Quarantine, in partnership with Fierce are looking for participants for:

The slightest movement: A project about the problem with tolerance

20 – 25 September 2010, West Bromwich

Some people go out into the world. Their task is to go somewhere that they have never been, meet someone who they don’t know and invite them back to an event that has been constructed in their absence.

The task is repeated every day for a week. Each day the event is re-invented according to what happened the day before. A small group grows into a large one, gathering more and more strangers into a temporary – perhaps uneasy – community.

The slightest movement is a simple yet direct project that asks questions about tolerance and ‘otherness’.

Over the course of a week at the end of September, Quarantine will gather together a group of strangers and, through a daily series of varied tasks, events and difficult conversations, create a temporary community that openly debates difference.

Led by Quarantine’s Artistic Director Richard Gregory and designer Simon Banham, we want to invite a core group of 15 people to participate in The slightest movement.

We would like to work with a group that is diverse in every sense – culturally, socially and creatively as well as in levels of experience of involvement in art-based projects. We’re going to try to find a spread of people from West Bromwich itself, some from the West Midlands and some from anywhere else. This is a voluntary project, though we may be able to help with travel and living expenses – more details available on application.

How to get involved….

The slightest movement is open to all, artists and non-artists, irrespective of background or experience. There are only 15 places available. To apply please complete and return the application form available for download from www.qtine.com. Closing date for applications is 3rd September 2010.

First Email - the original inspiration for the project

Here is a copy of the email which inspired our First Email project, which was kindly shared with us by Kristin Fredricksson (http://kristinfredricksson.mfbiz.com/), Karl’s daughter.  As we mentioned below, this email formed part of Kristin’s beautiful, moving show Everything Must Go.

We love Karl’s email.  For us it has the quality of a typographic artwork – a distinctive style: completely without punctuation, spaces or capital letters.  It’s extremely evocative – it tells you a lot about this man, where he was at in 1999 (an early adopter!) and the things that are at the forefront of his mind ‘willsendyoubirthdayyoubirthdaymessage’ are repeated as he processes them and writes to his daughter.

DIY7 ‘An Artists’ Guide to the Black Country’, led by Abigail Davey from Breathe.

Call for artist-participants, deadline Friday 16th July

http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/prof_dev/diy/diy7_abi_davey.html

DIY is a brilliant scheme conceived by the Live Art Development Agency that supports artists to run unusual training and professional development projects for themselves and other artists. The activities that tend to take place in DIY aren’t traditional workshop activities – they are shared experiences, adventures, explorations.

Past projects have included cycle rides across Britain and forest retreats.

The scheme is open to artists from the West Midlands region and beyond.

This particular DIY project is being supported by Fierce. It invites a group of six artists to spend time in the Black Country during August at some of its most iconic tourist attractions (starting at the Black Country Living Museum). Their encounter with the Black Country and their reflections of the experience will be turned into an artists’ guide to the area, which will be exhibited as part of Fierce’s next Interrobang event in September.

More information about DIY here:

http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/prof_dev/diy/diy7_2010_participants.html

For reports on previous DIY schemes, visit:

http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/prof_dev/diy/index.html

A look back at what happened on Thursday 15th 3pm…Fierce Start Party @AE Harris…

What is the Fierce Start Party? Hear Laura talk about it below:

The afternoon and evening celebrated the practice of the Fierce Festival Caravan of Artists 2010 – 2011, including live performances, interventions, and spaces to allow us to pick your brains. We had audiovisual delights from biTjAM then later some party music from mama feel good!

EXYZT @AE Harris for the Fierce Start Party

We had live blogging from this is tomorrow and photography by Briony Campbell. Here is some of Kira O’Reilly’s performance from the afternoon captured by James Smith from this is tomorrow:

Kira O’Reilly from this is tomorrow on Vimeo.

Everyone was invited – so thanks to all those who came along and those who stayed until the very end! We hope you picked up a Fierce Loyalty Card (it’s not too late to get one) and your fortune cookie.

Following the Fierce Start Party Lyn Gardner talked about the Fierce Festival Caravan of Artists 2010 – 2011 and our new approach to the festival model – a little snippet below:

Lots of festivals simply programme from the work that is available,” Morrison explains. “We’ve not gone shopping for artists who will just turn up on the night. We’ve looked for people whose work we really like, but who are prepared to have an ongoing and in-depth 10-month engagement with us and with local people. By the time Fierce happens, we’ll all know each other really well.” Even the timing – late February – is a break with the arts festival summer tradition. Was that dictated by the current May to September logjam? “It’s because the light is better,” says McDermott. “It makes you look at things differently – it makes you look twice.”

For the full article click here.

We hope to see you all very soon at Fierce Interrobang 1: Regeneration (24th – 26th June).

Were you at the Fierce Start Party? If so let’s hear your impressions of the event…