We are so pleased to have been successful in our Arts Council Application

Everybody at Level is delighted and proud to have been successful in our application to be an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation.

Light Choreographies

LIGHT CHOREOGRAPHIES

Immersive Light Sculptures
at LEVEL CENTRE, Rowsley

Thursday 13 July 2017

6.30 – 9.00pm

Public Exhibition of the work of Grzegorz Rogala and Joanna Krzyszton

Friday 17 February 2017 at LEVEL  a public event featuring the work of Polish Artists Grzegorz Rogala and Joanne Krzyszton.

Palimpsest (2016)

Archipelago

Interactive Installation Art from Poland

Four interactive installations by experimental Polish artists Grzegorz Rogala (experimental filmmaker creating computer art, 3D animation and interactive art) and Joanna Krzyszton (painter creating immersive abstract paintings from photographs) have just been installed at LEVEL.

New Images from Fractured Ground at LEVEL

Fractured Ground/Fracture is a multi media performance project which forms a part of the CONTAINER R&D Project at the Level Centre.

The project started with a performance and audio visual installation created by LEVEL Director Andrew Williams and physical performer Karla Jones held at the Level Centre in November 2016. It comprised improvised dance where the physical language is created, modified and influenced by somatic senses. This mirrors some of our work and approach when developing individual performance language with learning disabled performers.

Fractured Ground

An audio/visual installation and performance at the Level Centre, Derbyshire, UK created by Karla Jones (Physical Performance/Dance) and Andrew Williams (Sound + Video).

Fractured Ground is a part of a exciting new project for LEVEL - creating live performances and audio/visual installations. It attempts to throw into shadow our 'normal' rational/intellectual approach to creating, collating, structuring and valuing information and art, and instead shine an interrogatory light on what can be created when emphasis is placed upon our somatic senses.

Container - Video Installation Images

CONTAINER - a series of video installations using projections onto surfaces comprising cardboard boxes at the LEVEL Centre.
 

 

Breathe Installation - Random Line Performance Company

The Second example of projections onto boxes - this time in the form a gallery installation by Random Line Performance Company. 

Breathe was a performance installation and sensory engagement environment created by Andrew Williams (Director at Level) with members of members of Random Line in 2008.

Second Skin Rehearsal a short performance by Random Line Performance Company using boxes.

Level is currently undertaking a 5 week project working with projections and light using cardboard boxes as a projection surface.  Below is an example of how this can look. Second Skin was a production by the innovative Random Line Performance company which toured nationally in 2010.

Is That All There Is? Conference at Birmingham Hipperdrome, 9 March 2016

The Level Centre is presenting the interactive audio/visual instrument entitled 'Abstract Playground' at the 'Is That All there Is?' conference in Birmingham on the 9th of March 2016. LEVEL will present this new work by artist Will Hurt and Level Director, Andrew Williams will lead a break out session looking to explore way of working and new potential tools using interactive digital technology.

Some Information about the conference, which is being organised by Richard Hayhow, can be found below or visit the website: http://www.itati.co.uk/

The NET - a new Installation at LEVEL

A stunning physical interactive installation running for 5 weeks at the LEVEL Centre. It has been created to provide a stimulating visual environment for all of the events within the Participate + Create programme and visitors to the Centre. The NET forms a large sculptural object in the centre of the space and uses different lighting states to emphasise certain contours of the structure. These change over time and create the impression of several different sculptural formations from a single structure.

Furniture Music Project

We have just started work on our latest project - Furniture Music (working title). This is being developed by Dr Toby Heys and will take the form of a sound installation at the LEVEL Centre opening on the 29th of April 2017. Toby is the Digital Technologies Research Fellow at the Research Centre, MIRIAD, Manchester School of Art and is collaborating with LEVEL to create Furniture Music.

Furniture Music is based around creating sound at the edge of, and just beyond, our (human) sensory perception. To do this Toby has been working with some bespoke speakers and has just taken delivery of a TRACTION Sub Bass - see images below.

