Sound and Music

KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION
INVESTIGATIONS / FESTIVAL
http://www.arika.org.uk/kytn/2010/investigations

Arika and Sound and Music would like to invite YOU to join us for KYTN INVESTIGATIONS, held at Dundee Contemporary Arts between 21st - 26th February.
These investigations will be about exploring possibilities, sharing ideas, developing processes and reflection.

Time is money, we're often told. If you come along and spend time at our (FREE) Investigations then we'd like to reward that. Spend enough time (not money) with us and we'll give you a free pass to the festival weekend which runs from 26th to 28th February - http://www.arika.org.uk/kytn/2010/

*WHAT
So maybe art isn't some object or performance or film or whatever that you look at: it's the process that produced it. And so...

*PROPOSAL
From Mon 21 – Fri 26 Feb we'll be hosting a bunch of different 'Investigation Groups' that we'd like you to, well, investigate.
For your consideration. A festival of open-ended proposals for image, sound and dialogue. A week-long chance to spend time together investigating simple proposals by watching, listening and talking.

*WHY
We want you to get involved in the processes used by the artists at KYTN this year, and maybe help develop those processes together. In fact, some of the artists might need your help in delivering their performance at the weekend.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED

A) All Investigation Groups are FREE

B) And, in fact, if you come to a few of them you can maybe get into the festival for FREE too (see our Investigation Card idea)

C) And all Investigation Groups are OPEN TO ANYBODY – you don't have to be an artist, musician or filmmaker to take part (you can be, but it doesn't matter if you're not). The more diverse the groups are the more we'll all get out of them.

D) Spaces are limited though, so you'll have to reserve a space.
Call the DCA Box Office on: 44(0)1382 909 900

E) If you reserve a space and then can't make it we'll give that space to someone else. Again, call the DCA Box Office.

*For more information and full terms and conditions please visit http://www.arika.org.uk/kytn/2010/investigations
The Investigation Groups at KYTN are a joint idea/project by Arika & Sound and Music, DCA, Duncan of Jordanstone and supported by the Youth Music Initiative.

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Returning to DCA after a triumphant 2008 UK tour of groundbreaking film, sound and performance, this 2010 edition of KYTN presents cinema screenings, live performances in the gallery and installations in the VRC. Taking KYTN's unique blend of openness and artistic exploration to a new level, the festival is also extended this year to include a week-long ‘Investigations' programme of events that you can get involved in.

The festival features proposals by a wide range of artists and provocateurs; this is a programme of works which make a radical attempt to imagine artistic actions that might speak about the world we live in today. Within each piece of work, the artists have been asked to imagine - without the baggage of past formal conventions - what a new artwork might look or sound like as an occurrence in this particular place at this particular time, with these particular people. Morgan Fisher, whose will be presenting his pioneering film works throughout the festival, elegantly captures this idea:

One thing my films tend to do is examine a property or quality of a film in a radical way. Being radical is a modest form of being extreme. They each examine an axiom of cinema and say, ‘What if?' Morgan Fisher

The team at Arika behind the festival have little to no idea as to how KYTN will go this year, and that's deliberate. "We don't want to know, we want to find out. Instead of knowing in advance what is going to happen, we want to ask people (artists, you, ourselves...) to make some simple proposals that we can then all investigate and see what we can produce, together. We humbly submit KYTN as an attempt to (or a have a stab at it at least): strip back music & sound, film & moving image to their core, think about how they might be refocused and used to say something about the world we live in now, test afresh and for ourselves the implications of the radical concepts these art forms are built upon. How well it goes will be up to you as much as it is up to us. So we'd like you to be involved. "

For the full scoop on what to expect from these films, events and performances go to www.arika.org.uk

HOW TO COME ALONG
DCA Box Office & Booking Line: +44(0)1382 909 900
Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY, www.dca.org.uk
Box Office opening hours: Monday to Saturday 10:00 - 20:30, Sun 12:00 - 20:30

FREE EVENTS
Between 16:00 on Sunday 21 and 17:00 on Friday 26 all KYTN events are FREE. Some FREE events require that you reserve a place. Refer to www.arika.org.uk for guidance. Reserve over the phone or in person

PASS EVENTS
Between 17:00 on Friday 26 and 23:00 on Sunday 28 all KYTN events are accessible with a DAY or FESTIVAL Pass. £7.50 DAY Pass/ £20 FESTIVAL Pass

INVESTIGATION CARD
We want to build a community around KYTN; your time is worth more to us than your money. So, if you spend some time with us at our Investigation events, you'll be able to get into bits of the festival for free. 2 Stamps = 1 Free DAY Pass, 4 Stamps = 1 Free FESTIVAL Pass. Full terms on www.arika.org.uk.

