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spectacle

admin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:53:03 +0000

Welcome to the new IAS website! The page is currently under construction yet you can already find here some basic information about the project. Thank you for your patience and please do revisit our site in February. Wish you all the best and an epic, hopefully scandalous and surely beautiful 2012!

Imagine a Spectacle is a project that was born from the will and the arising challenges, demands and opportunities of the 21st century. We believe that art not only mirrors our society but plays a crucial role in shaping our values and consequently the world we live in. This project harness the arts as an instrument through and with which we seek to discuss, understand and communicate the key contemporary issues, openings and emerging possibilities.

process

admin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:51:43 +0000

Imagine a Spectacle is a process, a constant performance with countless number of stages and forums. The project started in September 2009 and evolved into a platform that connects today a wide range of realms and individuals. The continuum of the concept manifests its presence with an annual Imagine a Spectacle event during which different spaces like theaters, rehearsal rooms, galleries, university areas and classrooms are explored and engaged in the build up of the central circumstance. Nonetheless the discussions and very diverse in its nature meetings take place continuously and magnetically bring together a widening group of spect-actors. It is a scheme that invites new imaginations to join the performance and get on stage anytime and from anywhere.

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medium

admin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:49:01 +0000

Imagine a Spectacle is a participatory medium designed to bring us together to co-create a space for a free expression and innovative dialogue. A space where confrontation of different ideas, approaches and techniques together with emerging in that moment dynamics can be preserved in a form of a new communal vocabulary and trigger perhaps even revolutionary realisations. The Imagine a Spectacle is a laboratory of ideas that enhances experiments in a search for new, all-encompassing ways of communication. It is both an instrument and its investigation. A tool that builds up a stage for courageous and innovative thinking. A platform which allows, promotes and demands action and engagement.

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change

admin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:12:21 +0000

Imagine a change, a moment when engagement, belief and courage will lead to make a difference. Imagine a Spectacle not only calls to act but studies the tools and investigates how to do so. The problematic status quo of both the arts and our society today makes it a moral duty to awake and act in order to redirect the changing and fortunately still vulnerable context of our times. The project is both a vision and an exploration of the new paths that will eventually meet in a new, universal context. This change is here already, it is now the responsibility of all of us to realise it and help others in realising the present.

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collaboration

admin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:00:24 +0000

Imagine a Spectacle is a collaboration between artists, universities, students, researchers, theaters, activists and cultural centers. The project brings together a very wide range of environments and individuals. During the last three years of operation we have worked with students and academics of such institutions like University for the Creative Arts, King’s College London, Royal Academy of Music, LABAN Conservatoire of Music and Dance, University of the West of England in Bristol or Kingston University London. The number of people being involved in the project is constantly growing and we would like to invite you to join the development of this dynamic and opening many windows network.

The core aspiration of the Institute is to bring various ideas into the pool of diverse knowledge to fuse extraordinary and fruitful initiatives. It is exciting to have an interdependent collaboration between unusual spheres working towards a synergy. What makes the Imagine a spectacle parallel to our work is the principal idea behind it – to pioneer innovative concepts. The process includes developing existing platforms into a completely new creation and experience. Ultimately those developed initiatives contribute to the greater expansion of a given subject area. This includes combining ideas in a unique manner, taken from the world of Arts and Science to bring together our society in a new way

Prof. Richard Luxton, IBST Director at the University of the West of England

Imagine a spectacle, is an opportunity to express your thoughts and inject and experiment with changes to the conventional methods of creating work. There is not a sense of correct way, which allows your thoughts to become realised, where you may not get to discover working with established projects; where older, more rooted and ridged views of how to work are present. It is like a creative playground, with a million routes of outcome, and it is the collaboration between a variety of artists which tie these different thoughts together, and after inspiring each other, something definite is seen, although it doesn’t have to be. Whatever comes, you leave thinking about a revolution with your ideas and everyone else’s. How you can do things the way you want, if it works better for you, and learning from others and their creative beliefs too. Together you arrive at something new.

Lauren Bridle, Professional Dancer, film maker and animator

LINKS:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/cmci/research/nable/index.aspx

http://www.tinebech.com/

http://www.biosensingtech.co.uk/

http://www.bigbang-lab.com/wordpress/

http://www.creatifity.com/

http://www.thepeoplepile.co.uk/The_People_Pile/Enter.html

http://www.directingcreativity.co.uk

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gallery

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connection

admin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:57:42 +0000

Imagine a Spectacle reveals to connect with you. Everyday we are open to a new dialogue and welcome any comments, ideas and critique. In order to access the Imagine a Spectacle stage, spect-actors auditorium or backstage please send us an email using the below form.

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