Art, meet the future. Programme guide

10 days, 30+ events, citywide. 27.09.18 – 06.10.18 I believe we have risen “UNESCO to this challenge with the ultimate expression designation of the city’s future: dared us to York Mediale. Over the 10-day festival you will experience world dream bigger premiere commissions, life-changing exhibitions, and bolder installations, theatre, dance, music and more - than ever all at the cutting-edge before. of their disciplines. None of this would be YORK - A UNESCO CREATIVE CITY Why only possible without our partners and sponsors. I applaud their ambition. light up a In backing the inaugural York Mediale, they have building, been prepared to take a big risk on a radically Professor when you different type of arts Dianne Willcocks can light up festival. Of course, their Chair of York Mediale involvement has always The city of York been about much more 2018 Advisory Board the world?” than just money. Partners such as Arts Council England, City of York is the first, and York Mediale has been However, like many others, Council, Make It York, five years in the making. I believed in its poten- Science City York, York Not all of them easy. tial. The bidding process Museums Trust, York When York first embarked had unearthed incredible Theatre Royal and only, UK UNESCO on a journey to become a creative talent and was Ouroboros, together UNESCO Creative City of sparking new and uncom- with our two great Media Arts, it provoked fortable conversations universities, have worked a great deal of curiosity about York’s future. closely with the artists and generated both early Designation would send to make sure local people Creative City enthusiasts and the occa- these into overdrive. and landscapes have every sional doubting Thomas. Becoming the UK’s first, opportunity to participate How times move on! We have and only, UNESCO City in their work and reap now arrived with a great of Media Arts changed its benefits. It is a gift of Media Arts, story to tell. not only the way others that will keep on giving viewed York, but how we for many years to come. But in 2012, the Crea- viewed ourselves. Sudden- So, if you thought you tive Cities Network was ly we were on everyone’s knew our city, prepare to receiving the in its earliest days, its radar, bringing some of be shocked. York Mediale benefits still unproven. the biggest names in really is where art meets Art and technology were culture to the city to the future and you get unlikely allies, their collaborate and commission to be there and be part powerful combination still ground-breaking work. designation in brewing. York was already of what promises to be Put simply, UNESCO desig- an incredible, explosive sitting on 2,000 years nation dared us to dream introduction! of greatness, the city’s bigger and bolder than December 2014. narrative already written. ever before. Why only light up a building, when you can light up the world? 2 3 “Welcome to the inaugural York Mediale. Strap yourselves in for an ambitious 10-day celebration of cutting-edge media arts, in the UK’s first and only UNESCO City of Media Arts.”

© Herman Seidl © Herman Media art and digital creative technologists creative practice is now building the future of Thank you to our omnipresent in popular broadcast media (Davy culture. Its image has Smith’s Cutting Room), partners and funders. firmly shifted from precociously talented somewhat ‘niche’ and young jazz musicians like ‘self-referential’, or Moses Boyd and Kamaal ‘showy’ and ‘shallow’, Williams presented in a FOUNDING PARTNERS to rightful plaudits as live AV show from Just an ambitious, rich and Jam, guaranteed to blow transformational force. your socks off and female digital artists from The opportunity is global. sub-Saharan Africa as The UK boasts a talented Tom Higham part of landmark global young generation of media exhibition Still We Rise. Creative Director artists, who will be sup- I invite you to get lost ported by the Mediale to in our programme. There develop their practice on are many hidden gems all an international platform. over the place; be it at We’re excited to present 1pm in a VR installation, leading artists from as 3pm in a mentoring far afield as Japan and session, or 1am at a gig. FUNDERS Kenya, and from as close This programme only by as Acomb and Tang Hall. exists through the You may not yet have heard partnerships we’ve been of some of the names, but able to develop, with mark my words, you’ll be the public sector, hearing a lot more from cultural sector, and these folks over the next creative sector here in few years. the city. We are hugely The approach we’ve taken grateful for the ongoing has been to focus on commitment of our commissioning and curating partners, funders, new work, by artists volunteers and all the who are at turning incredible artists. They are the driving points in their careers; SPONSORS ranging from choreographers force behind York Mediale presenting installations and lay the foundations (Alexander Whitley’s Strange for the next festival Stranger), to architects in 2020. building immersive and See you there! participatory experiences (Loop.pH’s Pollinarium), 4 5 © Davy Smith © Davy

Installations: Step inside our INSTALLATIONS digital playground and lose yourself The Cutting in new art and new ideas. Room presents: What is Love? Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate Matthew Plummer 28.09.18 – 06.10.18 Fernandez: 11:00 – 15:00

