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[dominick allen]

Friday 14th October, 7-9pm - Exchange Gallery Penzance Cornwall
An evening of live audio-visual performances by Ana Carvalho and Tiago Pereira:
The Subtle Technique in an Earthquake detector construction

Ana Carvalho (7pm – 8pm)
Ana Carvalho is a PhD candidate in the department of Communication and Digital Platforms at Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto, and a lecturer at University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal. Ana has been involved in several collaborative projects related to the philosophy and theory that inform, and are informed by, live audio-visual performance. She is also co-editor of the VJ Theory project and co-organizer of abertura events in Lisbon
Major themes in Ana’s work address emotional celebrations of daily life, women’s achievements, fictional biographies and ways of knowing. For her Decalcomaniaevent, Ana will provide a live audio-visual performance in which she will mix video and sound recorded here in Cornwall, as well as in her native Portugal. The performance takes Ana’s recurrent themes of identity and self-representation into a biographical realm between real and fictional and plays with the symbolic representation of objects together with a ritualistic movement of the hands - that refer to the magician and the making of an illusion. The performance is a continuous creative and reflective process, open to new ideas and affinities with other authors (musicians, poets, film directors, etc). Ana’s performance forges direct links with her exhibited work, a series of five photographic prints concerned with similar ideas.
www.visual-agency.net


Cornwall decalcomania music Sessions Live
Tiago Pereira (8pm – 9pm)
Tiago Pereira is an artist and video director who has developed a unique style of documenting, recollecting and mixing moving images. His cross-disciplinary video work focuses on the immaterial culture such as songs, rituals and performances that explore the concept of tradition and the foundations of collective memory. Tiago’s work creates an active, ongoing and impartial archive of Portuguese musical culture. His work is widely exhibited, performed and broadcast in Portugal and abroad.
For Decalcomania Tiago has created a new video work, filmed in Cornwall, which acts as an active, ongoing and impartial archive of musicians in Cornwall now. Over the course of a weeklong visit in the summer of 2011, Tiago travelled Cornwall videoing numerous musicians of different disciplines, ages and genres, the resultant video is presented in the exhibition and forms the basis of his live performance. The live event serves as an activation of the footage he has collected. Tiago will perform with this footage in a manner that mixes, remixes and layers the divergent strands of musical practice in Cornwall today, creating a bold and ever-changing portrait of the musical landscape.  
http://vimeo.com/tiagopereira
The entire evening will be a dynamic and stimulating exploration of the effects and application of audio-visual performance and its position in contemporary exhibition making, while also looking closely into Cornish culture and its landscape. It will be an exciting event, not to be missed, with an open bar!


http://decalcomaniaproject.wordpress.com
Very best wishes
Laura Smith and Maria Christoforidou


www.domallen.co.uk