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	<description>LIVE ART &#38; MUSIC EVENT</description>
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		<title>SOUTH HILL PARK 2011</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artists: Lee Campbell, Diego Chamy &#038; Siân Robinson Davies and Kristin Sherman &#038; 
Natasha Rosling and The Ladies of The Press 
 
“Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”  
Samuel Beckett 
 
The idea of failure suggests a set of judgement criteria: an idea that is often illusive in art , and failure and  failing are commonly seen as weakness. Yet, artists have often used serendipity as a constructive fate. The  artists in the event explore ways in which failure becomes a positive trait; allowing art to be scrutinized as a  process: initiating an intercultural and interdisciplinary dialogue on the peculiar strength of failure as a point 
at which artistic practice begins, rather than ends. 
 
The construction of a visual language is often articulated by the breaking down of a system., The plurality of  meanings does not always narrow the viewers’ understanding down to an interpretation. It can lead to  disseminations and different layers. What you see is NOT always what is meant, the author can NOT be the  artist, as the works go through processes of: dislocation; de-familiarisation; interferences. 
 
The artists invite the audience to take part in a journey that they feel they can comfortably follow, but yet  quickly divert this path. Playing with formats and means become controlled, the artists let go of the  authorship process to pass it on and empower the audience with it. Symmetry in the work is disrupted and  becomes chaotic. 
 
Lee Campbell’s (lives and work in Nottingham) work is concerned with exposing the beauties, vulgarities,  successes, failures and ultimate inadequacies of language through visual and verbal languages. His practice focus on the construction of meaning between the politics of space and the politics of performers.  
 
In Kristin Sherman’s work (lives and works in London), the gallery space becomes the foundation of a 
single cultural activity, articulated through compositional rules of choreography combined with sculptural 
propos and the involvement of the audience. 
 
Natasha Rosling (lives and works in London) creates large-scale installations that draw reference to 
costume and temporary architecture, the activity of the body and its processes. The way things join, 
continue, truncate is highly considered- there is often a contrast between the awkward and the seductive. 
 
Siân Robinson Davies (lives and work in Nottingham) and Diego Chamy (Lives and works in Berlin)  create a performance based on two questions: ‘How do you feel?’ and ‘How do you know how you feel?’. taking the latter as a possible limitation in human thought, but however trying to find ways of thinking of it. 
 
The event will be documented by The Ladies of the Press* (Lives and works in London). Ana Cavic and Renee O’Drobinak: a performative press duo that re-imagines the role of the publisher and the publicist into a theatrical persona, enacting a ‘press’ through a multitude of guises and engaging with the notion of ‘press’ as a readymade idea. 


The act of narration in Live Art, whether in verbal or visual forms, is the engine of the machine, but it can only be fuelled with diversion, unexpected outcomes and risk-taking. Testing Grounds supports experimentation in art and commission artists to make new works to allow them to inhabit new territories, and to cut across art forms, mediums and contexts that are not usually explored together. This opens up possibilities of previously unexplored approaches to experiencing and interpreting the world both to the 
artists and the audience. 
 
The event is a co-production and co-curation between Testing Grounds and South Hill Park curators Outi Remes (Head of Exhibitions) and William Trevelyan (Head of Music). 
 
ADMISSION IS FREE BUT BOOKING RECOMMENDED: 
Booking by email: Emily.Rogers@southhillpark.org.uk 
Event starts at 6pm. 
 
DIRECTIONS: 
South Hill Park, Ringmead, Bracknell RG12 7PA 
Directions: http://www.southhillpark.org.uk/aboutUsTravel.jsp 
 
 
Testing Grounds is supported by Arts Council England. 
 
www.testinggrounds.org.uk 
Contact: Nadege Derderian – info@testinggrounds.org.uk 
The next Testing Grounds event will take place at GRIMMUSEUM in Berlin, April 2011
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