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Four years after the presentation of Moving
Forest at Berlin Transmediale.08. conspiracy
edition,
Moving Forest launches its second edition (June
22 to July 5) on the eve of London Olympics.

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Moving Forest/AKA the castle

MOVING FOREST
http://www.movingforest.net
2012 London
presented by
AKA the CASTLE

A twelve day prelude moving across the city; a
twelve-hour sound art opera of betrayal and
rebellion culminating in a spectacular series of
disturbing performances in Chelsea College of Art
Parade Ground; a one-day coda of debate.

Moving Forest expands the last 12 minute of
Kurosawa's adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth,
'Throne of Blood' (1957), into a sonic
performance saga with a prelude of 12 days, a
durational performance of 6 acts in 12 hours and
a closing Coda for the sake of argument.

First presented at Transmediale.08. Berlin 2008,
Moving Forest London maps an imaginary castle and
a camouflaged forest revolt onto the
hyper-playground of the London metropolis on the
eve of Olympics 2012. Presented by a temporarily
assembled troupe AKA the castle, Moving Forest
brings together diverse
visual/sonic/electronic/digital/ performance
artists along with writers, walkers, coders,
hackers, mobile agents, twitters, networkers and
the general public to realize a contemporary
version of a classic play. Making use of all
media, the acts elaborate operatic manoeuvres
into an escalating scheme of conspiracy and its
contemporaneous political manifestations. The
camouflage tree branches of Birnam Wood are
electronically updated with contemporary forms of
stealth and insurrection. Armed with signals and
slogans, the Moving Forest forces an entry into
the Castle. A final merging of forest and castle
occurs during a moment of downfall, jubilation
and loss.

June 22 - July 3 , 12 day prelude (London citywide and on the net)

July 4, 6 acts 12 hour performance
[act0 - omen] 9-11am (Furtherfield, Finsbury Park)
[act1 - remorse] 11am-1pm (Triangle Space, CCAD)
[act2 - betrayal] 1pm-3pm (Triangle Space, CCAD)
[act3 - overthrow] 3pm-5pm (Triangle Space, CCAD)
[act4 - insurgency] 5pm-8pm (The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at CCAD)
[act5 - eternal return] 8pm-9pm (The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at CCAD)

July 5, 12 - 6pm , workshop/coda (Triangle Space, CCAD)

*CCAD- Chelsea College of Art and Design

Moving Forest 2012 London
with
AKA the castle (in formation)
The Militant City (Isaac Marrero-Guillamón),
MzTEK, labofii (John Jordan), street training
(Lottie Child), Summer School of Revolt, Marc
Widmer, Jonas Öhrström, Patric Kaufmann, The
Hexists, Laura Oldfield Ford, Marco Donnarumma ,
Linda Dement, Francesca da Rimini, Valentina
Vuksic, Olsen Wolf, Kaffe Matthews, xname, Ewa
Justka, Anat Ben-David, Bioni samp, Vasco Alves,
YoHa, Stephen Fortune, Clifford Hammett,
Alexandra Sofie Joensson, Tom Keene, Kendra
Jones, Ashlee Renz-Hotz, Amanda Thickpenny,
Ophelia Bellio, Dena Rysdam Miller, AUDiNT (Toby
Heys and Steve Goodman).

Organized by
TAKE2030 (Ilze Black and Shu Lea Cheang)
Matthew Fuller (Center for Cultural studies, Goldsmiths College)
Graham Harwood (MA Interactive Media, Goldsmiths College)
Rachel Baker (irational.org)

Moving Forest workshop/coda
organized by
David Garcia , Dean of CCW (Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon) Graduate School
Matthew Fuller, Reader in Digital Media, Goldsmiths College,
Josephine Berry Slater, editor of Mute magazine
John Cunningham, writer and participant in Full Unemployment

Organization associates:
Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
Interactive Media Lab, Goldsmiths, University of London
Furtherfield
SPACE
Graduate School, CCW, University of the Arts London
Wimbledon College of Art
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
Queen Mary, University of London

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