art improvisation politics
Gillian Whiteley and Geoff Bright [the gathering…the chewing] have been part of Phil Morton’s weekly 50:50 online Blank Canvas Octet improvised music sessions since the first days of the lockdown in March 2020. Seventeen zoom sessions have taken place so far with the next live streamed session on Youtube on Wednesday 9th September 2020. Join us then and see/hear how we are working with the affordances and constraints of online platforms as a site for improvisation.
From Bala to Sheffield, Les Petroleuses scribbled, lit the fuse and made a racket – our video with freely improvised sound track was live-streamed at this event 25 June 2020
Under the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’, sonic improvisors are isolated from their ‘playing’ mates – so in March, I started this ongoing series of spontaneous performative drawings by asking people to send me a recording (5 mins max) of freely improvised sound, using whatever they want – voice, objects, musical instruments – see how I responded here
The video performances of my Isolation Improv Drawing series (with sonics by Geoff Bright, John Jasnoch, Nathan Bethany and Mick Beck) will be shown tonight at ISOLATED MASS #9 as part of Kerry Hindmarsh’s online live gigs showing through the ‘lockdown’. Other artists include Ashtray Navigations, Garlic Hug and Jeroen Diepenmaat. Join Telegram app and search for ISOLATED MASS to view at 8pm.
Upcoming J[a]B[a]W performance at 8pm on Monday 27th January 2019 at Notes and Sounds, University Arms, Brook Hill, Sheffield
Upcoming J[a]B[a]W performance Sunday 19th January 2020 at
Blank Canvas 8pm The Ship and Mitre, Dale Street, LIVERPOOL, L2 2JH See here for details
Anthony Donovan’s Murmurists is a large-scale live theatre project, encompassing any and all disciplines – from free jazz and noise, through film and dance. In this event, the 35 strong Murmurists will perform pieces from Donovan’s new major three part work, Darwin is Jam Tomorrow
More info... Location: Greentop Community Circus, 74 Holywell Road, Sheffield, S4 8AS
From Wednesday 13 to Friday 15 August 2019 , [the gathering…the chewing] will be immersed in the multiple materialities, sonic possibilities and organic environment of the Treignac Projet in Correze, France creating a site-specific response of live micro-performances during Friday 15 August 2019.
Thursday 20 June 2019
As part of the Re-imagining Citizenship Activity Book/Living Archive project on exhibition in Palazzo Mora, artist-researcher Gillian Whiteley will give an introductory talk about this participative project, followed by a pamphlet-making workshop. All materials provided – drop-in any time 2pm – 5pm!
