Craft a letter to your future self at a Post Present Future writing desk and receive it in the post in five years time, courtesy of Cross Collaborations.
Writing desk installation, Post Present Future, offers you the chance to delight in crafting a letter to your future self. What do you hope to be doing in 2016 when your letter arrives in the post? Take this unique opportunity to pour your personal and global concerns, expectations, anticipations and dreams into an envelope and allow Cross Collaborations to postpone its journey back to you by five years.
As an artist/archivist Ruth Cross avidly collects letters written by the public to their future selves in writing desk installation Post Present Future. As well as her solo work she facilitates collaborative experiments sparking performance and art explosions. Ruth is the Artistic Director of Cross Collaborations; a feisty collective of artists and performance makers interested in working across visual arts, dance, writing, sonic art, parties, installation and experimental immersive theatre. They use site based locations to conjure unique experiences for audience. Passionate and about making work that responds to the chaotic world we live in, they devise from found objects, food and letters collected in Post Present Future. They aim to amuse, delight and transport.
Monday 11 April 2011
CROSS COLLABORATIONS Launch Party! 27th April
Cross Collaborations
Launch Party 27th April
The Old Fire Station, Bristol
8pn start £4 Entry
You are warmly invited to the launch of art and performance collective Cross Collaborations at The Old Fire Station, Bristol on the 27th April.
Proving that despite the funding cuts art and performance is in no way dead, Cross Collaborations brings you an evening of interactive performance, installed magic and video projection!
Inspired by the concept of ‘Outside In’ Cross collaborations has brought together a collective of artists to transform The Old Fire Station into an outdoor performance playground. Look out for the sofa made of grass, maps cascading from above, a dancer on a mound of soil and superb live music from the Ne’er-do-wells!(Formally Ceidhli Minogue) plus guests.
This evening is set to be a stomper so come write a letter to your future self, feel the grass between your toes, hang out with the badgers and of course join in with the big knees-up Ceidhli!
Launch Party 27th April
The Old Fire Station, Bristol
8pn start £4 Entry
You are warmly invited to the launch of art and performance collective Cross Collaborations at The Old Fire Station, Bristol on the 27th April.
Proving that despite the funding cuts art and performance is in no way dead, Cross Collaborations brings you an evening of interactive performance, installed magic and video projection!
Inspired by the concept of ‘Outside In’ Cross collaborations has brought together a collective of artists to transform The Old Fire Station into an outdoor performance playground. Look out for the sofa made of grass, maps cascading from above, a dancer on a mound of soil and superb live music from the Ne’er-do-wells!(Formally Ceidhli Minogue) plus guests.
This evening is set to be a stomper so come write a letter to your future self, feel the grass between your toes, hang out with the badgers and of course join in with the big knees-up Ceidhli!
Tuesday 22 March 2011
BAC 29th - 9th April POST PRESENT FUTURE
Come and support Bristol based performance installation company Cross Collaborations at the Battersea Arts Centre ONE ON ONE FESTIVAL. 29th March - 9th April.
Writing desk installation, Post Present Future, offers you the chance to delight in crafting a letter to your future self. What do you hope to be doing in 2016 when your letter arrives in the post? Take this unique opportunity to pour your personal and global concerns, expectations, anticipations and dreams into an envelope and allow Cross Collaborations to postpone its journey back to you by five years.
Writing desk installation, Post Present Future, offers you the chance to delight in crafting a letter to your future self. What do you hope to be doing in 2016 when your letter arrives in the post? Take this unique opportunity to pour your personal and global concerns, expectations, anticipations and dreams into an envelope and allow Cross Collaborations to postpone its journey back to you by five years.
Monday 21 March 2011
Friday 25 February 2011
I stumbled upon an old Post Office in Hackney recently with a temporary exhibition called Posted. In one of the pieces Tracy Emins writes:
"All my life I have written letters -
I am passionate about it. its like having a diary that goes out into the world.
Letters seem to exist in another dimensions
some of my most intimate thoughts have been put down on paper and sealed up in an envelope -
sent off into the ether - Its my way of expressing myself -
It makes me calm almost content.
Tracy Emins
Monday 21 February 2011
Post Present Future - In The Flesh - Saturday 26th February
From 7pm onwards
Please take delight in sitting at the writing desk in the bar to write a letter to your future self... followed by a unique treat for one audience member at a time, experience a snippet of letter based performance in the office upstairs.
Audience feedback from Pilot Nights 25/01/2011
Really beautiful, simple idea that was extremely thought provoking to engage in. Feel really excited about receiving my letter! Also very engaging listening to the performers read their own letters... would be interesting to hear performers of different ages doing this. Less sure about how the company would use the letters to make a full length piece and wonder whether it needs this or what they are doing is enough as it works so well.
07 February 2011
J
07 February 2011
J
Post Present Future
Cross Collaborations are currently in rehearsal for a new one on one performance series developed from Post Present Future - the writing desk installation.
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