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Richard Grayson, Artist and Curator of the 2002 Sydney Biennale will give a presentation in the lecture theatre .
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connecting principle is a 48-hour event featuring time-based work by over 20 artists and musicians that will take place in and around the Fine Art Department of Newcastle University. Each artist brings to the project the sensibilities of their own practice to create a variety of experimental works which will encompass performance, sound, installation, interventions and web-based media.
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Artists:
Jonathan Clark
David Cunningham
Jorn Ebner & Volker Eichelmann
Joel Fisher & Andy Thomson
Tony Halliday
Foreign Investment
Uta Kogelsberger
Monica Ross
 Matthew Sansom
Sneha Solanki
Suzy Treister
Roxy Walsh with Andrew Burton
Lisa Watts
Wolfgang Weileder
Fiona Wright
Curated by Michelle Hirschhorn.
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The connecting principle of the work is of time-based process. The event will utilise/explore /animate the incidental spaces in and around the Fine Art building which are normally considered peripheral, creating a discontinuity with the conventions of formal exhibition and opening up new possibilities for the viewer to explore or participate in an evolving situation.
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Some works are for a limited audience and require advance booking; softly, stolen/dream crawl by Fiona Wright - a 5 minute solo performance for a solo audience (Friday 18 Oct, between 1 - 3:30 and 4 - 6:30 pm). Booking is essential & will be taken on a first come, first served basis.
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Some works will be durational and can be visited at any time during opening hours; The Listening Room by David Cunningham - a sound installation which allows people to listen very hard to the space they're in; Food for Light by Joel Fisher & Andy Thomson - the artists will present a series of works which last precisely 8 1/2 minutes, the amount of time it takes for light from the sun to reach the earth; Grow Your Own by Roxy Walsh with Andrew Burton - based on Daphne's transition from woman to tree, the artist will begin a series of wall drawings that will evolve as others continue them in the manner of Chinese whispers; Jorn Ebner & Volker Eichelman - will develop two slide projections depicting front gardens within social, educational and public space.
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Other durational works will extend overnight and may be viewed from the outside of the building or on line; connection script by Monica Ross - an ongoing virtual transcription; or in private, with the results on view the next day; The morning after a revolution by Foreign Investment.
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Other works can be visited in person or via the website; House by Wolfgang Weileder - a perfect shell, in bricks and mortar, will be simultaneously assembled and disassembled, by the artist and collaborators in 48 hours; In no particluar order by Sneha Solanki - an archival journey through the internet; Golem/Loew - Artificial Life by Suzy Treister - the Golem, an artificial man made out of clay, was created in 16th century Prague by Rabbi Yehuda Loew. This time travel research project traces the descendants of the Loew dynasty in the North East to determine whether an ability and/or desire to create artificial life is genetic.
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Some actions will be unannounced, while others will occur at specific times; Running Machine by Lisa Watts - a 30 minute lecture delivered from a running machine, whereby the live physical transformation of the performer's body is witnessed as her spoken text is progressively interrupted and distorted by exhaustion and loss of breath; Principal Connections by Matthew Sansom - a process-based acoustic event harnessing the voices of a large number of people moving through the building; Uta Kogelsberger - a video installation exploring the relationship between the individual and the environment and how sometimes the limits between the two become blurred; Tony Halliday - a vocal performance in the library without words.
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There will also be a special lounge area, with ambient sound by Jonathan Clark, for refreshments, reflection, internet access and discussion, plus screenings in the lecture theatre of video works by the participating artists.
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connecting principle also coincides with PLATFORM00000001, the region's first live art platform for emerging work. Together they form a 72-hour celebration of experimental time-based work by both established and emerging artists.
PLATFORM00000001- http://www.platform-1.org
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Further Information: MICHELLE HIRSCHHORN or MONICA ROSS
t: 0191 222 - 8687. Email: connecting.principle@ncl.ac.uk
connecting principle acknowledges the support of Newcastle University, The Arts & Humanities Research Board and Northern Arts.
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