Programme

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Brown Mountain Festival provides a sample of the college’s esoteric activites and also signals its first major inter-institutional collaboration. With co-producers of high repute and artists of excellence, each evening promises a panoply of textures and timbres, from high-octane satire and wry eccentricity to optical ingenuity and verbal dexterity.

Brown Mountain Bar
CAMRA will be serving a range of ales and ciders, alongside sherry courtesy of The Sherry Institute of Spain and fine wines from the Brown Mountain region. The bar will also host a rolling programme of short film and video esoterica, curated by members of the college’s Erratic Film Club. These include:

Artsadmin
Beacon Art Project
CollectingLiveArt
Collective Gallery
Contemporary Art Society
ELECTRA
Rules and Regs

Dates: 16 – 18 October 2008. Performances will take place between 6pm and 10pm.

Venue: Brown Mountain Festival of Performing Arts at Slade Research Centre,
Woburn Square, London, WC1

Tickets: £4.00 day pass
Frieze & Zoo VIP passes free
No booking required

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Programme

Thursday 16 October

6.00pm Pugilism and Other Contests
Screeing of shorts by artists, filmmakers, animators and comedians featuring fisticuffs, skirmishes and showdowns, with John Bock, Simon Munnery, Miranda Pennell and others; followed by a live descant recorder set by The Dolly Mixtures..
Produced by Brown Mountain College.

7.30pm Wayne Lloyd
Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde
Lloyd’s popular and compelling translations of films mix humour, spectacle and melodrama to
reveal what he calls ‘the truth in popular culture’.
Produced by Beacon Art Project.

9.00pm Golden Record
Artists and comedians come together to remake the original Golden Record – a phonograph record
launched into space in 1977, containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth.
Produced by Mel Brimfield, commissioned by the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.


Friday 17 October

7.00 – 10.30pm Jordan McKenzie
Condensation Box
An intimate performance exploring breath and breathing as physical mechanism and emotional
signifier, investigating themes of loss and restriction.
Produced by Rules and Regs.

7.00pm Ange Taggart
Fucking Over The Corporate Sponsors
Taggart, of My Dad’s Strip Club, demonstrates the art of reclaiming space and the delicate subject
of the carnal knowledge of Coke machines.
Produced by Rules and Regs.

8.30pm Ian Saville
Philosophy in a Barber Shop
Saville gives up his career as a socialist magician for barbering, only to find his shop populated by the likes of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Morris and Bertolt Brecht, who insist on discussing politics while in the chair. Based on a vaudeville piece by John William Cooper, the first African-American ventriloquist.
Produced by Brown Mountain College.

9.30pm Gary Stevens
A Chain of Events Called Bob
An ordinarily continuous and fluid action is interrupted and subdivided into a series of nominal personas. Discontinuity grows between them until the resulting moments become distinct and separate in mood and characteristics.
Originally commissioned by Corali; produced by Artsadmin.


Saturday 18 October

2.00 – 4.00pm Contemporary Art Society
Director Paul Hobson on supporting and collecting performance-based practice, with curator Lucy
Bayley on its acquisistion by public collections. Followed by one-to-one surgeries for artists,
curators and collectors.
Produced by CollectingLiveArt and Contemporary Art Society.

6.00pm Jefford Horrigan
The Half Veronica; The 1,531st Intermission; Four Fourteen
Evoking the strange logic of film noir, Hollywood musicals and cartoons, a man transforms furniture
into the beasts and loves that populate those late/early indigo hours.
Produced by Brown Mountain College.

7.00pm Emma Hart
Sliding Action
Hart continues her investigation into art as action by provoking audio visual technology, in this case
slide projectors, to take an active part in the images they deliver.
Produced by Rules and Regs.

8.00pm Goodiepal
Kristian Vester is a former pig farmer from Denmark known as Goodiepal or, more recently,
Gaeoudjiparl. While playing vinyl records and Faroe folk instruments he unveils an elaborate
display of small, inexplicable, crafted objects, such as mechanical birds and models of planets.
Produced by ELECTRA.

9.00pm Grand Theft Impro
Whose Yves Klein Is It Anyway?
Comedy impro and art history collide, with hilarious consequences.
Produced by Brown Mountain College.


Throughout the festival

Anthony Schrag
Architectural intervention exploring how urban constructed environments limit our experience of
space and movement.
Produced by Rules and Regs.

The Department of Creative Accounting is historically one of the most innovative and dynamic organisations in arts fundraising. However we still rely on our Patrons and Honorary Fellows to support our ongoing activity.

To fundraise for the College and Festival we have now released our Performativity Bonds, which can be invested in to support a particular performance piece, the Festival as a whole or the College in general.

Modelled on the US Liberty Bonds, purchased by US citizens to support troops in the Great War and cashed in afterwards with interest, Performativity Bonds offer individuals, companies and institutions the opportunity to transform financial outlay into cultural capital, which then accrues public interest. The limited edition bonds (pictured, above) are designed by artists Edwina Ashton, David Austen and Lesley Sharpe.

The Festival, as well as the College, is a not-for-profit venture; all financial support is gratefully received and applied directly to commissioning and production.

If you would like to know more about Performativity Bonds, Honorary Fellowships or supporting any of our activities, please contact the Deans of the College:

info@brownmountain.org.uk