L-V-L/Top Nice
Friday 3rd June 9pm-late

The opening party for Brickhouse Incarnation 5 will be double-faceted. SVA's project space will become Top Nice for the evening. Top Nice is a club night happening regularly in London and Stockholm, with music from London residents Hampus Time, Burning Bush and Enchante, and Alonzo of Top Nice Stockholm. Hounds of Hate will perform live, bringing deep and easy going elements. Paul B Davis aka Brains will DJ, playing a fast or slow hour, depending on the mood. Beyond the SVA's project space, the corridors and interior courtyard of the SVA building will become "Landing Strip 2" for one night. "Landing Strip" is a bar conceived by L-V-L (Hampus Larsson, Thomas Bush and Tobias Centerwall), set in Kowloon Walled City, China, before its demolition in 1994. The second "Landing Strip" is the product of further investigation into the Walled City's dense improvised structure, consisting of sound, light, drink, food and various paraphernalia.

Performances by Michael O'Mahony and Edwin Burdis
Friday 3rd June 8-9pm
Goods Shed, Station Yard, Stroud,GL5 3AP

Recently shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010, artist Michael O’Mahony’s work is personal and funny. BRICKHOUSE has commissioned a new performance for incarnation 5 that will see him expand on his mantra like lectures. Michaels works often explores his experiences of living with his parents in Palmers Green, London, where he has lived since childhood. In a sense, all of Michael’s work is about himself, drawing himself in different scenarios or adopting a character to act out. Through this personal study Michael gives us a unique and human insight into his life but also our own and how we live now. Neurotic and painfully human Burdis plays on the flaws of man, his lusting body and his greed, in an open and honest way that makes his work both engaging, affectionate and affecting. His body of work spans drawing, music-making and performance. His Brickhouse performance takes place during his 5-week stay in the Hayward Gallery.

Loading Spaces
4th-19th June Fridays - Sundays 10-4pm -SVA
4th-25th June Fridays & Saturdays 10-4pm
Unit 34, Merrywalks, Stroud

‘Loading Spaces’ is a collaborative project that brings together the work of Nigel Dunkley, Roman Liškaand the Lloyd Corporation. It is premised upon an investigation into the various aesthetic, socio-political and material framings of objects within contemporary culture. This is an attempt to understand how an object is continually ‘produced’ by its multifarious circulations, exchanges, displays and representations. The moment of the exhibition becomes a ‘loading space’ objects are imported into a site where conditions can be tweaked, architecture can be intervened in and contexts can be shifted and scrutinized. How do certain objects react? How do our engagements, our navigations and our ways of looking at objects change in this space?

Mezz #14: Jayne Parker and Evan Parker
Saturday 4th June 7.30pm-late

Mezz #14 brings together film-maker Jayne Parker and free improvising saxophonist Evan Parker for the first time. Introducing her films: Blues in B-flat (featuring cellist Anton Lukoszevieze), Cold Jazz (featuring saxophonist Kathy Stobart) and Catalogue of Birds: Book 3 (featuring pianist Katharina Wolpe), Jayne Parker will talk about how music helps her to think about film structurally, posing the questions: how can I reflect the form and rigour of the music? How can film embody music? Does what I see change what I hear? This will be followed by a solo performance by Evan Parker, a legendary pioneer in the field of improvised music. With a lexicon of techniques he has devised over forty years from circular breathing to cross fingering, the sounds that resonate from the body of the saxophone seem to have shape, his intense performances oscillating from the harsh and raw to a swirling, fluttering web of contrapuntal tones. “In Evan Parker’s music” writes Stuart Broomer “thought and breath are continuous, each the instrument and measure of the other”. Mezz is a series of artists’ talks, screenings and performances organised by Louisa Fairclough and Simon Ryder.
£10 Tickets from SVA or on the door 01453 751400
www.mezz.info

Dulcibelle and Dick hit Stroud
Rebecca Weeks & Ian Whitford,
Artists in Residence Site Festival 2011
19-30 June

Over the course of the residency, Rebecca Weeks and Ian Whitford as 'Dulcibelle Davies' and 'Dick Zhemmet' intend to develop performance personas and generate a tableau charting the duos exploits in and around Stroud. Their activities are likely to include drinking, dancing, eating, talking, arguing, kissing, and other more poetic or playful actions that will come out of a response to the site or context. The performance images generated will be disseminated like dumped pornography from abandoned suitcases, phone boxes, car parks, alleys, lay-bys and pub toilets in Stroud. The images will also be grouped together as a more conventional exhibition at a site yet to be negotiated.

On-Site+Off-Site
Friday 24th June 6pm
Saturday 25th June 6pm

A double bill event over two nights on-SITE+off-SITE presents 8 dynamic performance artists over the two evenings exploring and responding to how "site" can affect and inform performance practice, looking at place, time, body, audience and environment as the accumulative site for performance. Artists include: Soozy Roberts (Stroud), Sinead Breathnach Cashell (Belfast), Phil Owen (Bristol) and more to be confirmed. The first evening will take place at SVA where four performers will use the building as the "site" for their performances exploring the confines and recesses of this fixed, given “art space”. The second evening will take place in various public locations in Stroud, starting at SVA, the audience will take a guided route through Stroud to watch the four performers in their chosen "sites". At the end of each evening there will be drinks and an informal discussion around the performances and the subject of “site”.

Also see site festival

PROJECTS SPOKEN WORD EXHIBITIONS FILM MUSIC

see full site Festival programme at

www.sitefestival.org.uk