Services Close your eyes, drop your iThing and imagine a future where the terrestrial broadcaster is dead and a group of artist provocateurs are the new content creators and distributors on the now omni pervasive global media network! Accidents happen, and things, perhaps best left unsaid, are cast bodily through the very virtual airways and into slumbering skulls. What a to do! The group lands in Manchester. Castlefield to be precise, and set up shop at Castlefield Gallery. They are there even as we speak. Wear stout boots and take a packed lunch with you when you leave home in the morning. Its going to be a long fun ride.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
WELCOME to an out of this world perfromance experience as the Castlefield Gallery becomes home to artists, Ronald Fraser-Munroe, Michael Barnes-Wynters and Naomi Kashiwagi - all really highly respected artists who have come together to collaborate on this event
THURSDAY 5 APRIL, 7-10PM (DOORS 6:30PM) FREE / ALL WELCOME
Before you read the rest of this I must tell you I once travelled in the back of a minivan from Liverpool to Glasgow to see Ronald Fraser-Munroe - so it will be an experience to remember.
iKAST is comprised of two parts - the Kunst Fabriek art factory, a time-based creative process of multi-format artworks responding to three predetermined themes and the iKAST Event on Thursday 5 April, 7-10pm. The evening will compromise of a live multi-media performance to be filmed by and distributed on the new artplayer.tv platform.
Throughout March Castlefield Gallery has become a studio, lab and creative centre point for three cross-platform performances by Ronald Fraser-Munroe, Michael Barnes-Wynters and Naomi Kashiwagi framed by the iKAST project. The creative process is the artists response to the project themes and these responses manifest themselves as the iKAST performance artworks that will be performed live, and accompanied by screen-based or physical 3d (physical object-based).
The three themes for the artworks and performances are:
Digital Switchover (Broadcasting in the 21st Century)
Me, Myself and I (The Mediated Individual)
Babel-Song (Pleasuring The Technology Muse)
Digital Switchover (Broadcasting in the 21st Century)
Me, Myself and I (The Mediated Individual)
Babel-Song (Pleasuring The Technology Muse)
Background
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester's premier gallery for promoting emerging creative practice and FACT, the UKs leading centre for the commission and exhibition of film and new media are supporting Ronald Fraser-Munroe to develop a new project iKAST 2012, a creative commission for contemporary, independent arts creation, manipulation and distribution.
Led by artist and creative producer, Ronald Fraser-Munroe (K3 Media) in partnership with Castlefield Gallery and FACT, iKAST is a creative intervention and provocation that merges live action, performance, and music across digital platforms. iKAST is also about equality of access and aims to pursue a more pluralistic engagement between independent creative producers and the public to produce revolutionary digitalism that explores a diversity of voices.
iKAST was co-commissioned by FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
GO SEE IT AS I CAN'T MAKE IT
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