Phew. Sorry I vanished. I’ve been working to another deadline which pushed everything else out of the way.
The MAO exhibition is taken down now – photos soon! – and now I’m turning my mind to the associated publication. It’s in the early stages so far, but I’m going to post some images of my initial ideas tomorrow.
In the meantime here’s a sketch I scribbled while I was planning some schools workshops for with the MAO residency, incorporating BSL fingerspelling and person-sized alphabets. I ran two workshops at a local school last Monday, with another two this coming Monday. GOODNESS ME back-to-back workshops with thirty nine-year-olds are tiring.
Lastly, I’m quite thrilled to be welcoming orchestra conductor Anthony Weeden to Oxford on Sunday where he’ll be performing my performance piece ‘Musica Practica’. He’s quite brilliant. He last performed the piece at Tate Britain last year, and before that at SE8 Gallery in London and outdoors on the Southbank, but this is its first appearance in Oxford. After the workshop on Monday I described the performance to the children, and one or two asked if they could bring their recorders and play a song so Anthony could conduct it. I told them yes, emphatically. I would love it if they came along. People can just turn up and wander past, or stop and stare, or, frankly, bring their recorders along for a song.
Here’s an outline from the MAO website – do join us!
A lone orchestra conductor performs in public, translating the sounds and everyday movements surrounding him into real-time orchestral choreography. Conflating instruction and response, conductor and audience simultaneously direct one another’s actions.
11.03.2012 at 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Performance Location: Oxford City Centre, outside Sheldonian Theatre, off Broad Street.
More here:
http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/musica-practica/about/
