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29/8/2012

Unlimited Festival

Southbank Centre, London

In celebration of the London 2012 Paralympic Games and part of the London 2012 Festival, Southbank Centre will celebrate the talent and imagination of Deaf and disabled artists from 30 August – 9 September. Bringing together all 29 Unlimited commissions, Unlimited: the Revelation starts here will be an opportunity to discover groundbreaking new works spanning diverse artforms, including dance and performance, visual arts, comedy, circus, music and theatre. The 11-day celebration is the finale of Southbank Centre’s summer-long Festival of the World, which presents projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of art to transform lives.

Unlimited: the Revelation starts here is part of the London 2012 Festival, the spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration running from 21 June until 9 September 2012 bringing together the very best artists from the UK with leading artists from across the world. The Unlimited programme is principally funded by the National Lottery through the Olympic Lottery Distributor, and is delivered in partnership between London 2012, Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Wales, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the British Council.

Visual Arts

BOBBY BAKER: DIARY DRAWINGS – MENTAL ILLNESS & ME
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
To coincide with Bobby Bakers performance Mad Gyms and Kitchens, her acclaimed exhibition Diary Drawings – Mental Illness and Me, first shown at the Welcome Collection in London in 2009 will be on show at the Royal Festival Hall. The accompanying book of the same name recently won the Mind Book of the Year Award 2011.

LEAVING LIMBO LANDING EXHIBITION
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
Caroline Bowditch (Artistic Director), Carl Cordonnier/Daily Life (Photographer) and Danbeats (Sound Artist). A photographic and sound installation exploring our choices to leave or to stay.

CHRIS TALLY EVANS: TURNING POINTS
Southbank Centre’s Festival Village
Six stories told by a visually impaired dancer, a young boy, a go-getting career woman, an Olympic runner, a Hollywood star and the artist himself are spoken with one voice and woven together in a film to enchant and inspire. As part of the project more than 100 stories were collected from people across Britain and beyond. Chris Tally Evans has worked with people as diverse as local Welsh school children, disabled artists putting on their first professional exhibition, celebrities and athletes. The journey has often been viral with one storyteller leading to the next. The Turning Points project has benefited from the partnership and support given to it by Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

DIVERSE CITY: BREATHE
Southbank Centre’s Festival Village
The film Breathe charts the breath-taking outdoor performance of circus and dance created by three British disabled artists where people who cannot walk fly, wheelchairs become trapped in bubbles and all soar high above Weymouth. Created by three leading British disabled artists Jamie Beddard, Dave Toole and Alex Bulmer, the project was performed by an outstanding and inspirational cast of 64 disabled and non disabled performers from Dorset (The Remix and Double Act) and Brazil (APAE).The performance picks up the Battle for the Winds story, a three day theatrical event that marks the opening celebrations of the Olympic and Paralympic Sailing and Windsurfing events in Weymouth and Portland. An Unlimited commission initiated and produced by Diverse City www.diversecitylondon.org for the Maritime Mix 2012 Cultural Olympiad by the Sea. Film produced by Colourburn.

DEAN RODNEY SINGERS: HEART N SOUL
Level 4 Bar Blue side at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
Discover the world of the Dean Rodney Singers with their innovative audio-visual installation featuring music, dance and video created by a global online band. Masterminded by Dean Rodney, a 22-year-old artist, rapper and musician from funk/punk group The Fish Police, this fantasy world comes to life with the help of 72 disabled and non-disabled musicians, singers and dancers from seven countries across the world. Working together online, the global band has created 23 new songs. Visitors to the installation can explore music videos and dance moves created by the band or get involved and make their own. The project is produced by leading creative producing company Heart n Soul.

HELEN PETTS: THROW THEM UP AND LET THEM SING
White Room at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
Artist filmmaker Helen Petts explores the later years of Kurt Schwitters' life and work through landscape, collage, sound and walking – following the German artist's journey to Ambleside in the Lake District via a remote island in Norway, escaping Nazi persecution because of his 'degenerate' art and his epilepsy. In the spirit of Schwitters’ sound poetry, the film features leading experimental musicians Sylvia Hallett, Adam Bohman, Roger Turner and Phil Minton improvising with found objects and vocal sounds, creating a dialogue of surround sound and image. Petts’ work often involves walking in remote locations, establishing a relationship between the landscape and her own body and its limitations. Her film explores rhythms, textures and surfaces in the landscape and the music, referencing Schwitters' work from this period and archive photographs. The installation’s title refers to Schwitters’ description of how he worked with his collage materials.

JOEL SIMON: MACROPOLIS
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
Joel Simon's Macropolis is a short animated film in which a group of soft toys rebel and escape from a factory to seek a new life among humans in the great outdoors. A mixture between street performance and stop-motion animation, the film uses real-world locations as backdrops for the toys' adventures. The toys' experiences pass by very quickly, causing them to behave like humans, expressing fear, anger and bemusement at their newly found world. A selection of models will also be on display to accompany the film.

MAURICE ORR: THE SCREAMING SILENCE OF THE WIND
Southbank Centre’s Festival Village
Artist Maurice Orr’s The Screaming Silence of the Wind comprises five multi-sensory large-scale paintings on canvas inspired by the barren, raw landscapes of Northern Ireland and Iceland. The work offers a unique experience for all audiences through sound, touch and sight. ‘Through sound, paint and natural materials such as fish leather, I have created pieces which aim to evoke a holistic feeling of place,’ says Orr. ‘Visitors to the exhibition are encouraged to touch the surfaces, look at the landscapes and listen to the sounds that inspired me to make each of the pieces.’ Northern Irish artist Maurice Orr studied at Belfast College of Art and Design and worked as a graphic artist for the Northern Ireland Civil Service before turning to oil painting. His work offers audiences direct contact with the visual arts and, in particular, provides visually impaired visitors a unique and inspiring arts experience.

