Magnet Fringe Full Live&Visual Arts Release
09 Sep
PRESS RELEASE – PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT
FRINGE LIVE AND VISUAL ARTS SET CITY ON FIRE
(DUBLIN, 01 September 2006) The Magnet Entertainment Dublin Fringe Festival 2006 has brought art out of the theatre and on to the streets with an ecclectic line-up of live and visual arts for the Festival this year. The wide-ranging programme of events will take over Dublin city for 16 days and nights, running from September 9- 24.
From lanterns lining the Liffey to art-dispensing vending machines, the streets of Dublin won’t really know what hit them come this September!
This year’s live & visual arts programme is part of the 118 shows in this years Festival comprising of 56 Theatre Shows, 13 Dance Shows, 32 shows at the Spiegeltent and 17 Live and Visual Art events.
LIVE & VISUAL ARTS
Captured Movements – SUP
During the festival a group of international visual artists will be working alongside Fringe performers, capturing their body movements, scratching them onto paper, streaking them on canvas, recording them on film.
Clone Factory – Suka Off
A cycle of disturbing images from a laboratory where creatures are cloned for transplantation, sexual acts and medical experiments. The performance is a bitter picture of the modern human body controlled by genetic and medical concerns.
OPENING NIGHT – Fire Installation – Compagnie Carabosse
Presented and co-commissioned by Dublin Docklands Development Authority, this visual feast sees George’s Dock blazing bright in this exuberant fire installation by this wonderful French company.
Food for Life – Kevin Thornton
This photography exhibition and food demonstration is a celebration of food from its most raw to its most constructed by the renowned Irish chef Kevin Thornton.
From Dakota – Colin Gee
Former principle clown for Cirgue du Soleil, combines experiments in identity with deft physical characterization to recreate the climatic scene of his film Dakota as a riveting solo performance.
Inexhib & Invertigo – ETXEA, Frederic Etcheverry and Gloria Aras
Two sensual, sensorary performances which unearth primitive human impulses – these two pieces are life experiences which the audience are taken on rather than static performances.
It’s An Audio De-Tour! – The Audio De TOURists
A synchronized de-tour through the streets of Dublin, with you and your partner journeying through the city, headphones on and a tour in your ear.
Jamais Vu – Anne Seagrave
An intimate and unnerving artwork, described by this distinctive artist as a disguised self-portrait. Jamais Vu exposes Seagrave to the public with a disquieting intensity and a captivating sincerity.
Out of Site
Beyond-the-gallery guerrilla performance art. A treasure trail of 16-site-specific performances that appear daily where you least expect them!
Personality Café – The Volley Ball Club
A Café like no other. With a different boss and a different menu everyday, your cup of coffee and slice of cake could be served by anyone form a doting grandmother to a singing troupe.
The Vending Machine Project
Instead of chocolate or a soft drink, why not slot in a coin and take your pick of fresh, original art works especially created for the Festival by 60 Irish and international artists.
Video Optica – Katja Loher
A video composition projected onto a pair of weather balloons.
The Magnet Entertainment Dublin Fringe Festival runs from September 9 - 24, 2006. Tickets can be booked online at www.fringefest.com.
PICTURES AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AT www.fringefest.com
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NOTES FOR EDITORS
1. The Dublin Fringe Festival was set up in 1995 to present the work of smaller independent theatre companies. Since then it has evolved into a vital international showcase and the fastest growing cultural event in Ireland, attracting audiences of over 50,000 annually.
2. Magnet Entertainment has signed up to become this year’s title sponsor. Magnet Entertainment is a new Irish telecoms company that offers Broadband, TV and Telephone services. Its services are available to 700,000 homes in Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Waterford, Galway and Portlaoise.
3. The Fringe has premiered and profiled the work of several of Ireland’s significant art makers including Conor McPherson, Mark O’Rowe and Enda Walsh.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
LAYLA O’MARA: T: 01 8171673 M: 086 3977832 press@fringefest.com