MOVING FOREST present by AKA the CASTLE

June 22 to July 5 , 2012 London and beyond

A twelve day prelude moving across the city; a twelve-hour sound art opera of betrayal and rebellion culminating in a spectacular series of disturbing performances in Chelsea College of Art Parade Ground; a one-day coda of debate. 12 hour performance - July 4 - Live Streaming moving forest.net , 9:00 - 21:00 (GST)

Where on july 4, Use your media player eg. VLC - Open Network Stream
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A twelve day prelude moving across the city; a twelve-hour sound art opera of betrayal and rebellion culminating in a spectacular series of disturbing performances in Chelsea College of Art Parade Ground; a one-day coda of debate.

12 day prelude, June 22 - July 3, 2012 London & Beyond

12 hour performance 9:00 - 21:00 July 4, 2012 acts | actions | players | movers | forest live audio streams - http://movingforest.net

[act0 - omen] 09:00 - 11:00, Furtherfield, Finsbury park The Hexists

[act1 - remorse] 11:00 -13:00, Triangle space, CCAD Linda Dement , Marco Donnarumma, Laura Oldfield Ford, Francesca da Rimini With 500 slogans read by Kendra Jones, Ophelia Bellio, Dena Rysdam Miller,

[act2 - betrayal] 13:00 - 15:00, Triangle space, CCAD Valentina Vuksic, Oliver Wolf

[act3 - overthrow] 15:00 - 17:00, Triangle space, CCAD Ewa Justka, Kaffe Matthews, xname With 500 slogans read by Anat Ben-David arrows by Linda Dement with shooter Dani Villalba Suñol Larisa Blazic - Beacon, appropriation by intruder

[act4 - insurgency] 17:00 to 20:00, The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, CCAD YoHA, Bioni Samp, Vasco Alves, Onigiri force, Tom Keene, Clifford Hammett, Alexandra Sofie Joensson, Anna Blumenkranz, Atau Tanaka

[act5 - eternal return] 20:00 to 21:00 , The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, CCAD AUDiNT (Toby Heys and Steve Goodman) with the Hexists

Forest on the move Marc Widmer, Jonas Öhrström, Patric Kaufmann, The Militant City (with Isaac Marrero-Guillamón), MzTEK, Think like a forest (with John Jordan), Street Training (with Lotti Child)

Epilogue [CODA] 12:00 - 18:00, July 5, 2012 Triangle Space, CCAD

12:40 Opening remarks David Garcia & Shu Lea Cheang

13:00 How can a forest move? Ambivalent affordances and interests, practical experiments in disruptive infrastructures, de facto commons, cryptophilia, unbankable data, witches who cleave time

Chair: Matthew Fuller with Graham Harwood, Eleni Ikoniadou, John Jordan, Rachel Baker

3.30pm The tragic in the present, (in which futures are deleted) tragedy, minor politics / non-normative political art, anti-representation, human strike, the self-expression of control

Chair: Josephine Berry-Slater with John Cunningham, Jesse Darling, Brian Ashton, Nick Thoburn

Closing movement with Robin Bale

Moving Forest flicker account and collecting all images here:

Moving Forest Pictures

ACT0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/movingforest/sets/72157630455431496
ACT1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/movingforest/sets/72157630455376178
ACT2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/movingforest/sets/72157630455381862
ACT3 http://www.flickr.com/photos/movingforest/sets/72157630455385586
ACT4 http://www.flickr.com/photos/movingforest/sets/72157630455423690
ACT5 http://www.flickr.com/photos/movingforest/sets/72157630455475660
CODA http://www.flickr.com/photos/movingforest/sets/72157630456162270

Big thanks to our great documentation team: Kim Jakobsen To and Francesca da Rimini for majority of these nice pictures, Martin Gonzales for video and Linux crew and SPC for streaming.

An AKA the CASTLE presentation A TAKE2030 production. Organization & Support:: Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, Interactive Media Lab, Goldsmiths, University of London Furtherfield , SPACE, Graduate School, CCW, University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Art , Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Queen Mary, University of London, KSSaudio & Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council.

12 hour live streams Derek Shaw (SoSLUG), James Steves (spc.org), Resonance.fm

Documentation: Susana Gonzalez Garcia, Kim Jakobsen To

Locations:

Furtherfield, McKenzie Pavilion_Finsbury Park, London, N4 2NQ

CCAD (Chelsea College of Art and Design),
Triangle Space and Parade Ground
Atterbury Street,
Millbank
London
SW1P 4JU

http://movingforest.net

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