Wednesday 23 January 6-8pm SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street London E8 3RH Introduced by Lois Weaver, the Long Table is an experimental public forum. A hybrid performance installation-roundtable discussion-dinner party designed to facilitate informal conversations on serious topics. Come along and give your opinion!
Previous Long Tables include conversations on Women and Prisons, Human Rights and Performance, Manufacturing Bodies and Violence And The Politics Of Representations held in London, Rio d Janeiro, Vienna and Buenos Aires Lois Weaver is a performance artist, director, writer, teacher and curator with thirty years professional experience. She was co-founder of Spiderwoman Theatre and the WOW Theatre in New York and Artistic Director of Gay Sweatshop Theatre in London. She has been a performer, director, and writer with the Split Britches Company since 1980. Her interests include performance and human rights and performance and technology. Lois was Director for PSi12 Performing Rights, an international conference on the themes of performance and human rights. As part of: THE NOT QUITE YET: ON THE MARGINS OF TECHNOLOGY 25 January - 01 March 2008 http://www.thenotquiteyet.net Programme Artists Workshops: Throughout February If I could do one thing... Performance by Lois Weaver: 28 February 2008, 7pm On the Margins of Technology Symposium: 29 February 2008, 10am-5pm see website for details and bookings http:// www.thenotquiteyet.net 129-131 Mare Street London E8 3RH www.spacestudios.org.uk www.spacemedia.org.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] 020 85254338 Travel: Bus: 26 & 48 from Liverpool Street 106 & 254 from Bethnal Green 55 from Old Street Tube: Bethnal Green Train: Hackney Central Silverlink V MAP http://www.thenotquiteyet.net/?page_id=13 Throughout 2007, Lois Weaver has led research sessions with groups of older people with the aim of helping them engage with the changes technology makes possible. This research, DEMOCRATISING TECHNOLOGY, is a DESIGNING FOR THE TWENTIETH FIRST CENTURY project funded by the AHRC and ESPRC based at Queen Mary University of London, involving Pat Healey (Department of Computer Science), Ann Light, Lois Weaver (Department of Drama) and SPACE For more information: http://www.thenotquiteyet.net a DESIGNING FOR THE TWENTIETH FIRST CENTURY project funded by the AHRC and ESPRC and ACE, London. Jim Prevett Emergent Technologies Producer [ s p a c e ] 129 -131 Mare Street London E8 3RH Direct: 0208 525 4339 Mobile: 07951 405466 Reception: 0208 525 4330 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.spacemedia.org.uk www.spacestudios.org.uk Art Services Grants Ltd Reg. Charity # 267021 Reg. in England & Wales #1157240 Reg. Office: 129-131 Mare Street ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre