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Approaches/techniques we have used

Fragmented theatre
Non-linear narrative
Chance technique – (Merce Cunningham)
Gesture Choreography
Performing as self
Addressing the audience
Stepping between acting ‘self’ and ‘performance persona’
Using live film feed to highlight action
Ensemble performance
Creating text from improvisation
Sourcing text from pre-written material i.e. film, script, fact, websites etc
Cutting up/re-appropriating found text.
Layering different texts

hello :)

this is the first script i have for the scene where we just CANNOT remember the order! So this is it from now :)

John : That's it, that's the one
Carl : Yes...on the canvas ?
Imi : Or on camera...

Scott : I am Andy Warhol
Ravo : I am Andy Warhol
Emily : I am Andy and Valerie
Emma : I am a factory girl
Jess : I will be Valerie
Imi : I am the cameraman
Dani : I will be smoking
Emily : Me too
Lucy : We're gonna take you to New York
Scott : Alice Cooper has been signed to Frank Zappa's label?
John ; I will be listening to the Velvet Underground
Imi : I'm gonna get hiiiigh
Carl : I'm gonna make a phonecall
Tori : I am a playwright
Jess : I'm gonna be drugged up to my eyeballs
Ravo : I've got a 32 calibre stored away in a paper bag
Emma : I'm Valerie
Adam : We are the assassination committee
Glen : I am Andy
Tori : I am Valerie

Riiight, this is it. my only query is Scott's line about Alice Cooper is a bit random? Cos it doesnt say what he'll be doing in the show, like everyone else's?

Love yooous nerds. xx

COSTUME IDEAS

Right so i am a little absent from this blog and wanting to give some ideas...
I am thinking for costume as the 60's was extremely eccentric and glamorous, we go full on with our ideas. im thinking for the girls BIG hair and alot of makeup, red lips, black eyes... really sultry and sexy. I think it would look amazing if we were all really glamourous and wearing heels?! but that mite not be so easy with the routine...
For the guys, i think they should look slick and smart, very ironed down and clean. Shiney shoes and Shiney hair! :)
I think it would just look fabuloussssss!!!xxxxxx Dani Kelly ;)

NEW IDEASSSS!!

OMG FOUND SOME ACTUAL AWESOMENESS!!
aFTER LAST WEEKS LESSON I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO MAKE A SCENE ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING IN 1968 MAYBE TO JUXTAPOSE...!!! BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS YEAR SEEMS A BIT DEPRESSING!! HOWEVER, I HAVE FOUND A RADIO TRANSCRIPT TALKING ABOUT THE YEAR!!!! WE COULD SOOOOOO USE!!!
LOVE YOU MUPPETS!!
LUCY
XXX'S

Names!

Ok so....

We thought of some potential company names:

• Fifteentimesthree
• horseplay
• mob-scurity / mobscurity - thats our fave btw :)
• paradox

And names for the production:

• Warhola
• project:warhol
• 3/6/1968
• soup for the soul
• pop goes the artist - LMAO.
• factorypeople

I don't know, we could probably think up some more, but there are a few for your perusal!! :D

BIG LOVE! Nash, Wilsonball and Ginge :) xx

SCUM Manifesto....

• Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.
  It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the mail has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction. The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

Ok, so I thought this might be a lovely little piece of the SCUM manifesto to include! It's the opening, and I was thinking we could have either one woman, or a group of women talking about it - kind of vagina monologues-esque?? Like with just a spot? I don't know, that might be crap, but I thought this was an interesting section to play with - please leave ideas people!!

• Being an incomplete female, the male spends his life attempting to complete himself, to become female. He attempts to do this by constantly seeking out, fraternizing with and trying to live through an fuse with the female, and by claiming as his own all female characteristics -- emotional strength and independence, forcefulness, dynamism, decisiveness, coolness, objectivity, assertiveness, courage, integrity, vitality, intensity, depth of character, grooviness, etc -- and projecting onto women all male traits -- vanity, frivolity, triviality, weakness, etc. It should be said, though, that the male has one glaring area of superiority over the female -- public relations. (He has done a brilliant job of convincing millions of women that men are women and women are men). The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think they'd find fulfilling if they were female.

