Diary
May 04
Pitch Sampled Festival The Junction Cambridge
May 16-19
Symposium: On Hosting and Displacing: Critical tourism, site-specificity and post-romantic condition. NIDA Lithuania
May 23
May 28 - June 01
Venice Biennale a-n
June 08-09
Manifesto 2013 (NON-)LOCATIONS Enschede, Netherlands
June 15
Manifesto 2013 LUPA FETE
June 19
Vinyl Burton Taylor Studio Oxford
July 07
Vinyl Face to Face Festival London
August 13-16
Father Courage Dubrovnik Festival
August 21-23
Vinyl Counting House Loft, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
October 03
The Customer Is Always Wrong Perform Now Festival Winterhur Switzerland
One day Bill discovered that the number 1 on the day he was born was Grandad by Clive Dunn, a song so bad, in so many ways, that it is in its own way remarkable. From that discovery Vinyl is the natural consequence: a track for each year of his life. As it’s name suggests this is an all vinyl show but be warned, Bill's record collection is pretty damn diverse even perverse and for Vinyl he delves deep into it and talks about the tracks and about what the music means, about the memories these tracks evoke and the decades that have brought us to where we now are. For Vinyl he recalls, revises and retells what these black plastic discs might be records of.
This is a new project that will see Bill making a guided tour of guided tours: a critical and sideways tour of the tourism industry itself and of all the other tours on offer in the city. The first tour will take place in Stuttgart, home of the Mercedes-Benz Museum among other points of interest.
The Tour of All Tours BLOG.
Bill will be presenting the results of this tour at the symposium On Hosting and Displacing: Critical tourism, Site-specificity and Post-romantic Condition at NIDA Artist’s Colony, Lithuania May 16-19th.
Venice Biennale
Bill will be attending the Venice Biennale through to an a-n bursary and will be creatively reporting upon it, with a special focus upon Infraction Venezia and manifestos.
Manifesto 2013 & Open Call
For the live art festival (Non-)Locations Bill will be presenting his current manifesto. He will be developing a site-specific form of presentation during the residency prior to the festival so that the manifesto is integrated into a performance event that takes place in the city space.
He is currently researching artist’s manifestos more widely in preparation for a future project that will utilise them within a collective, ephemeral event. If you have an artistic manifesto that you still feel connected to, even if you may now disagree with some parts. or would express the ideas differently, please get in touch via email.
Father Courage
Bill is working on the performance Father Courage assisting with language and artistic advice during preparations in Zagreb and Dubrovnik. Directed by Boris Bakal, it is a work made for Dubrovnik Festival that will take place in parallel at a number of locations around the city.
This is a solo performance that will be given in Mandarin with German subtitles. It looks at identity, language and the experience of being a Westerner today in China.
