A blacked out window of a shopfront in the trendy Echo Park area of Los Angeles stands in front of me. The words ‘RETURN TO FOREVER HOSUE’ have been pasted to the window. I wait outside, six others wander up, and we begin to tentatively talk to each other – How did you hear about […]
Reviews
Simone Aughterlony, Antonija Livingstone, Hahn Rowe: Supernatural
November 23rd, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorChop, chop – who’s there? Supernatural is at once hypermodern and as old as the hills. The terrain is a mash-up of made and found, natural and fabricated, objects and beings. Flesh, wood, axes, rope, clothing, moss, electronics … It’s a fairytale land for the modern age. Wilderness versus civilisation? Have both! The smell of […]
Theaster Gates: Sanctum
November 20th, 2015 by Carrie Rhys-DaviesIt’s late afternoon on one of those early November days when it’s as if the sun has decided to stay in bed under the covers. It’s unseasonably warm, the air is damp and a few leaves hang on the trees like decorations. I’m on my way to Sanctum, Theaster Gates’s first public project in the […]
Ignacio Jarquin Productions: Madam Butterfly Returns
November 18th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorFrom a door at the rear of the performance space a figure emerges – tall, proud, disturbing. A dream image; an archetype of Noh theatre – a warrior with a silver mask shining in the blue stage lights, smoke curling around his feet. His precise, staccato movements dominate the stage, accompanied by a crash of […]
Sisters: Clockwork & Tanter: Vixen
November 18th, 2015 by Vicky VatcherTwo Scandinavian companies brought their explorations of circus and gender to this year’s Circus City, Bristol’s biennial circus festival. The most powerful image that stays with me from all-male Swedish company Sisters’ exploration of precision physical interaction – Clockwork – is of men flying through the air, pole to pole, like silent gibbons. Not […]