{"id":1743,"date":"2016-12-29T16:51:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T16:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2016-12-29T17:07:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T17:07:38","slug":"plymouth-lgbt-dance-film-exhibited-in-venice-until-16-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/12\/29\/plymouth-lgbt-dance-film-exhibited-in-venice-until-16-january-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth LGBT dance film exhibited in Venice until 16 January 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0film made by Plymouth University practitioner-researchers, Kayla Parker<\/a>, Roberta Mock<\/a> and Ruth Way<\/a>, is currently\u00a0screening for a month as part of the Out of Borders Venice International Experimental Art Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Adam<\/a>
Adam Whiting in Heaven is a Place (2014)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Heaven is a Place<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is a community dance film made in collaboration with the advocacy organisation, Pride in Plymouth<\/a>. It was\u00a0part of an EU-funded cultural project called \u2018Heaven on Earth?\u2019<\/a> (with partners in Greece, Spain and Turkey), the over-arching purpose of which was to creatively interrogate the contemporary legacy and relevance of the French writer, playwright, filmmaker and activist, Jean Genet (1910-1986).<\/p>\n

Heaven is a Place<\/em> integrates a cast of emergent professional performers, working in a range of movement-based disciplines, with members of Plymouth\u2019s lesbian, bisexual, gay and trans\u00a0community. Based on a series of somatic movement workshops, its\u00a0narrative concepts and movement scores reflect personal memories and LGBTQ histories of the city. It was\u00a0made at some of Plymouth\u2019s most spectacular and evocative waterside locations, in and through which were developed\u00a0site-responsive physical vocabularies: its docks, military base, marinas, look-out points, cruising spots, clubs and bathing areas.<\/p>\n

\"Laura<\/a>
Laura Murphy in Heaven is a Place (2014)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A discussion of the film will feature in a chapter for a book, entitled Community Filmmaking: Diversity, Practice and Places<\/a><\/em>, to be published by Routledge next year, focusing on how – by developing\u00a0a process-driven triangulation of thinking bodies, sexual subjectivities and emplacement – a movement-based performance for and through digital video might enable the acknowledgement, consolidation and reimagination of a community that has been either erased or marginalized in dominant accounts of its city.<\/p>\n

Heaven is a Place<\/em> premiered at two public engagement symposia organized in June 2014, the first in Greece and the second in Plymouth. A\u00a0Cornwall Film Festival Competition Winner 2014<\/a>, the film was also screened that year during Plymouth\u2019s Pride parade, and subsequently within practice-as-research events as well as dance film, community and experimental film festivals (in Canada, Poland, Germany, and USA).<\/p>\n

\"Erik<\/a>
Erik Koky & Adam Whiting in Heaven is a Place (2014)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The film can currently be seen at the\u00a0Palazzo Ca\u2019 Zanardi in Venice\u00a0until 16 January 2017 (open Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0film made by Plymouth University practitioner-researchers, Kayla Parker, Roberta Mock and Ruth Way, is currently\u00a0screening for a month as part of the Out of Borders Venice International Experimental Art Festival. Heaven is a Place\u00a0is a community dance film made in collaboration with the advocacy organisation, Pride in Plymouth. It was\u00a0part of an EU-funded cultural project… Continue reading Plymouth LGBT dance film exhibited in Venice until 16 January 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,137,3,5],"tags":[17,248,610,197,611,81,247,86,15,14,308,609,48,232,612],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-histories-memory-memorialisation","category-news","category-public-events-all-welcome","tag-artistic-research","tag-community","tag-dance-film","tag-film-making","tag-jean-genet","tag-kayla-parker","tag-lgbt","tag-moving-image-arts-mia","tag-pep","tag-performance","tag-plymouth","tag-pride-in-plymouth","tag-roberta-mock","tag-ruth-way","tag-somatic-practice","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}