Vanishing Point
12 & 13 May, 11am to 6pm Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2012, The Garden Party, Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich, NR1 3BF 12 – 15 July Latitude Festival, near Southwold, Suffolk, NR34 8AN 19 – 22 July The Secret Garden Party, Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire, PE28 2PH 25 & 26 August, 2pm to 8pm Movies on Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge, CB3 9ND A video trail of vast landscapes and catastrophic incidents made by Leslie Hill and screened in a series of... Read More
Three Step Endeavour
24 May Sparks will Fly at Basildon Playing Your Part Festival Basildon Sporting Village, Cranes Farm Road, Basildon SS14 3GR 2 June PULSE Festival, Ipswich, IP1 1DD 7 & 8 June The Suffolk Show, near Ipswich, IP3 8UH 16 June Sparks will Fly in Maldon Promenade Park, Maldon, CM9 5HX 17 June Sparks will Fly at Castle Point Show Waterside Farm Show Ground, Somnes Avenue, Canvey Island, SS8 9RA 30 June Sparks will Fly at Colchester Carnival Castle Park, Colchester, CO1... Read More
Out of Water
25 – 27 August, arrive at 7.30am for 8am start Holkham Beach, Norfolk, NR23 1RJ Flikr gallery can be viewed here. Filmed excerpts from the live performances can be viewed here. The singers are out of breath The swimmers are out of their depth At Holkham Beach in Norfolk the sea glistens mirage-like in the distance. In the early morning light a group of singers and swimmers strike out towards the water’s edge until they span the wide expanse of beach. They each look towards... Read More
Hunt & Darton Cafe
2 – 27 May Wednesdays to Sundays, 10am to 6pm 100 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DP Please click HERE for map Join live art duo Jenny Hunt & Holly Darton for a pop-up, interactive performance installation that blends art with the everyday in a fully functioning cafe in the heart of Cambridge. Hunt & Darton will creatively expose the inner workings of their new business by considering and presenting everything as art. From the food that is served to the people... Read More
Standstill
1 & 2 September and 8 & 9 September Every half hour, 2pm to 7pm A beach hut in Brightlingsea, CO2 0AX Tickets : FREE but booking essential through Colchester Arts Centre Amidst the frenetic excitement of the London 2012 Games, Abi Cunliffe invites you to slow down, stand still, pause, meander and… breathe. Experimenting with sound and silence, found objects and glimpses through windows, Abi will create a space to capture a moment for yourself inside a beach hut... Read More
Reminiscences of a Backward Future
DeDomenici testing BPU Prototype #1 Throughout the course of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Richard DeDomenici presents a cryptic triptych of work designed to extrapolate the norms of acceptable behaviour in an increasingly accelerated culture. Bomb Predisposal Unit A new solo street performance investigating the logical conclusion of vigilante justice in a hyper-vigilant world. Dressed in black fatigues, and from a discreet distance, Richard... Read More
British Social Athlete
14 July Jaylympics 11am-3pm Crossways Park, Garden Road, Jaywick, CO15 2RS 21 July East London locations, to be announced on the day via @Team_BSA A British Social Athlete is the undiscovered, physically unprepared everyday person in the street. Artist Mel Donohoe is a British Social Athlete. Artist Mel Donohoe is Team BSA. British Social Athlete will journey, like an Oracle, from Jaywick, Essex to East London, home of the London 2012 Games. She has mapped... Read More
Hopscotch To Victory
30th June 2012 Castle Park, Colchester Hopscotch to Victory was an event held in Castle Park, Colchester as part of Sparks will Fly at Colchester Carnival. Live Art Collective East organised an attempt to break the world record for the most people playing hopscotch at the same time. We recruited people from all around Colchester and beyond to play the traditional playground game that spans generations and cultures and brought lots of people together in a celebration of sport,... Read More
