David Jobling
DaDaFest International 2008 (LINK)
August 17th 2008 01:43
DaDaFest returns for its eighth year with an expanded programme that features new experimental work and popular classics from previous years. The festival, run by North West Disability Arts Forum (NWDAF), offers the chance to see everything from aerial dance and irreverent comedy to racy burlesque. A festival pass is available for just £55 (£27.50 concessions) to give ticket-holders access to all four days of action. Alternatively passes can be bought for single days or for individual events.
Where? The Bluecoat, Liverpool
When? 4-7 September
How much? £55 (£27.50 concession)
displaying the work of the following artists:
Ju Gosling - Abnormal
Abnormal results from a residency at the National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR). Funded by the Wellcome Trust, it explores normality. It is a fantastic mixed media exhibition musing on the medical profession's definitions of normality and proposing a new "Scientific Model of Disability" - a fabulously challenging and confrontational work.
Ju Gosling - Workshop
What does it mean to be abnormal? Who decides? Do any of us actually feel abnormal? Celebrate your ab/normality!
Wednesday 27th August A Foundation, Blade Factory
Free but Booking Essential - Contact NWDAF 0151 707 1733
Join artist Ju Gosling AKA Ju90 to explore these themes further with words and art. All welcome. Bring a packed lunch - other refreshments and all materials will be provided. BSL interpretation and other access provision available on request at the time of booking.
Tanya Raabe
At DaDaFest Tanya Raabe presents "Who'S WhO - Defining the Faces of an Arts Movement", a collection of portraits challenging the notion of portraiture using disability aesthetics and visual language. Join Tanya as she creates a new painting of a well-known face, on site and don't miss Artist in Conversation with Tanya and Julie McNamara.
DaDaFirst
Wolfgang Temmell
In 1983 the Austrian artist Wolfgang Temmel wrote "An Art History".
This work consists of a few lines and represents nothing but the description of the creative process. Wolfgang is translating this into all languages (around 2,000!) including, for DaDaFest, into BSL. These videos will be shown on public video walls during the festival in Liverpool.
Website: arthistory
DaDaFirst
Gus Cummins
Gus is a visual artist who is a previous winner of a DaDaFest Visual artist award. This year, we present his short film - Ictal, about the condition of epilepsy, a largely invisible disability. This will be presented at The A throughout the Festival with Gus giving an artist's talk on the Saturday evening.
DaDaFirst
Alison Jones
4th - 7th September First Viewings: Thursday 4th September 2-5pm
This sound installation will be produced from a series of audio-interpretations of selected work including erotic drawings by Gustav Klimt, which have been at Tate Liverpool from 30th May to 31st August. Klimt's work, much of which was created for the male gaze, will be described from the female perspective, employing the female gaze to undertake voyeurism by proxy to the non-sighted female artist.
DaDaFirst
Also featuring in DaDaFest International 2008:
New Artworks
Thursday - 2-5pm - First viewings in the Coachshed - New artworks commissioned by DaDaFest get their first showing.
DASh
A Foundation, Coachshed 2-5pm
Here DaDaFest presents the work of DASh, a rural arts project based in Shrewsbury. Featured artists will be:
Jenny Brown
Jenny Brown is an artist maker using found objects to create art works about her vision of the world. She explores texture and spaces in strange environments.
David King
David King is a digital artist using 3D computer graphics and digital photography, concentrating on anatomical form and the metamorphosis of mathematics for his images.
Joy Tudor
Joy Tudor has a background in textiles and uses her love of colour, texture and form to move and manipulate in a digital world, exploring ideas that are influenced directly by her environment.
Venture Arts
First viewings: A Foundation, the Coachshed 2 - 5pm
Venture Arts - is a small visual arts centre in Hulme, Manchester, which provides art practice opportunities for learning disabled people. The idea of 'Globe' is to show a world of different textures and subtleties through an art piece. Standing on its own, and approximately a metre in diameter, this piece will rotate and be touchable by the general public and will challenge the senses.
DaDaFirst
Martin Bruch - Window / three movements
A Foundation, Blade Factory 2-5pm
Other people lean out the window and look into the yard below. I sit by the window and look over the parapet ... For ten years Martin occupied a fourth storey apartment on Margaretenstrasse, carefully planned and equipped for a wheelchair, but was seldom home. He did not think much about the amazing view over/in the yard until his retirement. Now he enjoys the view everyday.
