Leaving our mark

A little location-based marketing exercise we carried out in Docklands. Let us know if you have uploaded any relevant video clips of your own and we will repost the best here on the WAH2.0 blog.
(Don’t worry, we used water-soluble Liquid Chalk, so no buildings were harmed making this video.)

WAH2.0 Flickr Group

We have established a We Are Here 2.0 group on Flickr so that everyone can share any of their related photos: whether taken at the events, around the venues or simply inspired by our five events. So get snapping with your mobile-phone cameras and digital cameras and contribute today at www.flickr.com/groups/wearehere20
It is a public group, so anyone with a Flickr account* can join, get involved and add images. Don't forget to geo-tag your images.
(If you don't have an account, they are free and you can set one up in about five minutes.)

Nine Years

Date: May 11 & May 12
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: SS Michael & John's, Essex Street West (3 mins from Project)
Tickets: €20/€15
Box office: +353 18819613/4 or www.project.ie

Nine years ago two friends decided to see the world. Mainly on foot and latterly on bicycles the two have since travelled the length and breadth of Europe, Scandinavia, North America and Australia. As they moved around the world the two friends, Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters, offered theatrical presentations as a gift to the people they met on their journey. Nine years and seven hundred performances later they have returned home, the journey is complete. This new performance by the internationally acclaimed duo attempts, for the first time, to bring together their entire body of work in one ninety-minute show. The heart-shaped topography of Brussels, the shores of Lake Lucerne, downtown Philadelphia, the North Sea, the Arctic Circle, the blue skies of Lisbon’s July and most of Switzerland will be revisited in a final attempt to make some sense of the world around us. A funny and touching performance about travel and meeting people, saying hello and waving good-bye.

www.lonetwin.com

Gob Squad - Room Service

Dates: May 09 – May 10
Time: 7.00pm - midnight
Venue: Wynn's Hotel, 35-39 Lower Abbey St, Dublin 1
Tickets: €20/€15
Box office: +353 18819613/4 or www.project.ie

"Room Service", a live interactive film, is set in the conference room of a hotel where the audience watch four performers on huge TV monitors set side by side. Each performer is in a separate hotel room, unable to see and hear the audience or each other. It’s late at night, and none of them are sleeping. Instead, they kill time, sharing moments of hope, fear and boredom. Their only contact to the outside world is a phone line that puts them directly in contact with the audience. As the night progresses they call their voyeurs with increasingly absurd and desperate demands in a plea to remain with them and help them make it through the night.

Gob Squad members are currently mentoring Irish artists Brokentalkers on a new performance project, with the support of British Council Ireland.

www.gobsquad.com

The Audio Detourists - Its an Audio Detour: Work and Play

Dates: May 1 – May 4 & May 8 - May 11
Time: Hourly 5.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Grattan Bridge Kiosk
Tickets: €10/€8
Box Office: +353 18819613/4 or www.project.ie
Advance booking essential, two places per tour.

"Work and play" is an audio-led tour where participants are guided by instructions given via a set of headphones connected to an MP3 player. Giving an unusual perspective on the working day of people in the financial services and other industries, the tour includes narratives recorded directly from real people around the IFSC. Participants take a route that leads from a kiosk on Grattan Bridge to the IFSC and back, in a choreographed loop. A magical mystery tour with a difference.

Work and Play will depart hourly (17:30 to 20:30) from the kiosk on Grattan Bridge, journeying by Luas from Jervis to Connolly stations, travelling around the IFSC and returning by Luas to the starting point.

Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) Cargo Sofia - Dublin

Dates: April 30 – May 4
Time: 7.00pm & 9.00pm (duration 90mins approx)
Venue: Freight truck starting at George's Dock
Tickets:€20/€15
Box Office: +353 18819613/4 or www.project.ie

Supported by Goethe Institut Dublin. www.goethe.de/dublin




Cargo Sofia is a documentary theatre at its best and most engaging. The novel venue for the performance is a freight truck converted to seat an audience of 45 people. Twice nightly, the city becomes the setting for a performance as the audience watches it passing by through the glazed side of the truck. The truck is driven around by two real life Bulgarian truckers who recount the story of their journey from Sofia to Dublin, accompanied by video footage of the journey. The itinerary for the evening will take in visits to people working in and around Dublin port, providing a revealing insight into their daily lives.


Cargo Sofia - Dublin
A Bulgarian truck-ride
by Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll).

With Ventzislav Borissov and Nedyalko Nedyalkov and others.
Concept/Artistic Direction: Stefan Kaegi
Artistic Direction Dublin: Jörg Karrenbauer
Video: Vladimir Miller
Sound: Simon Begemann
Production management: Bettina Land, Anne Schulz
Production Goethe-Institut Sofia and Hebbel am Ufer Berlin.
In Co-production with Theater Basel, PACT Zollverein Essen, Le-Maillon Strasbourg and THEOREM, association supported by the Culture 2000 program of the European Union.
Supported by Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, sponsored by Germany, Pro Helvetia, Swiss Cultural Foundation, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung and Forum Goethe-Institut.

Can you see me now? Blast Theory

Dates: May 9 and May 12
Time: 12.00pm - 3.00pm
Venue: George's Dock, IFSC and online
Play at: www.canyouseemenow.co.uk/dublin

Blast Theory’s Can You See Me Now? is a chase game played live online and on the streets. Online players are dropped at random locations into a virtual map of the IFSC while Blast Theory runners search for you in the very real streets using GPS, tracking your avatar down as you flee online. With up to 20 people playing online at a time, players can exchange tactics and send messages to Blast Theory.

We are currently looking for runners - for more information post a comment.

www.blasttheory.co.uk

Can You See Me Now? won the Golden Nica for Interactive Art at the 2003 Prix Ars Electronica and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2002.
Can You See Me Now? is a collaboration with the Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham and is supported by Arts Council England.

Descriptions of the five events

We are getting the traditional marketing out of the way first by posting the standard descriptions of all five events in We Are Here 2.0. Enjoy.

Announcing We Are Here 2.0

“We Are Here 2.0" returns with a series of site-specific urban artworks and interventions exploring location, connectivity and emergent technologies in performance. The various projects of We Are Here 2.0 touch on some of the fundamental shifts in the texture of Docklands and of Dublin life: from an increasingly virtual engagement with the world, to the competition between work and play and the experiences of new communities. We Are Here 2.0 is an ongoing collababoration between the Dublin Docklands Development Authority and Project Arts Centre.

Which is all fine, but what does that really mean? Hopefully this blog will help answer that question by taking you behind the scenes of We Are Here 2.0 and allowing you to participate collaborate and interact in various ways.