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We have invited artists to present a variety of workshops and activities for all ages to participate in. From sound-related workshops taking place around the site to more child focussed activities happening throughout the weekend.
SUPERNORMAL is an evolution from BIAW (Braziers International Artists Workshop), an artists’ collective and annual residency that took place at Braziers Park 1995-2000. Embracing difference whilst celebrating common cause, SUPERNORMAL is intended to give the arts a far wider audience and artists a greater challenge than the usual artists’ residency or conventional Festival ‘with art attached’ ever can. The focus remains firmly rooted in art, collectivity, environment and pushing boundaries.
As always, Supernormal brings you a heady and eclectic mix of aural delights, spread across two open air stages and one gloriously ramshackle old barn.
The Disco Tent hosts an eclectic line-up of D.Js throughout the weekend, as well as live, electronic and AV acts and other performance, fun and games.
Typically located in highly trafficked areas, the billboard commands high- ‐density consumer exposure. Viewed principally by commuters and pedestrians, their temporary slogans and accustomed aesthetics represent an impacted symbol of the modern age of consumption. For Supernormal 2014 we are re- purposing the billboard’s objective, shifting its location from the urban to the rural environment and transforming its context as an antithesis to it’s commercial nature. The billboards will assume the form of a temporary outdoor gallery at Braziers Park becoming a vehicle for visual, thoughtful and theoretical communication and objects of consideration where they can be experienced and interpreted by the festival audience as the new pedestrians.
There's a tonne of all-ages activities at Supernormal. We've highlighted a few that the nippers might get a kick from.
The Shed is a micro venue and migratory project that will be transformed into an extended sound space and platform for experimental music, DIY improvisation and sound art practices.
Sitting at odds to the staged music programme, with a nod to avant-garde practices, this micro Fluxfest within a fest explores the potential of sound-making where intriguing things can emerge. Encouraging an insight into the aesthetics of sound the space will inspire a consideration of the art and act of listening in turn challenging notions of how art and music is considered, experienced and consumed.
Sound makers will have free reign to collaborate, present ideas and projects that have the potential of responding to the location, each other and the space as a sound making activity zone. Here the audience can discover the possibilities of sound through participation, demonstration, activity and performance throughout the Supernormal weekend.
This year's Supernomally cinematic experiments are served up in The People's Palace.. relax in comfort and marvel at moving images made by Supernormal commissioned artists, music videos by featured bands, special feature screenings, kids' films, film poetry, innovation, poor taste, cult nonsense and other artfulness.. Participate in the Soul Power Seminars, Bluescreen's open sessions and work with the Record Player Orchestra and, most exciting of all, we have a series of special events with live film scores from.. Stasis 73, Metamono and others to be announced.. rolling down to Sunday evening and the 'irrational film jam' chaos with live music.. everyone welcome to join in and make your sounds effective..
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Supernormal remains a unique event in its genuine commitment to creating a communal celebration, its uncompromising rejection of any profit driven trapping of successful festivals, its respect for both artists and audiences and its active embrace of green policies. Those who disagree are welcome to find another festival where you can buy a pint of excellent local ale for £3.60 or a meal for less than £4, where artists are given adequate soundcheck times and there are no separate VIP areas, where the organisers not just encouraged but actively facilitate car sharing, and where – most importantly – you can catch a very different line up, get fully immersed in creative activities and discover something genuinely new.
As a whole Supernormal supplies a heady mixture of high quality and fascinatingly idiosyncratic failures.
Supernormal is probably the most audacious festival in the UK, putting onstage, in the field and in the woods nearby, 3-days of fearless experimental music and arts. If you know of any bolder festival: let me know where it is, because I don’t want to miss it!
Last weekend, while Thee Monkey’s Claw fannied around in south east Asia – riding monkeys and having his lunch stolen by elephants – Prince Reelfoot went to the M.I.G.H.T.Y Supernormal Festival.
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Surrender. Four page static; empty tower blocks; samples taken from interviews with renowned nutritionists and a supermarket basket overflowing with noise make for jubilant concrete floor contemplations.
Once again, Supernormal Festival paces itself just right.
Supernormal doesn’t preach, it accommodates. It caters for vegans as well or nearly as well as it does for carnivores, for jazz fans as well as Cosmic Dead devotees. It is critical of mainstream culture but pretty much avoids being worthy or precious. It would be wrong to say I hope Supernormal grows, as that’s possibly missing the point. Rather, I hope it puts down further roots and strengthens its hold on the imagination. It is something incredibly vital.
Personally, I could not have asked for a better weekend and sorely look forward to next years with squeamish anticipation.
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We’re out, on location this time. Producer Will has released us from his grimy hovel, out into the fields, to enjoy the quite beautiful festival of arts, noise and freedom that was Supernormal 2014.
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