“Wake up and wait for the sun to rise, 500 methods for a new beginning”
Applespiel, Tully Arnot, Charles Dennington, Claire Finneran, HOSSEI, Lucky PDF and Tape Projects
19 May → 27 May 2012

Wake up and wait for the sun to rise, 500 methods for a new beginning explores diverse forms of contemporary collaborative practice. It is also the keynote project for Next Wave 2012: The space between us wants to sing.

Five young and emerging artist collectives develop new artist-driven social spaces that encourage us to imagine new possibilities for being together.

Lucky PDF present The School of Global Art: Down Under! Lucky PDF is Ollie Hogan, John Hill, James Early and Yuri Pattison. The artist group has been active in Peckham, south-east London, since 2009 working collaboratively with an ever-changing network of emerging artists, they produce online television programmes, internet interventions and live events.

The School of Global Art extends its global outreach to sign up a new class of international students, setting up our first Global Outreach Campus in Melbourne, Australia. SGA’s new campus opened this week in Australia. From the specially designed Melbourne classroom SGA has organised presentations and conversations from artists, writers and academics spanning the globe. Using Google Hang-out the class discussions are live for students around the world and will be published online via Dismagazine. Join us to find out what the world looks like upside down.

Tully Arnot and Charles Dennington present TH¿NK³. Are you thinking? Have you ever really thought? We think. At TH¿Nk³ we have reinvented thought for the 21st century human. Come join master thinkers Charlie and Tully as they think about thought. At TH¿Nk³ we have your think efficiency covered. TH¿Nk³ is a space for you to think and a service for you to materialise your thoughts. Inventions while-u-wait.

HOSSEI and Claire Finneran present Way Out. The artists use sculpture, sound, installation and performance to generate environments that investigate idiosyncrasies from the wake of their traditional religious upbringings and muddled ideas of ‘holiness’. Taking cues from sensory theatrics in churches, utopian ideas of syncretism and pop musical references to ritual, they provide catered spaces for confused worship.

Over the course of eight succinct dance parties, Way Out examines contemporary modes of divine experience. Is the epiphanic ecstasy of dancing all night lesser than attending a church service at 9am on a Sunday morning? Can we achieve the same level of catharsis through mindlessly partying as we can emotionally purging to a ‘higher power’? Is the DJ the new deity? Let your hair down, cry your eyes out, sweat your prayers and get down to get up in the wildest open-air nightclub ever to be conducted indoors!

Applespiel present At the request of Carl Sagan. Applespiel is Simon Binns, Nathan Harrison, Nikki Kennedy, Emma McManus, Joseph Parro, Troy Reid, Rachel Roberts and Mark Rogers. The group of young performers evolved out of a shared interest in contemporary performance and a collaborative creative process. They each engage with projects passionately from different perspectives, based on our backgrounds and interests. Applespiel believe that Next Wave should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the festival is out, of sending someone to the stars and returning them safely to the earth. No single space project in this festival will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space-based theatre, and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. Take a journey into the known and unknown.

Tape Projects present Becoming Carol Brown. The Tape Projects comprises Michael Prior, Zoe Scoglio, Caroline Anderson and Matthew O’Shannessy. They have a curiosity for exploration, collaboration and learning with experimental practices both inside and outside the gallery. They also provides a collaborative support structure for those who share their ethic. Recent explorations include blindfolded bus trips, oracle consulting, toasty eating ceremonies, porthole construction, ritualistic aerobics, group-dreaming, and pseudo-scientific game playing.