Moving Forest 2012 London

A twelve day prelude moving across the city; a twelve-hour sound art opera of betrayal and rebellion culminating in a spectacular series of disturbing performances in Chelsea College of Art Parade Ground; a one-day coda of debate.

Presented by AKA the CASTLE

Moving Forest

Moving Forest
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Moving Forest expands the last 12 minute of Kurosawa's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, 'Throne of Blood' (1957), into a sonic performance saga with a prelude of 12 days, a durational performance of 6 acts in 12 hours and a closing Coda for the sake of argument.

First presented at Transmediale.08. Berlin 2008, Moving Forest London maps an imaginary castle and a camouflaged forest revolt onto the hyper-playground of the London metropolis on the eve of Olympics 2012.  Presented by a temporarily assembled troupe AKA the castle, Moving Forest brings together diverse visual/sonic/electronic/digital/ performance artists along with writers, walkers, coders, hackers, mobile agents, twitters, networkers and the general public to realize a contemporary version of a classic play.  Making use of all media, the acts elaborate operatic manoeuvres into an escalating scheme of conspiracy and its contemporaneous political manifestations. The camouflage tree branches of Birnam Wood are electronically updated with contemporary forms of stealth and insurrection. Armed with signals and slogans, the Moving Forest forces an entry into the Castle.  A final merging of forest and castle occurs during a moment of downfall, jubilation and loss.


June 22 - July 3 ,  12 day prelude (London citywide and on the net

See www.movingforest.net/html/london2012.html for details.



July 4,   6 acts 12 hour performance

www.movingforest.net/html/performance2.html

[act0 - omen]  9-11am (Furtherfield, Finsbury Park)
[act1 - remorse]  11am-1pm (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art)
[act2- betrayal]  1pm-3pm (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art)
[act3- overthrow]  3pm-5pm (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art)
[act4 - insurgency] 5pm-8pm (Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art)
[act5 - eternal return] 8pm-9pm (Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art)


July 5, 12 - 6pm , Coda - One Day Workshop (Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art)
www.movingforest.net/html/coda.html


Moving Forest 2012 London
AKA the castle (in formation)

With:
The Militant City (Isaac Marrero-Guillamón), MzTEK, labofii (John Jordan), street training (Lottie Child), Paper Tiger(Omar El-Khairy), Marc Widmer, Jonas Öhrström, Patric Kaufmann, The Hexists, Laura Oldfield Ford, Marco Donnarumma , Linda Dement, Valentina Vuksic, Olsen Wolf, Kaffe Matthews, xname, Ewa Justka, Anat Ben-David, Bioni samp, Vasco Alves, Graham Harwood, Clifford Hammett, Alexandra Sofie Joensson, AUDiNT (Toby Heys and Steve Goodman).

Organized by
TAKE2030 (Ilze Black and Shu Lea Cheang)
Matthew Fuller (Center for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College)
Graham Harwood (MA Interactive Media, Goldsmiths College)
Rachel Baker (irational.org)

Moving Forest workshop/coda
organized by
David Garcia, Dean of CCW Graduate School
Matthew Fuller, Reader in Digital Media, Goldsmiths College,
Josephine Berry Slater, editor of Mute magazine
John Cunningham, 56A InfoShop

Organization associates:
Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
Interactive Media Lab, Goldsmiths, University of London
Furtherfield
SPACE
Graduate School, CCW, University of the Arts London
Wimbledon College of Art
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Main location addresses:

Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London, N4 2NQ

Parade Ground and Triangle Gallery, Chelsea School of Art & Design, Millbank, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU

www.movingforest.net

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