ur:performance claims full moon

Tell Everyone You Know………………

ur:performance

CLAIMS FULL MOON

from 7 – 12PM on  June the 4^th 2012

No nation currently claims ownership of any part of the Moon’s surface.

The Outer Space Treaty, formally the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, is a treaty that forms the basis of international space law.  The treaty explicitly forbids any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon  The Outer Space Treaty defines the Moon and all outer space as the “province of all mankind”.

The Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, better known as the Moon Treaty or Moon Agreement, is an international treaty that turns jurisdiction of all celestial bodies (including the orbits around such bodies) over to the international community. The 1979 Moon Agreement was created to restrict the exploitation of the Moon’s resources by any single nation. Thus, all activities must conform to international law (notably this includes the UN Charter).

All this will be different from 7PM to 12PM on June the 4^th 2012 when the Salford based UR performance group will claim single ownership and excessive artistic exploitation of the FULL MOON.

The Group will set up temporary base at 

Islington Mill

James Street

Salford M3 5HW

Ground control of the experienced team will surrender to fullness, sanity and long distance travel.

At midnight the moon will be handed back to humankind. 

No tickets needed

BEWARE: The Moon has a long association with insanity and irrationality; the words lunacy and lunatic (popular shortening loony) are derived from the Latin name for the Moon, Luna. Philosophers such as Aristotle and Pliny the Elder argued that the full Moon induced insanity in susceptible individuals, believing that the brain, which is mostly water, must be affected by the Moon and its power over the tides, but the Moon’s gravity is too slight to affect any single person. Even today, people insist that admissions to psychiatric hospitals, traffic accidents, homicides or suicides increase during a full Moon, although there is no scientific evidence to support such claims.

ur-performance CLAIMS FULL MOON

Full Moon

We have a new night up and coming, Moon.

In a break from our usual nights of colour we are undertaking a night of lunacy, or other things Moon related.

ur:performance invite for moon night

Where The Streets Are Paved With Gold

ur:recently stepped out of its usual confines and into the streets of Salford for ‘Sounds From The Other City‘, (www.soundsfromtheothercity.com).

ur:performance were asked to come up with some new and interesting engagements for this event. An event designed to cast light onto Salford, the much ignored city next door to its much bigger brother Manchester. Salford too often is associated with social deprivation, an industrial city in the north of England with a proud heritage and people. With far more to offer than is generally recognised.

One of these engagements was to turn the usual adage of “Go to London, where the streets are paved with gold” on its head. Now; Come to Salford, where the streets are literally paved with gold.

Here are some photographs showing our work in production……….

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We should thank those who stopped, borrowed our guitar and broke out into spontaneous song. It was much appreciated. As were the many voices of encouragement throughout the day.

The Night Was Blue

It was sometime ago, however ur:blue did take place. February 15th just as planned.

As always the ur: group provided a night of experimental live art. Sometimes controversial our Blue night threw up some very interesting performances.

‘Bowman’s Space’ via Benny McCrystal-Plummer involved urinating on perspex, trapped between to easels, whilst on stage looking down on his audience. During this time you could find Kwong Lee working on portraits, ‘Edible Portraits’, made from rice paper and food dye. ‘That Mincing of Those Blues’ had Helmut Lemke quite literally mincing all that was blue in this world, including Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives amongst other notable blues. You would find Kerry Morrison on the floor,  ‘Blue Suede Shoes N Blue Jeans’, engrossed within her work. Whilst ‘Lube”, an installation from Tracy Hurst, a 1950′s narrative showing old 8mm silent blue movies within a space to contemplate just where we were as a society at that point. ‘Parental Guidance’, with ‘The Parents’, and fast forward a few decades to a more modern scene of the porn viewer. Time to contemplate what we have become and maybe just where we are going as a society. ‘The Parents’ are Gabrielle Anderson and Robert James Maclese, another set of characters you will see more of, added to their range. Back out in the main passageway, through which everyone enters, Steve Oliver and Jonathan Maj had created ‘A Tuning Exercise’, a mesmeric blue film with varying densities of blue projecting as guitars tuned. Whilst these melancholic tunings drifted through the gallery space Sarah Coggrave inflated blue balloons of sadness throughout the space, bringing an air of subdued reflection whilst watching them sway in the breeze of people passing by.

(If you managed to spot Craig Tattersal’s, ‘Remnant Residue’ you’ll have spotted a wonderful visual pun tucked away.)

Here are some tantalising snap shots of that night……

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ur: will be taking part in Sounds From The Other City which will be taking place in Salford, we will have more details for you very soon.

Blue Art on a Blue Night

The ur group will again be putting another of their colour themed nights on at Islington Mill.

The day after valentines day ur will turn things blue with their usual array of art happenings and experiences.

u:red by Tracy Hurst

I give good red

May I kiss you

On the …

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Tracy can be found at www.cyhurst.co.uk

Things that went Red in the night……………

Much Red fun was had, and here are a few pictures of that night……..

 

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