ChrisFollows
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7 years ago Please ensure your proposal responds/relates to most of the below Tate Exchange Principles :
How is art making a difference to peoples lives and society?
- Inspire diverse audiences locally, nationally and internationally with new ways of engaging with Tate’s collection and art more broadly
- Invite and enable the audience to become collaborators in helping shape the programme, activities and outcomes.
- Embody the values of openness, generosity, risk and trust
- Make a connection to the annual Tate Exchange theme: Exchange
- Explore new ways of thinking about art, society, the museum and its changing relation to the public
The lead/team names
Richard Layzell, Jennet Thomas
Number of others involved in the delivery (students, staff, industry, community groups or other Tate Exchange associates etc)
Up to 30 PTBM staff and students + up to another 25 from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax via skype or other remote platforms. Potential Partnerships with other Exchange partners: RL has strong connections with the Whitstable Biennale
Title
Gesamt - a digital participatory opera
Short paragraph for context (what you will do) or if you are offering to be a part of the collective & join other projects, what you can offer etc.
We are collaborating with colleagues and students from NSCAD on an ongoing relationship about the relevance of digital media in contemporary art production. One response in Canada has been to design an 'opera', reflecting Wagner's ambitions for this medium as the 'total art form' or Gesamtkunstwerk. This will be our response to this provocation, to create our own interactive, participatory analogue and digital opera, staged and housed in the Tate's Exchange Space.
How will the public get involved (invited participants, targeted audiences i.e schools, groups)
Means of participation (for students and the public) will include: all kinds of performance including singing, reading from scripts, engaging with remote inputs from Canada, voice modulation changes through software (ref Jennet Thomas), costume in the broadest sense, projections, various interactions and inputs via social media etc + collaborating with recent PTBM graduate Ellie Power and her use of digital characters in relation to AI and gaming.
Type of event it is (workshop, intervention, gathering, performance etc)
Key words to help identify themes
Gesamtkunstwerk, digital, opera, participation, interaction, broadcast, projection, engagement, construction, costume, performance
Equipment list (key kit you may need, large TV etc not guaranteed)
Methods of how you propose to develop your session which includes the wider Collective involvement & contributions, meet-ups
An image (not essential) that represents you project (with credit info) no need to send high res we will requests one if needed.
Dates you are committing to, can be all: below dates or any you wish at this stage (12pm to 6pm):
Weds 8th Feb yes Weds 22nd Feb yes Weds 8th March yes (probably not all three sessions)