This three full day (four nights) intensive workshop will explore, in a sensorial and experiential way, what it is like to be out at the very periphery of a ‘bleak and rugged land’ – where historically experimentation, innovation, pioneering, radicality and alternative methods/philosophies have emerged strongly and are embedded in an ancient, seemingly ‘untouched’ landscape. Working site and context specific, we will be mapping the psycho-geographical landscape through our bodies and actions, trying to find our inner edge through exploring the outer edges, stepping into the spaces in-between land and water. Through body centred and material-led exercises/experimentations at sites along the West Penwith coastline, the
workshop’s activities respond to the complex context and multiple realities revealed by being at the edge. Inhabiting a different space/site each day, the intention is to ‘get under the skin’ of what Cornwall ‘means’, ‘what it is’, and what its legacies are today; reflecting on its long industrial history, rich with processes of extracting, breaking down and filtering out, melting down and transforming. With a guided walk by the National Trust, an opportunity to ‘go underground’ and contextualising talks/presentations by local experts and residents, we will be working with the post-industrial legacy (disused mining sites), introducing durational processes – embedding and ‘anchoring’ actions back into the contemporary narrative of the landscape. We will adopt a peer support and skill sharing approach.
Dates, times and location:
Evening of Saturday 4 to Morning of Wednesday 8 August, 2012
10am – 9pm daily (on the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday).
At various sites of historical/contextual significance around West Penwith, Cornwall.
Based from our accommodation at Carnyorth Environmental Educational Centre, daily site visits will be made by foot and by minibus.
Nearest Train Station: Penzance (the ‘end of the line’), Cornwall.
Application procedure:
Applications welcome from practitioners from all levels of experience working within contemporary performance/cross interdisciplinary artforms. Please submit a short statement (approx. 500 words) that includes a description of your practice, an indication of a strong interest in the location and context specificity of the workshop and/or in durational, site-specific, process based and/or material-led enquiries, as well as how you feel you could contribute to the group. Include any relevant websites/links to your work and your email address and phone number. Send up to five related or representative images (no larger than 2MB each) with your statement toinfo@zierlecarterliveart.com (cc’d to diy@thisisliveart.co.uk) with ‘DIY 9’ in the subject line. For videos/sound please send as links in your application. There are 12 places available, with six places allocated for Southwest based practitioners.
Application deadline: Monday 9 July 2012.
Contact information:
Please feel free to contact us on info@zierlecarterliveart.com with any questions you might have about the workshop.
This DIY project is supported by The Works, Dance and Theatre Cornwall.
This project was a response to the DIY 9 Call for Proposals