DIARY

Wednesday 3 February
KYTN Reading Group - 19:30 - 22:00

Wednesday 10 February
KYTN Reading Group - 19:30 - 22:00

Wednesday 17 February
KYTN Reading Group - 19:30 - 22:00

Friday 19 February
Exhibition: DROMOS Preview and Performances at Generator Projects - 19:00 - 21:00

Sunday 21 February
Performance: Festival Launch - 16:00 - 18:00
A taster of things to get involved in through the week
Film: Hotel Diaries 1-8, John Smith - 19:00 - 21:00
Political yet very funny, seemingly intimate but in fact expansive in their outlook

Monday 22 February
Investigation Space Open - 10:00 - 21:30
A space for documentation and discussion
Investigation Group 1: Christof Migone - 10:00 - 17:00
Explore bodies, space, time and music around Dundee
Investigation Group 2: Jarrod Fowler - 10:00 - 17:00
Investigating rhythm as a tool for understanding everyday life
Investigation: John Mullarkey : 1st Talk - 11:00 - 12:30
Clear-thinking insights to straighten out the kinks
Film: Urban Peasants, Ken Jacobs - 19:00 - 20:00
Re-present handed down home movies
Investigation Group 3: Marc Baron, Loic Blairon, Taku Unami - 19:00 - 21:30
Explore tensions between improvisation, recording and doing nothing

Tuesday 23 February
Investigation Space Open - 10:00 - 21:30
A space for documentation and discussion
Investigation Group 4: Marc Baron, Loic Blairon, Taku Unami - 10:00 - 17:00
Explore tensions between improvisation, recording and doing nothing
Investigation Group 5: Jarrod Fowler - 10:00 - 17:00
Investigating rhythm as a tool for understanding everyday life
Investigation: John Mullarkey: 2nd Talk - 11:00 - 12:30
Clear-thinking insights to straighten out the kinks
Film: So Is This, Michael Snow - 19:00 - 20:00
Cinema reduced to the basic units of film and language
Investigation Group 6: Christof Migone - 19:00 - 21:30
Explore bodies, space, time and music around Dundee

Wednesday 24 February
Investigation Space Open - 10:00 - 21:30
A space for documentation and discussion
Investigation Group 7: Christof Migone - 10:00 - 17:00
Explore bodies, space, time and music around Dundee
Investigation Group 8: Unstable, Fragile but Daring Together - 10:00 - 17:00
A bold, collective space, focusing on performance strategies
Investigation Group 9: Marc Baron, Loic Blairon, Taku Unami - 10:00 - 17:00
Explore tensions between improvisation, recording and doing nothing
Film: Lunch Break, Sharon Lockhart - 19:00 - 20:30
We join workers in Maine, USA taking their lunch break
Investigation Group 10: Jarrod Fowler - 19:00 - 21:30
Investigating rhythm as a tool for understanding everyday life

Thursday 25 February
Investigation Space Open - 10:00 - 21:30
A space for documentation and discussion
Investigation Group 11: Marc Baron, Loic Blairon, Taku Unami - 10:00 - 17:00
Explore tensions between improvisation, recording and doing nothing
Investigation Group 12: Christof Migone - 10:00 - 17:00
Explore bodies, space, time and music around Dundee
Investigation Group 13: Unstable, Fragile but Daring Together - 10:00 - 17:00
A bold, collective space, focusing on performance strategies
Investigtion Group 14: Jarrod Fowler - 14:00 - 21:30
Investigating rhythm as a tool for understanding everyday life
Film: Standard Gauge & ( ), Morgan Fisher - 19:00 - 20:15
Examine an axiom of cinema and say, ‘What if?'

Friday 26 February
Investigation Groups Get Together - 10:30 - 13:00
Let's find out what we could do next
Investigation Space Open - 14:00 - 23:00
A space for documentation and discussion
Investigation: SpeedDataRadio - 14:00 - 17:00
A series of discussions, a concert and a radio broadcast
Performance: Mattin - 19:30 - 20:15
Take a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience
Performance: Loïc Blairon - 20:45 - 21:15
What is it to listen to our situation?
Performance: Smith/Stewart - 21:45 - 22:45
A simple request for a simple truth.

Saturday 27 February
Investigation Space Open - 10:00 - 23:00
A space for documentation and discussion
Film: 10 Minutes of Collective Activity & Pierre Vallieres - 12:00 - 12:45
Collective nature of viewing and reportage
Film Programme 1: Inventory - 13:00 - 13:35
Apply the tools of data-management to the global news media
Film: Noir & Perfect Film - 13:50 - 14:25
O, for a Museum of Found Footage
Film Programme 2: Repetitive Actions - 15:00 - 15:40
The tension between the body, movement and documentation
Film Programme 3: Collective Actions - 16:00 - 16:35
Individual actions brought into a collective space
Film: Screening Room & Teatro Amazonas - 16:50 - 17:45
Watch and listen to people listening to other people
Performance: Christof Migone - 19:30 - 20:15
Collectively engage with space, time and labour
Performance: Marc Baron - 20:45 - 21:30
Something will always escape
Performance: Resonance Radio Orchestra - 22:00 - 23:00
What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?

Sunday 28 February
Investigation Space Open - 10:00 - 23:00
A space for documentation and discussion
Film: Poetic Justice - 12:30 - 13:00
A narrative of sexuality, infidelity and voyeurism
Film Programme 4: Substitution - 13:20 - 13:35
Substitute one small thing for another
Film Programme 5: Catalogues - 13:50 - 14:15
Re-interpret or compile popular media
Film: Semiotics of the Kitchen & To Pour Milk into a Glass - 15:00 - 15:15
Allegorical use of mundane, everyday things
Film Programme 6: Production - 15:20 - 15:50
Repetition as allegory for labour
Film Programme 7: Duplication - 16:00 - 16:35
Repetition breeds difference. Copying without copying
Film: Morgan Fisher - 16:50 - 18:00
Being radical is a modest form of being extreme
Performance: Taku Unami - 19:15 - 20:00
Maximum effort for (seemingly) minimum output
Performance: Jarrod Fowler - 20:30 - 21:15
A rhythm based non-performance
Performance: Unstable, Fragile but Daring Together - 21:45 - 22:45
Performance as dialogue

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