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PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS 2012
Dates: 6-13 FEBRUARY 2012

PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS 2012
2ND INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL

in PAPA WESTRAY (aka PAPAY or PAPEY IN MEIRI). ORKNEY
experimental film and video, installation, performance, music and architecture

The idea of the Festival is based on the ancient tradition of our island - The Night of The Gyros (or Gryla, or Grylur as its know in other Nordic countries), which till the beginning of 20s century was celebrated on the island in the first full moon of February.

Dates are set up for the festival and first calls for artists are annonced and programme is in development and more information will be published soon.

Plan your jorney in advance

LINK :
PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS ARTS FESTIVAL
 
02.2012
CALL FOR ARTISTS
PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS 2012 ART FESTIVAL
BOUNDARIES OF CINEMA : FUTURE FOLKLORE and THE ISLAND AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PARADIGM

call for video artists and filmmakers.... read more >

LINK :
PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS ARTS FESTIVAL
deadline: 30.10.2011
ORKNEYJAR - HJALTLAND - FØROYAR : FUTURE SOUND
call for EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC and SOUND ART PROJECTS from Orkney, Shetland and Faeroe Islands..... read more >

LINK :
ORKNEYJAR - HJALTLAND - FØROYAR : FUTURE SOUND
deadline: ongoing
ORKNEYJAR - HJALTLAND - FØROYAR : FUTURE CINEMA
call for EXPERIMENTAL FILM and VIDEO ART from Orkney, Shetland and Faeroe Islands..... read more >

LINK :
ORKNEYJAR - HJALTLAND - FØROYAR : FUTURE CINEMA
deadline: ongoing
PICNIC11 : BERLIN
Dates: 24 SEPTEMBER - 1 OCTOBER 2011

Theme : ZONE

3RD PICNIC in Berlin - a week long place-specific research and work production event


LINKS:
PICNIC11: BERLIN
 
09.2011
GENETIC MOO - exhibition @ PAPEY LISTSKJUL
GENETIC MOO
interactive video installations
EXHIBITION @ PAPEY LISTSKJUL (Papay Arts Centre)

Saturday 27 AUGUST. 6-9pm
Sunday 28 AUGUST. 2-5pm


Genetic Moo, participants of Papay Gyro Nights 2011 Art Festival, is coming back to Papay and will create an interactive artpiece in response to the locations of the island. . read more >

08.2011

RAGNHILD LJOSLAND "CHRISSIE'S BODLE" - BOOK PRESENTATION IN PAPAY
Date: Sunday 26 JUNE. 7pm @ PAPEYLISTSKJUL

new book presentation and signing:
CHRISSIE'S BODLE
By Ragnhild Ljosland

Chrissie Costie is a forgotten Orkney writer.

She was a contemporary and friend of Orcadian literary giants such as George Mackay Brown, Ernest Marwick and Robert Rendall but her own work has never been fully recognised and appreciated... read more>

06.2011
SUMMER SOLSTICE
Date: 21 JUNE

PAPAY BONFIRE

"bonfires are the very blood of Orcadians. The ritual bonfire goes back to the very beginnings of our history and even before."

LINKS:
ORKNEYJAR : ORCADIAN BONFIRE TRADITIONS
PAPEY LISTSKJUL
06.2011
ANTONIO NODAR: from portrait to self-portrait
Date: 20 JUNE

Thank you to the Elsa Peretti Foundation, the book ...from portrait to self-portrait... volume 1, with 242 artists is ready to go on print monday April 4th, at INDICE barcelona , ..... Designed by Albert Claret and text by Jose Maria Munoz Rovira aka Humphry and will be sold online from May 2011 at llibreriadelpalau.com


ANTONIO NODAR: FROM PORTRAIT TO SELF-PORTRAIT
BOOK PRESENTATION is taking place 20th June 2011
FUNDACIÓ PALO ALTO
Sala XYZ
Pellaires 30-38 | 08019 Barcelona


We are very proud - two Orkney artists: Ivanov and Tsz Man Chan are included into the Book and later, this summer, the book will be presented at Papey Listskjul

LINK :
ANTONIO NODAR PROJECT - from portrait to self-portrai project 
ELSA PERETTI FOUNDATION
LIBRRIA DEL PALAU
06.2011
CIRCLE PERFORMANCE @ ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON
Dates: 21 MAY 2011

JAMES HESFORD: compositions for 12 grand pianos
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, SOUTH BANK CENTRE
CLORE BALLROOM
SATURDAY 21st May 2011, 2 performances - at 5.30pm and 6.30pm
Free performance

There will be two world premiers of James Hesford's latest circle compositions for 12 grand pianos, "Circle - Citerna " and "Circle - Sham Shui Po ", at the Festival Hall, Clore Ballroom on Saturday 21 May 2011, at 5.30pm and 6.30pm.

The ensemble of 12 pianists placed in a huge 30 meter circle is led by Kate Ryder and includes familiar names from the world of contemporary classical music and Jazz. The Circle compositions are part of a 24 hour, non- stop, site specific composition, painting and video collaboration with artists Ivanov and Chan which have been carried out in locations as diverse as a floating barge on the River Thames, an abandoned roundhouse in Berlin, a roof top in Sham Shui Po district of Hong Kong and an uninhabited island in Orkney.

