Panoply

PANOPLY 2010 video

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Watch the video from 2010's Panoply here excellent video courtesey of TXLW

Artist- Ashling Smith

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Ashling's concept as a Fashion Designer is mainly based upon versatility and she believes in designing various functions within a singular garment. This is a reflection and necessity of our Contemporary world. For Panoply Ashling will be showcasing her latest design titled Fullness and Supression.

SPONSORS- BLUEBIRD INTERIORS

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The lovely people at Bluebird Interiors Garstang are kindly helping to sponsor Panoply. Visit their website here or the shop at 8 Bridge Street, Garstang, PR3 1YB. Bespoke interiors using amazing fabrics and furnishings.

PANOPLY 2011 INVITE

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Panoply
1.An impressive and wide display
2.A complete suite of Armour

Panoply is a performance art event based in costume, fashion design and theatre. It is a new cultural masquerade. The inaugral Panoply took place in October 2010. The Aim was to promote explorative works of performance art.

The Volkov Commanders bring Panoply to the vacant, Piccadilly Place ground floor retail units. The space is brutalist in it's architectural style, without any soft wood or polished floors. Replacing the lack of shop furnishings with progressive fashion design and live sculptural works displayed in front of an audience. Appropriating ‘commerce’ and the commercial in order to insert within it the hand made and conceptually driven.

Much like the Whitworth Galleries’ seminal exhibition, Marina Abromovic presents, the audience must navigate a space which the performers inhabit throughout the event. However, in Panoply some performances stop and start, some only last a few minutes, some the entirety of the event, and so culminate in a throng of differing and staggered live pieces.

As the Volkov Commanders we create fiction for the sake of spectacle. Our aims are to look forward, bringing artists and performers together whose work is dissident of contemporary cultural practices. Our intention is to perpetuate our events as a future ritual, as creatives we inhabit underground enclaves oppressed and opposed by the droning masses. We want you to join our future art cult.

March 31st 2011
6-10pm
Piccadilly Place, Manchester, M1 3BN

Artist- Jo Scorah

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Jo Scorah’s work is fuelled by the continuous cycle of opposing rhetoric that serves to invade modern media.
Issues concerning political intransigence, exile and violence, wind themselves around each other, a cyclical state that evades any conclusion. Exploring issues such as these are implemented within the construction of sculptural garments that take the form of installation pieces.

Artist- Nicola Ruben Montini

2011-02-05T05:05:00.000-08:00

Ruben is an Italian performance artist whose work is powerful, striking and pushes the limits of the human body. His work often deals with his sexuality and the attitudes of his homeland. For Panoply Ruben will create a performance for us based on his ideas around the holy shroud.

Artist- Anthea Bush

2011-01-13T12:52:00.000-08:00

Anthea is based in Amsterdam. Her vision of the motorcyclist is going to be an exciting re-telling as her formally static sculptures will take on human form as performers navigate the Panoply platform like feathered storm-troopers.

www.AntheaBush.com

Artist- Estelle Woolley

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Estelle creates delicate sculpture from ephemeral natural, organic elements. We are very excited about the outcome of an artist who creates in this scale working with the Panoply team. We hope to bring out the theatrical nature of her pieces whether they are worn or discovered as the audience traverse the space.

www.EstelleWoolley.webs.com

Artist- Esther Arocha

2011-01-13T12:04:00.000-08:00

Esther is a Spanish artist based in Tenerife. Her photographic compositions draw a line between character and landscape.
We are confident that the distance between Tenerife and Manchester will not inhibit Esther in creating work that belongs entirely in Panoply.

www.EstherArocha.com

Artist- Edward Wiffen

2011-01-13T11:21:00.000-08:00

Edward Wiffen is a performance and sculpture artist. Most of his work is based in totemic symbolism and religious dogma. Through these shamanic performances and animalistic sculptures is a costume drama set around masculinity.
In Panoply 2010 Edward opted out of a live performance and instead displayed his work as a video piece, this piece was derived from an ongoing project with Tenerife based artist Esther Arocha. (Esther will be exhibiting in Panoply 2011)

www.cargocollective.com/EdwardWiffen

Artist- Rachel Maclean

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Rachel was invited to Manchester to try and convert her unique direction of video to a live platform.
We helped find 'willing' volunteers for Rachel to dress in her costumes she had devised around her own body and had previously only herself ever worn in-front of a green-screen in her studio.

Rachel's work really helped bring an entire lift of colour and energy the evenings performances. For many it was their first exposure to her video work.
Rachel will be showcasing her latest video pieces at Panoply 2011.

www.RachelMaclean.com

The Space March 2011

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These Images are the Location for Panoply 2011
There are two spaces next to each other which we are able to use either and both.

Artist- Sally Gilford

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Sally Gilford is a performance artist who works and molds the human body to create her work. For Panoply Sally created a piece in which she stitched three models together by starting with a single weft machine stitched into their hair. The piece is like a dance with the artist weaving in and around the models bodies slowly and elegantly tying them up, invading personal space and forcing body parts to touch.
Sally is also a founder of the manchester based collective One69a.

