Breathing Space
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Breathing Space commissions artists to explore and experiment with nascent ideas or work outside of their usual artistic practice. Breathing Space is a national commissioning and touring project that seeks to bring innovative new live art and performance to audiences across the UK and beyond.
Initiated by Arnolfini (Bristol), and partnered with greenroom (Manchester), Tramway(Glasgow) and The Junction (Cambridge).
2006/07 artists were:
Duncan Speakman, Grace Surman with …White and Slow Thinking:Working, Until Thursdayand Yara El-Sherbini
“This kind of ‘blue sky’ development is all too rare.” Andy Gracie (Host Productions), Breathing Space artist 2002.
Initiated by Arnolfini in 1999, Breathing Space seeks to bring innovative new live art and performance to audiences across the UK and beyond. Breathing Space commissions artists to explore and experiment with nascent ideas or work outside of their usual artistic practice. Uniquely, Breathing Space works with partner venues right from the start of the process, so that no matter what shape each piece takes, we can offer all these varied experiences to audiences all over the world.
To date, Breathing Space has commissioned and presented 15 new pieces of work including:
A robot learning dance moves from insects
A journey through sound and light in a motion simulator
A one-on-one encounter in a Victorian swimming baths
Bringing films to life at the end of cinema
A personal history through maps and accidents
A generational history from Pakistan to Manchester
A caravan filling slowly with bits and pieces of its surroundings
Previous Breathing Space work has been shown in:
Bristol, Manchester, Nottingham, Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sydney, Perth, Nagoya, Mexico City, Helsinki, Valencia, Barcelona and Berlin.
Commissions from 1999 to 2006:
Uninvited Guests Film
Alex Bradley Unfinished Essays on Limits and Threat
Elaine Kordys & Tom Marshman Playing but Losing
Sophia New Feeling Poorly
Bradley/Gracie/Marlowe/Speakman/Mawford 32000 Points of Light
Storehouse Beneath our feet
Dan Belasco Rogers Unfallen
Low Brow Trash TAG
Pacitti Company Three Duets
Qasim Riza Shaheen In his father’s footsteps
Host Productions Small Work for Robot and Insects
Yara El-Sherbini Pub Quiz
Until Thursday It’s a Question of Taste
Grace Surman Slow Thinking
Duncan Speakman Sounds From Above the Ground
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Locally
Regionally
Nationally
Internationally
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Yes
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