Right! I thought this may be interesting, we could maybe play around with some sort of movement piece of the men wanting to be women! I don't know.... I'm kind of shooting in the dark here! But it's a really interesting snippet of text, yes? :)

• The male `artistic' aim being, not to communicate (having nothing inside him he has nothing to say), but to disguise his animalism, he resorts to symbolism and obscurity (`deep' stuff). The vast majority of people, particularly the `educated' ones, lacking faith in their own judgment, humble, respectful of authority (`Daddy knows best'), are easily conned into believing that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, ambiguity and boredom are marks of depth and brilliance.

This is particularly interesting because I think it's a bit of a dig at Andy Warhol. So maybe could slot in around factory scene, sort of as Solanas' comment on Warhols work??

• SCUM will not picket, demonstrate, march or strike to attempt to achieve its ends. Such tactics are for nice, genteel ladies who scrupulously take only such action as is guaranteed to be ineffective. In addition, only decent, clean-living male women, highly trained in submerging themselves in the species, act on a mob basis. SCUM consists of individuals; SCUM is not a mob, a blob. Only as many SCUM will do a job as are needed for the job. Also SCUM, being cool and selfish, will not subject to getting itself rapped on the head with billy clubs; that's for the nice, `privileged, educated', middle-class ladies with a high regard for the touching faith in the essential goodness of Daddy and policemen. If SCUM ever marches, it will be over the President's stupid, sickening face; if SCUM ever strikes, it will be in the dark with a six-inch blade.

This is just scary - any ideas anyone?! Thought it was interesting...

• The sick, irrational men, those who attempt to defend themselves against their disgustingness, when they see SCUM barrelling down on them, will cling in terror to Big Mama with her Big Bouncy Boobies, but Boobies won't protect them against SCUM; Big Mama will be clinging to Big Daddy, who will be in the corner shitting in his forceful, dynamic pants. Men who are rational, however, won't kick or struggle or raise a distressing fuss, but will just sit back, relax, enjoy the show and ride the waves to their demise.

This is the last bit of the manifesto - I don't like all of it, but parts of it are really powerful. Maybe we could just take a line or two and throw bits into the show at some point? Lol. My brain is a bit hurty. I've just read most of the SCUM manifesto! And I'm greatly disturbed...

Peace and Hugs :) Emily xx

It had to be DONE!

ok this has nothing to do with the project but it a lil light reliefe....

and for shits and giggles!!

(ouch charlie remix {its amazing})

I've done some more photo's but these aint all of them i still need to do some refining on others...
The pink text one is where the image has been redrawn using the highlights, midtones and the shodows and the text colours moulded to fit. the text also is the S.C.U.M Manifesto.
This means that from distance warhol is visiable and up close the manifesto is readable.

the black and white one is a merge of both warhol and solanas where solanas is the overlay and visible in selected locations

the third is a polaroid puzzel that have the images of both stiched together. this took the longest.

hopefully ill get these printed a3 and in to a presentation folder so that we can review and revise them as necessary.

AdamXx

OK I watched a 1968 Andy Warhol film called 'FLESH', and I thought we could include some scenes and dialogue from the film to our production.

Cal

This is an extract from the film 'I shot Andy Warhol', and its basically alot of Solanas' views on men/the world in general. She's insane!

I think this film would be a good shout for all of us to watch anyway....... so film night anyone?

Here is a little gem from the S.C.U.M manifesto itself -
"To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples."
Erm... sorry boys :(
http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm - this website has a transcript of the S.C.U.M manifesto on it! Guys, you might just find some of this offensive, just as a warning!

Emily :) xx

ps. I'm sorry for bombarding you all! I just worked out how to use this bad boy blog so just got uber-excited!!

Erm, have found a VERY good website about everything and anything that happened in America in 1968, I'll post the intro and the link for your viewing pleasure! Aren't I brilliant?! :P Lol!

