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15/7/2002

Bread!

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

BALTIC MOON
Tuesday 16 July
A day of renga (11.00-13.00, 14.00-17.00) and an evening haiku performance (19.00)
Level 1 studio
Free

OPENS 13.07.02
The major new international centre for contemporary art, situated on the South bank of the river Tyne, Gateshead, England.

BREAD!
A number of live art events on the theme of 'BREAD!' are taking place during BALTIC's opening week. These events, involving the artists Tatsumi Orimoto, Anne Bjerge Hansen and others, will re-introduce the smell of fresh bread to the BALTIC building, where, in its former incarnation as a flour mill, test-baking was carried out each morning.

Tatsumi Orimoto
Breadman and Art Mama
Saturday 13 July
Newcastle Town Centre - Gateshead Quayside

Japanese artist Tatsumi Orimoto (born 1946, Kawasaki) will lead two of his famous Breadman processions to BALTIC on the afternoon of Saturday 13 July.

Based in Japan, Orimoto has travelled all over the world as Breadman, turning up unexpectedly in busy public places - a restaurant in Moscow, a tea-shack in Tibet, Oxford Street in London - his face covered with round loaves and baguettes, often accompanied by an entourage of fellow Breadmen. Orimoto has been making live art events in public settings since the early 1970s in New York, when he joined the avant garde group, Fluxus. Breadman, which he has been performing for a number of years, is the latest in what he calls his "Communication Art Events": performances that take place in the street or other public locations in which the artist uses his own body to express himself. The responses he meets from the local community, ranging from curiosity and amusement to hostility, say something about the cultures of the many places visited by the artist as Breadman.

Anne Bjerge Hansen
The Moving Bakery
Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 July
The Moving Bakery is a two-day bread-making performance in BALTIC Square by artist Anne Bjerge Hansen. Beginning in the early morning, when bakers traditionally start work, the event will culminate each afternoon when people will be invited to receive a bag of freshly baked bread.

The Moving Bakery uses the essential substance of bread as a metaphor to raise questions about the production and value of works of art - between every day labour and art production.

Labanotation and Football Haiku
Saturday 13 July, 13.30 and 17.30
Dance and performance
Live Art Space on Level 1
Ken Cockburn, Alec Finlay, Andy Howitt, Kathi Palitz, John Spence Community High School
Free

poetrycircus
Monday 15 July
Day of poetry and song
Level 1 studio
Brian Catling, Alec Finlay, David Hopkins, Clive Powell, Mrs Pilgrim and Bill Griffiths
Free

BALTIC MOON
Tuesday 16 July
A day of renga (11.00-13.00, 14.00-17.00) and an evening haiku performance (19.00)
Level 1 studio
Free

TV swansong
Saturday 27 - Sunday 28 July
TV swansong was a cross-media art project that commissioned 8 new works, which reflected on the current state of flux in television with idiosyncratic responses to its past, present and future. The project focused around a one-day live webcast on 20/03/02.
A symposium about TV swansong will take place at BALTIC on 27 and 28 July 2002. The symposium aims to debate many aspects of the projects looking at both the individual commissions and broader issues such as the successes and failures of the actual webcast and the development of the project as a model for artist led initiatives.
You can participate in this event on the web via the on-line discussion group, or by watching the webcast.
TV swansong artists are Jordan Baseman, Graham Fagen, Rory Hamilton and Jon Rogers, Chris Helso, Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie, Giorgio Sadotti, Jessica Voorsanger, Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich.

12.30 Launch of TVSS book

BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art
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Gateshead NE8 3BA
England
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