Professional Registration

Professional registration is open for arts professionals who intend to visit AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible.

Your registration provides free invitations to all 22 exhibition previews as part of our 24 Hour Launch from Thu 1 – Fri 2 March 2012, plus a personal itinerary to make sure you don’t miss anything.

It also includes limited free tickets and special offers for events during our Opening Weekend from Fri 2 – Sun 4 March 2012.

Registration closed on 13 February 2012.

The programme for the 24 Hour Launch and Opening Weekend is as follows, your personal itinerary will be sent to you in February. 

24 HOUR LAUNCH

Thu 1 March 2 - 5pm, Pre Launch Symposia
mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, FREE
Our opening symposia explores the idea of slowness in contemporary art and culture including presentations from Festival artists and special guest speakers. 

Thu 1 March 6pm – Fri 2 March 6pm
6pm–9pm: Middlesbrough Exhibition Previews
John Gerrard + Cyprien Gaillard, mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art / James Benning, Platform A Gallery

12am–12am: 24-Hour Live Performance
Leif Inge: 9 Beet Stretch, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle

9am–3pm: Newcastle Gateshead Exhibition Previews
On Kawara, BALTIC / Julien Maire, Hatton Gallery / Susan Stenger, The Civic Centre / Yoshi Wada, Discovery Museum / Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Great North Museum: Hancock / Jonathan Schipper, 16 Saville Row / Jem Finer, The NewBridge Space / Torsten Lauschmann, Laing Art Gallery / Sneha Solanki + Marina Zurkow, Vane / Benedict Drew, CIRCA Site /

3pm – 6pm: Sunderland Exhibition Previews
James Benning, NGCA / Bob Levene, Project Space, NGCA / Elizabeth McAlpine, / Reg Vardy Gallery / John Smith, CIRCA Screen / Mark Formanek, 50 Fawcett Street / Mirror Neurons and Joe Winter, National Glass Centre /

OPENING WEEKEND
Fri 2 – Sun 4 March

Fri 2 March:

7.45–10.15pm, Phill Niblock: The Movement of People Working
The Sage Gateshead, £12
This leading American minimalist composer and filmmaker, presents his music and films simultaneously in a special concert. The evening includes Stosspeng, a guitar duet performed live by Susan Stenger and Robert Poss.

10.30pm–12am, Leif Inge: 9 Beet Stretch
Star and Shadow Cinema, FREE
The last hours of this 24-hour performance complete our opening Friday night.

Sat 3 March:

11am–12pm, Talk: Phill Niblock, Susan Stenger, Yoshi Wada
Tyneside Cinema, FREE, booking required
A rare chance to hear these musicians talk about their work and shared histories, referencing the New York minimalist scene.

12-6pm, Jem Finer: Slowplayer Live Mix
The NewBridge Project, FREE
Bring along your own vinyl records and hear them played live by the artist on his specially adapted slow record player.

1.30-3.20pm, Film: The Art of Time
Tyneside Cinema, FREE, booking required
The Art of Time explores how leading artists and thinkers are inventing new and radical notions of time. Including interviews with: Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Chantal Akerman, David Claerbout, Stan Douglas and others. Directors Fergus Daly and Katherine Waugh will introduce the film.

3.50–6pm, Film: James Benning: Nightfall
Tyneside Cinema, limited FREE tickets for professionals
UK premiere of this new film introduced by the artist “Nightfall is a study of real-time light changing from day to night. It was filmed in a forest high up in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains.”

8–10pm: Lament for John Cage
The Sage Gateshead, £15
Marking the 100^th anniversary of John Cage’s birth and 20^th anniversary of his death, this evening focuses on slowness and duration, across six distinctive performances:

John Cage, Postcard from Heaven, performed by Rhodri Davies (harp)
John Cage, Ryoanji, performed by Susan Stenger (flute), Robert Poss (percussion), Dominic Lash (double bass)
Phill Niblock, A Cage of Stars, performed by Rhodri Davies
Yoshi Wada, The Lament of John Cage, performed by Yoshi Wada, Tashi Wada, Susan Stenger, Robert Poss and City of Newcastle Pipeband
Plus readings by Kenneth Goldsmith and Alec Finlay

Sun 4 March:

11am–2pm, Kenneth Goldsmith
Morden Tower, Sun 4 March, FREE 
Goldsmith, the founding editor of UbuWeb, reads a new work of 1920s weather summaries from the Met Office Archive.

2.30-3.15pm, Yoshi Wada Live
Discovery Museum, FREE
This new composition for timpani and highland bagpipes, is performed live within Wada’s sound installation.

4–6pm Film: Sharon Lockhart: Double Tide
Tyneside Cinema, limited FREE tickets for professionals
Double Tide documents a female clam digger in the mudflats of coastal Maine. Filmed on the rare occasion in which low tide occurs twice within daylight hours, once at dawn and once at dusk. Lockhart is present to introduce the film.

8–10pm, Hanne Darboven: Requiem
St Thomas the Martyr Church, £8 (£3 off with Lament for John Cage ticket)
This UK premiere of Darboven’s Requiem is performed by Thomas Dahl, Director of Music at St. Peter’s Church in Hamburg and selected by the artist for her 60^th birthday recital in 2001. Requiem is her major composition for organ, based on calculations using dates 1.1.00 to 31.12.99, plus parts of Bach’s Toccata in D minor.