Our
new show is another
collaboration between Moving Hands and the Birmingham REP. It’s
also a collaboration with the South African based
Odd Enjinears who are known for their striking productions with
curious technology, using a unique blend of sculpture, music, mechanics
and performance
“The Odd Enjinears is one of the most exciting and innovative
groups working in South Africa. Their performances were highly dramatic,
visually rich, conceptually provocative and in a word, unique. What's
more, this exploratory work drew a large and very excited audience”
- Handspring Theatre Company |
During
a development week funded by Arts Council West Midlands, we invited
Dutch sculpture and performance artist Fiona De Bell who has collaborated
with The Oddenjinears to workshop ideas of integrating a machine
into our next production.
Fiona in turn has been inspired by our work and Moving Hands have
been invited to join the Casco Land project in South Africa - see
below
VJ Tom introduced us to the latest video technology and showed us
ways to further explore mixing live and pre-recorded footage that
interacts with performers, puppets and the audience |
| Request
for international collaboration “Channel
Flicking”
‘Channel
Flicking” is a Moving Hands Animation project proposal which
seeks to create cultural exchange between young people through
the medium of animated film.
We feel very strongly that visual communication between the youth
of the world, through the medium of animation, will broaden perspectives
for the participants as well as the viewing audience.
Our
proposal for this year’s Birmingham City Council Arts Education
Award is to work with refugee and asylum seeker children in 4
Birmingham Secondary schools over the Autumn and Spring term 2005/06.
Together with their Birmingham classmates, their thoughts and
feelings about their experience of the world will be shared and
discussed.
Working
in teams they will story board a short sketch, create the backgrounds
and models, animate and film their stories. The resulting short
animated clips will then be edited together according to the viewpoint
of someone who is constantly changing the channels of a TV.
A
screening event will take place to which all participants will
be invited so that they may see each other’s work and celebrate
their achievement.
We
are looking for expressions of interest and support from funders,
National and International youth/ community groups and educational
institutions who would like to be involved in such a project on
an international scale. |
Earlier
Projects and Shows
The
Ugly eagle
The
Ugly Eagle is a collaboration between Moving Hands and The
Birmingham REP and South African artists such as dancers Sandile
Mbili and Musa Hlatshwayo, video artist Koeka Stander and animator
Lourina Jansen van Rensburg.
The
show opened in 2002 at the Birmingham REP and ran for the Christmas
season in The Door. It was so successful, that we were invited
to return to The Door for the following Christmas run in 2003.
In spring 2005, after a run at the Komedia
in Brighton, we toured 19 venues throughout the UK. It was a hugely
successful tour reaching 9866 audience members.
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| Casco
Land
This
cultural research project
scheduled for 1st quarter 2006, will take place in inner cities
and townships throughout South Africa.
Managed
by Fiona De Bell, it will involve Dutch and South African artists,
architects and designers.
It will take the form of a series of 4 week laboratories in different
locations in South Africa.
Each
laboratory will aim to make an innovative and imaginative functional
mobile village, integrating artistic and spatial disciplines like
architecture, design, sculpture, theater and film.
There will be large participation from the communities, who will
be working alongside professional artists who using found and
recycled materials to construct DIY architecture.
These temporary dwellings will be moved from location to location.
Each village will be opened to the public and then later will
be moved to a more public space for exhibition.
Moving hands has been short listed for participation in this project
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Moving
Hands Animation for Casco Land
We aim to work with children and young adults to create their
own animated films based on themes of structural/ neural/ landscape
transformations.
The resulting films will be viewed either to compliment or transform
the internal spaces of the DIY temporary dwellings through their
projection or screened to highlight the imaginative thinking behind
invention at the Cape Town Festival in March 2006.
We have been offered the use of equipment and promised working
space within the two venues (New Cross Roads & Spier Estate,
Cape Town) in which to conduct animation workshops, but we need
further help with funds for flights, insurance, accommodation
and artist’s fees.
More
about Moving Hands animation ... |
