Challenges to Making - Action Hero and LIGNA May 3 2011
Dr. Carl Lavery from Aberystwyth University talks to Action Hero on Skype and then Prof. Patrick Primavesi talks to LIGNA in person.
Action Hero
Action Hero make live art and performance that seeks to use audiences as collaborators and co-conspirators. We are interested in creating work that links audiences together and unifies them as part of the live event, building a temporary community. Our process has been defined by necessity: a raw aesthetic has become central to our work. Whilst exploring the epic, we create performance that is intimate, distinctive and invigorating.
Guest Speaker Ligna
LIGNA exists since 1997. The group consists of the media- and and performance artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hueners and Torsten Michaelsen, who since the early nineties work at the Freies Sender Kombinat (FSK), a public non-profit radio station in Hamburg. Bi-weekly they provide a program called Lignas Music Box, which asks the listeners to call in and play their favorite songs via the telephone.
All works of LIGNA have in common, that they regard their audience as a collective of producers. In a temporary association it can produce unforseeable, uncontrollable effects, that challenge the regulation of a space.
One of LIGNA´s models of media usage, the Radio Ballet (invented in 2002), provides radio listeners with a choreography of excluded and forbidden gestures in formerly public, now controlled spaces. Others are the Radio concert for 144 mobile phones, which lets the radio listeners participate in a process of collective composition, or The new Man, a theatre play without actors, which engages the audience in a complex gestural interaction.
