Exhibition continues - final week

Andrew Byrne and Tom Nicholson
Lines Towards Another Century
24 June to 6 July 2008
Tues-Sat 10-17.00, Sun 11-17.00hrs

Media Art Bath at The Holburne Museum
Great Pulteney Street
Bath BA2 4DB

Lines Towards Another Century, takes as its starting point, a list of the national boundaries created during the 20th Century. Since 2003, Tom Nicholson has used this list as the basis of a number of projects including a series of banner marches (realised as participatory performances) and exhibitions that document and extend this material through video, drawing and photography. The list forms a mnemonic ordering system as the lines of the boundaries are traced onto contemporary cities, and translated into contemporary contexts.

In Lines Towards Another Century at The Holburne Museum, the list and its potential for action come together in an installation that combines live and recorded sound and performance, opening with a performance by The Elysian Quartet

Opening Performance

Lines Towards Another Century

The Elysian Quartet/Sunday 22 June/16.30hrs
Artist's talk/24 June/18.00hrs
Exhibition/24 June to 6 July 2008

Media Art Bath at The Holburne Museum

This Sunday, Media Art Bath invite you to the opening performance of a new work by Andrew Byrne and Tom Nicholson featuring The Elysian Quartet.

Within a specially devised installation of visual and sonic elements, The Elysian Quartet will perform an instructional score accompanied by a live reading by Oliver Langdon.

Lines Towards Another Century

The Elysian Quartet/Sunday 22 June/16.30hrs
Artist's talk/24 June/18.00hrs
Exhibition/24 June to 6 July 2008

Media Art Bath at The Holburne Museum

Media Art Bath is delighted to announce that it has invited Australian artist, Tom Nicholson and New York based composer, Andrew Byrne to collaborate on a work, commencing with a performance of the resulting work by The Elysian Quartet.

The work, Lines Towards Another Century, takes as its starting point, a list of the national boundaries created during the 20th Century. Nicholson and Byrne have collaborated on an instructional score for instrumental ensemble and voice, representing the framework of the list through the canon of minimalist art and music.

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Hannah Rickards wins the MaxMara Art Prize for Women!

Media Art Bath is delighted to congratulate Hannah Rickards on winning this prestigous prize.

THUNDER Record by Hannah Rickards is available to buy from good bookshops and from Media Art Bath.

THUNDER record represents the sound installation THUNDER by Hannah Rickards. Rickards recorded a thunderclap, had it reinterpreted, performed by a small orchestra, then recorded and compressed to its original duration. THUNDER Record includes the musical interpretation prior to compression as well as the remastered, synthesised thunderclap. The sleeve is designed by Fraser Muggeridge Studio and includes a text by Dave Beech.

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Open improv follows Staging Sound

Porter Cellar Bar / 8.30pm
14 George Street /Bath

Matt Davies, Nick Rothwell and Adrian Smith will kick off the evening…

Following the Staging Sound forum will be an informal open jam session at the Porter Cellar Bar with an emphasis on the improvisational and experimental. We would like to invite sound artists, musicians and all other music/sound/noise makers to participate in this one-off event. It can be as relaxed and informal as you like, we are simply looking for some enthusiastic and confident participants used to working experimentally and collaboratively! This session will draw out some of the ideas under discussion in the forum and give people the chance to continue the dialogue in a sociable and relaxed atmosphere.

_{The Contemporary Art Talks programme is supported by: Media Art Bath, Bath Area Network for Artists, Contemporary Art Programming, The Porter Cellar Bar, Arts Council England, South West and Bath & North East Somerset Council.}

Staging Sound

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 7 - 8.30pm
BRLSI, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, £3/£2
Presented by Contemporary Art Talks programme

This forum asks a panel to consider what it is that makes sound so appealing to artists and audiences? Is it the immediacy of sound and the way in which it is connected to the present moment (of hearing/listening)? Or is it the different ways in which sound can access audiences that is its special appeal? Its potential for shared authorship and audience participation? And finally, has the spread of interactive gaming and digital technologies opened up more of a freeform attitude to making music / sound / noise?

_{The Contemporary Art Talks programme is supported by: Media Art Bath, Bath Area Network for Artists, Contemporary Art Programming, The Porter Cellar Bar, Arts Council England, South West and Bath & North East Somerset Council.}

Speakers biographies

David Cunningham is an artist and musician who has created a continuing series of installation works based on real time exploration of acoustics. He is Senior Research Fellow at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London.

Lina Dzuverovic is the co-founder and Director of Electra, a London based contemporary art agency established in 2003. She has worked with artists and musicians including: Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, Tony Oursler, Daria Martin, Hayley Newman, Christian Marclay, Kaffe Matthews, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Jacob Kirkegaard.

Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. As well as producing compositions and audio CDs, his diverse body of work includes soundtracks for films, performances, radio, and site-specific multimedia installations.

