Shifts in Perception, 18 and 19 July 2008
03 July 2008
Friday night: free performances, activities and talks
Saturday afternoon: performance marathon continues
‘Shifts in Perception’ includes a new work by David Harradine, Artistic Director of Fevered Sleep, and produced by Fuel. The commission is a marathon performance lasting the entire evening on Friday and continuing on the Saturday afternoon, which will combine music and dance in front a bank of pinhole cameras. During the performance, images will be developed and displayed to expose beautiful and surreal glimpses of these bodies moving slowly in the light.
Shifts in Perception: 18 and 19 July
Venue: Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. Admission free
Gallery opening times: Tues.-Wed., Fri.-Sat.: 10.00-18.00; Thurs.: 10.00-22.00; Sun.: 11.00-18.00. Closed Mon. (except bank holidays: 10.00-18.00).
This Friday late night of alternative events also includes: ‘The Lightswitch Project’, an unusual collective research experiment discovering the magic of everyday activities such as switching on a light; the chance to meet a scientist from the Diamond Synchrotron, one of the brightest light sources in the world; a chance to see the ‘From Atoms to Patterns’ exhibition of textile designs from the 1951 Festival of Britain; and music and sounds to challenge your auditory functions, curated by Resonance FM 104.4 sound artists.
Galleries, café and bookshop open on Friday evening and on Saturday.
Media contact:
Mike Findlay
Media Officer (Wellcome Collection)
T 020 7611 8612
E
m.findlay@wellcome.ac.uk
From Atoms to Patterns is open until 10 August 2008. The exhibition shows how technology can provide us with a whole new gateway to understanding the world. X-ray crystallography gave scientists the chance to picture the structure of molecules for the very first time.
Wellcome Trust
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Wellcome Trust is the largest charity in the UK. It funds innovative biomedical research, in the UK and internationally, spending over £600 million each year to support the brightest scientists with the best ideas. The Wellcome Trust supports public debate about biomedical research and its impact on health and wellbeing.
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection has exceeded expectations since launching in June 2007. It has attracted over quarter of a million visits in under one year. The Wellcome Trust's former headquarters, the Wellcome Building on London's Euston Road, has been redesigned by Hopkins Architects to become a new £30m public venue. Free to all, Wellcome Collection explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future. The building comprises three galleries, a public events space, the Wellcome Library, a café, a bookshop, conference facilities and a members' club.
Wellcome Collection's lively programme of challenging exhibitions and events - ranging from 'The Heart' exhibition, 'Sleeping & Dreaming', and portrait photographs of the dead, through to debates, performances, and late-night events on topics as broad as organ donation, flesh, design, chronic fatigue syndrome and stem cell research - have captured the imagination of many and met with wide-reaching critical attention from national and international press and broadcasters.
David Harradine: Director/Designer
Graduated from Middlesex University in 1995. As artistic director of Fevered Sleep he has directed, designed and co-devised 18 projects spanning installation, theatre and site-specific performance. These include: ‘Brilliant’, a visual theatre piece for children aged 3-4, about light; ‘An Infinite Line: Brighton’, a project in three parts - an installation, performance and publication all exploring the quality of the natural light in Brighton (a Brighton Festival commission); ‘And the Rain Falls Down’ (co-production with Lyric Hammersmith); ‘Fleet’, an installation (commissioned by The Lowry); ‘The Dreaming Place’ (The Egg, Bath); ‘The Field of Miracles’ (Artsdepot); ‘Feast your Eyes’ (BAC/national tour); ‘Written with Light’ (The Roundhouse) and ‘The (once in a blue moon) Ball’ (LIFT). Work as a freelance director/designer includes ‘The Camera Obscura Project’ (BAC); ‘The Show’s the Thing’ (Alexandra Palace); and ‘LUX’, an investigation of lighting in performance. Other projects include choreographing ‘A Present for Mr. Newton’, (a site-specific dance piece at The Wapping Project) and writing ‘There’s a Burning in my Heart’, (an installation of text and light at BAC).
David was winner of the Jerwood Young Directors Award in 2002 and received an Oppenheim John Downes Memorial award to develop ‘Written with Light’ as a piece for radio. He completed a doctorate in Performance Studies at the University of London in 2004, and in 2005 was awarded an AHRC Research Fellowship for a three-year research project - ‘Writing with Light’ - that explores the connections between photography, light and performance.
Fuel
Fuel produces fresh work for adventurous people by inspiring artists. Founded in 2004 by Louise Blackwell, Kate McGrath and Sarah Quelch, Fuel is a producing organisation that works in partnership with some of the most exciting theatre artists in the UK to develop, create and present new work for all ages. Fuel is currently producing work with Will Adamsdale, The Clod Ensemble, David Harradine, Gecko, Fevered Sleep, the Lyric Hammersmith, Mark Murphy, NIE, Peter Reder, Sound & Fury and Uninvited Guests. Currently working with Louise and Kate are Ed Collier, Penelope Easton, Sascha Evans, Christina Elliot and Stuart Heyes.
Resonance FM
Resonance 104.4 FM is the world’s first radio art station, established by London Musicians’ Collective. It started broadcasting on 1 May 2002. Its brief? To provide a radical alternative to the universal formulae of mainstream broadcasting. Resonance 104.4 FM features programmes made by musicians, artists and critics who represent the diversity of London’s arts scenes, with regular weekly contributions from nearly two hundred musicians, artists, thinkers, critics, activists and instigators, plus numerous unique broadcasts by artists on the weekday ‘Clear Spot’.