Thursday 24th to Saturday 26th June 2010 – 11am to 11pm

The INTERROBANG is a new term for a new model of engagement with art. The INTERROBANGS are mash-ups of art and performance, playful audience development, games, discussion, seminars, workshops, tea stands, research events, unstructured socializing, activism and direct action. Their duration can be a long-weekend or a couple of weeks. They take place in a specific site and are themed. We intend to precede the festival with two INTERROBANGS in June and September which will be clusters of activity, creating a critical mass of activity, broadening our audience and building momentum towards the festival.

FIERCE INTERROBANG 1: Regeneration

Warwick Arts Centre, Thurs 24 – Sat 26th June 2010

all free

Thu 25 Jun

All day:
The Idea of a University (an exhibition exploring the origins and development of Warwick University with archival photographs and oral testimonies) curated by The Reinvention Centre.

Regeneration plans and models for Far Gosford St, Coventry – an insight into a forthcoming urban regeneration initiative.

Archival Imagery of Coventry during and immediately after WWII.

Free tea and coffee.

11am: Tea, biscuits and cake – all welcome.

3pm: The Far Gosford St Creative Business Theme Group: council discussion group meeting; observe politics in action.

4pm: Film Screenings: So Oder Anders (13mins, AT 1996) by Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel – the regeneration of a market square in Vienna. Guerilla Gardening, (8mins), directed by David Bond and produced by Ashley Jones.

5.30pm: Private View for The Idea of a University exhibition (all welcome)

6.30pm – 7.30pm: On Call: Open surgery for art ideas exchange (all welcome)

7pm – 8.30pm: Panel discussion: What is Regeneration?
Speakers include Dr Catherine Lambert (University of Warwick) and Ian Harrabin (Complex Development Projects).

8.30pm – 9.30pm: Salon: a freeform discussion on cultural regeneration.

9.30pm: bitJAM live audio-visual set

Fri 25 Jun

All day: 
The Idea of a University (an exhibition exploring the origins and development of Warwick University with archival photographs and oral testimonies) curated by The Reinvention Centre.

Regeneration plans and models for Far Gosford St, Coventry – an insight into a forthcoming urban regeneration initiative.

Archival Imagery of Coventry during and immediately after WWII.

Interventions from Platinum Artists throughout the day. Platinum is an Arts Council England funded artist development scheme. The artists are: Cody Lee Barbour, Companis, Louie O’Grady, Leon Trimble, Arzhang Pezhman, Jaskirt Dhaliwa.

Free tea and coffee.

11am: Tea, biscuits and cake – all welcome.

11.30am – 1.30pm: Workshop: Silent Walk with Kira O’Reilly. An exercise in exploring the landscape collectively through drifting and wandering.

2pm – 3pm: Reinvention Centre discussion of The Idea of a University exhibition.

3pm – 4.30pm: Stan’s Cafe, The Commentators, Brazil v Portugal, watch the World Cup game in the Mead Gallery with a commentary substituted by theatre collective Stan’s Cafe.

3.30pm: Film Screenings: So Oder Anders (13mins, AT 1996) by Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel – the regeneration of a market square in Vienna. Guerilla Gardening, (8mins), directed by David Bond and produced by Ashley Jones.

4.30pm – 5.30pm: On Call: Open surgery for art ideas exchange (all welcome)

7.30pm: Lily Kember, Plane Stupid campaigner and ‘Activist of the Year, Independent Green Awards, talks about Transition Town Heathrow and direct action.

9pm: audiovisual set from Chomatouch

Sat 26 Jun

All day:
The Idea of a University (an exhibition exploring the origins and development of Warwick University with archival photographs and oral testimonies) curated by The Reinvention Centre.

Regeneration plans and models for Far Gosford St, Coventry – an insight into a forthcoming urban regeneration initiative.

Archival Imagery of Coventry during and immediately after WWII.

Live Art Development Agency Micro-Library.

Workshop: DIY and Activism with Lily Kember (Transition Heathrow, Plane Stupid)

Free tea and coffee.

11am: Tea, biscuits and cake – all welcome.

11.30am: Performance by Eitan Buchalter

12 – 1pm: Film Screenings: Faceless (50mins) and Mapping CCTV around Whitehall (3mins): films by Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel. A radical look at CCTV culture and the commercialisation of public space.

3pm – 4pm: Workshop: Function Creep with Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel. Collectively imagine an alternative community in the year 2030 with Fierce Festival artists.

4.15pm: Talk: EXYZT, Nicholas Henninger. Key members of subversive architecture collective EXYZT gives insights into former and future projects. EXYZT are famed for unexpected interventions in public space like creating a wheatfield in East London, or an outdoor sauna near Waterloo Station.

5pm – 6pm: Workshop: Eitan Buchalter. How to become an expert and intervene in public space. A site specific workshop around Warwick Arts Centre. (sign up on the day, only 10 places)

6pm – till late: Hide&Seek International Sandpit. An explosion of social games around the Arts Centre.

Interrobang 1 will be based in Warwick Arts Centre. It’s theme is ‘regeneration’. Over the coming weeks please return to this page to follow and contribute to the development of the Interrobang as it evolves.

For information about the Interrobang 1: Regeneration and Hide&Seek’s Sandpit as part of the programme for the Interrobang please click here.