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International Festival of Live Performance and Time Based Media

SKINT
5 -25 OCTOBER, KINGSTON UPON HULL.
HOT WEEKEND 11TH - 14TH OCTOBER 1996.


For this year's ROOT festival aptly named SKINT Hull Time Based Arts and
the Ferens have challenged artists to take a look at money, poverty, wealth
and power. SKINT  takes risks with the majority of the work being new
commissions and the unusual public siting of much of the work.  This
combined with SKINT's  commitment to tackling big issues and involving
local people in the working processes gives SKINT  a subversive edge which
raises series questions about the role of the artist in society and
reflects the increasingly ephemeral nature of much contemporary art as it
moves towards more process based work and becomes increasingly difficult to
commodify.


Money is a National obsession: from the National Lottery to European single
currency. SKINT asks as we head towards the millennium, do we live in a
society obsessed with cash or has a new generation emerged recognising
things as spiritually, ethically and materially bankrupt?


With A BROAD VISION SKINT moves between 'performance povera', works which
utilise ' that which is available' as in Trebor Sholz's provocative placing
of the naked body in commercial areas of the city, through to the welcome
return of Louise K Wilson to the UK with her interactive / electronic
installation  Terra Firma which continues her exploration of transformative
abilities of technology and the signing over of one's body for medical
experimentation.   Anna Heinrich and Leon Palmer present Float , a large
scale outdoor projection event, deconstructing power façades and exploring
new technology.


The media programme includes  No Pain No Gain: commissioned performance for
camera, as well as a  No Budget Low Budget  programme and Kathy Rae
Huffman's seminar and video programme  Cyber Intimacy. Kaffe Matthews and
Mandy McIntosh explore the cultural value of age in a performance
installation with elderly residents at the stately home Sewerby hall. Alan
Mclean and Tony Mustoe play with the notion of sovereignty in Endland from
the perspective of those disabled by a society which calls them names.
Counter Marketing returns with the leitmotif 'Be Realistic, Market The
Impossible' and Spin Doctoring service for maverick MPs.


Building upon ROOT's awareness of its locality Chumpon Apisuk from Thailand
will work with local people living with AIDS to create an installation
performance that reflects the economic relationship between East and West
and deals with our own fear. David Mach's Loaded  explores the wealth of
the Ferens collection and will explode 12 tonnes of newspaper from the
permanent collection to examine the collision of the contemporary and the
traditional. Jason E Bowman continues with his ongoing Live Art research/
residency into issues of wealth, poverty, political power and ownership. As
a result of the residency he will also deliver a lecture previously
delivered by John F. Kennedy as part of his untitled (deliverance)
performance.


PLUS: The Forum - Post Modern Economics, Art and Marketing;   Heath
Bunting's  Inernet Beggar, Cornelius Burkert's  Instantaneistic Sculpture;
Max Factory's  The Immortals; Sonja van Kerkhoff  Change is a Law of
Nature; Jan Wade's  (tbc) Jazz Slave Ships; Karen Elliot's An Artist In Her
Own Right; Zoe Stevenson and Kao Kanamori's Intermission (Hull Screen
Programme); Jan Verbeek's What You Get Is What You See,  new video work by
Gillian Dyson, Stephanie Smith & Ed Stewart, Anne Whitehurst, John Wood &
Paul Harrison and SKINT Party at the ROOM.


Can you afford to miss SKINT?


FOR HOT INFORMATION CONTACT MARK WADDELL
t       0141 357 3673
f       0141 337 1369
Email   101713.126@cmpuserve.com

ROOT
International Festival of New Live and New Technology Arts.
Hull 11-14th October 96.

Hull Time Based Arts is one of Europe's leading commissioners of live and
new technology arts, supporting the development of innovative new work
through it's Avidlab digital imaging suite, technical and administrative
assistance, exhibition  and touring programme.

Please contact HTBA for details of Avid training courses and forthcoming
programme, including ROOT 96: International Festival of Live and New Media
Art, October 96.

Hull Time Based Arts * 8 Posterngate * Kingston Upon Hull * HU1 2JN * UK

t: 01482 216 446
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