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FIX 07 - 7TH INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

14 NOVEMBER - 07 DECEMBER 2007

On 28th and 29th November 2007, 7 MA students and 2 members of staff will participate in FIX, the 7th International Performance Biennial hosted by Catalyst Arts in Belfast. On Ormeauary Road, between the Library/Bridge/Annadale Embankment and Haywood Avenue, the artists will make both individual and collective interventions using performances or tempor installations. The interventions/performanes will take place between 3-7 pm. On 30th November 2007, there will be a public round table talk at Catalyst with the participants of the event at 6 pm. Title: creative dynamic social?

The participants are:

Chrissie Cadmann
Kris Gillen
Eleanor Philips
Sarah McAvera
Acitore Artezione
Wendy Nicole Keys
Michelle Nolan
Soirse Higgins
Susanne Bosch
Sinead McKeever
Ann Marie Dillon

FIX07, the oldest live art biennial in the UK, presents a programme of performances, interventions, discussions and workshops illustrating creative strategies for a dynamic engagement with the praxis of live art. Established since 1994 FIX has an international reputation for presenting emerging and established national and international artists. The seventh edition of this festival has evolved its programme to over three weeks with focus on expanding collaborative, investigative artworks that engages with the notions of what is public and live. FIX07 seeks to engage audiences with challenging performances and interventions to explore new approaches and open dialogues.

LANDSCAPE'S FIRST LECTURE: 'OLYMPIC MASTERPLANNING 2012'

You are cordially invited to the first lecture in the play THE Landscape programme. This is the first in a series of four lectures on people, play, recreation, design and the landscape. 'Play THE Landscape’s' first lecture: ‘Olympic Masterplanning 2012’ will be presented by Jason Prior, Managing Director of EDAW.

TOWARDS A BETTER FUTURE: DIALOGUE, NEGOTIATION, COLLABORATION, PARTICIPATION

Half Day workshop
Dates: 6th December 2007
Venue: Interface, Level E, School of Art and Design,
Board Room 82 E04, York Street, Belfast.
Opening Times: 10-2 pm

The MA Art in Public is being established as result of the identification of fundamental challenges to the model of art and the hierarchies of value in contemporary civil society under the influence of globalisation and digitalisation. It responds proactively to the pressing need for the development of advanced, up-to-date transferable and subject-specific skills, applicable knowledge and professional experience that promote a sustained as well as pioneering commitment to interactive, socially and politically engaged creative practices. It recognises the importance of the location of art in the public territory, its cultural and historical as well as social and economical, political and psychological situatedness. A crucial factor for this innovative postgraduate programme is its focus on art practices that centres on templates of practice, which give primacy to the creative process, to dialogue, negotiation, collaboration and participation. It scrutinizes the ways in which those practices produce values and publics, and empower citizens to articulate their interests and actively undertake responsibility in civil society. To do so, the MA programme centres on collaborations with external partners, i.e. NGO’s – community and voluntary art organisations, cultural agencies and art organisations in Belfast and Ireland.
In this first of three half day workshop (the other 2 will be in 2008) partners and students of the MA Art in Public will introduce their organisations and projects. They will have been working together for a number of weeks at this stage, they negotiated roles and contracts. The emphasis is of this workshop is to look at the negotiation process and the defined roles of the artists and the organisation. Organisations from the South and North of Ireland will be present. The role of creative practices as core methods of ‘society empowerment’ will be debated. This workshop and debate is open to the public as it challenges also university structures. It is funded by the Cultural Development Scheme of the UU.