M21: DASH ARTS
Southbank Centre’s Festival Village
The film M21 – The Medieval to the 21st Century documents the live art event which took place in Much Wenlock, Shropshire in May 2012. The Olympic connection has already drawn a national focus onto Much Wenlock, given its significant contribution to the rebirth of the modern Olympics through the ‘Wenlock Games’. This project documents how disabled artists explore what it means to be alive in the 21st century. 'Much Wenlock is a stunning medieval "black and white" English town. We are a bit off the beaten track, but seriously worth a visit.' This is how the town is described to visitors on its website, but what is the hidden history and life of this place? M21 explores the paradox of the ‘pretty pretty’ face of limestone cottages, the living history and the reality of rural living through a disability aesthetic. DASH is based in Shropshire and Mike Layward (DASH’s Artistic Director) has lived in Much Wenlock for 11 years.

PAUL CUMMINS – THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN
Sundeck at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall
The English Flower Garden is a series of installations with a total of 15,000 individually hand-thrown ceramic blooms mounted on metal rods. It is a celebration of the quintessential British love of flowers. At the Southbank Centre a selection of Cummins' blooms are displayed on the Queen Elizabeth Hall Sundeck – an open and accessible way of viewing contemporary ceramic art. Paul Cummins is a Midlands-based ceramic fine artist with a fast-developing reputation. He is known for his distinctive landscape installations and his work features exuberant flower glazes and the signature flower heads and vessels are reminiscent of ceramics from the Mediterranean.

RACHEL GADSDEN: UNLIMITED GLOBAL ALCHEMY
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
A body of drawings, paintings and sketchbooks by Rachel Gadsden (UK) and the Bambanani artist – activist Group from Khayelitsha Township, South Africa. Fuelled by the politics and myths surrounding chronic health issues – in particular HIV/AIDS – this body of work offers perspectives on what it means to experience disabling conditions and to fight openly for life in the face of social taboos. The exhibition also features seven short films, featuring Gadsden and the Bambanani artist-activist Group, which were shot on location in Khayelitsha Township and Cape Town. Made with filmmakers Cliff Bestall and Deborah May, each portrait offers a glimpse of the world as seen through its subject’s eyes; at turns joyful, resolute, defiant, heartfelt and poetic. Viewed together, the series presents multiple reflections on the political and personal currents explored throughout Unlimited Global Alchemy. All films are fully subtitled in English.

SIMON MCKEOWN – MOTION DISABLED: UNLIMITED
Outside Location
Motion Disabled: Unlimited allows the viewer to watch and study the physicality and movement of the modern day disabled athlete, the Paralympian. Imagine taking the time to look at the motion of those who move differently. What if you were invited to find the beautiful, the exotic and the normal in their movements and physical forms? Simon Mckeown, who was named DaDaFest International Artist of the Year in 2010, takes his artistic vision large-scale with Motion Disabled: Unlimited. Using new technology, 3D software has been used to record Paralympic body shapes and actions to create a large inflatable sculpture of a disabled athlete. Placed in cities and events across 2012, the inflatable sculpture comes to Southbank Centre for the Unlimited festival.

SINEAD O'DONNELL – CAUTION
Level 3 Function Room, at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall & Southbank Centre’s Festival Village
Caution brings together six artists from around the world for a series of solo and collaborative performances, video works, and installations that reveal the borders of identity. Led by Belfast-based artist Sinéad O’Donnell, Caution artists Sylvette Babin, Mariel Carranza, Paul Couillard, Poshya Kakl and Shiro Masuyama interrogate what it means to have an ‘invisible’ disability. During 2011, O’Donnell visited each artist and worked with them to produce material that explored their national identity and personal politics. The process was cumulative and each artist built upon ideas generated by previous encounters and journeys. The resulting work seeks to uncover and expose the invisible layers of identity that are shaped by the cultural codes and eco-systems we share. To coincide with their live performances Caution show a series of films with the artists working with and against the edges of their experience, expectations and abilities.

SUE AUSTIN – CREATING THE SPECTACLE
The Clore Ballroom at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
The surprising and unexpected film by artist Susan Austin documents her performances in the self- propelled underwater wheelchair which leaves traces of its joy and freedom as it flies along mid-water with its human occupant.Shown on the Clore Ballroom this film transforms your perception of the wheelchair as you too become part of the artwork. Sue Austin’s performances aim to generate a widespread public debate about the nature and value of contemporary arts practice shaped by the experience of disability. Freewheeling is an emerging disability-led initiative dedicated to promoting the concept of disability arts as something of unique society – the 'hidden secret'.

GUIDED TOURS OF THE UNLIMITED VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION
Sat 1 & Sun 2 September - 11am & 4.30pm, Sat 8 & Sunday 9 September - 11 am & 4.30pm, free but ticketed
SHAPE has collaborated with Southbank Centre on the planning of the Unlimited visual arts exhibition. Join them for an accessible guided tour of the exhibition across the Southbank Centre site. Hear the stories behind the 14 artworks created by some of the UK’s leading disabled artists. From a ceramic Flower Garden on the Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof Terrace to a multimedia installation at the Royal Festival Hall, learn about what inspired the artists and how they developed their work. Duration: 45 minutes, followed by a short programme of films at the Festival Village cinema. Tours begin at the Royal Festival Hall Box Office

For more information, press images and review tickets please contact
Helena Zedig helena.zedig@southbankcentre.co.uk / 020 7921 0847
Katie Toms katie.toms@southbankcentre.co.uk / 020 7921 0926

The complete programme is on the web-site.

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