2 gyrlz

14- 15 October London

2 Gyrlz Performative Arts is proud to present two nights of live art and ritual theatre in support of the continued success of
]performance s p a c e [

In addition to an impressive roster of the UK’s most talented live artists, this event also showcases the London debut of internationally acclaimed Tuvan throat singer and ritual performance artist, Soriah (Enrique Ugalde) as part of his October tour of the UK.

2 Gyrlz has invited these nine artists to each create a new performance to be presented in two parts; split into two related actions over both nights. We encourage you to join us for both nights to experience beginnings and endings of each performance diptych, though of course, it is also perfectly fine if you can only make the Friday or Saturday.

As this is a fundraising event, we ask that you contribute what you can to the cause, with a £5 base admission charge. All proceeds go to the further sustainability and programming of this exceptional and ambitious DIY live art venue, now in its second year.

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Internationally acclaimed Tuvan throat singer and ritual performance artist, Soriah (Enrique Ugalde) is touring England throughout the month of October.

The Portland musician and ritual artist known as Soriah first came into being more than 10 years ago. His unique vision has evolved to draw equally from performance and musical traditions both modern and ancient— raga, shamanism, the revisionist arts of electro-acoustics, noise, butoh, and free improvisation.

One element which pervasively informs his work is traditional Tuvan throat singing. Soriah has extensively trained in, and received recognition for his achievements with, this style of overtone singing. Most recently, he was honored as the Third Place winner in the International Symposium of Khoomei Competition, and “Best Foreigner” in the 2008 Ustuu-Khooree World Music Festival in Tuva, where the form originated. As much as the complex musical underpinnings of Soriah’s music reach back to Central Asia, he traces his roots back to his father’s homeland of Mexico. His explorations of the cities and wilderness of Mexico and considerable research into the Aztec mysteries, as well as the present-day animism of Tuvan Shamanism, have deeply influenced his pan-cultural ethos. Through costume, movement and meditation Soriah evokes an otherworld of profound mystical import.

(more dates and details TBP)

Manchester

Martin Harris Centre – University of Manchester
Thursday 6th October 2011
Venue: The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Time: 13:10
Admission Price: FREE

and

“Voices in the Chapel”

Platt Chapel
186 Wilmslow Road
Manchester M14 6JA
Sunday 9th October 2011
7:00pm
£5 suggested at door

Performances by:
Soriah
Nina Whiteman
MMULe

Scarborough

Address: Performance Space 1, University of Hull, Scarborough Campus, Filey Road,
Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO11 3AZ

Event: On the Edge Festival

October 12

Tickets: £4 on the door

London

2 Nights With 2 Gyrlz: A benefit for [performance space] curated by 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts
Friday October 14 – Saturday October 15, 2011
7:00pm-Midnight each night
]performance s p a c e[
6 Hamlet Industrial Estate, White Post Lane, London E9 5EN
Transport: Overground: Hackney Wick Bus:26.30.276.388.488.UL1
www.performancespace.org
Sliding Scale admission £5 +  Contribute what you can!

Performances by:

Soriah, Samantha Sweeting and Lynn Lu, Liz Clarke, Mark Greenwood, Luci Fiction and Jade Lucy Rainbow Boaler, Nick Kilby and Holly Johnson and music by Try My Cabbage

Liverpool

Event info:
http://mercyonline.co.uk/who-we-are/what-we-are-up-to/article/electronic-voice-phenomena

Electonic Voice Phenomena
9pm, 16th October
@ the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool
the final event of their Chapter and Verse literature festival.
also part of our Overlap programme, exploring contemporary
writing/performance/music practices.

Leeds

2 Gyrlz Performative Arts and Glorious Trauma present:

Soriah (Portland, OR)
Nina Whiteman (Manchester)
Sardonik Grin (Portland, OR/Manchester)

October 21 7pm
£5 at the door
www.sevenleeds.co.uk
Leeds, West Yorkshire LS7 3PD

Seven is based on Harrogate Road near the centre of Chapel Allerton. Find us just below Casa Mia Grande.  It’s opposite the Library and 30 yards down the road towards Leeds City Centre.
Regular buses run to the venue from the city centre (number 2, 3 or 3A) or from Headingley and Harehills (number 91).