INSTALLATIONS Free, limited Token Homes capacity Kings Square Set in the near future, No two voices or vantage 27.09.18 – 06.10.18 in a world where points need be the same, All day Artificial Intelligence as edit decisions are is commonplace within controlled in real time. Free our daily lives, What is Technology responds to Love?, tells the story the audience in terms of an ambitious young of length, depth of couple, Jack and Amelia, interest, location, © Matthew Plummer Fernandez while they work apart in personal preferences, different countries. When lifestyle, age and more. Software and 3D printing This absurd solution World-class facilities they begin to neglect their relationship, AI Considered to be the combine for this breath- to the problem highlights offered by Fluxaxis have future of broadcasting taking sculpture in Kings the ongoing tension enabled Matthew to apply detects the problem and steps in to help. by the BBC, this Square. Token Homes is a between financial his algorithms to a large- technology has been playful statement about speculation and housing’s scale sculpture for the Onlookers are invited into developed by Digital the growing housing crisis original purpose. first time. the narrative as Jack and Creativity Labs at - one of the most potent Amelia’s mediated life the University of York issues of a generation. This ground-breaking Fluxaxis, who call 3D-printed sculpture themselves ‘makers’ have unfolds before their eyes and BBC R&D. and ‘fate’ takes hold. In burgeoning cities, is the culmination of worked collaboratively Exclusively for York social housing shortfall a 6-month residency with Matthew, venturing Powered by The Cutting Mediale, the partnership is fuelling property between British-Colombian beyond traditional Room, an Object Based commissioned Symbolism investment schemes, artist Matthew Plummer creative and manufacturing Media tool developed by Studios to create What leading to architecture Fernandez and Fluxaxis, boundaries, with Davy Smith, What Is Love? Is Love? in the first devoid of aesthetic a 3D printing start-up astonishing results. premieres a new breed public airing of this value and restricted borne out of local of storytelling, algorith- n e w te ch n ol og y. room for habitation. Tockwith-based creative mically tailored to manufacturer Stage One. Extrapolating this trend, e a c h v i e w e r. Token Homes turns social Matthew’s work with housing data produced 3D modelling is known from local surveys into throughout the world, a hypnotic large scale with previous work sculpture, consisting of commissioned by the V&A hundreds of miniaturised and Somerset House property units, each in London, where he is available for investment, an artist in residence. their value secured against their lucrative location. 6 7 Can AI Can save us? INSTALLATIONS Developed throughout the summer in close collaboration with local sustainable pioneers, St Nicks. © Charlotte Graham © Charlotte INSTALLATIONS

Installations What have you enjoyed most The about being involved? Q&A: The opportunity to be Pollinarium © Loop.pH a bit creative. I’m used We talk to Jonathan Dent, to conserving large areas Artists Garden, Natural Habitats Manager, of natural habitat over about the importance of York Art Gallery Step inside the The Pollinarium will long periods of time. pollinators and what he spectacular domain of enhance our perception Focusing on a (relatively) 29.09.18 – 06.10.18 hopes people will take the humble bumble bee to help us see, hear, small structure for 10:30 – 17:00 from the installation. in this family-friendly and feel the natural a limited period of Free, visitors can time has been fun. installation. Located in environment in new and What do you think people book timed slots the Artists Garden behind enriched ways. This will enjoy most about How important are bees on the day during York Art Gallery, The immersive experience the installation? to the great work you busy periods Pollinarium is a place with light and sound will I think it will be the do at St Nicks? – where time slows down, last around 10 minutes. range of public activities Much of our work at St Summer Activities scale is expanded and our vision is enhanced and sessions going on. Nicks Nature Reserve and Every Wed & Sat from to more than human. From pollinator prowls, across York is for the Summer Activities at storytelling, willow 08.08.18 – 26.09.18 The Pollinarium benefit of bees and Free, please check Our senses define our weaving and a night-time other pollinators. They experience of the world safari, there is something yorkmediale.co m Family-friendly events pollinate many of our wild and each living organism and activities organised for everyone. plant species including for full details experiences a different by St Nicks, York Centre our native wildflowers, reality. Follow the bee’s for Nature and Green some tree species and journey as a pollinator Living, will be running many major food crops we through its own eyes and every Wednesday and need to survive. They are ears, experiencing its Saturday from 8 August also a food source for many superpowers first- – 26 September in the many of our other native hand. Life appears in slow Artists Garden. wildlife such as bats, motion for our flying badgers, birds and other friends, as they process See yorkmediale.com and insects. So they’re pretty four times more visual individual Facebook events im portant! information per second for more details. than us humans.

Co-commissioned by York Mediale, York Museums Trust and Invisible Dust for the Humber Museums Partnership. The Pollinarium is a collaboration between the Spatial Laboratory Loop.pH, Carl H Smith (Ravensbourne) and Mark Ransley (UCL) and is supported by St Nicks Centre for Nature and Green Living (York). 8 9 INSTALLATIONS Deep Lab UK shines Deep Lab is a global Deep Lab UK critical light on the cyberfeminist collective dark side of digital working together to Location, date and culture. This large-scale exploit the potential for Top-left © Ulungile Magubane time TBC, please Bottom-left © Neo Musangi video installation is creative inquiry, lying Still Right © Sam Bayliss-Ibram see yorkmediale.com a critique of the institu- dormant in the deep web. for details tionalised genocide caused to the 34,361 refugees A series of residencies, We Rise whose non-white bodies which took place through- have been violated. out 2018, led by Addie Various locations Wagenknecht and Maral 28.09.18 – 06.10.18 Projected onto the facade Pourkazemi, Deep Lab UK Free 1 of York’s city walls the is the first of its kind work visualizes the loss, in Europe, with its the anonymity, and the highly-anticipated outputs value of the displaced holding global importance. body. It augments the Participants include INSTALLATIONS reality of lives lost Alisha Morenike Fisher, © unitedagainstracism.org 3 and the dehumanisation Georgia Hughes, Laura of the system that Kriefman, Marta Di processes them. Francesco and Tamara Al Mashouk. 2

