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This live blog is by @andytfield and @hannahnicklin, as part of State of the Arts 2012. Find out more on the 'about' page.
This live blog is by @andytfield and @hannahnicklin, as part of State of the Arts 2012. Find out more on the 'about' page.
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Who’s Who?
Vanessa Bartlett is an art writer, academic and producer across Visual Art, Performance and New Media. Her writing has featured in The Guardian and she has delivered talks and lectures at Tate Liverpool, Belgrade Museum of Applied Arts and The Slovenian Society for Aesthetics in Ljubljana. She is currently an MRes candidate at The London Consortium and an Assessor for ACE. Vanessa recently programmed work at the Bluecoat. She also worked as a researcher and producer for New Media festivals FutureEverything and Abandon Normal Devices. She has curated a number of independent exhibitions, including Slowness at Red Wire Gallery, which was highlighted by Times critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston as one of her top five exhibitions 2008. @VanessaBartlett www.vanessabartlett.com
Honour Bayes is a freelance writer who has been published in The Guardian Arts Blog, The Stage, Time Out, Total Theatre, FEST Magazine and the Church Times. She was Theatre Editor of Fourthwall and is currently exploring what it means to be Editor-At-Large at Exeunt Magazine, she hopes it will include Fashion and Fine Art write-ups and is fascinated in how you document live art. For Devoted & Disgruntled 2011 she was a member of the live tweeting team, a Total Theatre Awards assessor at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in December live tweeted at the What’s On Stage Award Nominations. She twitters regularly on @honourbayes and blogs at http://theatreworkbook.wordpress.com/
Daniel Bye is a theatre-maker from the North East of England. He has written and directed work for companies including: Red Ladder, Pilot Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse. His current touring show, The Price of Everything, a performance lecture on the subject of value, can be seen at venues across the UK this year. His next show, Ash, will premiere in the North East in September before touring next year. He is also currently working on a drama for social media, for Pilot Theatre. He teaches theatre at the University of Bedfordshire.
Rachel Kaye works for the Arts provision at the University of Bradford providing Theatre in the Mill, Gallery II and TLMC marketing and communications support. She’s a long term zine writer and supporter of grassroots DIY/queer/grrrl cultural, artistic and activist communities. She co-curated the exhibition Colouring Outside the Lines featuring British female artists working beyond the bounds of the cultural, or artistic mainstream. In 2010 she turned her zine Footsteps in the Dark into a blog where she writes about gender, sex, class, politics, mental health, art and generally gets herself into all kinds of trouble.
Laura McDermott has been Joint Artistic Director of Fierce Festival with Harun Morrison since Autumn 2009. Fierce is an international festival of live art, performance and public intervention, which takes place in arts spaces and found spaces across Birmingham annually. Previously Laura worked as a creative producer at BAC (where she was the lead producer for the BAC and Punchdrunk co-production The Masque of the Red Death) and Greenwich + Docklands International Festivals. Laura has also worked as a creative programmer and project manager at music festivals, including Glastonbury and the Lake of Stars festival in Malawi. Laura is a participant in the British Council’s 2011 Cultural Leadership International programme.
James Smith is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of www.thisistomorrow.info an online contemporary art magazine that specialises in documenting, reviewing and disseminating a wide range of contemporary art, performance and other artistic activities. It was established in 2009 and works with numerous international writers and art institutions to explore the ecology of the arts as well as providing access for those unable to visit the shows in person. Previously to this James worked at Whitechapel Gallery as the music, film and poetry programmer as well as a producer on Artangel’s Roger Hiorns’ project, SEIZURE.
Jake Orr is a Freelance Digital Native, Editor, Blogger and Marketer. In 2009 he set up AYoungerTheatre.com, dedicated to young people having a voice within the arts. AYT has over 70 young writers under 26, is part of The Guardian Culture Professionals Network, and was named About.com’s best Theater Blog of 2011. Jake regularly comments on social media and is currently investigation documenting rehearsal processes of theatre making in Oval House’s If Only season. Jake has previously live blogged Edgelands, Old Vic New Voice’s 24 Hour Plays and later this year at the Royal Opera House. Jake tweets: @jakeyoh & @ayoungertheatre // www.ayoungertheatre.com
Megan Vaughan: After three years in administration at a commercial theatre, and countless hours of volunteer work in Manchester’s grassroots music scene, Megan Vaughan returned to university in 2009 in order to secure a glamorous and highly-lucrative career as a producer for the subsidised arts sector. Now 28 and still in education, she is about to leave a part-time job with an arts company staring down the barrel of life without regular ACE funding. She blogs her entirely subjective arts reviews a Synonyms For Churlish, embracing immediate gut instinct over any careful aesthetic consideration. She is an optimist.
Daniel B Yates is the founding editor of Exeuntmagazine.com, a theatre and performance website dedicated to the art of digital criticism, “fast becoming one of the best online portals for theatre because it takes its subject seriously” The Guardian. Former editor of Clare Market Review at the LSE, he specialises in politics, sport, and the sociology of culture. He tweets full-blooded reflections and semi-skinned froth at @danielbyates.