Members of the ensemble also include:
Kate Ryder, Tim Richards, Caroline Rawlinson, Matt Winkworth, Catherine Kontz, James Graham, Adam Sharp. Tessa Grobel, Jessie Maryon Davies, Yeu-Meng Chan, Jack Hurst. Yukiko Shinohara.


LINK :
JAMES HESFORD
AVACADO PRODUCTION
CIRCLE

PICNIC11: HONG KONG
 
05.2011
CIRCLE PROJECT: NEW WEBSITE
The Project started in May 2008 is a series of ongoing site-specific painting, video and music collaborations between IVANOV + CHAN and composer JAMES HESFORD, in a timeframe of 24 HOURS NON-STOP WORKING PROCESS...Works were created at various sites in Hong Kong, Italy, Berlin, London and Orkney

LINK :

CIRCLE
 
05.2011
PICNIC11 : HONG KONG
Dates: 22 - 28 MARCH 2011

Theme : ZONE

First PICNIC in Hong Kong has brought a new dimension to the project. If previous collaboration between Orkney and Berlin was an exchange between subjective contextualism represented by LAPW and teaching methodology development by Mal-und Zietschule, C&G Artpartment in Hong Kong added a new direction – political activism: direction which became a part of Hong Kong identity and main force behind new art developments creating a feeling of permanent demonstration, protest and concern about everyday international news and a very local ones....
read more >

PARTICIPANTS:
Ivanov
Tsz Man Chan
James Hesford
Nadim Abbas
Lo Chi Kit

PROJECT ORGANISED by LAND ART - PAPA WESTRAY (ORKNEY), C&G ARTPARTMENT (HONG KONG) and MALSCHULE WLADIMIR PRIB (BERLIN)

LINKS:
PICNIC11: HONG KONG
 
03.2011
PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS 2011 ART FESTIVAL

Dates: 14 - 21 FEBRUARY 2011

PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS 2011
1ST INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL
EXPERIMENTAL FILM, VIDEO, INSTALLATION, PAINTING, MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE

After eight days of the first PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS, which took place around the first full moon of February as it used to be from old ancient times on our island, we can say our ancestors were bunch of mad, fun loving people. The worst weather is coming to Orkney in February - the gale which will rip you off the ground and will lift a coo into the air; the sea which will smash any brave boat to pieces and will feed the crew to sea monsters, and you will get so fed up with winter darkness that no any member of your family will stop you to venture into the night and search for gyros or to turn into one.
After eight days we can say for sure - madness pays, as the next day after Gyro Nights were finished spring came to Papay, as ancestors promised, the sun was shining and all faces were happier...

PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS 2011 ARTISTS:

Apichatpong Weerasethankul
(Thailand)

700IS Hreindyraland
(Iceland)
Chiara Ambrosio
(London)
German Britch
(Argentina)
Wu Junyong
(China)
Tom Løberg
(Norway)
Joseph Nechvatal
(USA - France)
Thomas Rummelhoff
(Norway)
Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich
(London)
Genetic Moo
(London)
Drawn Together
(London)
Tom Muir
(Orkney)
Ragnhild Ljosland
(Orkney)
The Chair
(Orkney)
Saltfishforty
(Orkney)
James Hesford
(London)
Lasse Marhaug
(Norway)
Brendan Colvert
(Orkney)
Chris Humphreys (London)
Wladimir Prib (Berlin)
Armando Seijo
(London)
Antonio Nodar
(London)
Kengo Kuma & Associates
(Japan)
Multiplicities (New York)
Saunders Architects
(Norway)

Mirrie Dancers
(Shetland)


Thank you to everybody who took part, was brave enough to travel to Papay and made it possible to happen here


LINK :
PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS ARTS FESTIVAL 2011

 
02.2011
JAMES HESFORD: THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF PAPA WESTRAY CD SINGLE RELEASE
JAMES HESFORD'S "THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF PAPA WESTRAY", (LAND ART - PAPA WESTRAY COMMISSION) is released as a single for PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS 2011 ARTS FESTIVAL

LINKS:
JAMES HESFORD
PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS ARTS FESTIVAL 2011
 
02.2011
A NOVEL BY JAMES HESFORD: THE QUIESCENT ELECTRIC GUITARIST
Maltby is a South Yorkshire mining village full of Teddy Boys, psychopaths and hard-nosed mining lads. It's the 1950's and David is living on the Cliff Hills Estate with his dysfunctional family. He is a “soft lad” – a ten years old under-achiever, but willing to work hard for the £25 he needs to buy his beautiful Hofner electric guitar. He wants to be the new Duane Eddy or Hank Marvin (even) and tour the world with his Uncle Wilf and Gordon’s Rock n’ Roll Band.
Life takes a downward turn when David, through no fault of his own, is sentenced to 18 months weekend detention in Rotherham Scrubs. Honesty and hard graft didn’t work. Has he got what it takes to survive the brutality, defeat his corrupt probation officer and realize his dream?

the book will be released soon and available from Land Art Shop


LINKS:
JAMES HESFORD
 
06.2011
 
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