Kill Your Timid Notion 10

[barry esson]

KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION
Sunday 21 – Sunday 28 February
Dundee Contemporary Arts
A festival of open-ended proposals for image, sound and dialogue.
http://www.arika.org.uk

Marc Baron, Loïc Blairon, Morgan Fisher, Jarrod Fowler, Emma Hedditch, Anthony Iles, Mattin, Christof Migone, Resonance Radio Orchestra, Howard Slater, Smith / Stewart, Ultra-red, Taku Unami and You.

"One thing my films tend to do is examine a property or quality of a film in a radical way. Being radical is a modest form of being extreme. They each examine an axiom of cinema and say, ‘What if?’" Morgan Fisher

We have little to no idea as to how KYTN will go this year, and that’s deliberate. We don’t want to know, we want to find out. Instead of knowing in advance what is going to happen, we want to ask people (artists, you, ourselves…) to make some simple proposals that we can then all investigate and see what we can produce, together. We humbly submit KYTN as an attempt to (or a have a stab at it at least): strip back music & sound, film & moving image to their core, think about how they might be refocused and used to say something about the world we live in now, test afresh and for ourselves the implications of the radical concepts these art forms are built upon. How well it goes will be up to you as much as it is up to us. So we’d like you to be involved.

For the full scoop on what to expect from these films, events and performances go to http://www.arika.org.uk


Wednesday 3 February
KYTN Reading Group - 19:30 - 22:00

Wednesday 10 February
KYTN Reading Group - 19:30 - 22:00

Wednesday 17 February
KYTN Reading Group - 19:30 - 22:00

Friday 19 February
Exhibition: DROMOS Preview and Performances at Generator Projects - 19:00 - 21:00

Sunday 21 February
Performance: Festival Launch - 16:00 - 18:00
A taster of things to get involved in through the week
Film: Hotel Diaries 1-8, John Smith - 19:00 - 21:00
Political yet very funny, seemingly intimate but in fact expansive in their outlook

Monday 22 February
Investigation Space Open - 10:00 - 21:30
A space for documentation and discussion
Investigation Group 1: Christof Migone - 10:00 - 17:00
Explore bodies, space, time and music around Dundee
Investigation Group 2: Jarrod Fowler - 10:00 - 17:00
Investigating rhythm as a tool for understanding everyday life
Investigation: John Mullarkey : 1st Talk - 11:00 - 12:30
Clear-thinking insights to straighten out the kinks
Film: Urban Peasants, Ken Jacobs - 19:00 - 20:00
Re-present handed down home movies
Investigation Group 3: Marc Baron, Loic Blairon, Taku Unami - 19:00 - 21:30
Explore tensions between improvisation, recording and doing nothing

Tuesday 23 February
Investigation Space Open - 10:00 - 21:30
A space for documentation and discussion
Investigation Group 4: Marc Baron, Loic Blairon, Taku Unami - 10:00 - 17:00
Explore tensions between improvisation, recording and doing nothing
Investigation Group 5: Jarrod Fowler - 10:00 - 17:00
Investigating rhythm as a tool for understanding everyday life
Investigation: John Mullarkey: 2nd Talk - 11:00 - 12:30
Clear-thinking insights to straighten out the kinks
Film: So Is This, Michael Snow - 19:00 - 20:00
Cinema reduced to the basic units of film and language
Investigation Group 6: Christof Migone - 19:00 - 21:30
Explore bodies, space, time and music around Dundee

Wednesday 24 February
Investigation Space Open - 10:00 - 21:30
A space for documentation and discussion
Investigation Group 7: Christof Migone - 10:00 - 17:00
Explore bodies, space, time and music around Dundee
Investigation Group 8: Unstable, Fragile but Daring Together - 10:00 - 17:00
A bold, collective space, focusing on performance strategies
Investigation Group 9: Marc Baron, Loic Blairon, Taku Unami - 10:00 - 17:00
Explore tensions between improvisation, recording and doing nothing
Film: Lunch Break, Sharon Lockhart - 19:00 - 20:30
We join workers in Maine, USA taking their lunch break
Investigation Group 10: Jarrod Fowler - 19:00 - 21:30
Investigating rhythm as a tool for understanding everyday life

Thursday 25 February
Investigation Space Open - 10:00 - 21:30
A space for documentation and discussion
Investigation Group 11: Marc Baron, Loic Blairon, Taku Unami - 10:00 - 17:00
Explore tensions between improvisation, recording and doing nothing
Investigation Group 12: Christof Migone - 10:00 - 17:00
Explore bodies, space, time and music around Dundee
Investigation Group 13: Unstable, Fragile but Daring Together - 10:00 - 17:00
A bold, collective space, focusing on performance strategies
Investigtion Group 14: Jarrod Fowler - 14:00 - 21:30
Investigating rhythm as a tool for understanding everyday life
Film: Standard Gauge & ( ), Morgan Fisher - 19:00 - 20:15
Examine an axiom of cinema and say, ‘What if?’

Friday 26 February
Investigation Groups Get Together - 10:30 - 13:00
Let’s find out what we could do next
Investigation Space Open - 14:00 - 23:00
A space for documentation and discussion
Investigation: SpeedDataRadio - 14:00 - 17:00
A series of discussions, a concert and a radio broadcast
Performance: Mattin - 19:30 - 20:15
Take a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience
Performance: Loïc Blairon - 20:45 - 21:15
What is it to listen to our situation?
Performance: Smith/Stewart - 21:45 - 22:45
A simple request for a simple truth.

Saturday 27 February
Investigation Space Open - 10:00 - 23:00
A space for documentation and discussion
Film: 10 Minutes of Collective Activity & Pierre Vallieres - 12:00 - 12:45
Collective nature of viewing and reportage
Film Programme 1: Inventory - 13:00 - 13:35
Apply the tools of data-management to the global news media
Film: Noir & Perfect Film - 13:50 - 14:25
O, for a Museum of Found Footage
Film Programme 2: Repetitive Actions - 15:00 - 15:40
The tension between the body, movement and documentation
Film Programme 3: Collective Actions - 16:00 - 16:35
Individual actions brought into a collective space
Film: Screening Room & Teatro Amazonas - 16:50 - 17:45
Watch and listen to people listening to other people
Performance: Christof Migone - 19:30 - 20:15
Collectively engage with space, time and labour
Performance: Marc Baron - 20:45 - 21:30
Something will always escape
Performance: Resonance Radio Orchestra - 22:00 - 23:00
What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?


Sunday 28 February
Investigation Space Open - 10:00 - 23:00
A space for documentation and discussion
Film: Poetic Justice - 12:30 - 13:00
A narrative of sexuality, infidelity and voyeurism
Film Programme 4: Substitution - 13:20 - 13:35
Substitute one small thing for another
Film Programme 5: Catalogues - 13:50 - 14:15
Re-interpret or compile popular media
Film: Semiotics of the Kitchen & To Pour Milk into a Glass - 15:00 - 15:15
Allegorical use of mundane, everyday things
Film Programme 6: Production - 15:20 - 15:50
Repetition as allegory for labour
Film Programme 7: Duplication - 16:00 - 16:35
Repetition breeds difference. Copying without copying
Film: Morgan Fisher - 16:50 - 18:00
Being radical is a modest form of being extreme
Performance: Taku Unami - 19:15 - 20:00
Maximum effort for (seemingly) minimum output
Performance: Jarrod Fowler - 20:30 - 21:15
A rhythm based non-performance
Performance: Unstable, Fragile but Daring Together - 21:45 - 22:45

[Miguel Prado]

superb lineup, superb activities.
truly inspiring
congratulations.