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FIRST DRAFT OMSK-TO-OMSK PROPOSAL (subject to changes/to be confirmed)
OMSK event to tour for one big gig in Siberia
we don't know the size of the venue in OMSK but it will probably be a club.
We're looking at next September/October. 9pm - 2am
OMSK2OMSK is a variation on a a large-scale, club space formatted OMSK in London featuring performers, film + video artists, dancers, and DJs who regular present their cross-disciplined work with OMSK. The event has been designed so that artists can to some extent double as crew in terms of preparation and coordination.
Here is a list of those who would take part. All of the pieces are developed or currently in the developmental stage. More information on each artist and the work they propose to present at OMSK in OMSK is available.
Topping or tailing the event with a programme of films with performances and DJ sets in Moscow.
Including local artists, video makers and DJs in the event.
Potential workshops and presentations:
Annis Joslin and Steven Eastwood will run a practical workshop on making video and performance work, two days before the event. Work generated by attendees will be presented at the event.
Dan Powell, Hannah Metcalfe and Cleo Williams will host a practical seminar/workshop on the evolution of OMSK and how to develop and run a live art event. This workshop would provide a blow-by-blow insight into how we run OMSK, with the objective of passing on constructive advice which might help enable similar events to happen.
Jo Cripps and Sharon Smith will give presentations about their performance practice.
Cleo Williams, Louise Stevens and Grace Surman will give a presentation about the emerging dance on film scene in the UK.
Hannah Metcalf and Jon Cassbard will give a talk about alternative approaches to DJying, with practical advice. Participants will be able to take part in record deck play sessions with both Hannah MissintheMix and Lovely Jon.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Daniel Powell will act as production manager and technical assistant. He will present a live sound set during the early stages of the event and wil also be a workshop leader.
Steven Eastwood will perform during the event, programme video and film material and be a workshop leader.
Jamie Bargeman will act as sound coordinator and engineer, as well as performing/playing as DJ OMSK.
Hannah Metcalfe will DJ and perform (Missinthemix), act as performance coordinator and workshop leader.
Jo Cripps will be event mc, perform during the event and be a workshop leader.
Lovely Jon Cassbard will DJ to projected films at the event and act as a workshop leader.
Sharon Smith (Max Factory) will perform and act as a workshop leader.
Felicity Croydon (Max Factory) will perform and assist in lighting the event.
Grace Surman will perform/dance at the event and act as a workshop leader. Annis Joslin will perform at the event, coordinate video screenings and act as a workshop leader.
Louise Stevens - will act as vision mixer on the event, ssist in decor and set-up and act as a workshop leader.
Cleo Williams will act as overall event coordinator, together with programming a dance on screen slot and acting as a workshop leader.
ACTS:
Lovely Jon - Jigoku (featuring English trash/mondo/sleaze/nasty video)
Jon Cassbard is a regular feature at OMSK. His record spinning sets combined meticulously, with terrific timing, to cult/obscure feature extracts, makes for a compelling experience. His event, JIGOKU, was recently presented at the ICA, with Alessandro Alessandroni (Morricone's musician) making a rare experience whistling and playing guitar live in accompaniment to Jon's exceptional DJying.
Hannah Missinthemix (+ scones piece) I play everything from 50's tangos and Cha-Cha-Cha's to 60's Northern Soul, not to mention such delights as American country music, Dutch cabaret, German crooning, Spanish harmonies, Alpine yodeling, French sing-along's and Madame Francesca's Zodiac Circle. All this, and my own custom-made rabbit costume ...that's another story in itself, but suffice to say I'm a DJ people tend to remember. I have DJ'd at the Leeds Carling festival, OMSK and Cherrybomb at 333 Old St, the Hershe Bar in Farringdon, Backspace in Southwark, The Vibe Bar in Shoreditch, 'Lost the Plot' at Reading S.U., and Norwich art college. This autumn I will also be DJing at the ICA and MOMI. For further details check out my website, http://web.ukonline.co.uk/crimson/missinthemix.htm which includes my DJ page http://web.ukonline.co.uk/crimson/blimey.html
DJ OMSK Our resident DJ is also our sound coordinator and engineer. DJ OMSK offers an uncanny array of unexpected thin black circular plastic in revolution. DJ OMSK can be found hiding behind the decks laying down small but intriguing sets of electronic based music. The music aired is designed to form interlinking sections between the main pieces of the show. OMSK2OMSK will see DJ OMSK working with Louise Stevens on small audio / visual collaborations throughout the evening with a specific focus on the region of OMSK and Siberia.
