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Tue Aug 16 09:52:47 BST 2005

Hi there, just to our art-activism people...
an interessting workshop offer

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>CALL FOR PARTICIPANTSŠ.
>
>John Jordan Workshop
>Creative Resistances
>A weekend workshop for EEC 2005 exploring methodologies of art and activism
>
>Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September 2005
>Times: 10am to 6pm
>Costs: £10
>Location: Mile End Park, Arts Pavilion
>
>Deadline for applications: 30 August 2005
>
>The Workshop
>Creative Resistances will bring together 25
>artists/activists to explore the relationship
>between art and activism during a two-day
>workshop. Sharing skills and ideas participants
>will look at ways that creativity can be applied
>directly to movements for social and ecological
>change. The workshop is suitable for those who
>are interested in live work which does not
>merely represent a political issue, but is
>directly confronting and transforming the issue
>itself. If what you make (or have always dreamt
>of making) are radically engaged performances
>that look neither like art nor activism but take
>the best of both of these worlds, that sit
>somewhere between direct action and live art,
>resistance and creativity then this workshop is
>for you.
>
>The workshop will cover a range of
>methodologies, ranging from culture jamming to
>rebel clowning, organising mass street actions
>to clandestine subvertising and numerous other
>forms of art activist methodologies.
>
>Creative Resistances will offer participants a
>focused framework for their continuing artistic
>and professional development by encouraging an
>awareness of the issues impacting on their
>practice, enhancing the range of approaches and
>skills available to them and inspiring new ways
>of working.  In exploring the issues of art,
>activism and Human Rights, the workshop will
>inform, and be informed by, the development of
>PSi#12: Performing Rights, a gathering of
>artists, activists and academics concerned with
>Human Rights in June 2006.
>
>
>The Context
>East End Collaborations (EEC) is a joint
>initiative between East End Collaborations (the
>Company), Queen Mary, University of London and
>the Live Art Development Agency offering a range
>of support structures for graduates and emerging
>artists working with Live Art and based in
>London.  Since its inception in 1999, East End
>Collaborations has developed into an annual
>event that aims to respond to the professional
>development needs of artists who are at an early
>stage of their practice by providing a platform
>to showcase their work, a mentoring scheme,
>documentation support and opportunities to
>access information and advice from experienced
>practitioners.
>
>East End Collaborations has helped to establish
>Queen Mary as an important site for performance
>research and as a result of this profile, and of
>the University's ongoing work with issues of
>social inclusion and Human Rights, Queen Mary in
>association the Live Art Development Agency has
>been selected to host the 12th Performance
>Studies International Conference.  PSi#12:
>Performing Rights will take place in London from
>June 14 to 18 2006 and will be a gathering of
>artists, activists and academics who are making
>and researching performance that declares its
>interest and intent within the field of Human
>Rights.
>
>For PSi#12 East End Collaborations will produce
>Performing Rights, a programme of events that
>will attempt to create a context in which to
>present work engaging with issues of Human
>Rights, to create work investing in issues of
>Human Rights and to equip artists and activists
>to tackle issues of Human Rights.
>
>As part of the development of Performing Rights,
>East End Collaborations have initiated a number
>of projects in 2005 to create a context to
>consider questions of performance, activism and
>Human Rights and to resource artists engaging
>with these issues in their practice, including,
>Creative Resistances a weekend workshop with
>John Jordan.
>
>
>The Workshop Participants
>The Creative Resistances workshop is aimed at 25
>participants who will be selected through an
>open application process.
>
>Participants must have a declared interest in
>issues of art and activism, and direct
>experience of working with Live Art or Creative
>resistance and related experimental performance
>practices.
>
>The workshop is particularly aimed at
>artists/activists who are at an early stage of
>their artistic and professional development.
>
>Participants must be able to commit themselves to both days in full.
>
>The cost of the Creative Resistances workshop is £10 per person in total.
>
>
>The Application Process
>To apply to take part in Creative Resistances
>please send a short statement about the nature
>of your practice, why you would like to
>participate in the workshop, what you think you
>can bring to the workshop, and how you think the
>workshop will contribute to your practice.
>
>Please include your full contact details
>including your postal address, landline and
>mobile numbers and email address.
>
>Your statement should be emailed to:
>Rose Sharp
>Creative Resistances /East End Collaborations
>R.Sharp at qmul.ac.uk <mailto:R.Sharp at qmul.ac.uk>
>
>Or posted to:
>Rose Sharp
>Creative Resistances /East End Collaborations
>Room 4.01 @ The People's Palace
>School of English & Drama
>Queen Mary, University of London
>Mile End Road
>London E1 4NS
>
>by 30 August 2005 at the latest.
>
>Participants will be notified about whether they have a place by 3
September.
>
>
>The Organiser
>John Jordan, spends his time trying to find a
>space where the imagination of art and the
>social engagement of politics can be brought
>together. For 10 years he was a co-director of
>Platform, the London based art and social
>science group. Since 1994 he has worked in the
>direct action movements, principally with
>Reclaim the Streets (1995-2001). He co-edited
>"We Are Everywhere: The irresistible rise of
>global anticapitalism" Notes From Nowhere
>(eds.), Verso, London/New York, 2003 and, in
>2005 developed a new Live Art touring project
>the "Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination".
>Last year he co-founded  "The Clandestine
>Insurgent Rebel Clown Army" which merges civil
>disobedience with clowning, and was a key part
>of the mobilisations against the G8 summit in
>July this year.
>
>Further details
>East End Collaborations 2005 aims to respond to
>the professional development needs of artists
>who are at an early stage of their practice by
>providing opportunities to showcase their work
>through the open submissions EEC Platform (17
>and 18 September), and to access information,
>advice and expertise through the training day
>Everything You Wanted To Know About Live Art But
>Were Afraid To Ask (1 October).
>
>For information or bookings for East End Collaborations 2005 contact:
Rose Sharp
>East End Collaborations
>Room 4.01 @ The People's Palace
>School of English & Drama
>Queen Mary, University of London
>Mile End Road
>London E1 4NS
>
>Telephone:  0207 882 5196
>Email: R.Sharp at qmul.ac.uk <mailto:R.Sharp at qmul.ac.uk>
>
>For more information about PSi#12: Performing
>Rights visit www.psi12.qmul.ac.uk
><http://www.psi12.qmul.ac.uk/>
>
>East End Collaborations 2005 is financially assisted by Arts Council
England.
>
>____________________________________
>
>Live Art Development Agency
>Rochelle School
>Arnold Circus
>London E2 7ES
>United Kingdom
>
>t: +44 (0)20 7033 0275
>f: +44 (0)20 7033 0276
>
>lois at thisisLiveArt.co.uk
>daniel at thisisLiveArt.co.uk
>hannah at thisisLiveArt.co.uk
>info at thisisLiveArt.co.uk
>
>www.thisisLiveArt.co.uk

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