Ania Bas is a collaborative artist - she works     with people not canvas. Ania’s practice is socially engaged, both research and production based. She explores the art of everyday life and involves everyday people in investigation of human connection with place using inter-disciplinary approach, including events, live art, text and publication. Ania’s practice takes place in live environments rather than in a studio. Ania is a catalyst, a facilitator, a host, a service provider, a support structure. Ania works nationally and internationally in a variety of settings – she cherishes unglamorous locations.

I wish to present show/talk/work that explores performance situated within lived environments with the particular focus on market environments. I wish to base my show/talk/work partly on my ongoing practice that takes place on markets:

/ Special Offer - Buy Sell Languages, Petticoat Lane Market, London commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery 2008
http://aniabas.blogspot.com/2008/11/special-offer-2008.html

/ Performance Market, Pigs of Today Are Hams of Tomorrow, Plymouth 2010

/Open Empty Spaces, Ridley Road Market, London 2011 (start in April 2011)
http://www.openemptyspaces.co.uk/

And underpin it with my ongoing research into relational/shared/collaborative and participatory working methods.

http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/1090364

My presentation approach will be to deliver the show/talk/work as a walking vendor to small groups of symposium participants as well as other people I might meet. The talk will be delivered straight from the laundry bag that I often work with in the market environments and will be interactive. I will deliver the talk/show/talk/work during lunch breaks/coffee breaks during the symposium.

Currently working as an independent artist and writer in Ireland, David Hughes was a lecturer on Contemporary Art, Performance, Live Art and Theatre degree courses for a decade. He founded and edited Live Art Listings, Hybrid Magazine and Live Art Magazine over a period of 15 years and spent the 70s engaged in improvisational theatre research. He has specialised in theorising and writing about Live Art and studied philosophy and critical theory at the universities of Warwick and Southampton. His writing on art has appeared in national newspapers and specialist art, music, performance and dance journals. Although, not in that order. His work can be seen at: www.dhbricolage.net

Mykus R Yorkus R Mykus: Call David Hughes on Skype at 'davidhughes53'. 

Monday 2nd May 2011
2pm - 5pm. + 7pm- 9pm.

Tuesday 3rd May 2011
9am - 11.30am. + 12.30pm - 4pm. 

Sometimes... the honky tonk piano... is venison pate on the lake. Solihull... a nutty kind of Xmas lunch. Sometimes... the Argos floor lamp... is a cd rack. The Wedgewood vase... a tobacco jar. Sometimes... the R1800... is an X2650.                                                          The VGN-AR61ZU... an HIPCE.

Fred McVittie is an artist and educator currently based at University College Falmouth. His background is in performance and experimental theatre, having worked with companies such as Forced Entertainment and Manact. More recently his work has been in social media, particularly blogging and video sharing, looking at these media as both sites for performative engagement and as tools which allow for the redefinition of concepts such as knowledge and art.

For the last 3 years I have been involved in making and distributing videos on Youtube, and within this strange and idiosyncratic world I have made friends and enemies, shared intimacies and knowledge, and established a place, a ‘channel’, which for some reason over 7000 people seem to want to be connected to. 

My channel, ‘The Conference Report’, carries some 1500 videos that I have uploaded on a range of topics, but mostly around themes of perception, embodiment, consciousness, performance, and the life sciences. My videos typically attract healthy exchanges of text comments and also video responses from other Youtube users. For the conference I would like to continue my social media practice in that specific context.. This would entail my acting as a Youtuber in Residence, making a series of videos from the conference about the themes of the conference as they emerge through presentations and performances. These would be immediately uploaded to my Conference Report Youtube channel where they would be engaged with by the community of users I am connected to. Through this means Relation and Participation will extend into the extended, and less controlled, environment of Youtube.