NRLA30// Michael Mayhew - XXX (1)

Written by Mark Caffrey Saturday, 20 March 2010 01:29

/between 12.30 and 1am

Yellow balloons float in the corner.  Michael is on a chair, Guinness in a plastic pint cup.  Birds tweet on a soundtrack.  “Go save the Queen” and the pips.  Porn soundtrack.  Cars.  People scattered and slumped tuning in and out.  Legs of a skinned lamb poke out from under.  Glitter and shot glasses on the floor, an empty bottle.  A black bucket at his side.  Stage lights rest on the floor.  A British flag.

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NRLA 30/// Geraldine Pilgrim

Written by Sandrine Morgante Friday, 19 March 2010 21:12

La scène est immobile, le seul mouvement est rendu par l’air des ventilateurs qui fait flotter les sacs plastiques dans l’espace intermédiaire. Entre elle et nous, une épaisse couche atmosphérique justifie la dominante de bleu du tableau. 

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NRLA30// Elvira Santa Maria Torres Alastair Mc Lennan

Written by sandrine Morgante Friday, 19 March 2010 15:40

Deux performance s’inscrivant dans la durée, dans les rapport du corps avec son espace et les phénomènes physiques associés. Des gestes banals effectués avec une particulière concentration, organisé selon une volonté de donner du poids à la vie. De valoriser des objets et matérieaux accessibles.

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NRLA30// STELARC podcast is now live

Written by Mark Caffrey Friday, 19 March 2010 10:01

In the first podcast of the NRLA’s 30^th Year, you can hear STELARC on Excess & Indifference: The Cadaver, The Comatose & the Chimera.  STELARC was speaking at the GFT in Glasgow on Wednesday 17 March.  The podcast is introduced by Alison Hutcheson and was produced by http://woodsnoblemedia.co.uk.  Check the NT Media section for download and link.

NRLA30// 19 MARCH 2010

Written by Mark Caffrey Friday, 19 March 2010 09:48

TODAY:  PAVES talk; Kirsten Lavers; Michael Mayhew; Marcia Farquhar; Sam Rose & Annette Foster; Anne Seagrave; Trace Collective; Geraldine Pilgrim; Third Angel; Varsha Nair; Michelle Browne; Marty St. James; Yann Marussich; Gillian Dyson; Ron Athey; Los Torreznos; Iona Kewney; David Gale; and continuing works.  SOME TICKETS STILL REMAIN FOR SUNDAY!

NRLA30// CURIOUS - the moment I saw you I knew I could love you

Written by Mark Caffrey Thursday, 18 March 2010 13:30

I was watching a projection of a woman adrift at sea, floating on a bed of her own breath, when I started to think of the crossing of water as a kind of surrender – the fluidity in between bodies, bodies of land, an unknown and shifting expanse where we can be immersed and transformed.  

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NRLA30// Neil Butler

Written by sandrine Morgante Thursday, 18 March 2010 11:47

Parodie de conférence dont l’objectif est de répondre à la question “where is art?” La réponse finale sera: art is NOWHERE, puis art is NOW  HERE. Après que de l’artiste-performer ait brisé ce mot-pancarte en deux.

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NRLA30// CURIOUS - the moment I saw you I knew I could love you

Written by Sandrine Morgante Thursday, 18 March 2010 11:45

 De nos bouées gonflées, ssshh.. on voit la danse des vieux se gorger d’air, l’équilibre de leur couple ne tient qu’à une pomme.

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NRLA30// 18 MARCH 2010

Written by Mark Caffrey Thursday, 18 March 2010 10:33

TODAY:  Rob Le Fresnais; Silvia Ziranek; PAVES; Lei Cox; Qasim Riza Shaheen; Kate McIntosh & Eva Meyer Keller; Elvira Santamaria Torres; Zoran  Todorivic; Fiona Wright; Jamie McMurray; Guillermo Gómez-Peña; Geraldine Pilgrim; Forkbeard Fantasy; Alastair McLennan; David Richmond; La Ribot; and Robert Ayers.  Continuing work by Julia Bardsley; Curious; Kirsten Lavers; and Manuel Vason.  TICKETS NOW REMAIN FOR SUNDAY ONLY.  

NRLA30// Catalogue Launch @ CCA

Written by Mark Caffrey Thursday, 18 March 2010 10:21

The 1^st edition of the 30^th anniversary catalogue was launched – from the balcony at CCA – as three years of work reached fruition.  The catalogue designed by Mark Gatti is a beautiful memory box, including specially commissioned interviews and three DVDs of live art from the National Review archives – some footage having been captured from pneumatic tape that played once before it crumbled.  MC Ian Smith took a spade to the foyer of CCA and buried the first copy, but you can still get one at The Arches from today.  More to come on the first day of the 30th anniversary NRLA through the day..!

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NRLA30// The Documenting Crew arrive!

Written by Mark Caffrey Wednesday, 17 March 2010 11:48

I had a quick word with some of the documenting crew who arrived last night to cover another year of the NRLA.  I asked them about their experience of documenting the work – and how they decide who documents what… 

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NRLA30// 17 MARCH 2010

Written by Mark Caffrey Wednesday, 17 March 2010 09:31

NRLA30// NRLA picked as "WHAT TO SEE" in Guardian's Saturday Guide

Written by Mark Caffrey Monday, 15 March 2010 21:00

The Guardian’s Lyn Gardner picks the NRLA for 'WHAT TO SEE' in the Saturday Guide: '…the National Review of Live Art celebrates its 30th anniversary.  The National Review of Live Art is 30 years young this year and is celebrating in style from Wednesday at the Arches in Glasgow.  There's too much good stuff to list in full but do check out the website.  I'll be heading north on Thursday and hope to catch Curious, Forkbeard Fantasy, Anne Seagrave, Geraldine Pilgrim and Ron Athey, among others.'

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NRLA30// ***** TICKET UPDATE! *****

Written by Mark Caffrey Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:50

NRLA09// Sandra Johnston

Written by Sandrine Morgante Thursday, 26 February 2009 10:24

Une pause spirituelle au milieu de l’agitation du festival

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NRLA09// leonard - Grass

Written by Mark Caffrey Sunday, 15 February 2009 22:13

One of them is already there [1].  One (Marina) has a sliver of green whizz past her vacant eyes sometimes [2], and can do a traditional Portuguese dance [3].  One has flown in directly from Canada and might fall asleep (Francesca) [4].  

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NRLA09// Sophia Yadong Hao [UK/China] - Vapour

Written by Mark Caffrey Sunday, 15 February 2009 15:40

Moving through connections and reflections, I tried to remember something that I could leave behind, mark on a mirror, and forget.  

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NRLA09// Marcel Sparmann [Germany] - Walk to Glasgow *Part 2*

Written by Mark Caffrey Saturday, 14 February 2009 23:21

Marcel Sparmann hasn't seen anything at the festival - although I was happy to spy him at 'While We Were Holding It Together' after enforced exile from The Arches.

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NRLA09// hancock and kelly live: postures A to M

Written by Sandrine Morgante Saturday, 14 February 2009 22:58

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NRLA09// Florence Peake [UK] - Valediction

Written by Mark Caffrey Saturday, 14 February 2009 22:33

A type of séance straight afterwards with Florence Peake.  

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