Kevin Connolly
First viewings: A Foundation, the Coachshed 2 - 5pm (talk at 3.30pm)
Everyone tries explain to themselves the things that baffle them. For the same reason we want to know how someone different, strange, or disfigured came to be as they are. But before any of that - we stare. Kevin is a photographer who has no legs and uses a skateboard for transportation. He has recorded people's reaction to him across 15 countries, 31 cities, with 32,000 photos that result in 1 stare. As well as his Rolling Exhibition being part of DaDaFest, Kevin is doing an artist's talk on friday at 3.30 - 5pm
DaDaFirst
Where? The Bluecoat, Liverpool
When? 4-7 September
How much? £55 (£27.50 concession)
displaying the work of the following artists:
Ju Gosling - Abnormal
Abnormal results from a residency at the National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR). Funded by the Wellcome Trust, it explores normality. It is a fantastic mixed media exhibition musing on the medical profession's definitions of normality and proposing a new "Scientific Model of Disability" - a fabulously challenging and confrontational work.
Ju Gosling - Workshop
What does it mean to be abnormal? Who decides? Do any of us actually feel abnormal? Celebrate your ab/normality!
Wednesday 27th August A Foundation, Blade Factory
Free but Booking Essential - Contact NWDAF 0151 707 1733
Join artist Ju Gosling AKA Ju90 to explore these themes further with words and art. All welcome. Bring a packed lunch - other refreshments and all materials will be provided. BSL interpretation and other access provision available on request at the time of booking.
Tanya Raabe
At DaDaFest Tanya Raabe presents "Who'S WhO - Defining the Faces of an Arts Movement", a collection of portraits challenging the notion of portraiture using disability aesthetics and visual language. Join Tanya as she creates a new painting of a well-known face, on site and don't miss Artist in Conversation with Tanya and Julie McNamara.
DaDaFirst
Wolfgang Temmell
In 1983 the Austrian artist Wolfgang Temmel wrote "An Art History".
This work consists of a few lines and represents nothing but the description of the creative process. Wolfgang is translating this into all languages (around 2,000!) including, for DaDaFest, into BSL. These videos will be shown on public video walls during the festival in Liverpool.
Website: arthistory
DaDaFirst
Gus Cummins
Gus is a visual artist who is a previous winner of a DaDaFest Visual artist award. This year, we present his short film - Ictal, about the condition of epilepsy, a largely invisible disability. This will be presented at The A throughout the Festival with Gus giving an artist's talk on the Saturday evening.
DaDaFirst
Alison Jones
4th - 7th September First Viewings: Thursday 4th September 2-5pm
This sound installation will be produced from a series of audio-interpretations of selected work including erotic drawings by Gustav Klimt, which have been at Tate Liverpool from 30th May to 31st August. Klimt's work, much of which was created for the male gaze, will be described from the female perspective, employing the female gaze to undertake voyeurism by proxy to the non-sighted female artist.
DaDaFirst
Also featuring in DaDaFest International 2008:
New Artworks
Thursday - 2-5pm - First viewings in the Coachshed - New artworks commissioned by DaDaFest get their first showing.
DASh
A Foundation, Coachshed 2-5pm
Here DaDaFest presents the work of DASh, a rural arts project based in Shrewsbury. Featured artists will be:
Jenny Brown
Jenny Brown is an artist maker using found objects to create art works about her vision of the world. She explores texture and spaces in strange environments.
David King
David King is a digital artist using 3D computer graphics and digital photography, concentrating on anatomical form and the metamorphosis of mathematics for his images.
Joy Tudor
Joy Tudor has a background in textiles and uses her love of colour, texture and form to move and manipulate in a digital world, exploring ideas that are influenced directly by her environment.
Venture Arts
First viewings: A Foundation, the Coachshed 2 - 5pm
Venture Arts - is a small visual arts centre in Hulme, Manchester, which provides art practice opportunities for learning disabled people. The idea of 'Globe' is to show a world of different textures and subtleties through an art piece. Standing on its own, and approximately a metre in diameter, this piece will rotate and be touchable by the general public and will challenge the senses.
DaDaFirst
Martin Bruch - Window / three movements
A Foundation, Blade Factory 2-5pm
Other people lean out the window and look into the yard below. I sit by the window and look over the parapet ... For ten years Martin occupied a fourth storey apartment on Margaretenstrasse, carefully planned and equipped for a wheelchair, but was seldom home. He did not think much about the amazing view over/in the yard until his retirement. Now he enjoys the view everyday.
Kevin Connolly
First viewings: A Foundation, the Coachshed 2 - 5pm (talk at 3.30pm)
Everyone tries explain to themselves the things that baffle them. For the same reason we want to know how someone different, strange, or disfigured came to be as they are. But before any of that - we stare. Kevin is a photographer who has no legs and uses a skateboard for transportation. He has recorded people's reaction to him across 15 countries, 31 cities, with 32,000 photos that result in 1 stare. As well as his Rolling Exhibition being part of DaDaFest, Kevin is doing an artist's talk on friday at 3.30 - 5pm
DaDaFirst
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