Jo and Venus Cripps - Teeshirt Piece This is a durational text piece (which will be translated into local Russian) I will advertise certain aspects of myself, it will last about 30 mins. I am currently being taught how to spin like a dancer - the special thing they do with their head - so that I can be a female FISH CHIPS FISH CHIPS FISH CHIPS spinning sign. The text will be on the front and back of many tee shirts, I will take the top tee shirt off to reveal the next one, etc. I am hoping to get quite good at spinning, but I will not be very good, and as I move my arms to try and find the edge of the tee shirt, and pull it over my head, I will wobble and loose momentum, and become aware of how dizzy I am, and it will take me a while to get my rythm back. I would like to propose an email or real mail communication with a translator before the event, to work on a few set pieces playing on the already playful OMSK in OMSK - simple, visual word games. I will be trying this Teeshirt piece out at the November OMSK.
Steven Eastwood - Feud (bartering durationally) FEUD incorporates the placement of disruptive and volatile incidents and asks: what is it to be impolite, to barricade, to be socially unreasonable, to have bad taste? Feud - A chaotic, antagonsitic, reactive microcosm, part performance, part crowd, incorporating live video, sound and performance. Steven will also be performing his regular OMSK piece: Portraits of the backs of people1s heads.
Max Factory - IS THIS WHAT YOU DO HERE? a performance installation by the max factory. Two tourists are held some kind of hostage in a small room somewhere in Siberia. The room is full of shell suits. Shockingly popular items of clothing orienting the lost travellers as British. Trapped in this room the max factory will swap shell suits for visions of Sibera, brought to them by their Siberian visitors. AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL, ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY. so it is something about exchange, communicating social behavior,politics,beliefs, customs,information,direction. The max factory have a suitcase full of preconceptions and bad translations of Russian, and of what they think Russia is like: food, costumes, hair styles-, examples of russian poetry ... i Went through a forest, i've seen a demon the demon was cooking a soup: hanged a pot on his penis smoke was pouring from his ass! The visitors to the room give information, we make maps, collect stories, eat and drink, exchange ideas and spend time. a durational work taking place throughout the evening. we would need a little room of our owny.
Louise Stevens - Siberia: THE ICE MAIDEN A digital video interpretaion of The Ice Maiden by collating and mixing images of a/the maiden buried and preserved in reality and in dreams. This dramatic and beautiful set will collaborate with and enhance the music elements of the night. The research into Omsk and Siberia will be based around the naturalresorces of this spectacular country by downloading images of maps, landscapes and by using text taken from other sources from the internet -all of which will be mixed live to the music. A video projector, vhs player and mixer would be needed for this purpose. Louise Stevens is an award winning independent video artist whose dynamic approach makes for innovative and freestanding work.
Grace Surman - A SURVIVAL DANCE Duration 30mins. Performed twice during the event. Space: Four foot square, above audience level This is a strictly structural performance. It is made up of a series of quick small movements which keep a continual flow over 30mins. It has the feeling that your watching a loop, with no visible end, objects come and go, near identical movements appear, but you can1t grasp onto anything for too long. This is a dance which comes from ( a trying ) to adjust/make sense of our environment. With the spirit of folk dance, I use made up folk steps, movement I've observed, personal movement habits and things I see whilst performing in the club. It is a mortal podium dance for real mortals. The making of this dance required a looking in to the body and an acceptance and enthusiasm for the many fluctuating selves that come and go. I choreographed from my body rhythms and articulations. You can read my defects, living speaking dreaming thinking, all my Is playing themselves at once, playing in between me and me. Helene Cixous said: I scrutinise the movements of the soul from close up, I observe the passions at the moment they manifest themselves, such as they express themselves, translate themselves, first of all in our bodies. During the movement pattern, I access objects from my rucksack which become extensions of the material. This incorporates changes of image using costume and props whilst having a strong performance focus which isn't interrupted by these developments . In OMSK there is a children's folk dancegroup called Sibirochka, who I've only seen in a photograph. They wear blue dresses and white head dresses, which have a halo-like feel to them. For the performance in Omsk I would try and borrow or find one of these head dresses to add to my rucksack of objects I am interested in showing this work in Siberia, as the idea of fundamental universality is an issue to me, whether it can be at all possible, and>whether the more personal the work is the more available it is to others. >So>taking my work to such a different culture might bring up more questions around this subject. A Survival Dance is my visceral body language.
Programme of video performance and underground shorts Steven Eastwood of OMSK will programme a number of artists' or underground film and video shorts, most with a performative slant (featuring: Andrew Kotting, Ursula Martinez, Annis Joslin, Andrew Coram, Arthur Lager, Jo Cripps, Steven Eastwood, Louise Camrass, Louise Stevens and Greg Pope, Alison Murray...) Each artist and crew member would require a fee for presentation or work on the night (no fee to amke work as all work is already made).
OMSK would need several video and slide projectors, several PAs, lights, microphones, leads and cables. OMSK would supply video cameras and take responsibility for documentation.