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In January 2008 Movement artist Simon Whitehead and Sound artist Barnaby Oliver began a year- long dialogue of performance and materials through the web, phone and post, as a means of mapping their local rivers; the river Cych, west Wales and river Maribyrnong, Melbourne, Australia. Although a few thousand miles apart they shared the intention to meet each week and approach their rivers as an unbroken body of water through which they would correspond. This unedited material in video, sound and drawing was shared with the public through their website and podcast.
PINGS 08 was supported by an Artsadmin Bursary. Two Live events marked the end of this phase of the project and were presented at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, and at Toynbee Halls, East London in January 2009. A subsequent live exchange happened in June 2009 at the AHRC Living Landscapes Symposium at Aberystwyth University.
PINGS 10 will begin in November 2010. Continuing their engagement with the effects of physical, informational and psychic distance, the artists will correspond spontaneously from their immediate domestic landscapes.
These performances will be publicly available through feeds hosted on YouTube (video only), Twitter, SoundCloud, as well as a blog. You are invited to subscribe to any or all of these services. Additionally you can sign up for updates via email and, occasionally, post, here.
You can view material from the first Pings project here.
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