ARCHIVE 2006

SCREENINGS

10 NOVEMBER 2007 - INSOMNIA - screening at 'Dance and Camera' at WATERSHED MEDIA CENTRE, Bristol, U.K

26 MAY 2006 - INSOMNIA - at Mayfest - Bristol Old Vic/ Circomedia
St. Paul's church, Portland Square, Bristol, U.K
INSOMNIA is a Channel 4/ Arts Council England commission for broadcast

GO TO INSOMNIA PAGE

PERFORMANCES

8 SEPTEMBER 2006 - HAUNTED for SPACE SOON - Art and Human Spaceflight
at The Roundhouse, London, U.K

Commissioned anti-gravity performance by Isabel Rocamora
Performed by: Tilly Leyser

“We are all already in Space... “

This was Buckminster Fuller's reported response to the first flight into space by Yuri Gagarin.  Artists - caught between fascination and repulsion by the new millennial push to Mars and return to the Moon - are still trying to decode the manual to Spaceship Earth.

For a short, intense period the Roundhouse, itself perched in North London like a giant spaceship, is transformed by an event featuring artists’ projects which rethink the human desire to leave the cradle of the Earth.

With live events, films and talks interleaving the event, the cavernous interior of the former engine shed of the Roundhouse will be transformed into a rocket factory for a rocket that is going nowhere - Gravity by Aleksandra Mir.  Outside, the Space on Earth Station team, radical Danish architects N55 and artist Neal White, reverses into the future by building a Mars base-type habitation, in order to explore our terrestrial neighbourhood.  Below, in the hive-like labyrinth of Roundhouse Studios London Fieldworks investigate long-term space travel and hibernation.

RESIDENCY

MAY TO AUGUST 2006 - ARTIST RESIDENCY at Deluge Studios, see images
From May to August 2006 Bristol City Council have licensed the use of the 1904 Public Ladies & Gents building for use as a creative studio during the pre-production of 'Horizon of Exile'. Isabel will be working in the Ladies' powder room, a skylit quarter with original Edwardian features.

TALKS

30 NOV 2006 - LOCATIONAL IDENTITY, MEMORY AND THE BODY - Research Seminar at Bristol University, Bristol, U.K

The seminar will trace Rocamora’s engagement with place as collaborator throughout her cross-artform practice: performance, technology and moving image. Particularly focusing on site-specificity and locational identity, offering an insight into the development of content and process methodology.

Bristol University Drama Film & Tv Department
Cantocks Close, Bristol BS8 1UP
 

15 JUNE 2006 - PHYSICAL SPACE, CREATIVE COLLABORATOR - Public talk at Whitechapel Gallery, London, U.K

Ben Harrison, theatre director, Isabel Rocamora, performance & moving image artist and Richard Wilson, artist, discuss the role of architecture and physical space as a creative, collaborative force in their work.

In association with Arts Council England Architecture Week

Whitechapel, 80 - 82 Whitechapel High Street
London, E1 7QX, +44 (0)20 7522 7888

PUBLICATIONS

SPRING 2006 - Electric Pavilion: Re-imagining the city of Bristol, 6 Watershed Commissions (Chapter on ‘Residual’ written by Isabel Rocamora), ed. Tigerprawn for Watershed
To buy a copy (£5) please contact Watershed box office