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AV FESTIVAL 14: EXTRACTION

FROM MARCH 1 TO 31 2014


An International Festival of Art, Music and Film

Courtesy of AV Festival 14.

AV Festival is a leading international Festival of contemporary art, film and music, based in North East England. A biennial event, the Festival is thematically curated to engage audiences with current ideas across contemporary artistic practice and wider society.


This year's Festival theme 'Extraction' explores the raw materials that create our experience of the world, from their origins deep in the ground, to their extraction, transformation and global exploitation. The Festival programme includes 11 exhibitions, 36 film screenings, 10 concerts and 11 new commissions by internationally and nationally renowned artists. Over a month the Festival re-imagines the geologic, with artists responding to the natural landscape of North East England and beyond. Each weekend has a specially curated focus, from postcolonial cinema to digging for sound. The dramatic end to the Festival is an unmissable large-scale event on the River Tyne with seminal music group Test Dept.


AV Festival takes place simultaneously across North-East England in around 30 venues and public sites, primarily in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough. Since 2012 the Festival has been a month-long in duration, previously it was a ten-day event. Each Festival consists of around 15 new commissions, 50 film screenings, 20 exhibitions, 15 concerts plus seminars, talks and workshops; presenting the work of approx. 140 artists.


Key Artists and Events at AV Festival 14:


• Sat 1 March Akio Suzuki: Solo Performance


Castle Keep, Newcastle, 6–7pm.


• Sat 1 March Bruce McClure: Showshadows Surrounded by Obscurity


BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Level 1, 11am–7pm (FREE installation, entry every hour, on the hour, duration 30min), 8.30–9.30pm (Build my Gallows High)


• Sat 1 March – 6 April Susan Stenger: Sound Strata of Coastal Northumberland


Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Tue – Sat 10am–5pm, Sun 2–5pm, closed Mon


• Fri 7 March Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi: Pays Barbare (Barbaric Land)


Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle 8.45pm, 65min + Q&A, 2013.


• Sat 1 March - Mon 3 March Wang Bing: West of the Tracks (Tie Xi Qu), Part I, II and III


Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, UK Premiere.


CLOSING WEEKEND


• Thu 27 March – Sat 29 March


Test Dept at Dunston Staithes


Boarding at River Escapes Pontoon, Newcastle Quayside (next to Pitcher and Piano), NE1 3DX

 

For further information on all AV Festival 14 events and tickets visit http://www.avfestival.co.uk

THROUGHOUT NORTH EAST ENGLAND AV Festival
Alderman Fenwick's House
98-100 Pilgrim Street
NEWCASTLE NE1 6SQ
INFORMATION: • Phone: +44 (0) 191 261 4949
• Website: http://www.avfestival.co.uk
• Mail : luisa@avfestival.co.uk

OPENING TIMES: 1st March- 31st March
ADMISSION PRICE: Admission in accordance with each separate event.
CONTACTS: • Luisa Brown Phone: +44 (0) 191 261 4949
luisa@avfestival.co.uk