_{The Contemporary Art Talks programme is supported by: Media Art Bath, Bath Area Network for Artists, Contemporary Art Programming, The Porter Cellar Bar, Arts Council England, South West and Bath & North East Somerset Council.}

The Sensible Stage

PRESENTED AS PART OF NEW WORK UK

The Sensible Stage explores the idea of staging, the staging of the self and staging as a theatrical device. The Sensible Stage explores the idea of the ‘stage of the sensible'; that is, the staging of a common ‘moment'. Using the real and metaphorical frames of the stage and the camera, The Sensible Stage treads the ground between the possibility and impossibility of this ‘common moment'. Blurring the frame of the stage and the frame of the camera opens up questions around participation and spectatorship as the immediacy of the live experience is restaged.

Presented by Whitechapel in collaboration with Lux.

Website Update!

If you couldn't make it to the performances or want to re-live them, then take a look under ‘Projects' where you'll find photographs and films of the performances by artists Lucienne Cole, Melanie Gilligan and Pil and Galia Kollectiv.

In the same section you will also find Media Art Bath's project archive where you can see our previous exciting projects.

Melanie Gilligan - The Miner's Object

16.30hrs Sunday 4 November
The Holburne Museum, Bath

The Miner's Object is a parable about experience and knowledge. Staged in the Holburne Museum of Art (after presentation at Tate Britain in September) the choice of site teases out a connection with late 18th century Bath as a place of both sensuous pleasures and an egalitarianism of learning.

The Miner’s Object is a storytelling performance in which a miner discovers a strange, unknown object, a discovery that unfolds a debate about the social and material qualities of knowledge.

Presented as part of THE SENSIBLE STAGE, a programme of three discrete performance works.

Pil and Galia Kollectiv – Better Future, Quad-Shaped
19.00hrs Sunday 28 October, Cube Microplex, Bristol
With a programme of films by Die Tödliche Doris

Melanie Gilligan – The Miner’s Object
16.30hrs Sunday 4 November, The Holburne Museum, Bath

Lucienne Cole – Hi Fidelity Hi
20.00hrs Sunday 4 November, Widcombe Social Club, Bath

BRING IN DAYLIGHT

A PROJECT SUPPORTED BY MEDIA ART BATH

A lyrical documentary by Sean Borodale & Louisa Fairclough. (16mm, 30mins) Sat Nov 17

Taunton Livestock Market is to close after more than a thousand years of market activity within the town. Saturday 17 Nov will be one of the last auction days. After the close of sales at 3pm, the Dairy Sale Ring will, for one day only, become a cinema for the preview of a new documentary about the market - Bring in Daylight. From 2pm, before the film screening, musician Tim Hill will be playing with his band Albion Horns, and Sheppy’s will be serving mulled cider www.bringindaylight.com

Lucienne Cole - Hi Fidelity Hi

20.00hrs Sunday 4 November
Widcombe Social Club, Bath (£3)

Hi Fidelity Hi is a performance by Lucienne Cole in which she draws upon interviews with record collectors, mixing them with her own vinyl anecdotes and memories. Collecting is sometimes seen as a lonely activity, as is playing records in the privacy of one's own bedroom. BUT playing records is also about sharing, broadening horizons, breaking down barriers and having a good time.

BRING ALONG YOUR FAVORITE VINYL TO PLAY AFTER THE PERFORMANCE!

Hi Fidelity Hi is presented as part of THE SENSIBLE STAGE, a programme of three discrete performance works.

Pil & Galia Kollectiv – Better Future, Quad-Shaped

19.00hrs Sunday 28 October
Cube Microplex, Bristol
(£4 includes Cube lifetime membership)

With a programme of films by Die Tödliche Doris (The Deadly Doris)

A short performance that pays homage to the square. Better Future, Quad-Shaped is a square dance routine based on a Samuel Beckett's television plays Quad I and II, Bruce Nauman's Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square (Square Dance) and industrial German band Die Tödliche Doris' Tanz im Quadrat.

The Deadly Doris's contribution to the 1980s Berlin punk scene and beyond has spanned many forms from music, film and performance. Programme selected by the band's founder Wolfgang Müller.

Tell us about your vinyl!

Hi Fidelity Hi is a performance by Lucienne Cole in which she draws upon interviews with record collectors, mixing them with her own vinyl anecdotes and memories. Collecting is sometimes seen as a lonely activity, as is playing records in the privacy of one's own bedroom. BUT playing records is also about sharing, broadening horizons, breaking down barriers and having a good time.

Hi Fidelity Hi will be presented at the Widcombe Social Club (Sunday 4 Nov 20.00hrs) and you are invited to bring along your favourite records to be played. There will be a pay bar and the night will culminate in dancing and merriment.

Contact hifidelityhi@hotmail.co.uk with stories and memories relating to your record collection and favorite records.

Hi Fidelity Hi is presented as part of THE SENSIBLE STAGE a programme of three discrete performance works.

Pil & Galia Kollectiv - Better Future, Quad-Shaped
Sun 28 Oct 19:00hrs, Cube Microplex, Bristol

Melanie Gilligan - A Miner's Object
Sun 4 Nov 16:30hrs, The Holbourne Museum, Bath

Lucienne Cole - Hi Fidelity Hi
Sun 4 Nov 20:00hrs, Widcombe Social Club, Bath