DECONSTRUCTION/RECONSTRUCTION @ The Fringe

DECONSTRUCTION/RECONSTRUCTION

1st June , 2006

We have been exploring the concepts of evolutive displays, cultural recycling and the live development of work within the frame of art events since October 2004.
Building on our work with transdisciplinary process-based live events, we propose Deconstruction/ Reconstruction, a 96 hour experimental Live Art event from the 19th to the 22nd of June 2006, in partnership with Brighton Fringe Arts Production, and set in The Basement.

The concept for this project is to live, work and sleep in The Basement for 4 days and 5 nights, and to deconstruct and reconstruct pre-existing works from the individual artists involved and to create new work from them collaboratively.

The idea for Deconstruction/Reconstruction is to create an organic live-art installation that constantly shifts and develops in its form. Throughout the event, the space will gradually transform, as new works and new performances are produced collaboratively.

The discussions that arise from the engagement and reinterpretation of each other’s work will be framed within the event space, and feed into following day’s activities. This will also be accessible to the audience, via live video feed to the entrance lobby window and via video recordings and transcripts to be displayed in the exhibition space.

Deconstruction followed by reconstruction in a new order or with new elements, creates links between the old and the new and a new understanding of the whole. The event itself, as well the individual experiments within it, will also follow this structure, creating connections between the works and between different practices and practitioners. These connections call into question whether, the work is mutating, being transcribed, translated, or recycled. The intensity of living and working together for this time will, we hope, create a blurring of identity leading to a dissolution of authorship. protoPLAY stress the process over a particular end result, during which, raw creative energy is captured within the frame of an art event.

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