1. eMBIZENI, by Ulungile A rare chance to witness Still We Rise continues

Magubane (South Africa) an electric ensemble of Angelou’s fight for © Stuart Norton international femme and equality through the lens 2. The Way of the Cross, non-binary media artists. and locales of Ulungile by Neo Musangi (Kenya) Inspired by the writing Magubane (South Africa), 3. Fayetteville, by and poetry of Maya Neo Musangi (Kenya) Brandon Covington Angelou (1928-2014), and Brandon Covington Being truly inclusive is a never-ending search for Sam-Sumana (USA) a leading American Sam-Sumana (USA) as untapped talent and unheard voices. You have to civil rights activist, they confront the look beyond what’s in front of you and be willing Venues TBC, see this uncompromising set violence they each to delve deeper. This is the approach we’ve yorkmediale.com of installations and live face in response to the taken for every element of York Mediale 2018, for details performances considers visibility and obscurity be it creating the programme, working with the concerns shaping the of their identities. communities or building the team. lives and locales of Embark on a thought It will come as no surprise that there are participating artists. Rachael provoking and moving inequalities throughout the world of technology, digital The artists have been Norton-Drew journey across continents and media art. The ripples of a revolution are beginning selected by an open Festival that forces you to to show, but it’s going to take more than one festival call supported by the and Company British Council. re-evaluate what to undo years of prejudice and preconception. equality means today. Manager Maya Angelou’s 1978 Trying to do our bit to highlight, tackle and interrogate poem Still I Rise spoke inequalities, we believe passionately in our potential as of her experiences a catalyst for change. We’ve pushed and nudged our way into as a black woman in organisations, unlikely places and spaces to draw in diverse America, highlighting ideas and tease out talent. For those in the festival it touches, the importance of it could provide a pathway for personal progression, an reigniting one’s opportunity to change opinions or an entry to employment. self-worth and power Our mission is to provide the platform for anyone to fulfil in order to combat their potential in York, in whatever field they choose. oppression.

10 11 What is is What equal? INSTALLATIONS Venture down the 2. Fake News Kaleidoscope, Yorkshire rabbit hole and visit by Tom Smith, Ask Italian, Alexander Whitley installations resulting Assembly Rooms Artists from the successful Dance Company: submissions to our A sideways look at truth, Installations open call for myths and alternative Strange Stranger Yorkshire Artists. realities. The news Various locations headlines of the day are York Guildhall 28.09.18 – 06.10.18 1. Of York Minster, by to be transformed into – a typographical kaleido- Free Bright White, Ask Italian, Performance Assembly Rooms scope, to encourage us 2 8.0 9.1 8 2 0:3 0 Supported by: to question the news we Of York Minster presents receive and what society £10 / £5 conc. fragments of original considers worth reading. – stained glass, lead, carved stone and wood More artists to be Installation mounted in a futuristic announced – see 29.09.18 – 05.10.18 INSTALLATIONS display case. This yorkmediale.com for 14:00 – 20:00 © Tom Andrew augmented reality display more information. Free explores the connection and reconnection of York’s creative community to Experience and explore Drawing upon the notion York Minster over two the world premiere of of a ‘data shadow’, the millennia, highlighting Strange Stranger, an digital profile formed the Minster’s tangible and immersive performance from the traces of infor- intangible influence on created by acclaimed mation we unintentionally creativity within the c h o r e o g r a p h e r, leave behind through

City of York. © Tom Smith Alexander Whitley. our routine interaction with technology, Strange Strange Stranger investi- Stranger explores the gates the idea of pres- paradox of how, the more ence and the right to be information we have access forgotten in the digital to, the stranger and more age. A performance by four incomprehensible the dancers to Beatrice world seems. Dillon’s composition of driving and fracturing After the world premiere rhythms provides the performance on Friday initial data for the 28 September, Strange 2

© Bright White Ltd© Bright installation, placing a Stranger will become an ‘shadow’ within the space interactive installation for you to explore and that will be open to interact with long after the public to explore they depart. throughout the festival. As you move through a Strange Stranger is maze of light towers, a collaboration with motion capture technology composer Beatrice Dillon, collects your kinetic Children of the Light data and adds a new layer, (renowned for their generating a unique and stunning lighting designs constantly evolving atmos- and scenography for phere of light and sound. Nicolas Jaar) and creative technologist Luca Biada.

Co-commissioned by York Mediale and Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Supported by Cockayne – 1 Grants for the Arts and the London Community Foundation, Bonnie Bird New Choreography Fund, Queen Mary University of London, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and Rambert. 12 13 Can data data Can forget? Stones Against Diamonds © Isaac Julien Diamonds Against Stones INSTALLATIONS Green (screen) Dreams globalisation and Rodrigo by Brazilian-born artist climate change in North Rodrigo Lebrun, intro- Lincolnshire - a region Lebrun: duces us to the imagi- vulnerable to pollution, nary town of ‘Sunthorpe’ floods and rising Green and its popular tourist sea levels. By presenting attractions. Curated by attractions that do not (screen) Invisible Dust, Lebrun yet exist, the project uses an intentional typo, taps into a place shaped Dreams Sunthorpe (Scunthorpe), to by human activity whose express unrealised utopi- very existence may be SPA RK:Yo r k as, current challenges threatened by it. and future aspirations. 28.09.18 – 06.10.18 invisibledust.com 14:00 – 20.00 In this video installation @Invisible_Dust Free based at SPARK:York, #Sunthorpe Lebrun explores the INSTALLATIONS challenges faced by a community whose identity is still rooted in indus- try and the relationship between industrialisation,

© Rodrigo Lebrun Curated by Invisible Dust. A new commission for Invisible Dust and Humber Museums Partnership and York Mediale as part of Surroundings.