Collaborator - Anna Beam

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Anna Beam is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer currently based in Manchester. Since summer 2009, Anna has been working on a variety of independent and collaborative projects ranging from illustration, conceptual design, prop making and youth workshops in addition to exhibiting her personal work.

Her work is rooted in a fascination with outdated visions of the future in design and science fiction. Her work varies in scale and methodology; sometimes digital, sometimes large scale three-dimensional.

This collaboration with the Vokov Commanders during the Free For Arts Festival initiates a shift in her practise towards set design and costume. During the festival you can also catch her collaborative window display with art director Rebecca Maeve Manley.

www.annabeam.com

INSPIRATION

Nearly....

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Our beautiful friends and Sponsors

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The Volkov Commanders thank our friends at Rekorderlig Cider and Cusquena for their sponsorship of PANOPLY!! 7/10/2010 and our friends of the Free For Arts Festival for letting us in their festival and promoting us through all their mediums.

VOLKOV COMMANDERS

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THE VOLKOV- A LARGE MECHANICAL WOOLY MAMOTH CONSTRUCTED IN A CRATER ON THE MOON FOR THE PURPOSE OF FLYING TO THE EARTH TO GATHER INFORMATION.

COMMANDERS- A TRIO OF ARTISTS WHO BUILT AND CAN FLY THE VOLKOV.

INVITATION

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VOLKOV COMMANDERS are pleased to invite you to an evening of PANOPLY!! as part of the Free for Arts festival 2010. Panoply!! will take place on the 7th oct at Piccadilly place from 6pm til 8. Please RSVP to our email address volkovcommanders@gmail.com or to our facebook event page.

SPACE

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These are a few of the preliminary shots taken of the space used in the 2010 Panoply.

Some images of the space PANOPLY!! for the Free for arts festival will be taking place in on thurs 7th oct, 6pm till 8. Without the building materials of course. Piccadilly place, manchester, M1 3BN.

Images courtesy of Sanna Berger

INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME

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Inauguration of the pleasure dome by Kenneth Anger. Amazing!

CENTROV

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Through performance, sculpture, dance, costumes and animal imagery i want to conjure a strong dystopian aesthetic. Inspired by so many different sources including post-apocalyptic films, science fiction, shamanism, religous dogma and idolatry my works meaning is often purposefully obtuse yet my aesthetic is immediately arresting and people can engage with it far more because i appropriate symbolic imagery and found objects. I want the viewer however to feel part of the complex tapestry of the universe, i want them to understand that all understanding is incomprehensible and facile.

Inspiration for Panoply:

PANOPLY!! FEB 2011 The Brief

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FINE ART PERFORMANCE AND FASHION

Call for proposals

The ‘Volkov Commanders’ are inviting artists, fashion designers, textilists and performers to collaborate together to create ambitious projects culminating in an event staged over three evenings in a central Manchester location in February 2011.

The event is based on the theatrics of contemporary fashion so we want ideas and pieces based in costume/fashion and performance.

Deadline for proposals: 30^th November 2010

Piccadilly Place is opening one of it’s ground floor retail units to the artist community to bring life to the complex and make use of it’s prime location in the centre of Manchester and next to Piccadilly train station.

Go to Panoply-Manchester.blogspot.com for images of the space and more information

Deadline Guidelines:

Please send your ideas (one side of A4) to The Volkov Commanders at volkovcommanders@gmail.com please try to include any images of previous work or examples of your idea attached as .Jpeg or .pdf files.

Feel free to get in touch if you are interested in participating in the project but do not have any concrete ideas.

EPIOV

2010-07-20T13:36:00.000-07:00

Driven by the need for excess, my work explores multiple components and extreme ‘dressing’ of the female form. Inspired by historical costume and Haute Couture, I have created body props that interact with the wearer and the viewer. I see my work in a performative or editorial context, in which people’s perceptions of beauty and body adornment are held up to scrutiny and challenged. The work questions the boundaries between dream and reality and employs an aesthetic that points to the fine line between the sublime and the grotesque.

Inspiration

Kelis - Acapella (Full HD) from Sergey Ionnikov on Vimeo.

YOLKOV

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Through combining performance and installation with costume/mask wearing and fashion my work seeks to create dialogue on the nature of dressing up for display. This relies heavily on the juxtaposition of situation and chance encounter with the audience. Each element of the performance is carefully crafted and constructed with a heavy emphasis on fashion and costume, looking at displacement of the garments from their routinely socially accepted environment.Masks feature heavily in my work as I am fascinated by mystery and concealment of identities, inspired by European folklore, cultural adornment and courtship rituals right up to the more macabre and sinister aspects of mask wearing found in horror.

INSPIRATION

WE ARE THE VOLKOV COMMANDERS

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WE ARE THE VOLKOV COMMANDERS

WE WANT YOU FOR PANOPLY

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