Some video put together by Ren Walters from the 12 hour event I did with Ren and Michael McNab at Conduit Arts earlier this year on 19 March.
Performances
Performances – May 2016
GAIP ‘gather’
GAIP in conjunction with TESTING GROUNDS presents gather a 24 hour performance event on May 14/15, 2016 at Testing Grounds, 1 – 23 City Road, Southbank, Saturday 6:00 pm. until Sunday 6:00 pm.
From the GAIP website:
gather will function, in part, as a closing ceremony, marking the end of a chapter for Testing Grounds (which will undergo a major upgrade over winter).
There will be no programmed performances, instead, spontaneous, adhoc, on-the-spot collaborations, and an improvisational approach to performance of any material will be the predominant mode of relation, forming a constantly negotiated improvisational ecology.
Video from a GAIP event at Testing Grounds in 2014 below:
Avantwhatever Monthly
- Clinton Green (solo performance)
- Tim Coster
- Todd Anderson-Kunert
Wednesday May 18, 2016, 7pm at The Alderman (upstairs), 134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East.
Intersection 2
Thursday May 19, 2016, 11am-1pm, cnr of Swanston and La Trobe Streets, Melbourne.
Event orchestrated by Ren Walters, following on from last year’s Intersection event (video below).
Upcoming performances
I’m involved in two more performances coming up:
Friday 15 April 2016, 8pm – An Evening of Listening – Conduit Arts
Hear the latest iteration of two immersive sound experiences:
Aviva Endean: Mass blindfolded Sound Immersion. With guests performers: Clinton Green, Michael McNab, Dale Gorefinkel and Matthew Horsley http://www.avivaendean.com/
(We played this at Quiet Noise earlier this year, if you missed that or want to experience this unique piece again, here’s your chance).
TARAB: careful arrangements of sonic rubbish. 8 channel audio, speakers, transducers and objects. http://tarab3058.com/
Conduit Arts, 83 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.
Door charge $10 : Cash bar.
https://www.facebook.com/events/825594264212117/
Tuesday 19 April 2016, 8pm – Performance with Elnaz Sheshgelani & friends – Club Voltaire -CANCELLED
Two performances in the next week
Two unique performances I’m involved in are coming up in the next week:
un·habited space
A durational work by Ren Walters & Carmen Chan
With guest artists: Clinton Green, Dur-é Dara, Juana Beltrán, Janette Hoe and Michael McNab
@ Conduit Arts 83 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
4-5 Apr: 11am-11pm
6 Apr: 6am-6pm
Ren & Carmen say:
Over three days, we will create a conversational space within the walls of Conduit Arts through performance art. We will explore the common boundaries of public and private domains as artists, and attempt to articulate the shift of energy that is an integral part of the processes of our respective artistic practices.
We will interact with each other; with our hosts; with our guest artists; and with anyone who enters the space.
I will join them at 6am on Wednesday 8 April for a dawn performance at Conduit.
Entry by donation.
For updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/940928769361578/
Do You See What I Hear?
Carmen Chan’s multi-disciplinary piece continues to reinvent itself with different scenarios and artists. On this occasion, I will join Carmen and Llara Goodall to perform on the footpath in Chapel Street, Prahran, as part of the Chapel Street Art
Town festival. If you’re in the area, we’ll be situated near the corner of High Street – wander by and have a chat with us about what you think it might mean to be a musical thinker…
Chapel Street Art Town
Sunday 10 April
11am-3pm
Chapel Street (near corner of High Street), Prahran.
1200–>0000 photos
Some photos from Saturday’s 12 hour event at Conduit Arts with Ren Walters and Michael McNab:
Flyer for “1200–>0000” this Saturday
1200–>0000 – Conduit Arts, 19 March 2016
In a farewell before the impending closure of Conduit Arts, Ren Walters, Clinton Green & Michael McNab occupy the space for 12 hours. We hope to provide the physical and temporal space for improvised ceremonial actitives, explorations of the limits of performance, and other unpredictable phenomena.
Ren, Michael and I feel we have discovered a new way of interacting performatively through some rural and outback excursions over the past few months. We’ve had affecting experiences together in the bush, on salt lakes, both during the searing heat of day and in the dark of night. We are hoping 1200–>0000 will be a way to bring these experiences to a new context.
1200–>0000
Ren Walters, Clinton Green, Michael McNab
Saturday 19 March, 2016. 12pm-midnight.
Conduit Arts, 83 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Entry by donation. You are welcome to come and go throughout the day/night.
THIS Ensemble Wimmera Tour videos
In late October/early November of 2015, THIS Ensemble toured the Wimmera region of North Western Victoria in a series of official and unofficial performances/actions.
Ren Walters has put together these videos of those times. They have the character of home movies in a way, but for me they convey something of the experience of that time, particularly our attempts to connect with the landscape, the place, and with each other.
Quiet Noise V this weekend, and ‘If I Am a Musical Thinker’ on Monday night
Quiet Noise V
For those of you who haven’t been in previous years, it’s always a pretty special day of unamplified experimental music practice.
This year is another exciting line-up:
- Jenny Barnes/Clinton Green/Michael McNab (voice, text, hitting, scraping)
- Anna Fern (sound poetry)
- Aviva Endean (mass blindfolded sound immersion, assisted by Dale Gorfinkel, Clinton Green & Michael McNab).
Quiet Noise V
Saturday 13 February 2016, from 2pm.
15 Neil Street, West Footscray (5 minute walk from Tottenham train station).
Free
The Quiet Noise tradition is to order a jumbo veg biriyani afterwards, those wishing to partake can do so be chucking in $5 each.
Aviva’s ‘mass blindfolded sound immersion’ is first cab off the rank at about 2:30pm – not to be missed, so don’t go being all fashionably late.
Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/934086086666063/
Also on Monday 15 February at La Mama Courthouse Theatre is ‘If I Am A Musical Thinker’:
#DYSWIH presents Ben Boretz’s ‘If I am a musical thinker’ at La Mama Musica with Brigid Burke (visuals), Warren Burt (electronics), Carmen Chan (cello, percussion), Llara Goodall (tape), Clinton Green (speaker), Adam Simmons (wind instruments), and Gary Verkade (recorded voice).
Originally written for graduate music students at the University of Texas, Austin in 1981, Ben Boretz’s ‘If I am a musical thinker’ is a statement of the aesthetic, social and spiritual credo of the American composer and theorist himself. He proposes that artistic expression answers primal human needs for experiencing identity through ariticulation in artistic media; and further, that theoretical reflection is constructively or deconstructively crucial to expression and is itself expressive in nature. [credit: stationhill.org]
The text is one of the inspirations to this project ten years ago.
Monday 15 February, 7:30pm.
Performance at La Mama Courthouse: 349 Drummond St, Carlton
Tickets $15/10 Phone booking: 9347 6142
Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/1133970129988089/
Hope to catch up with some of you at either or both of these events.
