LOVE TRIANGLE – a new installation by CiCi Blumstein

Saturday 25 October 2008, 7pm – 7am
Phoenix Brighton www.phoenixarts.org

Have you ever lain awake all night wondering: How much do you love me? How much do I love you? How big is your love?

Don't worry any longer – come and find out with the help of the LOVE TRIANGLE.

For one night only, artist CiCi Blumstein will transform her current Measuring Room installation into the LOVE TRIANGLE.

Carefully calibrated, it measures the heart and the secret spaces within it, revealing exactly how much love you have.

Enter alone or as a couple, come with an actual, intended or imaginary partner, with work colleagues or family members, old flames or new crushes ... the choice is yours.

Measuring sessions will run all night, from 7pm to 7am. Be prepared for experimental feelings... And remember:

“What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.” – Measure for Measure, 5. 1

The LOVE TRIANGLE welcomes you.

Sat 25 October 2008, 7pm – 7am
Part of the city-wide White Night Festival

Phoenix Brighton, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB [SEE MAP]

Links:
Phoenix Arts
Night-time Fixations
White Night Brighton & Hove

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White Night Brighton & Hove – Do something different in the middle of the night

A new city-wide arts festival from 6pm to 7am to mark the end of British Summer Time. Rediscover the city at night through special events and activities in cultural venues and through trails and tours through the city's streets and secrets.

Debating Dance – New Forum Launch

Wednesday 24 September 2008

Lighthouse Digital Lounge
28 Kensington Street, Brighton

18.00-21.00

Free Event

To reserve your place please email Emily James or call 01273 645261.

South East Dance are launching a new quarterly forum for artists, practitioners and anyone who loves dance: Debating Dance.

Debating Dance provides a platform for debate around dance and dance practice. Each quarter a new host will lead an evening with a subject of their choosing, South East Dance will provide the venue and support. This first event is hosted by CiCi Blumstein.

Fusing urban planning, architectural and choreographic principles, CiCi seeks to reveal the powerful impact that individual awareness of creative space can bring to the public realm.

“I work with the moving body as the smallest architectural unit within the built environment. I feel that every surface has the potential for movement and creative change: a pavement, a page, a wall, another body ... Once danced, a space cannot be un-danced, it remains in my imagination and in the body as a space of infinite possibilities.”

Historically, movement forms such as Contact Improvisation, Butoh, and more recently Free Running / Parkour, have been opening up urban and rural space to direct creative exploration. As Brighton is moving towards a dedicated Dance Space for the city in 2012, how could we, both as individuals and as a community, further extend dance and movement into the public and personal architecture of the city right now?

CiCi will focus on her most recent work for architecture08 festival, i am too big for this town which poses the questions: how is art shaped by where it is produced? How is creative and personal space determined, and can it be individually calculated? i am too big for this town revisits her earlier large-scale work Feature Creature, first shown in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.

CiCi will open Debating Dance with an introduction to the ideas behind i am too big for this town, followed after a short break by a discussion and playful 'speed measuring' exploration of urban and personal creative space.

There will be plenty of opportunity to mingle and network over a glass of wine throughout the evening.

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i am too big for this town at architecture08

Blank Gallery 7 – 15 June 2008

CiCi Blumstein's work seeks out and vibrates in the unknown spaces between body & film, science & performance, architecture & theatre, transforming the physical and personal into a form that others can experience directly. Born in Germany, she has been working in the UK as a filmmaker, choreographer, installation and performance artist since 1989.

In i am too big for this town, CiCi continues her exploration of experimental and improvisational concepts, which have been at the core of her practice over the last 20 years.

In this new installation for architecture08, CiCi revisits her earlier large-scale work Feature Creature, first shown in the soaring spaces of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.

Squeezing all the energy and presence of the original installation into the small, but perfectly formed Blank Gallery in Portslade, she invites you to a playful exploration of space and creativity at the edge of town.

How is creative and personal space determined, and can it be individually calculated? Using a simple formula adapted from urban planning, visitors to the gallery will be able to stake out their own creative plot to inhabit and take away.

The installation is the pilot of a tour which will visit other pioneering art spaces around the UK and abroad, aiming to engage artists and communities in the wider debate about regeneration. Linked events, talks and workshops are also planned.

i am too big for this town will be running at Blank Gallery from 7 – 15 June 2008.

Produced in partnership with Blank Gallery

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Location

Blank Gallery, Portslade
108 North Street
Brighton BN41 1DG

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i am too big for this town is part of architecture08 – a celebration of architecture across the South East, run by the Royal Institute of British Architects South East with the Solent Centre for Architecture + Design on behalf of Arts Council England, South East.

architecture08 will be running across the South East from 24 May – 28 June 2008.