Alma Enterprises presents It’s just bread, a 6-week-long programme of performances taking place at the gallery throughout March and April 2007 and bringing together durational performances by artists including: Brian Catling, Noble and Silver’s Kim Noble, Hayley Newman and Michael Curran, allsopp&weir, Gayle Chong Kwan, and Thomas Altheimer.

At times when no performances happen, a video reel with films that relate to rather than document what has taken/will take place at the gallery will be on show. The video reel will include the premiere of Brian Catling's 'Antic' and new video works by allsopp&weir and Kim Noble.

In addition, the programme includes two guest-curated shows: You Can Lead A Horse To Water, 2 days of performances and installations curated by Ali MacGilp, and Frogstock, a one-night festival hosted by performance artist and poet Frog Morris.

Brian Catling, Kim Noble and Gayle Chong Kwan have been invited to present new, durational performance pieces, specially created for this series of performances. Catling and Noble present their work at Alma Enterprises for the first time, while Chong Kwan returns to the gallery to run a series of subjective sensory experiments that involve both the gallery space and its visitors.

Thomas Altheimer gives a performative lecture entitled The world is a book!!! (Little people wrestling the world) and collaborative duo allsopp&weir present Indefinite Articles, a piece that involves an opera singer’s rendition of all the singular indefinite articles and designated nouns from The Communist Manifesto sung to the vocal part of Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung (op.17, 1909).

You Can Lead A Horse To Water unfolds over the evening of Friday 9 March and the afternoon of Saturday 10 March and features predominantly new, site-specific works. Elizabeth McAlpine presents a new film and a sound installation of vinyl records spliced together. Rhiannon Armstrong’s International Archive of Things Left Unsaid happens in 2 parts: the first is on Friday evening and the second on Saturday.

The opening evening also features performances by Tobias Collier, Nathan Barlex, Eleanor Brown and Adrian Lee, while the next day street vendors distribute Eleanor Brown’s Newspaper; Laura Wilson invites visitors on a wander about Vyner Street to create a found object archive (3pm - 4.30pm); and Mark Wayman attempts a non-physical reconstruction of Alma’s space as it was before it became a gallery (2.30pm and repeated at 4.30pm).

Frogstock is an annual poetry and performance festival in Norfolk. Frog Morris brings the Frogstock ideology to Alma Enterprises for one night only, aiming to establish a new kind of space that goes beyond the conventions of art galleries, comedy clubs and music venues. Assembling musicians and entertainers with a disregard for what music and entertainment is supposed to be, Frog Morris presents: Kim Noble, Leigh Clarke, Victor Mount, Martin White, Man From the Woods, Opposite the Hotel, The Fucks, and himself, delivering a mix of performance art, poetry and music.

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