Reactor

Come give Big Lizard a hug! And get down with the Big Idea!

Times: 10:00-17:00 daily + special events each evening

Big Lizard hits Newcastle and the Wunderbar Festival on the Big Idea campaign trail this November. The lizard with the plan – a big character with an even bigger mission – Big Lizard's Big Idea is in town an...d we need you to make it a success. Come visit us over at the Big Idea Fun Bus. Meet Big Lizard and play a game. Make some very special new friends, and find out what you can do to help make the Big Idea a reality.

Let us find the right place for you, the place where you can make a difference. Whether appearing on TV on the 'Big Lizard's Big Fun Time Message Show', or taking part in hi-jinks on a parade, you'll always be happy to see more of the irrepressible Big Lizard. Once you're down with the Big Idea you'll get the insiders view of the Wunderbar Festival, so climb aboard the Big Idea Fun Bus and give the Big Lizard of fun a hug.

Big Lizard's Big Idea is co-commission for Donau Festival (Austria) and Wunderbar Festival (UK).

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Performance Fictions

The event will address contemporary practices and collective performances (a term used in the widest possible sense) that create new myths, fictions or narratives for environments, groups and communities.

The public event will feature contributions from:

John Cussans (UAL)/Bughouse addressing paranoi...d critical theory.
Sadie Plant addressing psycho-geography and the city.
Simon O'Sullivan (Goldsmiths) and David Burrows (BCU) addressing fiction and myth and performance art.
Pil and Galia Kollectiv addressing their art practice and 'over identification' and reenactment.

There will also be a screening of films from artists and groups: aas, Reactor, Ole Hagen, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Burrows & O'Sullivan/Plastique Fantastique.

The contributions will be reproduced in a forthcoming Article Press/Birmingham City University publication.

The event is free.

Please e-mail David.Burrows@bcu.ac.uk if you wish to attend. Places are limited.

'Performance Fictions' is the fourth event in art-writing-research network created by researchers from BCU, Goldsmiths, Reading University and University of the Arts London. Article Press, BCU, will publish the papers and contributions from the various events in Spring 2010, to be distributed by Central Books. The volumes will constitute series one of Article Press's art-writing-research publications.Read More