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PINGS springs directly from the geographical distance between two collaborators. Working directly from their locales they explore the physical space between them through rivers and air and a range of other terrains with their own qualities, such as the web, phone, post, and the less tangible links of memory and synchronicity.
PINGS '10In August 2010 Movement artist Simon Whitehead and Sound artist Barnaby Oliver begin a second year- long dialogue of performance and audiovisual material through the web, phone and post.
This time the material springs from spontaneous actions in their immediate domestic landscapes in west Wales and Melbourne, Australia. The process begins as the means to form a conversation between these two distant places.
This unedited material in video and sound is published through YouTube (video only), Twitter and Blogger, each of which you can subscribe to directly. You may also sign up for updates via email and, occasional, post. Click here.
Pings 08
In January 2008 the artists began an exchange of performance and materials through these various channels as a means of mapping these terrains.
Movement artist Simon Whitehead and Sound artist Barnaby Oliver have been working simultaneously from their local rivers in Abercych, west Wales and Melbourne, Australia. Although a few thousand miles apart they share the intention to meet at a particular time each week and approach their rivers as an unbroken body of water through which they correspond. Their instincts are improvisational and over time they have been building a body of performative material from these shared events. Linked by their shared intentions and the physical rivers this material (in video, sound and image) begins to create its own character responsive to season, the time of day, the level of water and the meandering presence of each artist.
This unedited material is shared through the net and snail mail and the artists now invite you to subscribe to these events through podcast, email and post.
PINGS 08 was funded by an Artsadmin (London) 'Roaming' Bursary.
2 Live events marking the end of this phase of the Pings project were presented at Chapter arts Centre, Cardiff, and Arts Admin, East london, in January 2009.
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