Curators and ‘hub’ bloggers:
Andy Field is Co-Director of Forest Fringe, an artist-led organisation making space for risk and experimentation at the Edinburgh Festival and beyond. Forest Fringe’s innovative community-led approach to supporting and collaborating with artists has allowed it to become a home to some of the country’s most exciting and radical new performance work. Andy is also an artist in his own right; his unusual interactive encounters have been seen at the Battersea Arts Centre, the Southbank Centre and the ICA amongst others. He writes regularly for the Guardian’s theatre blog and has a regular column on experimental theatre in The Stage. @andytfield lookingforastronauts.wordpress.com
Hannah Nicklin is a theatre maker, activist, blogger and academic based in the East Midlands. Following the Playwriting masters at the University of Birmingham, and writing with the Royal Court, Box of Tricks and Scary Little Girls, she has made pervasive theatre and games with Hazard Festival Manchester, Pilot Theatre, Take Over Festival, MADE Birmingham, and Illuminating York. She works with companies like Unlimited, Hoipolloi, Third Angel and Action Hero on digital tech in their daily/project-based practice, and speaks regularly at tech/arts events about the arts and digital technology. She also runs Performance in the Pub, a regular night of ‘DIY performance for non-theatre people’ in Leicester. @hannahnicklin Hannahnicklin.com
Live bloggers:
Vanessa Bartlett is an art writer, academic and producer across Visual Art, Performance and New Media. Her writing has featured in The Guardian and she has delivered talks and lectures at Tate Liverpool, Belgrade Museum of Applied Arts and The Slovenian Society for Aesthetics in Ljubljana. She is currently an MRes candidate at The London Consortium and an Assessor for ACE. Vanessa recently programmed work at the Bluecoat. She also worked as a researcher and producer for New Media festivals FutureEverything and Abandon Normal Devices. She has curated a number of independent exhibitions, including Slowness at Red Wire Gallery, which was highlighted by Times critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston as one of her top five exhibitions 2008. @VanessaBartlett www.vanessabartlett.comHonour Bayes is a freelance writer who has been published in The Guardian Arts Blog, The Stage, Time Out, Total Theatre, FEST Magazine and the Church Times. She was Theatre Editor of Fourthwall and is currently exploring what it means to be Editor-At-Large at Exeunt Magazine, she hopes it will include Fashion and Fine Art write-ups and is fascinated in how you document live art. For Devoted & Disgruntled 2011 she was a member of the live tweeting team, a Total Theatre Awards assessor at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in December live tweeted at the What’s On Stage Award Nominations. She twitters regularly on @honourbayes and blogs at http://theatreworkbook.wordpress.com/Daniel Bye is a theatre-maker from the North East of England. He has written and directed work for companies including: Red Ladder, Pilot Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse. His current touring show, The Price of Everything, a performance lecture on the subject of value, can be seen at venues across the UK this year. His next show, Ash, will premiere in the North East in September before touring next year. He is also currently working on a drama for social media, for Pilot Theatre. He teaches theatre at the University of Bedfordshire.Rachel Kaye works for the Arts provision at the University of Bradford providing Theatre in the Mill, Gallery II and TLMC marketing and communications support. She’s a long term zine writer and supporter of grassroots DIY/queer/grrrl cultural, artistic and activist communities. She co-curated the exhibition Colouring Outside the Lines featuring British female artists working beyond the bounds of the cultural, or artistic mainstream. In 2010 she turned her zine Footsteps in the Dark into a blog where she writes about gender, sex, class, politics, mental health, art and generally gets herself into all kinds of trouble.Laura McDermott has been Joint Artistic Director of Fierce Festival with Harun Morrison since Autumn 2009. Fierce is an international festival of live art, performance and public intervention, which takes place in arts spaces and found spaces across Birmingham annually. Previously Laura worked as a creative producer at BAC (where she was the lead producer for the BAC and Punchdrunk co-production The Masque of the Red Death) and Greenwich + Docklands International Festivals. Laura has also worked as a creative programmer and project manager at music festivals, including Glastonbury and the Lake of Stars festival in Malawi. Laura is a participant in the British Council’s 2011 Cultural Leadership International programme. James Smith is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of www.thisistomorrow.info an online contemporary art magazine that specialises in documenting, reviewing and disseminating a wide range of contemporary art, performance and other artistic activities. It was established in 2009 and works with numerous international writers and art institutions to explore the ecology of the arts as well as providing access for those unable to visit the shows in person. Previously to this James worked at Whitechapel Gallery as the music, film and poetry programmer as well as a producer on Artangel’s Roger Hiorns’ project, SEIZURE.Jake Orr is a Freelance Digital Native, Editor, Blogger and Marketer. In 2009 he set up AYoungerTheatre.com, dedicated to young people having a voice within the arts. AYT has over 70 young writers under 26, is part of The Guardian Culture Professionals Network, and was named About.com’s best Theater Blog of 2011. Jake regularly comments on social media and is currently investigation documenting rehearsal processes of theatre making in Oval House’s If Only season. Jake has previously live blogged Edgelands, Old Vic New Voice’s 24 Hour Plays and later this year at the Royal Opera House. Jake tweets: @jakeyoh & @ayoungertheatre // www.ayoungertheatre.comMegan Vaughan: After three years in administration at a commercial theatre, and countless hours of volunteer work in Manchester’s grassroots music scene, Megan Vaughan returned to university in 2009 in order to secure a glamorous and highly-lucrative career as a producer for the subsidised arts sector. Now 28 and still in education, she is about to leave a part-time job with an arts company staring down the barrel of life without regular ACE funding. She blogs her entirely subjective arts reviews a Synonyms For Churlish, embracing immediate gut instinct over any careful aesthetic consideration. She is an optimist.Daniel B Yates is the founding editor of Exeuntmagazine.com, a theatre and performance website dedicated to the art of digital criticism, “fast becoming one of the best online portals for theatre because it takes its subject seriously” The Guardian. Former editor of Clare Market Review at the LSE, he specialises in politics, sport, and the sociology of culture. He tweets full-blooded reflections and semi-skinned froth at @danielbyates. Navigate main posts by tag: #changing society #imagination #creative economy #shaping communities #international perspectives #young people #great art for everyone #fundraising #future environment
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