Developed by Hannah This short, work-in-pro- Baba Davies, Jonathan Eato gress, trailer piece uses Strata – Rock and Hannah Bruce. a thrilling combination of Yaga site-specific storytell- – Dust – Stars Lisa is running from ing and immersive audio Piccadilly Car Park, someone, or something. techniques, including York Art Gallery Merchantgate Who, or what it is, she binaural sound recordings, 28.09.18 – 25.11.18 01.10.18 – 06.10.18 can’t quite tell. All she to create an atmospheric knows is that in the day- reimagining of this 10:00 – 17:00 19:00 – 19:30 time it lurks around every A landmark exhibition Co-commissioned between terrifying tale. £7.50 / Free to YMT £5 corner, and at night it featuring moving image, York Art Gallery & York Audience members leaps through her dreams. cgtheatre.co.uk Card Holders, book new media and interactive Mediale, and curated by @CGTheatreMakers tickets online at artwork, Strata – Rock – Mike Stubbs, Director must have a smart- Common Ground Theatre #CGTBabaYaga yorkartgallery.org.uk Dust – Stars takes of FACT Liverpool, the phone and headphones have teamed up with Hannah its inspiration from exhibition features works Bruce & Co. to adapt the William Smith’s ground- by artists Isaac Julien, folk story of Baba Yaga breaking geological map, Agnes Meyers Brandis, the witch. ‘Delineating Strata’, Semiconductor, Phil Coy, which identified the Liz Orton, David Jaques layers of the Earth and and Ryoichi Kurokawa. transformed the way in It not only examines which the world was geological strata, but understood. It will be also explores a timely and the most ambitious and contemporary poetic layer- large scale media art ing of human curiosity, © Audrie Woodhouse exhibition York has exploration and reflection ever hosted. on the universe. 14 15 Performance: Behold new sights, sounds and speculative truths. Open What was your brief? Why these acts? the door to far flung worlds and let your York Mediale advocated creative freedom for our curiosity wander. choice of acts. Pearson Sound and Joy O have been experimenting at the fore- front of UK underground

electronic music for a PERFORMANCE Music purists turn away, Together they will perform decade, with a reputation Just Jam as we welcome two of the against the backdrop of for seamless transitions most exciting names in ex- a spectacular live mixed Boparai Harkirit between genres and styles. presents: perimental jazz to perform audio-visual stream from We are also delighted live on York Theatre Just Jam. Starting out Music Q&A: to be working alongside Kamaal Royal’s main stage, photographing the blos- Just Jam to bring Kamaal inside a mind-blowing, soming Grime scene in the Williams and Moses Boyd Williams & psychedelic audio-visual early 00s, this respect- It’s rare that a festival to York – real pioneers experience. ed creative duo showcase of the rejuvenated London Moses Boyd live, cutting-edge music of this scale in York jazz movement. Fusing unlikely allies in from across the globe, jazz, grime, jungle and with recent shows at What do you hope to bring ‘Exodus’ Live house, visionary musician really tunes into the the V&A, ICA and to the programme? York Theatre Royal Moses Boyd has gathered Barbican, London. an army of followers underground scene We always focus on bring- 2 7.0 9.1 8 2 0:0 0 and awards that defy his Their production crew ing great music to York, £16 / £10 conc. age, including The John includes 15 young people, and seeks to work with

PERFORMANCE otherwise we wouldn’t be Peel Play More Jazz Award offering them invaluable here. Partnership with and a MOBO for Best Jazz experience in high-pro- local promoters to make York Mediale has Act. Keyboardist, DJ and file broadcast supporting empowered us to go producer Kamaal Williams’ professional artists. their event a success. even further with that. music is heralded simply as the ‘essence of London Every trailblazing act How does this fit with Underground’, combining This show is curated by Elijah needs a soundtrack to the ethos and ambitions c/o Surprisingly and presented of The Crescent? jazz with the sound in partnership with York music match. The high-concept of urban London, to promoters Ouroboros. music line-up of the The Crescent is a labour huge acclaim. inaugural York Mediale of love – all about taking owes much to the ground- something old (est 1902) work of local promoters and showing that a Harkirit Boparai dedicated team can (Ouroboros) and Joe reinterpret the space Coates (Please Please into something new; You), alongside York which also reflects house/techno stalwarts York Mediale’s approach. Bad Chapel. As somebody involved in We spoke to Harkirit and York’s music scene for Joe about why the YM2018 over a decade, how is

Joe Coates music programme repre- this different? sents more than a series of one-off gigs. Instead It’s rare that a festi- it announces the coming- val of this scale in York of-age of York’s under- really tunes into the ground music scene and underground scene and another milestone in the seeks to work with local resurgence of The Crescent promoters to make their Com munity Venue. event a success. © Harry McCulloch 16 17 With a sample-hunting, Signed to Gilles You’ve been on a voyage Consistently one step Skinny studio-meddling mindset, Peterson’s Brownswood Joy of media arts discovery, ahead of his peers, he Skinny Pelembe’s music Recordings label, he’s now let’s celebrate! blends garage, bass, Pelembe roams hazy afro-tipped hotly tipped as one to Orbison funky, house, techno soul with psychedelic watch in 2018. Say you In all the right circles, and old school jungle The Crescent tangents. Born in Johan- discovered Skinny Pelembe The Crescent Joy O (a.k.a. Joy Orbison) to create his signature Community Venue nesburg, growing up in in this most intimate of Community Venue is widely-regarded as one trance-inducing beats. 02.10.18 19:30 Doncaster, this sparkling venues - a rediscovered 06.10.18 21:00 of the best underground electronic DJs around. This will be York £ 7.7 0 multi-instrumentalist trailblazer in York’s £10 blends production, guitar, music scene. Bursting onto the scene Mediale’s closing party, singing and MCing, tapping in 2009 with the now so bring your dancing PERFORMANCE into a sound that is seminal track Hyph Mngo, shoes and join York impossible to predict. Joy O has since headlined M e d i al e’s a r t i s ts, international festivals, curators, producers, lit up Berlin’s Berghain partners and volunteers, and Manchester’s Warehouse as we toast the last Project, remixed the likes 10 days and indulge of Lana Del Rey and scored in the possibility a handful of undeniable of what’s next. summer anthems. 18+ PERFORMANCE Legendary producer Pearson Despite these achieve- Electronic music pioneer In this time, Ciani has Pearson Sound, a.k.a. David Kennedy ments, and having Suzanne Suzanne Ciani opens her released 15 solo albums, needs little introduction. lectured at the Red Bull UK tour at York Mediale, most recently, LIVE Quad- Sound Forming one third of the Music Academy in Madrid, Ciani Live performing the live Buchla raphonic, of which only prolific label Hessle released a critically that defined her career in 227 copies were printed The Crescent Audio (with Ben UFO and heralded FABRICLIVE & Stocker quadraphonic sound. This and sold at $227 each. Community Venue Pangaea), he has been compilation and remixed is a rare opportunity to In 2017, Ciani received 2 9.0 9.1 8 21:0 0 at the forefront of UK artists including /Eyes see a master at work. the Moog Innovation Award, £10 advance / £15 OTD underground electronic Radiohead, The xx and recognising her peerless music for the past decade. M.I.A., Pearson Sound still Secret Location Over the course of her use of synthesisers to finds time to maintain 05.10.18 20:00 30+ year career, Ciani has create entirely new sounds Never afraid to reinvent carved out a niche as one the Hessle Rinse FM show £12 / £10 conc. that opened minds around himself, his adventurous and his regular vinyl-only of the most creatively the globe to electronic productions reflect the night Acetate in Leeds. successful female compos- music as a valid form of hybrid influences of UK ers of electronic sound expression. bass music; jungle, This intimate gig at on the planet. A five-time techno, house, dubstep The Crescent will be Grammy award-nominated Joining Suzanne for the and garage can all be a lot of fun! recording artist, her work show are very special found in his extensive has been the soundtrack to guests Stocker/Eyes, back catalogue, whilst 18+ the most iconic advertis- (percussionist Beau © Sima Korenivski headline sets at festivals ing commercials, video Stocker and multi-instru- all around the world games and feature films mentalist Ben Eyes) who have given this versatile of a generation. will take you on an impro- DJ cult status. © Karel Chladek vised tour through their sound world of hypnotising beats, passages of doom influenced drones and modular wig-outs.

18 19 Art, meet the future.

20 21 Part 1: Laura Cannell Part 2: Jonathan Hering For this very special Lisson Gallery, Southbank The and Laura Spark and Laura Spark Beatrice performance, renowned Centre, Centre d’Art producer, DJ and Somerset Contemporain Geneva, Untuning Laura Cannell (Double Jonathan Hering (Voice) Dillon Live House artist-in-residence Nasher Sculpture Dallas Recorders & Overbow and visual artist Laura Beatrice Dillon finds and Mona Tasmania, of the Sky Violin) and visual artist Spark perform with support York Guildhall herself within the live amongst others. Laura Spark perform from experimental violin 06.10.18 20:00 environment of Alexander Part 1: with support from duo Laura Cannell and £12 / £10 conc. Whitley Dance Company’s Dillon’s futuristic sounds National Centre special guests Rhodri André Bosman. Strange Stranger instal- emerge from a self-con- Davies (Harp) and André fessed obsession with for Early Music Part 2 of this brand new lation in York’s historic B o s m a n (E l e c t r o n i c s). Guildhall - a work for technology, giving new PERFORMANCE 2 9.0 9.1 8 19:3 0 piece presents musical life to an eclectic pal- Inspiration for this piece and visual interpretations which she has composed £18 / £10 conc. the soundtrack. ette of global influences. – comes from the ancient of Renaissance polyphony. York Mediale is proud to astrological idea of the Jonathan Hering uses Part 2: With an acclaimed set free this experimental Music of the Spheres - modern day technology and back catalogue of solo and unpredictable artist National Centre that the revolution of the his bass-to-counter-tenor releases, remixes and in one of the city’s for Early Music planets generates a celes- range to sing multi-lay- festival sets, Dillon has finest historic venues. 30.09.18, 19:30 tial harmony of profound ered choral music from © Anne Tetzlaff also collaborated with £18 / £10 conc. and transcendent beauty the 14th – 17th Century, award-winning visual which mortals cannot presented in 8-channel artists at ICA, Tate, – hear. Laura Cannell draws surround sound. Laura’s Buy tickets for Parts on fragments of medieval projection and animation 1 & 2 at the same and renaissance music, techniques illuminate the time for just £20 to be re-imagined as new music, building layers of works for the recorder colour, light and imagery and violin. Accompanied to illustrate the ever- PERFORMANCE

