;" >Featuring </span><strong><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;" >Jo Bannon, Chi Chi Bunichi, Mark Greenwood</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;" >, Katrina Horne, Kings of England, Muddled State, </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;" >Pennyblack and Katherina Radeva</span><br /></strong><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;" ><br />In October 08 You and Your Work was back for the fifth time bigger, better and on the move! Stretching over 2 days YAYW5 showcased innovative contemporary performance, site-specific work, live art, installation and dance from the most promising emerging artists from the South west, UK and Europe. </span><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">Taking place on Friday 3</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"> Oct and Sat 4</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"> Oct this free festival played host to eight companies and solo artists as they created work both within the community centre and in the surrounding streets, focusing on notions of identity, place and belonging. The results of an artist-led participatory project with a local Polish group commissioned by YAYW, also was debuted at the platform.</span></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">Amongst the line up was intimate dance-theatre performance</span> <span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Chi Chi Bunichi</span>, where Ladino folksong (Judea–Hispanic oral language) meets contemporary choreography in a nomadic journey from Sarajevo to Jerusalem.</span></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Kings of England</span> performers Simon Bowes and his elderly father Peter Bowes took to the stage to deliver ‘Where we live and what we live for,’ a tender, comic and vibrant collaboration revealing the duos absolute alikeness and unfamiliarity.</span></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">Artist <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Mark Greenwood</span> was showing the outcome of his month-long collaboration with a local Polish group. The resulting installation 'Confessions' combined text, sound, video, photography and painting around ideas of immigration and work.</span></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Katrina Horne</span> took to the streets of Easton as she created her blend of time-based art and ephemeral sculpture, using natural materials to trace our changing landscape.</span></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Pennyblack</span>, a young performance duo, brought their site-specific show ‘Postbox BS5 181’ to neighbouring St. Mark’s Rd. The work, centering on the adventures made possible by letters and the postal system, captured the attention of both dedicated audience and passer-by.</span></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">Bristol-based artist <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Jo Bannon</span> debuted her new work ‘Claim to Fame,’ an interactive enquiry based around the one to one meeting of artist and audience member. Asking what it is to know someone and questioning our attitudes to familiarity and intimacy the work attempted to build a community of strangers linked solely by their brushes with stardom.</span></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Muddled State</span>, performance company of Finnish artist Saini Manninen, wove live performance and video to create two intimate works, one based around the mythical, actual and cultural implications of snow and the second being a demonstration of coping strategies used to combat homesickness.</span></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><em></em><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Katherina Radeva</span>'s performance 'Birds Behind Bars' has its roots in the sudden release of the six innocent Bulgarian Nuns who were held captive in a Libyan prison from 1999 to 2007. The piece looked</span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">at the elements that define what it is to be in ‘exile’ and how these elements impart on the individual and the collective from which he/she is a part.</span></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 100%; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)" lang="en-US" align="justify"></p><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;">With its emphasis on social as well as artistic exchange YAYW5 also played host to live music and sets from Polish <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">DJ Katapulto</span>. <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">BRAN</span>, Bristol Refugee and Asylum Network cooked and served delicious Congolese and Zimbabwean food which contributed to a cheerful and relaxed atmosphere.</span></p><p style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Verdana;"><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">YAYW5 was funded by <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Groundwork UK South West</span> and <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Quartet Community Foundation</span> (Express Programme)</span><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></span></p>You and Your Workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18376634620351752687noreply@blogger.com0