Span2 : October 2001 : London

[Roddy Hunter]

*Apologies for cross-posting*

SPAN2: INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART

Thursday 4th to Saturday 27th October 2001

Dilston Grove Church, Southwark Park, London SE16

http://www.span2.org

Span2 is a new international festival of performance art. Throughout the
month of October an impressive range of twenty-one artists will be making
and showing new site specific work at the evocative, Dilston Grove Mission
Church, London SE16. A listed building, this Italianate style church built
in 1912 is noted to be the first concrete building to be erected in London.

Curators Andre Stitt and Roddy Hunter have invited a range of artists to
take part in four one week-residencies. Artists have been chosen whose work
constitutes a 'span' in terms of their longevity and their commitment to
art practice within their own communities at home and abroad. The aim of
Span2 is to turn the spotlight on the process of making work as a vital
ingredient of performance art by allowing the audience to experience the
artist's process and looking at what happens when the artist works in a
community rather than in isolation.

The magnificent decaying Dilston Grove Church is not an established venue
and so is free from the boundaries of a traditional gallery space. All the
artists taking part in Span2 have been asked to respond to a site and as
the church is set to close its doors at the end of October 2001 this last
show is seen as a grand finale.

SPAN2: PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Tara Babel (N.Ireland)
Julie Bacon (England)
Stuart Brisley (England)
Tania Bruguera (Cuba)
Brian Connolly (N.Ireland)
Esther Ferrer (Spain)
Amouzou Glikpa (Togo)
Kim Jones (USA).
Mamiko Kawabata (Japan)
Rona Lee (England)
Ma Liuming (China)
Lone Twin (England)
Danny McCarthy (Ireland)
Scott Macleod (USA)
Richard Martel (Quebec)
Boris Nieslony (Germany)
Kira O'Reilly (UK)
Tanja Ostojic (Yugoslavia)
Artur Tajber (Poland)
Roi Vaara (Finland)


SPAN2: LISTINGS INFORMATION:

Venue:
Dilston Grove Church, adjacent to Abbeyfield Road, close Southwark Park,
London, SE16

Dates:	Thursday 4,11,18,25 October

Talking Process: Discussion with the Artists at 7.30pm
*SPECIAL EVENT: 18 OCTOBER : UK LAUNCH OF 'ART ACTION 1958-1998', published
by Editions Intervention, Quebec*

Friday 5,12,19,26 October  & Saturday 6,13,20,27 October
Open from 2pm (evening performances from 7.30pm)

Info Line:
020 7394 3452 or check http://www.span2.org for daily programme details or
see the current issue of Live Art Magazine.

Tickets:
Day Pass  £8, £4 concs, Week Pass £20, £10 concs, Month Pass £50, £25 concs

How to get there:

Tube Surrey Quays/Canada Water
Bus 1,47,188,199,381,395,P13,P11
Rail: South Bermondsey
Parking off Hawkstone Road

For further information and photographs please contact Anna Arthur at AAPR
on 020 7637 2994/07973-264 373


SPAN2: PROGRAMME:

Symposium 4rd October
Performances 5th - 6th October

Brian Connolly (N.Ireland)
Kim Jones (USA)
Lonetwin (UK)
Kira O'Reilly (UK)
Rona Lee (UK)

Symposium 11th October
Performances 12th- 13th October

Danny McCarthy (Ireland)
Esther Ferrer  (Spain)
Artur Tajber (Poland)
Roi Vaara (Finland)
Mamiko Kawabata (Japan)

Symposium 18th October
Performances 19th - 20th October

Tania Bruguera (Cuba)
Ma Liuming (China)
Richard Martel (Quebec)
Scott Macleod (USA)
Tanja Ostojic (Yugoslavia)

Symposium 25th October
Performances 26th- 27th October

Tara Babel (N.Ireland)
Julie Bacon (UK)
Stuart Brisley (UK)
Amouzou Glikpa (Togo)
Boris Nieslony (Germany)

http://www.span2.org

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http://www.span2.org

Span2: international artists' residency programme

30 September - 28 October 2001

Dilston Grove, Southwark, London, SE16

Artists from Ireland, USA, Japan, England, Spain, Poland, Finland, Cuba,
China, Quebec, Yugoslavia, Togo and Germany.

info: info at span2.org
curation: roddy at span2.org / andre at span2.org

Span2 is supported by London Arts and the Arts Council of England.
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