by oscillating electronics expanding layers of by André Bosman and voice and harmony. in collaboration with It takes just eight Laura Spark, music and Alexander minutes for sunlight to visuals fall in and out Don’t miss Celestial travel 93 million miles Motion – a free of balance, Whitley to Earth. In this unique exploring the virtual reality collaboration with experience in the spaces between scientists from STFC RAL harmony and Dance Upper Foyer, inspired Space, choreographer by 8 Minutes. discord. Company: Alexander Whitley takes inspiration from solar Upper Foyer, 8 Minutes science research and its York Theatre Royal stunning imagery. 27.09.18 18:00 – 20:00 York Theatre Royal 28.09.18 12:00 – 19:30 With an installation 2 9.0 9.1 8 19:3 0 29.09.18 12:00 – 19:30 of high-definition Free £16 / £10 conc. imagery from visual artist Tal Rosner and a specially created score by the electronic music innovator Daniel Wohl, 8 Minutes captures our curiosity and wonder for this unimaginably vast subject.

© Laura Spark © Johan Persson

The Untuning of the Sky is made possible with financial support from The National Centre for Early Music. These events are supported 8 Minutes is a Sadler’s Wells commission, DanceEast and by PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund. Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance co-commission. 22 23 Is there harmony in chaos? “O King, here is something theories from antiquity Knowledge: Enlightening Myth of that, once learned, will to the present day. make the Egyptians wiser conferences, demos and peer-to-peer Theuth and will improve their Meet philosophers who memory; I have discovered greatly influenced the discussions. Tune-in to exclusive insights Hospitium, a potion for memory and development of media Museum Gardens for wisdom.” This is the theories, such as Gotthold and change the way you go about 01.10.18 - 02.10.18 myth of the invention of Ephraim Lessing, who shows writing by the Egyptian you the limits of the 11:00 - 18:00 image, Laura Mulvey, who your work, forever. Free god Theuth, as described by the well-known Greek takes a delightful gaze on philosopher Plato in his your memorising abilities, Stories of Solitude will — How can art and work Phaedrus. and Marshall McLuhan, who Stories of explore the artistic, performance explore the finally gets his well- social and philosophical ethical questions posed Myth of Theuth is a deserved massage. This Solitude: potential of being alone, by AI and robotics? far-reaching take on the unique experience promises as well as its many traditional board game in to shatter your assump- Performance, challenges in an increas- — Which spaces are created which players use books, tions of everything a ingly digital world. and lost in the practice laptops, smartphones, board game is, and of virtual reality? Technology Featuring prominent social media, blindfolds, could be. With a blockbuster speaker candy and liqueur to innovators and thought

line-up including interac- KNOWLEDGE © qujOchÖ & Digital leaders in the field, this complete a mission. tive arts studio Invisible Created by Austrian art one-day symposium will Overload consider a series of Flock, Natalie Kane, collective qujOchÖ, the Curator of Digital Design game deals with media Hospitium, provocations based upon the notion that being at the V&A Museum, and Museum Gardens connected is great but Maaike Bleeker, Professor of Theatre Studies at PERFORMANCE 03.10.18 being present in the From the fringes of Sophie Unwin and Lydia 09:00 – 18:00 moment is better. Utrecht University, this A SLAP artistic performance Cottrell, involve you is a must-attend event £40 / £25 conc. These include: to the fore, York’s in their alternative for anybody interested Odyssey leading performance art visions for tomorrow. — How do we maximise in digital identities collective invite you to The performances include human contact in and the unyielding York Medical Society an immersive experience experimental dance, live cities populated by power of interaction. 05.10.18 17:00 / 18:30 at York Medical Society. art, installation, theatre smart objects? / 20:00 / 21:30 and film. A SLAP Odyssey is a — How can technology Tickets are pay what multi-sensory voyage into The evening will also improve the health of you can: £3 unwaged the unknown. Enter with an include a specially- communities and how can & low income, £6 open mind as you explore commissioned interactive bits of data add up student, £9 conces- and interact with the theatre gaming experience to big change? artwork formed for the by Closed Forum, probing sions, £12 suggested Co-curated by York Mediale and Dr. Eirini Nedelkopoulou, Associate SLAPover creative the intersection of Professor of Theatre and Performance at York St John University. full price laboratory - an intensive dreams, games, reality week-long residency for and anxiety. We’re committed to making all of our events as accessible and collaborating, developing affordable as possible. With and devising new that in mind we have a range performances, that of ticket prices available and took place during ask everyone to be honest about their financial situation. sum m er 2018. Aaron Howell, Ali Matthews, Fran Bundey, Minyung Im and Roderick Morgan, along with SLAP’s © Trajectory Theatre

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Arts Council England. With further support from York Mediale and York St John University. VR © Clon installation

