12.00-22.00
South Street, Reading, RG1 4QU
£10 day pass
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The Empty Space Gallery
An anonymous gallery for 'artists' and 'non artists' alike to share work. Curated by The Forward Company, the gallery is an experiment in 'art', 'artists', and those that think they are...
Process Transformation 9
This performance attempts to seperate and create movements between 1) a system that analyses the world and infers understanding from the analysis and 2) the understanding that is inferred.
Quartet (for Anna Akhmatova)
Based on an accident that took place at La Scala opera house in Italy in 1913, Quartet is a playful exploration of the idea that theatre is not what takes place on the stage, but rather what happens in the minds of the spectators. With original music by Maw.
Flagrante Delicto
Claire's performances begin with the consideration of a basic action. Here it is the simple action of slamming a series of doors for four hours. These acts are at once disturbing, mesmerising, and seductive investigations into the ways in which the body performs within architectural space.
Dressing Room
Eitan Buchalter’s site-oriented performances have become a regular feature of recent Fresh festivals. Typically simple interventions, Eitan Buchalter’s works playfully disrupt their viewer’s engagement with a space.
Untitled
This installation/performance questions who is looking at who and the position of both the performer and the audience. The relationship between the viewer and the Artist is disrupted.
(installation/video)
Thiswasnotsupposedtohappen scrape the gunk from the sides of the cultural barrel to create a discomforting installation in the basement of South Street.
Laughing Piece
Laughing Piece is a catharsis combining objects, hysterical laughter and ethereal light, to create a curiously tense atmosphere. The result is both moving and unsettling.
Ol' Dog
Performance work exploring notions of sin and penance. Drawing upon biblical imagery and magic as symbolic demonstration.
What's it all about then?
Brian Catling, internationally celebrated artist, founder of Cabaret Melancholique and a professor at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford., debates the merits (or otherwise) of Live Art with John Kingdom, the sceptical father of the Fresh festival director.
The Endurance
Two spent old men haul a piano along railway tracks. Drawing on the tradition of the travelling player and the expeditions of Scott and Shakleton, this is a tale of survival in the face of impossible odds and a friendship glued together by tea and mint-cake.
(music set)
The house band for the evening's Live Art cabaret bring their psyche-pop, electro-punk, up-beat-naval-gazing, angry-young-man-euphoria to Fresh. They play with a backing track but they're still great!
Stress Ball
Don't make offerings that don't come up to scratch, don't hard sell whilst lacking conviction. This satirical performance is about actively combating disappointment, about inventing, and completing tasks. Supported byThe Basement, Arts Productions
Compel Repel
I want to get under your skin...
Glad Rags
Monologuist, social engineer and storied storyteller Marcia Farquhar will be dressing up for a night out, and discussing, before a live audience.
Bubbles in Infinity
The people we pass, the person we are, the universe we inhabit; all bubble away within the infinite.
With music by Dopekick.
Stewarding performances
Small scale intervention and musical interludes created by artist Danielle Corbishley
TAGS
Using the disembodying language of the internet and mobile phone sex industry, artist Clare Carswell invites the audience to participate in a performance work that is both intimate, explicit and challenging.
I Love You (video)
Contextualizing the Orwellian concept of “doublethink” within the War on Terror, I Love You triggers opposing emotions enhanced by the caricature style of an animation created with photographs of a performance for camera.
She Was Standing on the Porch
A fragment of a life - as seen through the everyday images of a person's closest environment. A visual and temporal zooming-in on detail, in order to reveal a glimpse of a much longer story.
Portrait Series
Portrait Series is a vdeo projection that questions relationships between movement, time and memory, as well as identification of the viewer and the 'moving' gaze. These are explored through the process of slow motion and close-up.
Motherland
A fantastical display, reality versus unreality, some powerful and moving sounds of the best in Gaelic performance. Simply hypnotising.