1968 IN AMERICA
MUSIC, POLITICS, CHAOS, COUNTERCULTURE, AND THE SHAPING OF A GENERATION
THIS is the story of what happened to America in 1968, the most turbulent twelve months of the postwar period and one of the most disturbing intervals we have lived through since the Civil War. In this century only the Depression, Pearl Harbor, and the Holocaust have punctured the national psyche as deeply as the dramas of this single year. Nineteen sixty-eight was the pivotal year of the sixties: the moment when all of a nation's impulses toward violence, idealism, diversity, and disorder peaked to produce the greatest possible hope-and the worst imaginable despair. For many of us who came of age in that remarkable era, it has been twenty years since we have lived with such intensity. That is one of the main reasons why the sixties retain their extraordinary power over every-one old enough to remember them.

http://www.orlok.com/tribe/insiders/introduction.html

Emily :) xx

Oooooh, and another particularly funky website I just found for your enjoyment guys -

I <3 1968!! It turns out the BBC have run a number of I <3....... pages about years gone by! Oh you got to love the beeb!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1968/index.shtml

Got lots of information about what happened that year - shall try to find some more stuff about what was going on in America.

Emily :) xx

Costume Design Ideas.....

I found a very interesting website which is basically a fashion archive, it's got some pretty interesting stuff about the clothes around a the time. Here's a little snippit! ........

The year 1968 was marked by the individualist in fashion, and by lawlessness. Anything went! Writing in the Christian Science Monitor in September, fashion reporter Patricia Shelton said: "Any genius can put a wardrobe together—all it takes is an artist's eye for color, line, and rhythm; confidence; a little common sense and a good credit rating. Prices," she added, "are going up." At about the same time, English Vogue wrote: "Fashion is self-consciously sociological and frankly featherbrained. It's classic and immediate. Nostalgic and now. Worldly and other-worldly. Whatever's happening you are part of it and at last you can be yourself and look as you choose."

I thought this was particularly interesting as this is kind of what Warhol was doing with his art, his own thing!! Here's the link to the website - http://www.paperpast.com/html/1968_fashion.html

Good times :) Lots lovely love, Emily!!! xx

Late Nite Randoms

I really dont have much to say...

with a bit of sleep and an actual aim i can do alot more with the image; but for now..... ZZzzzz

Up your ass?

Early in 1967 Solanas approached Andy Warhol at his studio, the Factory, about producing " Up Your Ass", as a play and gave him her copy of the script. At the time Warhol told the journalist Grechen Berg: " I thought the title was so wonderful and I'm so friendly that I invited her to come up with it, but it was so dirty that I think she must have been a lady cop.... We haven't seen her since and I'm not surprised. I guess she thought that was the perfect thing for Andy Warhol."

The incident

On June 3, 1968 at 9 a.m. Solanas went to the Chelsea Hotel where Maurice Girodias lived: she asked at the desk for him and was told that he was gone for the weekend. Still, she remained there for three hours. Around noon she went to the new relocated Factory and waited outside for Warhol. Paul Morrissey met her in front and asked her what she was doing there. "I'm waiting for Andy to get money," she replied. To get rid of her, Morrissey told her that Warhol wasn't coming in that day. "Well that's alright. I'll wait," she said.

About 2:00 she came up to the studio in the elevator. Once again Morrissey told her that Warhol wasn't coming and that she couldn't hang around so she left. She came up the elevator another seven times before she finally came up with Warhol at 4:15. She was dressed in a black turtleneck sweater and a raincoat, with her hair styled and wearing lipstick and make-up; she carried a brown paper bag. Warhol even commented "Look doesn't Varlerie look good!" Morrissey told her to get out". . . We got business, and if you don't go I'm gonna beat the hell out of you and trow you out, and I don't want . . . " Then the phone rang; Morrissey answered--- it was Viva, for Warhol. Morrissey then excused himself to go to the bathroom. As Warhol spoke on the phone, Solanas shot him three times. Between the first and second shot, both of which missed, Warhol screamed, "No! No! Valarie, don't do it." Her third shot sent a bullet through Warhol's left lung, spleen, stomach, liver, esophagus and right lung.

As Warhol lay bleeding, Solanas then fired twice upon Mario Amaya, an art critic and curator who had been waiting to meet Warhol. She hit him above the right hip with her fifth shot; he ran from the room to the back studio and leaned against the door. Solanas then turned to Fred Hughes, Warhol's manager, put her gun to his head and fired; the gun jammed. At that point the elevator door opened; there was no one on it. Hughes said to Solanas, " Oh, there's the elevator. Why don't you get on, Valerie?" She replied: " That's a good idea" and left.

