Testing Grounds is fond of a Roland Barthes quote and the exhibition is focused around this; the human mind's endless creation of stories to process and interpret the world:
“Myth is not defined by the object of its message, but by the way in which it utters this message: there are formal limits, there are no ‘substantial’ ones,” he says, Myth Today.
The works could be defined for a large part as construction of mythology, and in a big mix of performance, story, sound, and movement all focused around fictionalised realities. Regardless of the words though, the concept of Myth is interesting and has interesting arty potential:
Plymouth-based art duo Got Any Rice will create their sound-based story of Brighton that looks at the history through "stethoscopic exploration" and present a taxonomy of their ethnological finding.
Sylvia Rimat’s work intertwines subtly and gently with the ‘real’ and the ‘imagined’, and wittingly plays with the audience imagination by writing the story of what has not happened yet, or that is just about to happen.
Mim King's movement piece will follow a very personal story reflected through her own body, thinking about ideas of stillness and waiting, of endings, markings and the traces we leave behind.
Anne Gaelle Thiriot and Marcel Sparmann’s performance aims at reaching imagination in adulthood and at involving the audience as story-makers through action with the use of “cards of Propp”, a Russian formalist who analysed fairy tales and folk-tales through a series of functions.
Officially this big mix is know as:
"autobiographic elements; anatomic and sonic examination of a town from an outside stance; stories that reflect an ambiguous presence somewhere between text and reality; and finally the re-exploration of fairy tales and folk tales to bridge the narrative and abstract features of live performance."
It's on today at the Permanent Gallery at 7pm for £4, and you can find the Facebook event here and a map here.
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