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KNOWLEDGE the world - and people - 09:00 – 18:00 of multimedia storytelling Ellison, artist and writer information & tickets. and narrative. around us. £65 / £50 conc. Leila Johnston, Gob Squad collective’s Sarah Thom – Brought to you by The DotYork is ideal for and creative technologist people working in digital Creative Enterprise British Games Institute (BGI), Pilot Theatre Gorm Lai. Join the and creative industries. Business Surgeries and York Mediale, this conversation and reap You will hear from, and 15:15 – 18:00 ambitious two-day melting its revelations. take part in, discussions Open to all, must pot of ideas features with 16 speakers sharing Limited bursary their experience on this be booked in advance industry heavy-weight places available, speakers from the cultural © Hewitt & Walker year’s topics of Identity via yorkmediale.com contact Lucy Hammond: (p e o p l e), M o n e y (t r u s t), and gaming sectors, open [email protected] discussion and candid Freedom (data/privacy) sharing, a micro-game and Survival (ethics Continue is supported by Arts & sustainability). Council England, Creative jam and exclusive project England, and PlatformShift+, demos from immersive a Creative Europe Project. tech to theatre.

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26 27 Choreographer Alexander Discussion will focus Community: It is only together that Yorkshire Whitley will discuss on scientific theory and the ideas behind his how this informed the we can achieve diversity, and it is only with Philosophical critically acclaimed dance choreographic process. production, 8 Minutes. Broader discussion on the diversity that we can achieve equality. Society Made in partnership with relationship between art STFC RAL Space, the piece and science will follow, presents: draws on scientific theory looking in particular at and the stunning imagery the role of creativity, Muse Hack 4.0: Hack Camp Explore Noise Orchestra Alexander generated by solar science imagination and Are you aged 9–12? Then research and explores the discipline. Labs Join our exciting, digital all you need to bring is dynamic forces at work maker, arts project for your imagination and our Whitley in The conversation will in our universe. young people aged 10–14. techies, coders, digital also give an insight into Muse Hack 4.0 Explore, create, tinker makers and artists will conversation the innovative 8 Minutes York Explore Library and design using digital help you create a unique Creative Learning Learning Centre maker tools, circuits gadget in just one day! Programme, which has TA Hall, Every Monday from and technology. Museum Gardens brought together a team 17.09.18 – 19.11.18 Booking is essential: of dancers and scientists 02.10.18 19:30 17:30 – 19:30 Work with professional [email protected] to deliver movement-based artists and digital or call 01904 552828 – science workshops to Free, booking makers, learn some code Tickets are free primary school children essential and create technology (donations are around the UK. – as part of our 9-Bit, optional) and can © Daniel Jaems Hack Camp recycled noise be pre-booked: 06.10.18 orchestra project. ypswhitley. 10:00 – 16:00 eventbrite.co.uk Free, booking essential

Cafe Scientifique is a Leading tech companies COMMUNITY Cafe place where you can come worldwide, including Snap and explore the latest Inc, Google and Facebook, Scientifique ideas in science and are investing heavily in te ch n ol og y. virtual and augmented York with reality. The BBC and the This summer, York Mediale AAM is a York-based Entrepreneur and producer Accessible and Accessible Arts & charity. They run fun, KNOWLEDGE University of York are Sharon Reid Sharon Reid will discuss developing new technol- Media (AAM) designed a inclusive arts and media audience interaction in ogy that will inform the Arts & Media series of fully inclusive learning programmes, Base ment, Film and TV, the next future direction of online workshops for young reaching over 700 City Screen generation of storytelling broadcasting. As tradi- Workshops people with and without people each year. technology and how this 03.10.18 19:30 tional ways of consuming a disa bility. Their activities help will change the way people media are being replaced people develop the (d o o r s 19.0 0) The workshops included consume media forever. with ever changing new confidence and skills a musical Hack Camp and – and different forms, how to connect with their animation workshop at Free, booking will content distribution local community – having Explore York, a dance and change? lots of fun on the way! essential interactive film session Sharon Reid is co-owner by Creative Humans at York aamedia.org.uk of The Imaginarium St John University and a Studios, the world’s lead- virtual reality workshop ing performance capture at the University of York. studio, responsible for work on some of the biggest productions of recent years, including Star Wars: The Last Jedi. 28 29 The One Percent is an The result is a powerful Light // Moves is an Academy have produced The One innovative digital arts film designed to challenge Light // otherworldly performance their own digital campaign delivered by stereotypes and replace project exploring dance, performance, from Percent Inspired Youth, driven limitations with expec- Moves coding, shadow and light the first line of code by the voices of local tations - raising the through the creative minds to the final choreographed Everyman Cinema, young people, describing aspirations of children 05.10.18 of school children. dance projections. Blossom Street their experiences of leaving care. Private performance Working with local Made possible by the support 02.10.18 18:30 moving through the at Park Grove of the Guild of Media Arts. care system. The performance will be artists and practitioners, £4 / £2 conc. followed by a panel debate Academy School. including York Dance By putting first-person exploring what more can Not open to Space, lighting designer accounts at the heart of be done both locally the public. Tigger Johnson and former the creative pro- and nationally to better Master of the Guild of cess, participants support young people Media Arts, Mat Lazenby, follow a narrative to make the transition the students at Park Grove about a girl called towards independence. Sam, a care leaver who is on a The One Percent relates to journey of self- a national statistic that discovery. The 1% of children are looked profound spoken after by the care system. word piece is This 1% are consistently written by care compared negatively York Theatre Royal’s This year’s theme is experienced young against the remaining TakeOver award-winning TakeOver ‘Speak Out’ - a rally- people on differ- 99%, fuelling lower Festival returns for its ing call and response to ent stages of the expectations, compounding Festival tenth edition in an recent events of worldwide care journey and lower academic achieve- exciting new partnership protest and prominent relives their ment and higher incidence Various locations with York Mediale. Run in campaigns, such as the potent personal of criminal convictions 27.09.18 - 06.10.18 its entirety by a group of #MeToo Movement. experiences and higher rates of young people aged 12-26, through the homelessness. TakeOver provides one of Its eclectic programme is overseen by TakeOver 2018’s challenges the best hands-on work COMMUNITY they face. experiences of the arts Artistic Director Jessy sector with mentoring from Roberts who hopes to show top industry professionals. how Media Arts “can be used to combine the past Over the years the and present and create festival has harnessed exciting new work”. and have collected digital the energy, ideas and Returning stories based on choices, vision of young people to From York Theatre Royal’s chances, memories produce and present new main stage to Spark:York and crossroads. Citizens: voices and new artists. and surprising locations around the city, expect Co-created by Returning bold performances from Projection Citizens and York film- the likes of Gracefool makers, animations will According to McGee Collective, Suited be projected through the Gallery front Elephant, fanSHEN, gallery window of York Mediale strives to © Nick Walters Barrel Organ and more. window projection, According to McGee -

COMMUNITY 8 Tower Street a testament to the life Returning Citizens are bring people together. Please visit 2 8.0 9.1 8 – 2 9.0 9.1 8 changing opportunities prisoners who have served yorktheatreroyal.co.uk provided by innovation 18:00 - 21:00 their time and are about These projects present the for more information. and open minds. Free to return to society. artistic achievements of Stretch Digital and New Visuality held creative people from all walks of workshops in UK prisons life & feature work created by the local community. 30 31 YM2018 recommends

Hailed as ‘a hauntingly For one soldier, the Charlie beautiful installation’ flickering images, (The Telegraph), this whirring projector and Does it Ward intimate, immersive and Chaplin’s perfect comic immensely powerful sound timing trigger complex York Army Museum installation places audi- emotions and memories. 25.09.18 – 06.10.18 ences in the heart of Cast from the trenches 09:30 - 16:30 a makeshift wartime hos- to childhood, from trauma £5 / £3 conc. pital, where an unlikely to dreams, the hospital therapy brings solace and film show sets him on a comfort to those injured journey into a personal on the battlefield. no man’s land. change Co-commissioned by 14-18 Charlie Ward is an immer- Now and Fuel, Charlie Ward sive sound installation takes us back to 1914 in a for a small audience, makeshift hospital behind lasting approximately the front line, where the 15 minutes. Includes some war’s first casualties are periods of total darkness. treated. To boost morale, © Fuel Theatre your pers- medical staff arrange for a Chaplin film to be shown for the bedridden with the ward’s ceiling serving as the silver screen. pective? You are invited to take Presented by Vespertine The Bunker part in an alternative and York Archaeological tour of York’s little Trust in partnership with Experience known Cold War Bunker. English Heritage. Located on a quiet cul- part III de-sac in Holgate, this Bookable alternative tours atmospheric 60’s time- will be available. Each York Cold War Bunker, capsule takes you on a tour is for one person Monument Close solo tour through a series at a time and will last of 360 degree films viewed around 15 minutes. To book 03.10.18 – 06.10.18 your slot, please email: 17.00 – 19:00 through an immersive VR headset. yorkbunker@english-herit (15 minute slots) age.org.uk or call: £5 Made in response to 01904 797935 conversations with older people in the local area The bunker is accessible about the Cold War era, to those who use as well as Royal Observer wheelchairs or walkers. Veterans and English Please contact for Heritage’s knowledgeable further information. staff, the piece mixes the real and not so real and takes you on a different journey. © Vespertine

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23 Alexander Whitley Dance Company: 8 Minutes 23 Alexander Whitley Dance Company: Celestial Motion 13 Alexander Whitley Dance Company: Strange Stranger (installation) 13 Alexander Whitley Dance Company: Strange Stranger (performance) 15 Baba Yaga 23 Beatrice Dillon Live 28 Cafe Scientifique York with Sharon Reid 32 Charlie Ward 26 Continue: Videogames and Culture 27 Creative Enterprise Business Surgeries 11 Deep Lab UK 27 DotYork 29 Explore Labs: Music Hack 29 Explore Labs: Hack Camp 19 Joy Orbison 16 Just Jam presents: Kamaal Williams & Moses Boyd ‘Exodus’ Live 6 Matthew Plummer Fernandez: Token Homes 24 Myth of Theuth 18 Pearson Sound 30 Returning Citizens: Projection 15 Rodrigo Lebrun: Green (screen) Dreams 18 Skinny Pelembe 24 A SLAP Odyssey 10 Still We Rise 25 Stories of Solitude: Performance, Technology & Digital Overload 14 Strata – Rock – Dust – Stars 19 Suzanne Ciani Live & Stocker/Eyes 31 TakeOver Festival 32 The Bunker Experience part III 7 The Cutting Room presents: What is Love? 30 The One Percent 8+9 The Pollinarium 22 The Untuning of the Sky (Part 1) 22 The Untuning of the Sky (Part 2) 12 Yorkshire Artists Installations 28 Yorkshire Philosophical Society Lecture: Alexander Whitley

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