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20 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival: Secret Show
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Q Club, Corporation Street, Birmingham ,
18 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, Ann Liv Young: Mermaid Show
A bare-breasted woman with long hair, silvery mermaid tail and reptilian contact lenses writhes lasciviously in a plastic basin: Ann Liv Young has a history of re-interpreting fairy tales. This time, she has turned her attention to “The Little Mermaid”.
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Project: Fierce Festival, Ann Liv Young: Mermaid Show
Location: Q Club, Corporation Street, Birmingham
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TROVE, The Old Science Museum, 144 Newhall Street, Birmingham, B3 1RZ,
13 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, Ron Athey, Gifts of the Spirit: Automatic Writing
A performance installation conceived, scored and directed by Ron Athey with automatic composition and music performance by Othon Mataragas. Ron Athey will read extracts from his memoir, Gifts of the Spirit, accompanied by 16 automatic writers, a piano, 6 typists, 4 editors, 1 reader, and a glossolalia chorus – all in a hypnotic trance. Review by Andy Field
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Project: Fierce Festival, Ron Athey, Gifts of the Spirit: Automatic Writing
Location: TROVE, The Old Science Museum, 144 Newhall Street, Birmingham, B3 1RZ
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Curzon Street Station, Birmingham, UK,
12 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, Group Walk with Hamish Fulton
In 1973, having walked over 1000 miles in 47 days from Duncansby Head to Land’s End, Fulton decided to ‘only make art resulting from the experience of individual walks.’ Since then the act of walking has remained central to his artistic practice. Text by Harun Morrison
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Project: Fierce Festival, Group Walk with Hamish Fulton
Location: Curzon Street Station, Birmingham, UK
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Edible Eastside, Digbeth, Birmingham,
10 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, Eloise Fornieles, The Message
The Message is a performance and installation by the canal in Birmingham on the Edible Eastside site. It will comprise mounds of chalk evoking an undulating landscape. There will be a marble sculpture boxed in a wooden crate on top of one the mounds. You are invited to write a message of hope or fear on a piece of paper, which I will fold and post into a hole in the crate. I will do this for a week until the crate is full of messages. At the end of the festival the crate full of messages will be set on fire and as it burns the sculpture will be revealed.’
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Project: Fierce Festival, Eloise Fornieles, The Message
Location: Edible Eastside, Digbeth, Birmingham
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classes at Heath Mill Studios, Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham,
9 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, LuckyPDF: School of Global Art
LuckyPDF present the School of Global Art, “a revolutionary new correspondence school offering courses in New Media Art [leading to BA, MA & PhD equivalent qualifications]”.
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Project: Fierce Festival, LuckyPDF: School of Global Art
Location: classes at Heath Mill Studios, Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham
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Birmingham Central Library, Paradise Forum Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3HJ,
5 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, Mette Edvardsen: Time Has Fallen Asleep In The Afternoon Sunshine
This intimate scenario for one audience member at a time is inspired by Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451. Here books are forbidden and burnt. Review by Diana Damian.
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Project: Fierce Festival, Mette Edvardsen: Time Has Fallen Asleep In The Afternoon Sunshine
Location: Birmingham Central Library, Paradise Forum Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3HJ
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Birmingham, UK,
5 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, Playgroup, Berlin Love Tour
“Welcome to Berlin! Walk through this famously divided city and journey into the depths of the human heart. Visit the Berlin Wall, the Brandenburg Gate and the notorious site of Hitler’s bunker. Hear stories of tragedy and lost love. Your experienced and charming guide will reveal the secrets of this city of angels and ruins, and may have a few stories of her own to tell along the way.” A guided tour of Berlin on the streets of Birmingham. Review by Andy Field
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Project: Fierce Festival, Playgroup, Berlin Love Tour
Location: Birmingham, UK
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St Philip’s Square, outside Birmingham Cathedral, Birmingham B£ 2QB,
4 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, Monica Ross and co-recitors: Acts of Memory
Solo, collective and multi-lingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Project: Fierce Festival, Monica Ross and co-recitors: Acts of Memory
Location: St Philip’s Square, outside Birmingham Cathedral, Birmingham B£ 2QB
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Moseley Friends Institute, 220 Moseley Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B12 0DG,
3 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, Uninvited Guests: Make Better Please
Bring us the troubles of the world, this city’s crises and the hope in your hearts. Uninvited Guests are in town. We call on the people to gather with us, to read the day’s newspapers together, to speak and to listen. Review by Diana Damian
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Project: Fierce Festival, Uninvited Guests: Make Better Please
Location: Moseley Friends Institute, 220 Moseley Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B12 0DG
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Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS,
2 Apr 2012
Fierce Festival, Bennett Miller, Dachshund U.N.
Dachshund U.N. is both a joyful and chaotic experiment, and a meditation on the utopian aspirations of the Commission on Human Rights, and our capacity as humans to imagine and achieve a universal system of justice.
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Project: Fierce Festival, Bennett Miller, Dachshund U.N.
Location: Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS
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mac, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH,
1 Apr 2012
Fierce festival, Subject to_change: Cupid
Cupid is a participatory performance installation that invokes Cupid’s most famous actions: shooting at hearts with bows and arrows. But it is also a show that asks: which paths have we taken to get to this point? Until 8th April. Review by Andy Field
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Project: Fierce festival, Subject to_change: Cupid
Location: mac, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH
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AE Harris, 110 Northwood Street, Birmingham,
31 Mar 2012
Fierce Festival, Mehmet Sander: IMPACT
A new piece of high-impact choreography in the former metal works @AE Harris, devised with local participants. ‘The subjects of each dance are the movements themselves. Dance is to be performed and perceived primarily on a physical level.
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Project: Fierce Festival, Mehmet Sander: IMPACT
Location: AE Harris, 110 Northwood Street, Birmingham
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Grand Union, Unit 19, Fazeley Industrial Estate, Fazeley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5RS,
26 Mar 2012
Reynir Hutber: Stay Behind the Line
Grand Union, in collaboration with Fierce, is proud to present work by Reynir Hutber, an emerging artist based in London, whose work explores themes of social visibility, moral relativity and the everyday imposition of authority. For this solo exhibition he will present his award winning installation, Stay Behind the Line, alongside a series of new related works.
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Project: Reynir Hutber: Stay Behind the Line
Location: Grand Union, Unit 19, Fazeley Industrial Estate, Fazeley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5RS
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