Monday 7 February 2011

Leeds takeover!

Make do and mend!  Me and my fellow partner in art crime Katherine Johnson will be performing our new piece in Leeds on the 2nd and the 11th of March.  The first one is an exhibition at Broadcasting House called "Reduction" based on the recent cuts to the arts.  The second is called "Home from Home" at 153 Woodhouse Lane and is being shown alongside the annual artist's book fair as artists respond to the brief of a book being a time based medium.  Our performance fits both of these quite well fortunately!  During the performances we will be asking the audience to destroy and deface maps of Britain which we will then try to fix, showing a literal cycle of damage and repair.  It is a piece based on the modern idea of "Broken Britain: and how the ever mounting problems in society are never really fixed but just smoothed over.  We will also be dressed as 1940s factory girls to hark back to wartime community spirit (any excuse to dress up!)  If anyone is about in Leeds pop along and see us in action!

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