A General Assembly of Interested Parties - Testing Grounds - 29 Jun 2014

Sunday, June 29, 2014

11:00am – 7:00pm

Testing Grounds, 1 - 23 City Road, Southbank (just behind the Arts Centre, next door to The Australian Ballet Centre and most easily accessed via the City Road stairs from St Kilda Road, just beyond Inge King's sculpture, Forward Surge (the black waves)).

 

A General Assembly of Interested Parties is an evolving conversation between artists and the world
On Sunday June 29, GAIP will converse with Testing Grounds. All kinds of artists and interested parties will be co-performing, listening and observing

Artists working from site include:

Rob Vincs
Domenico de Clario
Dur-é Dara
Clinton Green
Juana Beltran
Alice Cummins and footfall ensemble
Jenny Barnes
Scott McConnachie
Sam Hall
Chun-liang Lui
Elnaz Sheshgelani and Adam Simmons
Jordan White
Clementine Isaacson
Hank Clifton-Williamson
Zeke Ruckman

The emergence of GAIP

"GAIP began as a platform for presenting improvisational music practice in 2011. Now, something that started with music, seems energized in a direction of inclusiveness of various art making mediums and appears to be promoting an inter-penetration of art and life, life and art.

I am seeing an assembly of interested parties capable of and interested in a broader social “performance” where any context, format, mode of functioning is acceptable providing certain tenets are able to be established, practiced and maintained.

These tenets being; Each participant is ready, willing, able and stimulated, by bringing an attitude and practice of generosity in the facilitation of an individual or collective catharsis/ liberation/ moment of transcendence. As instances of this nature are rare, the “everyday consciousness” within performance then is made up of an underlying attitude of generosity. This may be shown through participative presence without the need to be physically active. The act of listening or observation becoming a supportive meditation, that emanates a protective field of encouragement, not passive but ‘at the ready’ for any act that might be deemed generative or stimulating etc. to be taken.

So a way of being with each other is evolved where great creative risk and chance are encouraged through mutual trust. Where we understand we give each other permission to reach beyond where we have been already.

There is no expectation of formality within performers relationships, just mutual respect and responsibility.” Ren Walters, April 2014