Valerie Solanas - past

• 1936 April 9 born in Ventor, New Jersey
• Father Louis, Mother Dorothy Bondo Solonas
• Sexually molested by father
• 1940’s sometime parents divorced
• Moved to Washington DC with mother
• 1949 mother married Red Moran
• Refused to stay in catholic school, in response whipped by grandfather
• 1951 (aged 15) lived on own
• 1954 graduated form high school Good student at University of Maryland, supporting herself by working in the psychology departments animal laboratory
• After a college worked as a prostitute to support herself
• 1966 ended up in Greenwich village
• 1966 wrote ‘Up your ass’

Valerie Solanas - pre shooting

• 1967 February approaches Warhol about producing UYA and gives him script
• 1967 wrote and published SCUM manifesto
• 1967 May demands play back from Warhol. He tells her he’s lost it
• 1967 July Warhol pays Solanas $25 for performing in “I, a Man”
• 1967 Fall Warhol spots Solanas at Max’s Kansas City Café, she tells his company of her fathers assaults
• 1967-68 winter interviewed by Robert Mamorstein of the Village Voice
• 1968 Spring approached underground newspaper publisher (The Realist) Paul Krassner for money, saying “ I want to shoot Maurice Girodias. He gave her $50 enough for a .32 automatic pistol.

Valerie Solanas - the shooting

• 1968, June 3rd 9am goes to the Chelsea hotel to look for Girodias, but he has gone away for weekend
• 1968 , June 3rd 12pm goes to new Factory location and waits for Andy Warhol
• 1968, June 3rd 2pm takes the elevator up to the studio, she is told to leave and goes up and down in the lift another 7 times
• 1968, June 3rd 4.15pm goes up in the lift with Warhol
• The shooting
• 1968, June 3rd 8pm hands herself into a rookie traffic officer in time Square

Valerie Solanas - post shooting

• 1968 June 13th appeared in court
• 1968 June 28th indicted on charges of attempted murder, assault and illegal possession of a gun
• 1968 August Olympia Press publish the SCUM manifesto
• 1968 December 23rd she rings Warhol and demanded $20,000 for her manuscripts. She wanted him to drop his charges, put her in more of his movies and get her on the Johnny Carson Show
• 1969 June After pleading guilty she was sentenced to three years in prison
• 1988, April 26 she dies broke and alone of emphysema and pneumonia in a welfare state hotel at 52.

First Idea...

ok so i did a quick photoshop jobby as a start.





this is the style that warhol used but im thinking of doing another poster which is just valeries face but ill redraw it in popart style...

AdamXx

A beginning

We have a start.

It's us, being us.
We are standing.
We are looking at you
and wondering
what your face would look like
in black and white
in sepia
in negative
on a canvas
on film
we could make you

Well done

Well done folks - keep it coming

some interesting notes!!

Friday 16 february:
In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.

WERE NOT SURE WHAT TO DO WITH THIS BUT ITS INTERESTING!!

Also first manned shutle orbits the moon successfully in this year!!
Sunday 23 June:
74 are killed and 150 injured in a soccer stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
Number 1 at time of shooting was mrs robinson, simon and garfunkel.
Number 1 box office hit of year 1968, Funny Girl
IN 1968, warhols painting 'onion' was released and he also made the film 'women in revolt' The film satirizes the Women's Liberation Movement, and alludes to Valerie Solanas and the SCUM Manifesto.

Lucy Emily and Emma

research for 1968

Here was something i found quite interesting....

June 3rd 1968 Britains first heart transplant took place - requiring 18 doctors and nurses at the national heart hospital in Marylebon, London.

thought this was quite interesting as it was something to do with the heart which could be incorporated within the movement of the pumping of the heart.

group idea ass ass ins!

hello Rosie, we have met today and rehearsed the two sequences having a whale of a time :) woop! we'v come up with the idea of using a polaroid camera throughout the performance to take pics of scenes and hang them up on a clothes line with pegs to give the essence of the factory atmosphere as a working habitat omg we'r so clever! also putting up copies of Warhols artwork throughout the piece, so that by the end of the piece we'v created what looks like a factory, omg we'r so clever! let us know what you think of these ideas ta luv xxxxxx

Task 2

Task one

Valerie Solanas
Who was she?
Whats was her background?
What was her motivation?

The assassination attempt
What was the weapon?
How as it obtained?
What time did it happen?
What was happening prior to it?

1968
What other landmarks happened that year?

• Political Actions
• News Items
• Music Releases
• Events