simon whitehead / barnaby oliver
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| Introduction | In January 2008 Movement artist Simon Whitehead and Sound artist Barnaby Oliver began a year- long dialogue of performance and materials through the web, as a means of mapping their local rivers; the river Cych, west Wales and river Maribyrnong, Melbourne, Australia. Although a few thousand miles apart they shared the intention to meet each week and approach their rivers as an unbroken body of water through which they would correspond. This unedited material was shared with the public through their website and podcast. PINGS 08 was supported by an Artsadmin Bursary. Two Live events marked the end of this phase of the project and were presented at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, and at Toynbee Halls, East London in January 2009. Simon Whitehead and Barnaby Oliver were introduced at a forum to promote artistic exchange, initiated by the South Bank Centre, London. In spring 1996 they began research into their first work big muff, and they have since developed their collaborative relationship through a body of performance works that incorporate an attitude to making that is bound by underlying notions of deep ecology and is influenced by their relative geographical distance. |
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