Toby Heys (Left) with Level Director Andrew Williams looking at the Traction SUB at MIRIAD

 

 

 

 

Inter-ACT + Re-ACT Will Hurt Artist in Residence

The Inter-ACT + Re-ACT Programme has just seen its first new interactive work created as a part of a series of Artists Commissions. The Digital Playground has been created and developed by Artist Will Hurt. 

Purple Peach III

Images from the latest Purple Peach at LEVEL

Image above+ below: The LEVEL Gallery as a chill out space - projecting shadows across all four walls with a sound track created by Random Line.

Auditions for SPIRAL

Breaking News – Attention !!!

Auditions for Spiral

The Performance Company of LEVEL

Thursday 5 November, 10-4pm at the Level Centre, Old Station Close, Rowsley, Nr Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 2EL

Do you want to be a part of a performance company for adults with learning disabilities who 
create and perform exciting artistic work?

Spiral is a high quality company in demand to create performances regionally, nationally 
and internationally.

Are you serious about wanting to be a performer?

Do you enjoy being creative?

Do you have the confidence and commitment to be in a public performance company at LEVEL?

If the answer is YES then please come and audition for SPIRAL on Thursday 5 November from 
10-4 pm at the LEVEL Centre.

Please wear suitable loose clothing and trainers/pumps and bring a packed lunch.  Drinks and 
healthy snacks will be provided.

If you have any questions or would like to find out more please do not hesitate to contact 
Katie, LEVEL Arts Projects Co-ordinator, T:  01629 734848, E: katie@levelcentre.com

Will Hurt - Artist in Residence for the Inter-ACT + Re-ACT Programme

Inter-ACT + Re-ACT

Co-commission with D-LAB

Will Hurt - Artist in Residence

LEVEL is pleased to announce that digital artist Will Hurt has been selected to undertake the first Inter-ACT + Re-ACT Artist Residency at the Level Centre. This project is a partnership with D-LAB and funded through the Arts Council, England.

Will’s brief is to create new work that will engage people as they travel through the LEVEL Centre.  It provides the opportunity to work with LEVEL artists and spend time researching and trialing new methodology, tools and equipment to enable people with a learning disability to interact with and react to art within a digital environment. 

Digital Playground - Will Hurt

Body as Canvas

An exploration of identity.

A new photographic exhibition at New Art Exchange, Nottingham UK from June 20th. 

Developed through a process where people with a learning disability created several unstructured, improvised performance events using movement, sound and light. Each performance was based loosely upon the underlying themes of an exhibition at New Art Exchange and captured using a digital camera – framing just a fraction of a second of the event. 

The camera became the audience for the performance and its presence influenced how people reacted and wanted to be presented within its frame. Body as Canvas presents the individual images as statements – a behaviour, a culture and a source of creativity where difference shines - a cultural world yet to be acknowledged. The photography uses soft focus and shallow depth of field to give emphasis to the individual within each frame.

Limestone Journey - a commission to create a new installation

We are currently working to create a new screen based installation commissioned by Junction Arts (Derbyshire, UK) to celebrate the conclusion of the three year Limestone Journeys project.

Purple Peach Club Event at LEVEL

The first Purple Peach Event took place last night. What a great evening. The LEVEL Centre looked fantastic, full of people dancing, re-acting, inter-acting, socialising and just taking in the atmosphere. 

The Gallery Space at LEVEL during Purple Peach Club event. It worked really well as a relaxing yet engaging environment.

Shadows [Inter-ACT + Re-ACT]

The general theme of the LEVEL Participate & Create programme over the past seven days has been 'shadow'. As a part of Inter-ACT + Re-ACT we have been experimenting with back projection to create shadow maps. These  allow people to manipulate the image by changing and controlling the light. Three images using shadow projection during the Performing Arts session are posted below. 

SHADOW 1 - Image taken as a part of Inter-ACT+ Re-ACT