PANOPLY 2010 video

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

Artist- Ashling Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.