Sheffield

Event info:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts/whatson/eveningconcerts/soriah

Tuesday 25 October, 19:30, Firth Hall (Firth Court)

Tickets: £8.50, £6 (concessions/staff), £3 (students, under 26s, unwaged)
Duration: 90 minutes + 20 minute interval
The full venue address is Firth Hall, Firth Court, Western Bank, Sheffield
S10 2TN.

Galleries from Roshana Rubin-Mayhew and Lisa Newman now available via:

gallery.2gyrlz.org

2 Gyrlz Performative Arts
in collaboration with Glorious Trauma
and the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies
is proud to present the Northern debut of:

Original Photo: Núria Rius

Monday, June 27, 2011
7:00 PM

Whitworth Hall
University of Manchester
M13 9 Manchester UK

Free Admission (with limited capacity!)
Book a place via: http://giftsofthespirit.eventbrite.com

“Gifts of the Spirit: Automatic Writing”: A performance installation conceived, scored
and directed byRon Athey with automatic composition and music performance by
Othon Mataragas. They will be accompanies by 16 automatic writers, a piano, 6 typists,
4 editors, 1 reader, and a glossalalia chorus.

In this performance, there is a premise that acts as the starting point, and a fantastical
goal: to use the collective unconscious of the writers as a means to resolve the structured
text. To not only use the writing machine as spectacle, but to activate processing text,
straddling this reality while evoking an alternate one.

The structured text is from Athey’s memoirs; set in the period of his evangelical childhood
and specifically, his training in charismatic gifts and less conventional practices closer
aligned with the spiritualist/psychic phenomena, including scrying, glossalalia, spirit
dancing and convulsions, visions, prophecy, discernment, cognitive dream/and
interpretation, and automatic writing.

In his previous performance works, Athey explored automatism in ecstatic voice
(glossalalia), movement (walking meditation, channeled movement articulations) and
writing, but always the engine rather than the event. This series started as a scene in the
operatic duodrama “The Judas Cradle”, in collaboration with soprano/musicologist
Juliana Snapper.

Athey’s inspiration for this performance stems from a profound interest in the family
and friends of automatic writing: ecstatic pratices, Spiritualist movements, Andre Breton,
Surrealism and Exquisite Corpse writings; along with the cut-up techniques of
Gysin/Burroughs.

The performance will take place in the historic Whitworth Hall on the
University of Manchester campus on Monday June 27^th at 7:00pm.
For directions and campus map, please visit www.manchester.ac.uk

The gyrlz would like to thank the following organizations:
Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
Arts and Humanities Research Council
The Centre for the Study of Surrealism and Its Legacies
and Glorious Trauma

This event is presented in conjunction with:
The Queer Theory of the Avant-Garde
Organised by the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies

27th and 28th June 2011
Kanaris Lecture Theatre, Manchester Museum

This two day interdisciplinary conference, the concluding event of a
three-year AHRC research project on surrealism and queer sexuality,
aims to re-inscribe the interrelation between queer studies and the
historical, spatial and theoretical dimensions of the twentieth-century
avant-gardes - to bring queer theory together with the theory of the
avant-garde.

Speakers include: Dominic Johnson, Giovanna Zapperi, Ron Athey,
David Lomas, Charles Miller, Joanna Pawlik, Silvia Loreti,
Jeremy Tambling, Roger Cook, Theodore Triandos and Connor Doak.

With a keynote address by Jonathan D. Katz,
Director of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program
and Associate Professor at the State University of New York.

Registration for the conference: £15 (including refreshments)
email Joanna.Pawlik@manchester.ac.uk to register.

Though it is still very much under construction… we have a new site to go with our new start presenting from our new home in Manchester, England.

Look for some Gifts of the Spirit in Manchester from Ron Athey in June,
then in October we present a two-day fundraiser for ]performance s p a c e [ in London,
as well as, a UK tour of ritual performance artist/overtone singer Soriah…. and much more!