Birmingham International Festival
for Live & Time Based Art
1 & 2 September 2007
The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside, Digbeth, Birmingham, B12 0QH
Programme
1 September
Part 1: doors open at 5:00pm
- Dr Roland C. Miller – ‘Sticks’ – inaugural opening performance (4:30pm – 5:30pm)
- Jordan McKenzie – ‘Q’ – performative action (afternoon performance in city centre)
- Peter Hadfield – ‘James House’ (on roof, viewable from below)
- Helen Grundy – ‘Animap’
- Sharon Walford – ‘Untitled’ – liaison performance
- Elena Cassidy-Smith – ‘Barter Tarter’ – performance exchange
- Martin Humphries – ‘Autograph Diary’ – installation
- Pat Courtney – ‘Choking Pot’ – installation
Screen based work
- Cinzia Cremona – ‘Voice’
- Jane Bracey – ‘Transcience’
- Chris Pant – ‘Colourburst Installation’
- Sharon Walford – ‘Untitled – documentation’
- Jordan McKenzie – ‘Q – documentation’
Part 2:
- 7:00pm – Dr David Ethics / Harry Palmer – ‘Edge Manifesto’ – opening address
- 7:15pm – Lee Campbell – ‘Compell/Repell – performance (Part 5 ‘see me’)
- 7:45pm – Carl Rohumaa – ‘True or False’ screened performance
- 8:00pm – David Brinkworth – ‘The Modern Art Quartet’ (begins and ongoing)
- 8:15pm – James Steventon – ‘Mind Over Matter‘ – performance (Part 1)
- 8:30pm – Adela Jones – ‘An Obedience Class’ – performance
- 9:00pm – James Steventon – ‘Mind Over Matter‘ – performance (Part 2)
- 9:15pm – Dr David Ethics – ‘I Will Enslave You All’ – performance
- 9:45pm – Scart Trio – live audio visual transmutation
- 10:15pm – Mr Woodcock – ‘Strike Two’
- 10:30pm til close – The Modified Toy Orchestra – sonic mash-ups
2 September
- 12:00 – Artists brunch / networking event
- 1:00pm til 3:00pm – Debate introduced by Dr Roland C Miller – ‘Crisis in Art’
- 3:00pm til 4:45pm – Further screen based works
- 4:45pm – Dr David Ethics – ‘Closing Ritual’